Yes! Great gif NN... and there you are too, good to see you around the board.
More lessons I have learned from LOST: When the first Deus ex machinas are introduced in season one of LOST, the hatch, the drug runner's plane, the radio tower, the monster ("I saw into the eye of the Island, and what I saw was beautiful!" - Locke) onward in the other seasons to the Dharma pallet food drops, the other hatches, the barracks, the submarine, the freighter, time-travelling and so forth, they appear to be salvation and rescue but they always actually make thing worse rather than better. In this LOST takes it's cue from the Tommyknockers. Gard and Bobbi dig this ship out of the ground to it's hatchway. It releases radiation that appears to give the Havenites the kind of genius to make inventions that solve the world's problems. Only the air is unbreathable by human standards, the crops in Bobbi's garden are huge but inedible, and the alien builders 'ghosts' begin to transform the town's inhabitants into violent sociopaths. Inside the ship, Gard and Bobbi discover that it crashed because it's crew got into a fight and were killing each other when it hit the earth. They used their own people as batteries in a huge generator room to power the vessel. The Deus ex machina as Gard referred to it as was one that destroyed everyone and everything that was to benefit from it. In LOST, Locke started as a worker drone in a cubicle punching numbers, and the Hatch turned him back into that. Ecko was to build a church, but he wound up joining John in the cubicle punching in the numbers. So, at great cost, Desmond came along and had to blow the thing up when Locke chose self-destruction over a practical solution to the problem. The drug-runners' plane only communicated via radio with Bernard on the other side of the island, brought more heroin to tempt Charlie's life with and uselessly cost Boone his. The Dharma drop arrived just in time to make Hurley's eating disorder worse and to trap Locke with Ben/Henry in the lockdown so that the latter could mess the former's mind and faith in his miraculous healing by the island up even further, thus confusing a constructive miracle with a distracting coincidence. The barracks provided the illusion of safety, the submarine provided the dangling carrot of the illusion of escape so that Ben could control the Others, and the freighter provided the illusion of rescue while only bringing murderers and mad scientists who would get everybody stuck in a time warp which could only be escaped through more sacrifice, killing, and confusion. "... and miles to go before we sleep."
