So I've been doing my best to remain patient while eager in awaiting the Season 6 premiere, but things are just too unsettled to wait 2 months to see how it plays out, so I figured I'd make an educated guess, and boggle your minds even more in the process.
It has been stated several times that the premise of Lost is based in large part to the computer game MYST.
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LOST is MYST/Mysterious Island with a twist by WeAreTheIsland
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Let's forget about Time Travel by Shide
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We all know how our beloved couple Darlton said, very early on the series, that there would be no time travel on the show. Many of us felt tricked because of Season 5 and its obviously time travel-based plot.
I don't think our legs have been pulled here though. My opinion is that they said what they said because the ultimate answer that we've been wanting for five years now, the answer to "Guys, where are we?" has nothing to do with time travel and that the latter was just a plot device that Darlton discovered along the way, much in the same fashion they "discovered" the Flashforward.
Lift It Up, Part1? by SpLoDGe
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Inspired by Faraday’s explanation of the island being like a spinning record and theories following this analogy I would like to put in my two pennies worth. It has been mentioned on this site that when Desmond spoke to Jack in the stadium and he told him to “lift it up” he may have been using an analogy similar to the one that Faraday used. He meant the stylus of a record player. Time as a track on a record and the stylus plotting the course of the present. In fact I think this is the way that the frozen donkey wheel works. It resets time on island like taking the needle off the record at the end of the song and putting it back on near the start of the same song. When the wheel was turned the stylus was taken off 2004 and put back down on 1977. The song then replays from that point and the people relive their lives without any knowledge of the future or that they have done it before. I suspect that the isl! and does something similar naturally, since Mrs Hawking said the island was always out of time. The island could have been replaying time over and over.
Faraday is Desmond's Grandson (no joke!) and other Theories by Dio
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Desmond and Penny are not married. They named their son Charlie, after Pace, or Dickens. Hawking told Desmond the Island was not done with him. What is there left for him to do?
This theory will give evidence for the theory that Charlie Hume, or more accurately Charles Widmore, is his own grandfather.
Manipulating Eternal Recurrence of Time by J.
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I believe that we will see the "normal" cycle of time in Season 6 that is untouched by Jacob. We will see all our characters NOT crash on the plane, then our characters and others we have seen will be reunited in this normal cycle of time only to survive the destruction and pending end of time. They know that they will soon die too. Jacob will be with them and he will be their guide and help them plan how he will travel as far back as The Black Rock (and farther) and begin manipulating time and events in order to save the world. The earliest manipulation helped form the Monster. Jacob's nemesis doesn't want destiny changed.
The Island Is An Iteration Machine... The Numbers Log Each Variation by Stinkin' Thinkin
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Here's what we know after 5 seasons -
1) The island and participants are in a time loop (The clues: Time Traveling Losties, Desmond's differing accounts of rescue, Ben seeming to know everything that is happening, visible cause and effect in viewing the different time periods of the island...)
2) There is at least one party interest in ending the loop (The major clue: Flocke/Jacob discussions of "They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt" Jacob mentioning that "only has to end once"....)
Prophecy by Monika
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What is the island?
I recently posted "Solaris" in which i claim that the island is sort of an entity or an organism or an alien planet or an experiment of some sort which can download your dreams and thoughts and turn them against you or use them for its own personal gain.
Weather is good or bad it stays open..My guess is that it can be good or bad and it all depends on perspective. I said this number of times and I was ridiculed but I am convinced that in life in general every situation depends on perspective and so does reality itself. Reality depends on observer. (the changes in conversation, photo frames, Bens wound and so on)
Jacob´s plan and preparation of the endgame by hansolo81
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Namaste, Folks!
If my theory has been posted in some other way before, I will apologize, but I think we are one collective mind...anyway, here is my theory:
the end is the beginning is the end by agent dale cooper
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okay, let me see if i can convey my thoughts in a somewhat coherent manner for everyone as opposed the free associative way in which they come to me. firstly, i think many of us are forgetting this is a story about the end of the world. i forget this myself often since the show makes little mention of it, but the whole show seems to revolve around the numbers, which are tied to a doomsday prediction, and we have the ominous remarks made by eloise hawking that i'm not going to bother citing on account of that everyone and their brother already has.
