Central Characters and Red Herrings
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By ragamuffinjoe
- Central Characters and Red Herrings
- Created: Jul 9, 2007
- Last updated: Aug 13, 2008
- After episode: 3.20: The Man Behind The Curtain
- Status: Current
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I may surrender and just wait for next season. :)
— ragamuffinjoe
The producers have told us a lot about the original idea for the story (which they had the overall direction in mind).
Jack was supposed to die. Period. Jack is a red herring.
Desmond was not originally going to be a main character, and what happened when the key was turned and the hatch imploded was not planned out. The flashes were an idea they wanted to play with. Desmond is not the key. He is a red herring.
The main and pivotal character MUST be one of the other 815ers.
Charlie we know was a red herring. Not Boone, Shannon, or any of the other deceased.
Bernard and Rose have not been present enough. Sayid, I think, is too much of a supporting character.
Sawyer? Hmmm…I am not too sure. I think he is going to play a part, or already has played his part.
I think we are left with Kate and John.
John has a special connection with the island.
Kate really killed her father. The only other true father-killer besides Ben (who I think you could argue did not actually kill his father first hand…he gassed him and left him to die).
Hmmm…
Or….
Maybe the producers have been giving us the red herrings.
I may surrender and just wait for next season. :)
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | Benjamin Linus | 3.20, 4.9, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13 | 1712 |
| Desmond | Desmond David Hume | 2.23, 3.17, 4.5 | 851 |
| Jack | Jack Shephard | 1.1, 1.5, 2.11, 1.11, 1.16, 1.20, 3.9, 3.22, 3.1, 4.10, 4.12, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13 | 1451 |
| John | John Locke | 3.3, 2.17, 1.4, 1.19, 3.13, 3.19, 4.11, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13 | 1228 |
| Kate | Katherine “Kate” Austen | 3.6, 1.2, 1.3, 2.9, 1.12, 1.16, 1.22, 3.15, 4.4, 4.12 | 711 |
Key episodes
| # | Title | Aired | Central character | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.20 | The Man Behind The Curtain | 5-9-2007 | Ben | 412 |
Wait … where did you hear that Jack was supposed to die? OMG I really want to check out that article. Is it online anywhere? Do you remember what it said about the Jack character? Freaky. That seriously gets me thinking about something ….
It does say that they discontinued the thought as Jack as a minor character, but I think it still means he is not the key.
It does say that they discontinued the thought as Jack as a minor character, but I think it still means he is not the key.
I don’t know why it repeated that statement three times. I only wrote it once. It was only there once in the preview. What’s going on here?!
Dang you, Jacob!!!
:)
Please not Kate. I hate her with a firey passion.
bluizmicolour - me too
i dotn think anyone one character is the key, think they are all there for as much as a reason as each other
As a writer myself, and with published writers and play writers as friends, I know one thing for sure, you can’t start with an idea for a story like Lost—a VERY character driven story—without an end in mind. Because it is so character driven, that end has to revolve around at least one character and probably three at the most. There is a key character, through I think maybe two key character, to this story. I think we are left with Kate and John, though the Lost-masters are great at misdirection, so possibly Claire or Sun and Jinn–possibly the children of these characters.
Joe, what if instead of killing off Jack, they kept him, did away with a different main/key character, and attributed much of that character’s back story to Jack.