i've been very interested in the time travel elements in Lost, but something has confused me about this idea, the idea that these characters are travelling back and forth through time, the idea that the island is in a different time to the rest of the world, the world we know. I was confused because even if we take it as a given that time travel is possible, it doesn't come anywhere near close enough to explain some of the coincidences we've been witness to in this story.
Not only this, but time travel takes away much of the drama involved in life, as there is no consequence to action, for it can be changed. Time travel also implies that infinate realities are co-existing simultaniously in time and space, so who cares if Jack does something good? There is another Jack somewhere else, doing something equally bad, so what does it really matter?
My mind has gone one step further with the idea of time travel, i've starting to think that this is all an elaborate experiment in morality.
The 'flashbacks' we see are actually memories, implanted into everybody's minds, this explains all the coincidents. Hurley and Libby in the same mental home, Jack and Claire being brother and sister, Jack meeting Desmond at the stadium........so on and so on....
The coincidences arn't actually real, they are the idea's of someone we are yet to meet, who is trying to experiment on these people, testing their limits. Testing how far you must push people before they will sacrifice their own morality.
How far can you push someone before they will give up the things that mean something to them? For Michael it was to save the son he was told (in his memories) he let down....for Sawyer it was a man who he holds responsible for his mothers death, for some they have been given memories of themselves killing already, so can they be redeemed? Jin, Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Anna Maria?
There people we know on the island, all of them, The survivors of the crash, the others, the hostiles, the freighter crew, everyone is being tested by memories and experience. It explains coincidence and it explains the ludacris things the island can do.
Maybe Jack's ultimate test is next to come? The idea that he now wishes he killed someone? Now that he knows that Claire is his sister? Maybe he could have killed someone to get Claire off the island as well?
Or maybe the test goes even further? Maybe there are elements of The Matrix in this show? Maybe the island is just an idea, a reality in which they all 'exist', but not in reality, in reality they are all laying on a hospital bed with wires poking into their heads? But in their heads, they survived a plane crash, and are being given the chance to survive or die, but survival depends upon them breaking their own sense of what is right and wrong.
We shall see.
Theory by Nation
Not only this, but time travel takes away much of the drama involved in life, as there is no consequence to action, for it can be changed. Time travel also implies that infinate realities are co-existing simultaniously in time and space, so who cares if Jack does something good? There is another Jack somewhere else, doing something equally bad, so what does it really matter?
My mind has gone one step further with the idea of time travel, i've starting to think that this is all an elaborate experiment in morality.
The 'flashbacks' we see are actually memories, implanted into everybody's minds, this explains all the coincidents. Hurley and Libby in the same mental home, Jack and Claire being brother and sister, Jack meeting Desmond at the stadium........so on and so on....
The coincidences arn't actually real, they are the idea's of someone we are yet to meet, who is trying to experiment on these people, testing their limits. Testing how far you must push people before they will sacrifice their own morality.
How far can you push someone before they will give up the things that mean something to them? For Michael it was to save the son he was told (in his memories) he let down....for Sawyer it was a man who he holds responsible for his mothers death, for some they have been given memories of themselves killing already, so can they be redeemed? Jin, Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Anna Maria?
There people we know on the island, all of them, The survivors of the crash, the others, the hostiles, the freighter crew, everyone is being tested by memories and experience. It explains coincidence and it explains the ludacris things the island can do.
Maybe Jack's ultimate test is next to come? The idea that he now wishes he killed someone? Now that he knows that Claire is his sister? Maybe he could have killed someone to get Claire off the island as well?
Or maybe the test goes even further? Maybe there are elements of The Matrix in this show? Maybe the island is just an idea, a reality in which they all 'exist', but not in reality, in reality they are all laying on a hospital bed with wires poking into their heads? But in their heads, they survived a plane crash, and are being given the chance to survive or die, but survival depends upon them breaking their own sense of what is right and wrong.
We shall see.
Theory by Nation
