What S6 will use instead of flashbacks/forwards & why? by morningdrums

** I'm a new reader here, and while avid, if I regurgutate anything that's been overly pressed here and don't stir anything new theory wise, I apologize. Give me a chance thought =) **

I recently read a theory on this page that I thought was very good. Of course, like we all do, it bent a bit to reach it's points perhaps, but we'd all love to be right. We all want the answer. Answers.

I'll use the theory I read (I apologize for not remembering the poster's name) as a diving board to expand into mine. Or maybe this is a combo of two threads I read. Anyhowwwww...

The theory/theories basically stated that A) John Locke isn't a fake. This seemed insane at first, but given the nature of the show and the facts, seems entirely plausible. A deleted scene in season 4 is a clue, as well as the jumble in season 5 which is the time travel. At certain points during those sequences, there were more than one of each character on the island at a time. Also, it seems when people leave the island, different variances of time pass even though, to the people who travel via the wheel, it seems like a flash. Hopefully some of you read this theory because to explain it, I'd need to post another few paragraphs. I hope I paraphrased and did it justice.

The 2nd, and main theory, is that maybe some people on the Oceanic flight knew exactly what was going on when they crashed on the island the '1st time.' IE - Jack wakes in the jungle, and once attuned, with no visual or audio aid, knows exactly what to do and where to go. A lot of the characters seem to be honestly reacting to things for the first time, but in looking at it from another perspective, you could easily see how some actions and dialogue took place because of the above theory. They've been here before. At least a couple times, I think. Season 6 will just show the last of these re-occurrences. I think the Lost story gave us 2 huge clues as to where this season will go. One I'll state right now. Desmond's flashes of Charlie. He sees Charlie's fate yet tries to fix it. But course-correction due to whatever prevents this over and over. Maybe their destiny is Jacob (or some unknown string puller's) trying to course correct the island's fate. Hell, may not speak for th! e island.. He could be the island's nemesis. Maybe this is spot on, or maybe wrong. Or.. it could be *kind of* right. The one big clue I have for this is in "The Incident" dialogue.

MIB: "You brought them here."

Jacob:

MIB: "Still trying to prove me wrong, aren't you?"

Jacob: "You are wrong."

MIB: "Am i? They come, fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same."

Jacob: "It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress."


The last exchange between the two men seems to be the kicker/hint. This has happened before. People being brought here to make something happen, to prove a point. Hell, the Black Rock may have very well been piloted by past versions of our characters in some wacky-as-hell Lost-ish way. Or future versions, as the 77' crew, even though they were back in time, were ahead of the 2004-07 on their own personal time lines and therefore, in the future in terms of their personal time lines.

With the space and time travel the island goes through, especially when physically moved (but seemingly always moving in some form), it's easy to see how John Locke is not UnLocke or whatever. It's easy to see how (referencing a past theory) that in correcting the wheel in concurrence with the quacked out time travel Ben sent the island into, there could be essentially two Lockes. We see this on the island during the time travel, having, or KNOWING there's more than one of the same person there. This could feasibly happen in the 'real world' as well. Locke could be using himself.

This leads me to how season 6 will, as the producers stated, 'using something other than the flashbacks and flashforwards.' Of course there will be some of these for Richard and such, but the producers have verbally, many times, committed to 'something new.' Well, if we can't go forward and can't go backwards, we have very few options. It could go two ways, actually, but both are related.

Option 1 - "Sideways" flashes. Flashes that have occurred during the story we have been told and know, but giving just more information that changes everything. For instance, if there are more than one real/fake Lockes, we could see (referencing a past theory again), somehow, 2 Lockes coming through the portal, one maybe months before the other. One was nurtured to health and 'educated' my Widmore, as we saw. A flash could show the 2nd Locke being manipulated during this time by The Widmorized Locke into taking his sacrifice for him (I hear there's an episode called "Sacrifice"). Or, if the Oceanic 6 do have a recollection of past/future events, it could show them off to the side, sharing information we never dreamed of the first time around. This is, if the series does do a form of reset.

Option 2 - Another form of sideways, alternate dimension/time line flashes. Maybe how it was before and how they'll change it this time around. Why do I say this time around? Cos I believe they come back, every time by Jacob's will, and relive events but trying to live them in different ways to, at first, get out of their predicament. Eventually, in S6, maybe they realize their destiny (duh) and take it one step further and finally end it all.

In my opinion, Lost writers hate the obvious. They love to make you believe one thing, and hit you with the opposite. People we have trusted will be players in some downfall, people we loathe (but love) will rise up. They spelled out Locke's 'fate' way too easily, as most of you agree. They would never feed you the whole story of a 5 season mystery in 1 season finale. MIB hates Jacob, wants to destroy him, subjugates Locke somehow and commandeers him, uses his position to have Ben kill Jacob. Hell, is Jacob even dead? Probably not. He seemed to know this was coming and took it like a champ.

I'm spent. Sorry if any of this was super redundant and didn't stir any new thoughts.