Clockwork Island
Perhaps when the Dharmas were trying to save the world via altering the Valenzetti Equation, they inadvertently did something that would bring about its sure end. Call it the incident. Call it messing with mother nature. Call it a monumental screw-up. The button pushing protocol was initiated to save the world. How deliciously ironic. Going back to Season Two and Jack’s comments, I don’t think any of us expect a computer that’s saving the world to look like that.
But what if fate or destiny or god’s will or quantum level mechanics – for expediency I’m just going to lump these things together as “the universe” - what if the universe wants the world to continue and is acting to ensure it does? One doesn’t need very fancy computer hardware to save the world when you’ve got the universe as an ally.
Desmond
Desmond is/was an instrument of the universe. He is/was fated to push the button. He is a coward, and he will not choose to alter his fate. But what the universe didn’t count on was Desmond turning the failsafe key. He did choose a different course for himself. Here enters free will and here enters the resultant course correction in the form of Ms. Hawkings. She works for the universe. She course-corrected Desmond to
ensure he wound up on the island, but she couldn't course-correct when he turned the failsafe key.
The smoke and Yemi
The smoke “works for the universe” and is course-corrector of sorts. Both the smoke and its manifestations, aka Yemis, exhibited actions prior to the hatch implosion that seem in keeping with wanting the button to be pushed and saving the world. The smoke is a security system. It attempts to keep anyone or anything from messing with the button pushing protocol. Perhaps it scans not just past lives, but future actions as well. Yemi’s actions and words, assuming Yemi was a manifestation of the smoke, convinced Eko that the button pushing was important. After the hatch implosion, the smoke had no further use for Eko and it was very angry with him. Thus, dead Eko.
What happened when Desmond turned the key
Desmond experienced a moment where past, present, and future became one and the same, ala Dr. Manhattan, and time past present and future flashed before his eyes. He woke up in the past. With his foreknowledge flashing into the past, he attempted to change his fate and marry Penny, but Ms. Hawkings course corrected him.
IMHO, since Desmond turned the failsafe key and the sky turned purple, Desmond and possibly the entire island and everyone on it are now stuck in a time loop. Perhaps Desmond will once again get opportunity to relive his past and attempt to change his destiny. Or perhaps he may have relived it several times already. Each time with the same outcome.
But perhaps he really changed the course of the universe when he turned the failsafe key. This could be the “catastrophically screwed” part. Perhaps the world is now destined to end. Or, perhaps the universe is fed up with its course correctors’ botching the job and it is now stepping in and pushing a big over-ride button to ensure the world does indeed continue. By pushing the over-ride button, the
universe may now keep Desmond and everyone on the island in a time loop in which all the events of the past few months or years will keep repeating, say every 108 days.
Well that's it. Wait, I see I have a scrap of tinfoil left. Perhaps the fourtoed statue people were the original guardians of a huge clockwork. The very clockwork of the universe.
The island is a clock.
Theory by back_gammon
Perhaps when the Dharmas were trying to save the world via altering the Valenzetti Equation, they inadvertently did something that would bring about its sure end. Call it the incident. Call it messing with mother nature. Call it a monumental screw-up. The button pushing protocol was initiated to save the world. How deliciously ironic. Going back to Season Two and Jack’s comments, I don’t think any of us expect a computer that’s saving the world to look like that.
But what if fate or destiny or god’s will or quantum level mechanics – for expediency I’m just going to lump these things together as “the universe” - what if the universe wants the world to continue and is acting to ensure it does? One doesn’t need very fancy computer hardware to save the world when you’ve got the universe as an ally.
Desmond
Desmond is/was an instrument of the universe. He is/was fated to push the button. He is a coward, and he will not choose to alter his fate. But what the universe didn’t count on was Desmond turning the failsafe key. He did choose a different course for himself. Here enters free will and here enters the resultant course correction in the form of Ms. Hawkings. She works for the universe. She course-corrected Desmond to
ensure he wound up on the island, but she couldn't course-correct when he turned the failsafe key.
The smoke and Yemi
The smoke “works for the universe” and is course-corrector of sorts. Both the smoke and its manifestations, aka Yemis, exhibited actions prior to the hatch implosion that seem in keeping with wanting the button to be pushed and saving the world. The smoke is a security system. It attempts to keep anyone or anything from messing with the button pushing protocol. Perhaps it scans not just past lives, but future actions as well. Yemi’s actions and words, assuming Yemi was a manifestation of the smoke, convinced Eko that the button pushing was important. After the hatch implosion, the smoke had no further use for Eko and it was very angry with him. Thus, dead Eko.
What happened when Desmond turned the key
Desmond experienced a moment where past, present, and future became one and the same, ala Dr. Manhattan, and time past present and future flashed before his eyes. He woke up in the past. With his foreknowledge flashing into the past, he attempted to change his fate and marry Penny, but Ms. Hawkings course corrected him.
IMHO, since Desmond turned the failsafe key and the sky turned purple, Desmond and possibly the entire island and everyone on it are now stuck in a time loop. Perhaps Desmond will once again get opportunity to relive his past and attempt to change his destiny. Or perhaps he may have relived it several times already. Each time with the same outcome.
But perhaps he really changed the course of the universe when he turned the failsafe key. This could be the “catastrophically screwed” part. Perhaps the world is now destined to end. Or, perhaps the universe is fed up with its course correctors’ botching the job and it is now stepping in and pushing a big over-ride button to ensure the world does indeed continue. By pushing the over-ride button, the
universe may now keep Desmond and everyone on the island in a time loop in which all the events of the past few months or years will keep repeating, say every 108 days.
Well that's it. Wait, I see I have a scrap of tinfoil left. Perhaps the fourtoed statue people were the original guardians of a huge clockwork. The very clockwork of the universe.
The island is a clock.
Theory by back_gammon
