It is, but it's krazy - there's crazy stuff on Bond, too, but Alias has that special JJ touch, which tends to be just whatever he thinks will seem whack, but never makes sense. It's the same with Lost, just this incoherent rambly string of things that seem freaky, with a sense of a mystery that will be uncovered but it never is. The red ball wasn't black hole stuff on Alias, it was some other kind of destruction. Various kinds, at various points - it kept reappearing in different seasons.