Theory We've all heard theories about something going wrong on the island: the freighties slaughtering the redshirts, time loops in which EVERYONE dies but this is the chance to finally put it right, etc...
Well here is my theory:
Something goes wrong, on-island in 2006-2007.
Not late-2005. Not early-2005. Not even close.
The Oceanic 6 leave the island in late-2004 and are completely happy to do so. Nothing even slightly suspect is happening on the island. The freighties leave the island with the Oceanic 6 and the rest left on the island are left in peace.
So the Oceanic 6 leave the island in late-2004...and arrive off-island in early-2008. SHOCKER. Time has a different speed on-island.
So off-island, it's 2008. On-island, it's late-2004/early-2005 now. All peachy, right?
Nope: the Oceanic 6 learn that in 2006, something went wrong on-island. An atom bomb test in the area? Whatever - it doesn't matter. In effect, in 'real-life', off-island, in 2008, - when that event has already happened - Sawyer, Locke et all are DEAD.
In 2008, to the Oceanic 6, the island was destroyed in 2006.
In 2004, to Locke's gang and the Others, the island will be destroyed in 2006. They just don't know it yet.
However, if the Oceanic 6 could find a way to get back to 2004 and bring the people off the island to 2008, they'd be safe too as they'd bypass the event in time.
The question "They're alive, aren't they?" highlights this: to all and sundry, to the public world, they are dead in 2008 as they were 'still on the island' in 2006.
That is why Sayid's golf partner was so weirded out. He doesn't understand how Sayid survived the incident because he doesn't know Sayid actually left the island in late-2004, before the disaster.
But in 2004 the on-island folk are alive. If it is possible to leave (as the Oceanic 6 did), it's possible to get back. And thus, they are still 'alive' and saveable.
Jack actually never saw anything bad happen. He doesn't even know about the distaster by the time he meets Hurley in Hurley's flash-forward. That's why he's sooo fine about leaving. Nothing went wrong.
But then he researches the history of the area (the maps in his own flash-forward) and becomes messed up as he realises in 2006, they all died.
Discuss.
Theory by Andrew Sparkes
Well here is my theory:
Something goes wrong, on-island in 2006-2007.
Not late-2005. Not early-2005. Not even close.
The Oceanic 6 leave the island in late-2004 and are completely happy to do so. Nothing even slightly suspect is happening on the island. The freighties leave the island with the Oceanic 6 and the rest left on the island are left in peace.
So the Oceanic 6 leave the island in late-2004...and arrive off-island in early-2008. SHOCKER. Time has a different speed on-island.
So off-island, it's 2008. On-island, it's late-2004/early-2005 now. All peachy, right?
Nope: the Oceanic 6 learn that in 2006, something went wrong on-island. An atom bomb test in the area? Whatever - it doesn't matter. In effect, in 'real-life', off-island, in 2008, - when that event has already happened - Sawyer, Locke et all are DEAD.
In 2008, to the Oceanic 6, the island was destroyed in 2006.
In 2004, to Locke's gang and the Others, the island will be destroyed in 2006. They just don't know it yet.
However, if the Oceanic 6 could find a way to get back to 2004 and bring the people off the island to 2008, they'd be safe too as they'd bypass the event in time.
The question "They're alive, aren't they?" highlights this: to all and sundry, to the public world, they are dead in 2008 as they were 'still on the island' in 2006.
That is why Sayid's golf partner was so weirded out. He doesn't understand how Sayid survived the incident because he doesn't know Sayid actually left the island in late-2004, before the disaster.
But in 2004 the on-island folk are alive. If it is possible to leave (as the Oceanic 6 did), it's possible to get back. And thus, they are still 'alive' and saveable.
Jack actually never saw anything bad happen. He doesn't even know about the distaster by the time he meets Hurley in Hurley's flash-forward. That's why he's sooo fine about leaving. Nothing went wrong.
But then he researches the history of the area (the maps in his own flash-forward) and becomes messed up as he realises in 2006, they all died.
Discuss.
Theory by Andrew Sparkes
