I got this idea when I was thinking about Christian/Ray/Jack a while back. This theory hit me when I got to thinking about the appearances of Christian on the island and then thinking about Locke's seeming awakening from the land of the dead.
Okay, bear with me here. Ray and Christian were both on board The Black Rock....along with Richard. All three of them were giving eternal youth. Ray and Christian sided with the Man in Black and this angered Jacob. In the 1950's Ray and Christian were banished from the island and were stripped of their eternal youth....meaning once they left the island, they immediately started aging again. They went to the states where Ray has been thoroughly miserable ever since as seen in 316. Ray just looked completely miserable with his existence. Christian on the other hand tried to move on and he started a family. He had Jack in the late 1960s. Sometime before Claire was born, he started getting bored with his life and wanted to return to the island, so he started taking plane trips across the South Pacific life Jack does later in his life. On one of his trips to Australia, he meets Claire's mother and he starts a relationship with her...and later they produce Claire. Every! thing was fine for a number of year's...until his world was ripped apart by Jack when his son snitched on him for drinking on the job. He went to Sydney essentially to die. Yes, he wanted to see his daughter, but ultimately he wanted to die. Jack went to Australia to bring his father home. Once Flight 815 crashes on the island, the Man in Black resurrects Christian because they are old friends, and he wants Jack's father to help him carry out his mission....mainly helping John Locke do what he needs to do for the loophole to kill Jacob. Jacob wants Jack to be on his side, and that's why he touched Jack during The Incident.
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Shephard's have history on the island.... by Joe D.
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You could very well be right. We don't know much about Christian as a child. He could have easily spent time on the island at some point in his life. His attitude is a lot like MIB's in the sense that he is logical but at the same time not willing to put that extra effort into something he thinks is pointless. Christian and MIB are very similar.
Sounds very original to me.....good effort.
I should have gotten more detailed with the first part about Christian and Ray being on the Black Rock. I rushed it. Grammar errors also.... Thank you guys for the kind words.
Ray seemed to know his job was to encourage Jack and give him the shoes. I think Richard was on the Island before the Black Rock arrived. Yeah, I agree the whole Shepherd family is important but I don't see the Black Rock connection yet.
I also think your on to something with christian having some sort of history or connection to the island during his "life", the black rock thing is a bit of a stretch though. On a side note, I have always enjoyed the Ray is Jack theories. Just throwing that out there...
I agree with the title of the theory but not the execution. I don't know why they'd have anything to do with the Black Rock, and thinking of way to get them there seems a bit reachy. But I think it's possible for Christian to have been an Other surgeon or Dharma surgeon. This tenure would have begun and ended between 1954-74, so he would not have appeared on the island when we would have seen him (either 54 or 74). And if that were at all true, Jack may have been concieved (maybe even born?) on the island.
I mean, I kinda doubt even my idea would be true, but we know Christian's gotta have had some history with the island... Christian is defintely one of my favorite unsolved mysteries...
Perhaps reincarnation is the missing glue to the shepherd connection, or multiple shepard's in different realities.
Nice first post! Reintroduces the importance of the family connections to the mythology of LOST.
I like Anth's comment saying Christian was a DHARMA surgeon. That makes a lot of sense.
If Locke was the vessel to bring the MIB back, maybe Christian was the vessel for Jacob. Hmmm...
i'm agree Shepard's are connected to the island, and i like this theory
but we have any news abut John Terry and Raymond Barry who played Christian and Ray? do you know if they will join the cast for season 6?
@ Chris...I like where you're going!
The main portion of my theory was that the Shepherds' have history on the island. The "execution" or the Black Rock part of it wasn't necessary to the theory. It was just a detail I created in my mind.
Something that I am curious about...In Cabin Fever, Locke asks Christian in the cabin if he is Jacob. Christian says, "No, but I can speak on his behalf." Is that true, or is he lying? What I mean is was he really on Jacob's side and speaking on his behalf? Did Jacob tell him to meet Locke there and talk to him? Or did MIB put him up to being there? Then, Christian meets Locke at the FDW to guide him. For the longest time, I just assumed he was working with MIB. The main reason being that he was at the barracks and told Sun that she needed to wait for John Locke, but the John Locke that she was waiting for wasn't really John Locke. Then I thought about the Egyptian symbol that Ilana found nailed to the wall of the cabin that told her where to find Jacob. Did Christian put it there to guide Ilana to Jacob? It's a little confusing to me.