Maybe Damon gave a little too much away here

[kimeee]

excerpted from lost-media.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2556

On Tuesday, the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills held a panel discussion, part of its Media as Mirror series, called Arab and Muslim Characters in Prime Time TV: The View From Hollywood.

Entertainment journalist and author Alex Ben Block (Outfoxed: Marvin Davis, Barry Diller, Rupert Murdoch and the Inside Story of America's Fourth Television Network) was moderator of the panel, which featured 24 executive producer Howard Gordon, Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof, and, from Sleeper Cell, writer Kamran Pasha (a Pakistani-American, and the only Muslim on the panel) and co-creator Ethan Reiff.

During the Q&A session with the audience, one questioner made a similar point, talking about how Lost has devoted time to the motivations and history of the castaways' adversaries, the Others.

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Damon says "The mysterious enemy is the scariest," Lindelof said. "We're 72 hours into the show now, and we still don't know what the bad guys believe in. Maybe when we do, we'll realize that the bad guys landed on the plane."

[LostCamper]

Woah! I wondered about that...I really have. I just think Damon used the wrong preposition...shouldn't it have been "in" not "on"?

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Because, really, haven't we had enough evidence now that because of Desmond not entering the numbers the plane crashed on the island. So it can't have been pre-planned. It may have been Fated in some larger metaphysical Karmic sense...but I really believe that no single person or group had the means to assemble all those people on a plane to have it in the right place at the right time...it was an insane coincedence.

It was really a case of outside influences (negative/bad influences) arriving on the island. Had 815 not crashed, they'd all still be there happily (mostly) working away in secrecy. Hmmmmmm!

[danieladamsmith]

I don't think it is giving too much away. If you take him at face value that is something we have all thought and has been implied ever since we met Ben. You could also read it as he knew he was at something public and there are reporters wherever he is, and hanging on every word to be the one that has a gotcha/spoiler moment and he plays with it.

Either way it all goes back to the game of Backgammon right?

[Uncle Igmar]

This is not really that big of a deal - there has been a school of thought along those lines for a while now - the writers even gave "voice" to the idea when Desmond mentioned to Charlie that "you've killed more of them than they of you."

This show has always been about "perceptions" - if you look at things from the standpoint of The Others - the 815ers are the bad guys who came to their island - killed their people - started blowing all kinds of stuff up.

So Damon's statement isn't all that weird.

[Blaw]

I think he was saying that from the perspective of the others. Once we find out more about them and their beliefs, then we will see how, to the others, our losties are really the enemies. Damon says that the mysterious enemy is the scariest and to the others, the people on flight 815 were unknown. The others have tried so hard to hide and isolate themselves and then a plane just falls from the sky? Of course they are scarred, at first, then they find out more about their enemy to get the upper-hand.

But of course there could be some hidden meaning in that quote. But I think it just comes down to whatever the others believe makes the losties the bad guys, in their perspective.

Looks like Igmar beat me to the explaination ;D