I think he can't change the past because of ''course correction,'' the Lost idea that changing the past is all but impossible. Yeah, maybe he could alter the form of Alex's death, but Fate wants her dead, so it would just find another way to do it.
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Originally Posted by LostLos
At the beginning the episode tonight he said (and this is a rough quote):
"Australia is the key to the game" in reference to playing Risk.
AND THEN....
It seems as if Ben/Charles Whidmore are playing some sort of a game, for control of the island.
I wonder, did what Hugo said at the beginning of the episode have something to directly do with this possible "Game" Ben/Widmore are playing!?
Sigh.
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This is from Jeff Jensen, who writes a lot of good insights on the show:
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I choose to see the Risk game as an expression of character ideas. For example, the most interesting thing to me about the game was Sawyer's silly, reckless play to put Australia at risk just so he can acquire...Siberia. Now, what do Australia and Siberia have in common? They're both synonymous with being veritable prisons (Australia being a former penal colony; Siberia being the place the Soviets shipped dissidents and other ''Others''). So here was Sawyer, trading one prison country for another. This, to me, mirrors the flash-forward fate of the Oceanic 6, for whom rescue will lead to another, more figurative form of imprisonment, and perhaps serves as literal foreshadowing for what will happen to Sawyer himself.
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