Desmond cant be right...

How can Desmond have caused the crash? Sure he missed an entry on the crash day. But that only happened because he chose THAT day to follow Kelvin. It was a random move, right?

So if this plane is full of 'special people', many of whom seemingly 'chosen' to fulfill some destiny, with all of their pasts interwoven as per their backstories...how could their 'pre-destined' crash be left to the random possibility that Desmond would go out on that day?

Desmond cant be right...something/one else did it. You know how the printout reads numbers entered and 'accepted'? Accepted by whom?

Maybe on that day the numbers were 'not-accepted' by whomever wanted that crash to happen and Desmond had nothing to do with it.

I think Desmond means that, by missing the button pushing on that day, the electromagentic field builds up, and causes all things metal to attract to it, meaning the plane was close to the island and was sucked in.

maybe?

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Originally Posted by Craig108

I think Desmond means that, by missing the button pushing on that day, the electromagentic field builds up, and causes all things metal to attract to it, meaning the plane was close to the island and was sucked in.

maybe?

Sure...but that means the crash was a 'random event'...he could have gone out any day, or not at all. The plane was only in the air THAT day...so either their crash was just a fluke and they had no 'pre-destiny' to do with the island...or they did and Desmond didnt cause the crash, he just thinks so.

I'm going to choose to believe the producers when they said that they were going to explain the crash in the finale; so, for me, this means the plane was brought down by Desmond, which means one of two things:

1. the crash was a random event (or fate), and thus all the interactions of the cast prior to the crash were random events (or fate); I kind of like this, because the whole "everyone is being manipulated by Widmore/Hanso/Dharma" just rubs me the wrong way some how, although I'm not exactly sure why...

or

2. everyone is being manipulated, and were brought to the island, therefore Kelvin knew they were coming, and let Desmond see the rip in his suit so Desmond would follow, and be out of the hatch long enough to miss the button pressing. (of course, he didn't know he was going to die at Desmond's hands...oops...) Anyhow, this one is much harder to explain, and requires perfect timing by Kelvin...

or, of course, you could be right, and something else brought the plane down, which means the producers are lying to us...hmmmm...

I'm with Logan on this... either it's "fate" that brought them there, or he was manipulated by Kelvin (who wasn't planning on dying), but the electromagnetism caused the crash.

Maybe Locke was right, it's only random chance...no destiny.

i knew desmond had a bigger part to play when we first saw his in the early episodes it saddens me that hes dead now.. esp. if pen is lookin for him (I think this is a better story than most of the main characters!)
I think the fact that he caused the plane to crash is brilliant (not that it crashed but how it all ties in).. i think there had to be some kind of answer to why the plane crashed so that they could all believe it (nobody beileves things jus happen in general people need a scientific answer)! so this is it.. weather someone orcistrated the events of that day of desmonds or whatever... he did crash the plane. I think that they are talkin alot about "fate" here agree with logan too.

ever think kelvin went outside to escape on the boat on THAT certain day?
maybe dharma people told him to leave on that day because dharma wanted more people on that island and knew if the button wasnt pushed(harder shifts with one person) , more would be sucked in.

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Originally Posted by areyoulookinatmebum?

i knew desmond had a bigger part to play when we first saw his in the early episodes it saddens me that hes dead now.. esp. if pen is lookin for him (I think this is a better story than most of the main characters!)
I think the fact that he caused the plane to crash is brilliant (not that it crashed but how it all ties in).. i think there had to be some kind of answer to why the plane crashed so that they could all believe it (nobody beileves things jus happen in general people need a scientific answer)! so this is it.. weather someone orcistrated the events of that day of desmonds or whatever... he did crash the plane. I think that they are talkin alot about "fate" here agree with logan too.

wait a tick , did you say desmond is dead?

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So if this plane is full of 'special people', many of whom seemingly 'chosen' to fulfill some destiny, with all of their pasts interwoven as per their backstories...how could their 'pre-destined' crash be left to the random possibility that Desmond would go out on that day?

...Remember one thing, even if Des' did crash the plane how'd all the 'chosen' people survive that in the first place.. Anyone ever seen a video of a plane crash, its not pretty.

Also, that guy that found desmond, forgot his name, he had that tear on the bottom of his leg and it seemed to me that he made it quite obvious to Des. That would have to mean that 'that guy' would be a part of the whole conspriacy or with the 'hostles/others'... He did seem very similar to one of the others, Tom i think his name was, with the fake beard.