They have indicated that the brother's name was indeed Samuel. Most people seem to have forgotten that LOST was, at heart, a mystery show. Mystrery is what made the show what it was; to solve all the mysteries would have cut the heart out of the show. I just hope those "TV" writers inspired by LOST will write original shows in the future.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Jeff Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com">jwilson@clueland.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 4/4/2012 7:42 AM, Lee Berman wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Jeff Wilson: Er, they did NOT plan out LOST; the conclusion violated<br>
numerous statements the producers made in earlier seasons.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Which conclusion? There was the part about the island's secrets being<br>
traced back to an eternal fraternal conflict between Jacob and his<br>
"nameless" brother (given that the writers are jewish I think we can<br>
conclude the name was "Esau" and the Jew-Muslim enmity is being referenced).<br>
<br>
And there was the final conclusion seeming to suggest the whole series was<br>
the dying dream of a plane crash victim, fabricated from glimpses of his<br>
fellow passengers and his own life.<br>
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It looked to me like the "flash-sideways" world was Jack's dream, but they said in the first season that the resolution would not be<br>
"it was all a dream" and again later.<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If the original name of the other brother was "Samuel", I am<br>
</blockquote>
wondering why they<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
decided to delete it. The name "Jacob" was given years before they<br>
</blockquote>
ever showed<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
him. Why keep "Samuel" unamed? For this reason I hesitate to<br>
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completely discard<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
"Esau". <br>
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They said it was because it was more interesting to keep him unnamed.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- <br>
Jeff Wilson - <a href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com" target="_blank">jwilson@clueland.com</a><br>
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana<br>
< <a href="http://www.tamut.edu/CIL" target="_blank">http://www.tamut.edu/CIL</a> ></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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