There’s A Really Good Reason That People Need To Die

Published May 16, 2018 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hi Guys,

Just listened to the deep dive and as usual, I loved it!

I have some ideas about the Man in Black. in part provoked by Gene’s quote “There’s a really good reason people need to die”. Even though you all said you may be unhappy if it turned out that MIB was now a host I think it’s a great narrative for the show.

Years ago William set himself, Delos and the park down the path of finding a way to immortalize a human consciousness. He did this for several, terrible reasons including his own disillusionment with his first trip to the park and his dislike for his father in law and the type of man he was. I agree with the theory that he has been sabotaging the attempts to stabilize a transferred consciousness and I do think there is something in the drink, of which he never partakes, that causes the unraveling of the transplanted consciousness.

William (MIB) says almost as much in his final visit to the Jim D. host. He says the memory of Jim D. is much better than the man himself. This is similar to his preference of what he thought Delores was when he fell in love with her, to what reality turned out to be. If you let this idea play through the show as an over-arching narrative you then see a disillusioned William heading down a path over the years of grabbing power and living as a worse version of himself. Over time, it’s likely that William sees the error of his ways and his attempt to find immortality and has a change of heart.

In the mean time, Ford has grown an intense dislike for William and all he stands for. He perhaps has a visceral distaste for what he may see as the high-jacking of his life’s work for a nefarious purpose. Ford then designs a way to punish William for his indiscretions. Wouldn’t a fantastic way to do this be to “trap” William’s consciousness in a host body, making him immortal and making him live with the consequences of his actions FOREVER? Perhaps even making him the only person that ever achieved this and leaving him as a lone example to the world. After all, William will have to see all the people he loves die and leave him and there won’t be a release from his own personal hell.

It reminds me of Anne Rice’s vampires. Forever stuck in immortal bodies as anyone they’ve grown attached to is born, lives and dies in an endless horrific, tragic loop they can never be free of. A loop like those created for the hosts. Over and over again.

Thanks!
Christina R.
Ohio

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