So, JJ Abrams VS. Chrono Cross

[Ace of Spades]

Hello Gentlemen and Ladies (all of what, like, 3 or something? Can't recall)
My good friend introduced me to a show I'm sure some of you (hopefully) watched in the past, called Lost. She and I have spent hours and hours, on the 1 or 2 days off a week that I have, to lay around and watch this show on Netflix for the past 2 months (yeah we're not done yet, sometimes we're distracted ) and from time to time I have said that this show has taken very specific elements of a game I played years ago, that is still one of my all time favorites: Chrono Cross

Sorry guys I don't remember nor care how to go about the whole spoiler check thing, so if you haven't watched the show completely then don't ****ing read any of this because it'll be ruined for you. And despite the fact that JJ Abrams is a serious sadistic ***hole that jacks off to seeing every one of his characters in some sort of pain or suffering, which encompasses a huge part of the show in its entirety, it is pretty good.

So, first observation. In the beginning the characters crash on an island that is in a part of the world that has certain electromagnetic attributes. In the show they call these areas "hot spots," certain places on Earth where there are pockets of electromagnetic energy that will be released if fucked with. In short, they inadvertently **** with it, not knowing the consequences. What happens? Well, here's a list of the comparisons.

1. Desmond, in an earlier season, presses the Hatch computer button thing in order to prevent the so-explained catastrophic end of the world. Before going down to his inevitable death, he says to Locke, "See you in another life brotha."
2. Desmond awakes in what is essentially his past life. He feels certain things about it that aren't right, tries to predict stuff etc.. but then at one point some old bitch says he's not doing it right. He has to do it this way, otherwise the world is doomed whatever
3. There is a man in charge of the island, wearing casual attire and circlish John Lennon/Harry Potter-esque glasses who is under the command of "Jacob," some other dude we don't know of. Benjamin Linus, as he is called, strikingly resembles Miguel (from CC) in a way. He does all these things because "Jacob" has instructed him to, and he knows that there are certain people that crashed on the island that are important, and he tests them in mindfuckish ways (not exactly one of the most intense RPG bosses, but still)
4. Ah hear we go, the island is thrown back in time! In CC, Chronopolis is an island whose specific location was chosen because of certain properties. Just as the island is situated in Lost. For a certain amount of episodes, the idea of time travel is explored. Even the "time bastard" theory which states that "whatever happened, happened" and that no time traveler can manipulate the past. Oh but what happens??? Just like in Chrono Trigger, the time bastards themselves DO alter the time line. And they also CAN die. There's an astrophysicist in Lost that tries to explain how events follow a linear time line, and that nothing can be changed. But lo and behold he ends up being wrong (with his own death in the past even.. before he's born.. by his own mom.. who knew she was sending him to his death...)
5. What happens when the time travelers alter the time line? OH I KNOW! Alternate dimension thing! Yeah, just like with Serge! When Serge dies in one universe, he's dead, and things go on as if he were just dead, and nothing important. But in the other, all these things are connected to him, just like they are Desmond when he gets thrown into this Electromagnet wave thing that shoots at him, and he's thrown into the alternate universe that the time travelers created! When the blonde chick throws the nuclear bomb into the electromagnetic pocket of the past, that was supposed to save the Time Travelers (Jack, Sawyer, Kate, etc) from ever crashing on that island, it creates some sort of alternate universe where the Island never existed to begin with, so they never crash. BUT EVERY ONE OF THEM IS STILL CONNECTED ****ing ANYWAY. JUST LIKE THE CHARACTERS IN CHRONO CROSS
6. Jacob VS. John Locke .. Here's where it gets really interesting. Jacob, who is essentially the caretaker of the island or something (mind you, I still have another 75% worth of the last season to go) who touches all these characters to bring them to the island, but at the same time only offers them this sense of "free will" (their choices are what create the inevitable consequence sort of thing) is the opposition to the renewed John Locke, who is actually just a doppleganger of the "Smoke Monster" who is some dude that has been trapped on the island for however long. John Locke, or the imprisoned smoke monster thing, represents FATE. Jacob, who is supposed to be the so-called good guy, who has 6 candidates to continue his role of protecting the island (6 Dragons anyone?) is actually the opposition to FATE. He is always consoling, he's not like the new John Locke that always instigates people into doing things. Which is exactly what FATE does in Chrono Cross. The FATE incarnate, who is Lynx, is just like the reborn dead John Locke (or the Doc/Claire's father) who is always trying to move somebody toward something.
7. There're a whole slew of characters in this series that essentially mean nothing to the plot, just as they do in CC.


*people who are under the control of Benjamin Linus, when returning to the real world, even refer it as the "Main Land" just as the workers of Chronopolis do in CC*

And I've only talked about Lost, my friends. Before my friend introduced me to Lost, I told her the only reason I was interested was because I was already engaged in other show of his called Fringe... in which there are still similarities to Chrono Cross! The whole damn show operates on one man being the key (arbiter, if you will) to a separation of two alternate universes!

So in conclusion, my argument is this: JJ Abrams played the Chrono series, and has stolen much of the idea base it has in order to succeed in Hollywood.

And to this I say... for shame...

[Razor]

It's possible that I'm the only other person on Charas who cared enough to watch Lost up til its conclusion.

And the whole alternate timeline was really just a post-life purgatory.



And to nobody's surprise the writers admitted to making up everything as they went along.

[Felix-0]

Yea, Chrono Cross was great, and I never really watched that show, but does sound like they carbon copied the chrono cross storyline. If I had only cared to watch the series in the first place. x3