Locke like Doc by Proserpina
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First time posting here however the theory by “Sawyer’s optician”, “John Locke isn’t dead and the coming war” – had a couple of bits that triggered this. I commented on his theory as a jumping off point, however figured I should just post it proper!
Remember how on the island (S4)there was the washed ashore dead doctor from the freighter (a future doc depending on your perception), and yet on the freighter itself the doctor (present or past doc, depending on how you look at it) was still alive?
Meaningful One-Liners from S5 by RIPYOGI
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Some meaningful quotes that I found from season 5 with season 6 implications:
The Variable:
MS. HAWKING: How old is your son?
PENNY: He's 2.
MS. HAWKING: [Sighs] He has his father's hair.
we've had alternate time lines going all along by tom brideson
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lost has been doing alternate time loops all along
damon has stated that every shot is important and carefully checked before it airs...so go back and check and its all there
Locke's disciples by Locke's disciple
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(This isn't a shot at the creativity of those who have put together theories of Locke being alive in the latter half of s5. I love the creativity and have been so impressed I rated some theories 5 stars, I just don't think it's what has happened.)
All the Losties are Locke's disciples...
John Locke isn't dead and the coming war by Sawyer's optician
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So my idea, after rewatching all of the seasons is this:
John Locke, the guy we saw lead Ben and Co to Jacob, isn't the smoke monster or the man in black. He's just John Locke.
Where Did The Island Go? by TST
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Ok. This theory starts at season 4 when the island disappears. And as much as I want it to be WHH, I think there is a lot of evidence of alternate timelines. Those have been examined in other theories, but here is my take on it.
As the O6 are flying back to the island it vanishes. Where did it go? Did it move locations or did it just go skipping back in time?
The Dark Tower / Fringe / The Prestige / LOST connection by OCKi
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***WARNING! CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS FROM THE DARK TOWER BOOK 2 and FRINGE***
We know for a fact that the LOST writers are heavily influenced by Stephen King.
The Dead on Lost sure get around much: Manifestations Guide by Ricardus Alpert
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I believe that the "Ghosts" that appear on Lost belong to three categories. The first category is Manifestations of Smokey. As we've known since S3, Smokey has the ability to impersonate the dead, while possibly being able to impersonate the living as well (Walt.) We have presumably seen three (Arguably four) examples of Smokey's manifestations. Yemi, Alex and possibly Christian. The most important thing I've noticed about these manifestations is how inhuman they all seem to be. They're cold and detached, making them seem full of evil glee on occasion, such as Alex's expression when she tells Ben she "Knows it's his fault", Christian's entire demeanor during the Cabin scene, and Yemi telling Eko "You speak to me as if I were your brother."
Theory: Losties Being The Subjects Of An Elaborate Experiment by dgcatlett
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First of all I want to say that I read many of the theories here & I actually hope that mine is NOT the correct one but the more I think about this the more I can't dismiss all the clues that seem to be coming together to paint this theory.
I believe these clues point to the losties being the subjects of some sort of experiment where they are physically incapacitated and their minds are networked together in an alternate reality on the island.
Battle of knifes at the orchid by Touzoku
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Here is a short theory about the last scenes of lost season 6.
In the pilot episode Jack wakes up in the bamboo forest with cuts on his face and wound in his side. John Locke also has a wound along his eye.
now flashfoward, or back lol
ENDINGS, BACKGAMMON, POWER CONVERSATIONS, DIFFERENT STATES OF DEATH, LOCKED LOOPS. PART 3 OF 3 by Dishyvaeda
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After Alpert had witnessed John’s birth in 1956, he would have confirmed to Jacob that the words of the old man, who strode into their camp 2 years previously before disappearing in a flash, were true.
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