In an interview with EntertainmentWeekly last year, Damon Lindelof stated that Mrs Hawking IS a time traveller...
"CUSE: Can we just back up half a second? Once you say something like that, Jeff, it can’t be unsaid.
LINDELOF: Unless you travel back in time, like Mrs. Hawking does. But no, you won’t be seeing her before the end of the season--but you will be seeing her again."
What are they doing, though, travelling through time? What is the "end game" that they are looking for?
My theory? They are trying to save the world. I don't know HOW they're going to save the world, but, here are a few things that they've already set up:-
1. They needed many of the Lostie survivors to be on the plane... this is an easy one. All the back stories of how people arrived on the plane seem so coincidental. When Doc Arzt told Michael about how he'd arrived on the island, Michael says "take a look around. Everybody on this beach has a story like yours". Doc Arzt died quite early in the series - close to the end of season 1. For him to die, I reckon that his usefulness had run out - that he'd performed the task that the time travelers needed him for. The time travellers must have gone to everyone's past and manipulated things so that they would board flight 815. Not only that, I believe that Libby was a time traveller, though how she could die if that were the case I don't know;
2. Hurley will need to have a lot of money in the future. Why? Because everything that happened in his past seemed to be to (i) win him a lot of money and (ii) make sure that he doesn't lose the money - or that he makes even more. Things blowing up? So that he can get the insurance. Shares suspiciously sky-rocketing.. His Grandad died when Hurley wanted to give him a sum of money. The lottery numbers (probably given to him by Libby). And so on...;
3. Locke's kidney. He gave his Dad his kidney... this saved his life when Ben tried to kill him. That means that Locke must have an important part still to play for the time travellers' end game;
4. Jack "falling out of the sky". Does that mean that the time travellers need to keep Ben alive? If so, what is his purpose? I doubt that Ben himself is a time traveller;
5. Desmond... this was one of the biggest clues, of course, when he tried to alter his past and Ms Hawking told him not to;
6. Juliet. That bus was clearly not an accident... but, also, setting something like that up is dangerous. There was no way that Alpert could know that her husband would step out into the road at that moment. The bus was travelling REALLY fast - had Juliet stepped out, it would've been catastrophic for them... they KNEW he was going to step out. Because they'd already seen it happen - and they saw an opportunity to travel back in time and take control of the bus;
7. Charlie. This is the odd one... it was Desmond saving Charlie... so... EITHER the memories of Charlie dying were implanted into his brain somehow... OR... he became a time traveller himself. This last theory is quite possible... he travelled into his own past and remembered everything from Lost island. Maybe his "flashes" showing Charlie dying were real - Charlie HAD died but, everytime, Desmond went back in time to save him;
8. The new Orientation movie... two number 15 rabbits appear that must be kept apart. Has anyone seen Doctor Who? There was a theory on that that if you travel in time and meet yourself, you can cause the end of the universe if you touch...
Through the use of time travellers, I think the producers can explain ALL of the things which we've considered all along to be coincidences. Most of the mysteries of Lost could be explained...
If the time travellers are manipulating things towards an end game, though, one Q comes to mind: are they good, or are they bad? Or are there good AND bad time travellers?
Theory by Bob Pitbull
"CUSE: Can we just back up half a second? Once you say something like that, Jeff, it can’t be unsaid.
LINDELOF: Unless you travel back in time, like Mrs. Hawking does. But no, you won’t be seeing her before the end of the season--but you will be seeing her again."
What are they doing, though, travelling through time? What is the "end game" that they are looking for?
My theory? They are trying to save the world. I don't know HOW they're going to save the world, but, here are a few things that they've already set up:-
1. They needed many of the Lostie survivors to be on the plane... this is an easy one. All the back stories of how people arrived on the plane seem so coincidental. When Doc Arzt told Michael about how he'd arrived on the island, Michael says "take a look around. Everybody on this beach has a story like yours". Doc Arzt died quite early in the series - close to the end of season 1. For him to die, I reckon that his usefulness had run out - that he'd performed the task that the time travelers needed him for. The time travellers must have gone to everyone's past and manipulated things so that they would board flight 815. Not only that, I believe that Libby was a time traveller, though how she could die if that were the case I don't know;
2. Hurley will need to have a lot of money in the future. Why? Because everything that happened in his past seemed to be to (i) win him a lot of money and (ii) make sure that he doesn't lose the money - or that he makes even more. Things blowing up? So that he can get the insurance. Shares suspiciously sky-rocketing.. His Grandad died when Hurley wanted to give him a sum of money. The lottery numbers (probably given to him by Libby). And so on...;
3. Locke's kidney. He gave his Dad his kidney... this saved his life when Ben tried to kill him. That means that Locke must have an important part still to play for the time travellers' end game;
4. Jack "falling out of the sky". Does that mean that the time travellers need to keep Ben alive? If so, what is his purpose? I doubt that Ben himself is a time traveller;
5. Desmond... this was one of the biggest clues, of course, when he tried to alter his past and Ms Hawking told him not to;
6. Juliet. That bus was clearly not an accident... but, also, setting something like that up is dangerous. There was no way that Alpert could know that her husband would step out into the road at that moment. The bus was travelling REALLY fast - had Juliet stepped out, it would've been catastrophic for them... they KNEW he was going to step out. Because they'd already seen it happen - and they saw an opportunity to travel back in time and take control of the bus;
7. Charlie. This is the odd one... it was Desmond saving Charlie... so... EITHER the memories of Charlie dying were implanted into his brain somehow... OR... he became a time traveller himself. This last theory is quite possible... he travelled into his own past and remembered everything from Lost island. Maybe his "flashes" showing Charlie dying were real - Charlie HAD died but, everytime, Desmond went back in time to save him;
8. The new Orientation movie... two number 15 rabbits appear that must be kept apart. Has anyone seen Doctor Who? There was a theory on that that if you travel in time and meet yourself, you can cause the end of the universe if you touch...
Through the use of time travellers, I think the producers can explain ALL of the things which we've considered all along to be coincidences. Most of the mysteries of Lost could be explained...
If the time travellers are manipulating things towards an end game, though, one Q comes to mind: are they good, or are they bad? Or are there good AND bad time travellers?
Theory by Bob Pitbull
