Lost in the Gulf of Mexico

Odd Things: Paradise(s) Lost
Has anybody else noticed the strange similarity between fact and fiction in the news. It's a real "synchronicity"!

5/23/10: in TV's most awaited show in recent memory--Last Episode of Lost (TV's top drama--filmed in Hawaii)--the focal point was a large stone plug in the Earth that was pulled out by the character Desmond--releasing a large amount of radiant energy--and subsequently put back in by the show's lead character (Jack). The plug site was deep in a cave, accessed by a running brook including a waterfall estimated at 50-100feet.

This aired about 5 weeks after the tragic Gulf of Mexico Oil Rig Disaster that is the leading news story of the year in US. Most nights the networks lead with it in their evening news and the situation only worsens. The oil company has been unable to plug up the oil-spewing hole on the gulf floor--about 500 feet below sea level--or effectively clean up the mess. Nothing they've tried (steel condom, drinking straw, toxic dispersant, blame game, mud pies) has worked very well--as of 5/30.

In the finale of Lost, the heroic plugging/unplugging is seen as pivotal to the islanders as they eagerly ask one another "did it work?" or state "it worked" or "it didn't work." There was another important hole in the ground in an earlier episode this season. One or more of the characters fell/jumped down into it in order to pull some sort of lever that had something to do with blowing the island up (The show was notoriously hard to pin down).

Of course, the final episode of Lost was surely written and probably filmed prior to the oil eruption. You'd almost think--wishfully--that the oil blowout was part of another plot twist. But, alas, the show is over, while the reality of the Big Spill gets more horrible every day.