Lost- Fallout rip off?

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kaze

First time out of the vault
I bet this has been mentioned before but I haven't been lurking that long.

A thought just hit me today.
Series 2 of Lost- when they uncover all the Dharma stations. The first station exists just for busy work for other people to spy on it. Others watch them and they are in turn watched. Its a big social experiment.
Does this seem like a bit of a Fallout copy to anyone else?

Who have both copied off some novel I've never read.
 
kaze said:
Who have both copied off some novel I've never read.
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Sounds likely that it's from a third source, but I'd still say that it's more of an homage than rip-off regardless.

Like in one of the first episodes with Jack's father staring at him from a distance and then going behind some bushes and disappearing. It was supposedly a Half Life homage. Very G-Man.
I think they mention it in the commentary in HL2:EP2 when you find the Lost homage/easter egg they put in.
Apperantly some of Lost guys are big HL fans. Wouldn't be much of a stretch that they've also played Fallout 2.
 
Writers are often influenced, either knowingly or unknowingly, by other things that they have read / played.

Also, the idea that the Vaults are just one big social experiment isn't exactly ground-breaking.

I'd guess that it's probably just a coincidence.
 
A Boy and His Dog, story/movie had the underground vaults and even had a story involving a search for a missing part that was needed for the vault to survive. Though in this case the part was Don Johnson's man part.
 
Ive read in wiki that Dharma initiative apeared before than Lost
The Director of lost featured dharma initiative in a movie before Lost even started.
BTW lost is one of the best shows
 
rcorporon said:
Writers are often influenced, either knowingly or unknowingly, by other things that they have read / played.

Also, the idea that the Vaults are just one big social experiment isn't exactly ground-breaking.

I'd guess that it's probably just a coincidence.
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It is very true that writers are influenced by what they have read. An old philosophical statement, Nothing New Under the Sun, is one I stand by. Indeed, all plots fall into patterns. I applied the Vault Dweller to a pattern used for ancient Greek heroes, and he earned 13/22 "Hero Points", making him on par with Herakles...
 
Somewhere in the Fallout Bible Chris Avellone got asked what the whole deal was with the vault experiments, to which he answered Tim Cain had been watching X-Files and other assorted crap at the time and decided to put akin stuff into the game.

So if anything, it's ripped off somewhere else. Also, this happens all the time.
 
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