LOST Revisited: Pre-Game for “The Lighthouse”

But the main point my sister was making is that they need the universe to be in balance. This is where the Star Wars parallel comes in, too. Lucas always has characters talk about a “balance to the force”, and he never really defines what that means. (Strangely, the Star Wars references on Lost are better thought-out than what they’re referencing. Difference between having a plan and pretending you had a plan after the fact, of course.) That scale in Jacob’s cave? Zoroastrianism tells us that it must remain in balance. Either the Island has to find a balance, or it’s going to get very bad for everybody.