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The pill contained enough poison to kill five men.
Jack swallowed the pill and Dogen rushed into action, performing the martial arts equivalent of the Heimlich Manoeuvre, dislodging the green capsule from Jack’s throat and forcing it out of his mouth. Thank goodness for clear thinking and fast action, you say. Indeed. But let us imagine a hypothetical situation in which Jack consumed the pill in private, without Dogen’s knowledge. What would have happened to Jack?
Nothing. Jack would have gone about his business, suffering no ill effects whatever.
You read this thinking “Pearson has lost touch with reality–again. The pill would kill even a person in perfect health.” I do not argue; the pill would indeed kill a person in good health. Death would be instant; the person taking the pill might as well have been holding in his hand a stick of dynamite, fuse lit, sparks flying, seconds left… A person in good health would have been blown to bits, but Jack… not a hair on Jack’s head was harmed. The green pill could have had no more physical effect on Jack than the dynamite had in the belly of the Black Rock.
But what would have been the effect of the green death on Sayid?
Here is a question worthy of deliberation and thought. The only valid answer boggles the mind. The single possible response to this query will bring us to the heart of a new genre of fiction, a radical way of thinking about drama, an audacious expectation of the audience, and the key to understanding LOST.
The pill contained enough poison to kill five men.
Jack swallowed the pill and Dogen rushed into action, performing the martial arts equivalent of the Heimlich Manoeuvre, dislodging the green capsule from Jack’s throat and forcing it out of his mouth. Thank goodness for clear thinking and fast action, you say. Indeed. But let us imagine a hypothetical situation in which Jack consumed the pill in private, without Dogen’s knowledge. What would have happened to Jack?
Nothing. Jack would have gone about his business, suffering no ill effects whatever.
You read this thinking “Pearson has lost touch with reality–again. The pill would kill even a person in perfect health.” I do not argue; the pill would indeed kill a person in good health. Death would be instant; the person taking the pill might as well have been holding in his hand a stick of dynamite, fuse lit, sparks flying, seconds left… A person in good health would have been blown to bits, but Jack… not a hair on Jack’s head was harmed. The green pill could have had no more physical effect on Jack than the dynamite had in the belly of the Black Rock.
But what would have been the effect of the green death on Sayid?
Here is a question worthy of deliberation and thought. The only valid answer boggles the mind. The single possible response to this query will bring us to the heart of a new genre of fiction, a radical way of thinking about drama, an audacious expectation of the audience, and the key to understanding LOST.
