I don't believe "the sickness" relates to times travel. First, as Faraday explained those who are exposed to high amounts of radiation and/or electromagnetism run into the time travel sickness. Faraday knows he exposed himself to immense amounts of radiation during his Eloise experiments, so (I feel) it's safe to assume that he's prepared himself a constant for when he too eventually tries to leave the island.
The flashes Desmond experienced with Charlie were far different then the one's he experienced after leaving the island. They were more like psychic visions as opposed to his mind conciously traveling through time.
When Desmond went back in time, after the hatch blew, and met with Mrs. Hawking. He was fully aware of both his future and past situations...unlike these most recent flashes. He knew he was back in time. He remembered the island, he remembered the hatch, and pushing the button. However, in this episode's flashes, Desmond has no recollection of his future self, the island, or the hatch.
That's why I don't feel the time travel sickeness becomes a problem till those who are exposed to immense amounts of radiation/electromagnetism try to leave the island.
I don't buy into the idea of everyone on the island being each other's constants. It's too skimpy of a notion. First of all there's no guarantee at what point in time one's concious could travel to. If Jack travel's back to his school days, and the incident with the school bully....it's a tough road for Jack, because none of the island's inhabitants are going to serve as his constant. This plays out the same for each of our characters. And, as Minokowsi said....they can travel into any point in the past ...from minutes to years prior to where they are now.
And, truthfully everyone has a constant with or without their fellow inhabitants. Jack has his ex-wife, or his mother. Kate has her mother. Sawyer has his ex-girlfriend. Locke could use Helen (not that I think he'll ever willingly leave the island). Sayid has his Iraqi girlfriend, that now lives in California. Everyone has a constant. Even Minokowski, but he died because he didn't know he needed to contact his constant. He didn't know the remedy for the time travel sickness. Had he known, I'm sure he could've called up his old ferris wheel companion, and been just fine.
Faraday's journal entry stating Desmond Hume will be his constant, was an excellent way of showing that Desmond did indeed go back in time. Faraday had to flip back into his journal, back into thing's that he'd written before. It's not an epiphany that he jotted down before our eyes. The writers were showing us that Desmond did go back in time, it wasn't a play on our imaginations, or confusion with Desmond.
And, this brings me back to Danielle and her crew. I've read theories where many feel that the sickness Danielle's crew suffered from, was this time travel sickness. Each of her crew members new each other prior to arrival on the island (pre-time travel), therefore it's pretty likely that they could've acted as each other's constants.
And, the time travel sickness cannot be vaccinated away. A constant is needed to break the time cycle, and avoid death. Yet, Dharma used vaccines. When Claire was still pregnant and kidnapped, the other's injected her with the same vaccine. This rules out the notion that Dharma used vaccinations as a process of manipulation, perhaps to guaranteeing people would stay inside their perspective quarantined hatches for Dharma's experiments. The other's obviously believe the vaccine is needed. They may not have cared about Claire, but I believe they would do anything they could to protect Claire's unborn child. They wanted that baby. And, I didn't see anything that indicated to me that the other's were using the vaccinations to manipulate Claire into staying with them. This lead's me to believe there has to be some other kind of sickness.
I'll be the first to admit that I have no clue if I'm right or wrong? The one constant within the world of "Lost," is that I'm perpetually confused. But, I think the sickness being related to time travel is too neat and clean of an explanation from our writers. And, it could leave a lot of gaps.
One thing's for sure, it was an excellent episode, and I'll be very interested in learning what exactly is the true outcome of the time travel phenomenon associated with our losties.
Theory by lovinlost411
The flashes Desmond experienced with Charlie were far different then the one's he experienced after leaving the island. They were more like psychic visions as opposed to his mind conciously traveling through time.
When Desmond went back in time, after the hatch blew, and met with Mrs. Hawking. He was fully aware of both his future and past situations...unlike these most recent flashes. He knew he was back in time. He remembered the island, he remembered the hatch, and pushing the button. However, in this episode's flashes, Desmond has no recollection of his future self, the island, or the hatch.
That's why I don't feel the time travel sickeness becomes a problem till those who are exposed to immense amounts of radiation/electromagnetism try to leave the island.
I don't buy into the idea of everyone on the island being each other's constants. It's too skimpy of a notion. First of all there's no guarantee at what point in time one's concious could travel to. If Jack travel's back to his school days, and the incident with the school bully....it's a tough road for Jack, because none of the island's inhabitants are going to serve as his constant. This plays out the same for each of our characters. And, as Minokowsi said....they can travel into any point in the past ...from minutes to years prior to where they are now.
And, truthfully everyone has a constant with or without their fellow inhabitants. Jack has his ex-wife, or his mother. Kate has her mother. Sawyer has his ex-girlfriend. Locke could use Helen (not that I think he'll ever willingly leave the island). Sayid has his Iraqi girlfriend, that now lives in California. Everyone has a constant. Even Minokowski, but he died because he didn't know he needed to contact his constant. He didn't know the remedy for the time travel sickness. Had he known, I'm sure he could've called up his old ferris wheel companion, and been just fine.
Faraday's journal entry stating Desmond Hume will be his constant, was an excellent way of showing that Desmond did indeed go back in time. Faraday had to flip back into his journal, back into thing's that he'd written before. It's not an epiphany that he jotted down before our eyes. The writers were showing us that Desmond did go back in time, it wasn't a play on our imaginations, or confusion with Desmond.
And, this brings me back to Danielle and her crew. I've read theories where many feel that the sickness Danielle's crew suffered from, was this time travel sickness. Each of her crew members new each other prior to arrival on the island (pre-time travel), therefore it's pretty likely that they could've acted as each other's constants.
And, the time travel sickness cannot be vaccinated away. A constant is needed to break the time cycle, and avoid death. Yet, Dharma used vaccines. When Claire was still pregnant and kidnapped, the other's injected her with the same vaccine. This rules out the notion that Dharma used vaccinations as a process of manipulation, perhaps to guaranteeing people would stay inside their perspective quarantined hatches for Dharma's experiments. The other's obviously believe the vaccine is needed. They may not have cared about Claire, but I believe they would do anything they could to protect Claire's unborn child. They wanted that baby. And, I didn't see anything that indicated to me that the other's were using the vaccinations to manipulate Claire into staying with them. This lead's me to believe there has to be some other kind of sickness.
I'll be the first to admit that I have no clue if I'm right or wrong? The one constant within the world of "Lost," is that I'm perpetually confused. But, I think the sickness being related to time travel is too neat and clean of an explanation from our writers. And, it could leave a lot of gaps.
One thing's for sure, it was an excellent episode, and I'll be very interested in learning what exactly is the true outcome of the time travel phenomenon associated with our losties.
Theory by lovinlost411
