Hello everybody! Great job with the theories you post here. Since I haven't actually read all of them, I'll welcome the administrators to erase this post, should it already be here in someone else's theory. Actually, I'm pretty much sure I'm not the first to come up with this idea.
It's not even a theory, just a way to see ... Lost for the second/third/x time.
As we've been told, the key to the show is in the first episode. So I went back to it, and it's pretty much obvious: Jack's been there before. It's not his first time. He may have been there the first time in exactly the same way, but it's not his first waking up on that island that we see in the opening of the series.
He wakes up in the jungle, after a plane crash and starts running towards the beach, like someone who knows very well where he wants to get, and why. Then we see the beach, he seems to be looking for proofs that this is the right place, with the right people, his people from the island, not the ones he's boarded on with in (my guess) one of his many drinking, no-cost flights (he does have some drink in his pocket, although he's not bearded). There are lots and lots of hints, which is why I might just come back to edit and add them to my post in a future visit.
The idea is this: the first episode, seen now, before the S4 finale, brings out new information, since our ability to decode it has increased. Actually, I would not be disappointed at all if the producers chose to rebroadcast the pilot episode as... let's say... the 12th episode of season 4. Of course this will not happen. It would be rushing things. They're just saving it for the 2010 finale. :)
That's my new shadow of an idea: the show's going to end exactly as it has started with Jack's eye opening, he running through the forest, to the beach, a few more scenes just enough to make us sure (or wondering if) we're in the same place, and the black image: "LOST. The end" ... is the beginning. will things change? history repeats itself, but does it do it in the same way every time? When I think of Lost, I think of the Moebius strip: it has no beginning, nor end, it just flows. Maybe LOST is a fractal made of more Moebius strips. If you see the show for the second time you grow in understanding and maybe even gain information that will help you understand even more the third time.
It will be entertaining to slide again through the episodes in the quest for new information in the old places. It will be interesting to guess which of the characters are not living their first times on the island as the show begins. Charlie did write FATE on his fingers, in the first episode, didn't he? Maybe he's there for the second/x time, and he knows what's coming for him. John's a bit too relaxed (even for someone who's regained the control of his feet?) and uninterested in what's going on. Maybe he just knows. And so on...
By the way: what did Jack do in the jungle after the pilot was killed?
May he have paid a visit to the smoke monster? Or is this when Jack re-entered the story?
And one thing about the John Locke test at 5 years: it seems everybody sees it as something that happened before he got to the island, and after Richard saw his birth. I guess it may as well have happened after he got on the island, when the two forces (Richard / Abbadon) tried to change the outcome of some things by changing his past. Maybe he has gone back to his childhood after he got on the island, maybe Richard got upset at meeting him at 5 years only to see he was already influenced by Abbadon, then returned for his birth, so he would not be too late this time...
Thank you for sharing the passion for what might be the most interactive series ever. I can almost see the official writers reading, laughing at, getting inspired from fan's posts, or working extra hours to change what they've written because someone has gotten the same idea before the show lighted that up. If this is true, we'll never know it. :)
*** My 10 year old motto seems to have gotten new meanings since... lost: "Love the world that you live in and create the world that you love. You are what you remember about yourself and you become what you think."
Theory by marianadream
It's not even a theory, just a way to see ... Lost for the second/third/x time.
As we've been told, the key to the show is in the first episode. So I went back to it, and it's pretty much obvious: Jack's been there before. It's not his first time. He may have been there the first time in exactly the same way, but it's not his first waking up on that island that we see in the opening of the series.
He wakes up in the jungle, after a plane crash and starts running towards the beach, like someone who knows very well where he wants to get, and why. Then we see the beach, he seems to be looking for proofs that this is the right place, with the right people, his people from the island, not the ones he's boarded on with in (my guess) one of his many drinking, no-cost flights (he does have some drink in his pocket, although he's not bearded). There are lots and lots of hints, which is why I might just come back to edit and add them to my post in a future visit.
The idea is this: the first episode, seen now, before the S4 finale, brings out new information, since our ability to decode it has increased. Actually, I would not be disappointed at all if the producers chose to rebroadcast the pilot episode as... let's say... the 12th episode of season 4. Of course this will not happen. It would be rushing things. They're just saving it for the 2010 finale. :)
That's my new shadow of an idea: the show's going to end exactly as it has started with Jack's eye opening, he running through the forest, to the beach, a few more scenes just enough to make us sure (or wondering if) we're in the same place, and the black image: "LOST. The end" ... is the beginning. will things change? history repeats itself, but does it do it in the same way every time? When I think of Lost, I think of the Moebius strip: it has no beginning, nor end, it just flows. Maybe LOST is a fractal made of more Moebius strips. If you see the show for the second time you grow in understanding and maybe even gain information that will help you understand even more the third time.
It will be entertaining to slide again through the episodes in the quest for new information in the old places. It will be interesting to guess which of the characters are not living their first times on the island as the show begins. Charlie did write FATE on his fingers, in the first episode, didn't he? Maybe he's there for the second/x time, and he knows what's coming for him. John's a bit too relaxed (even for someone who's regained the control of his feet?) and uninterested in what's going on. Maybe he just knows. And so on...
By the way: what did Jack do in the jungle after the pilot was killed?
May he have paid a visit to the smoke monster? Or is this when Jack re-entered the story?
And one thing about the John Locke test at 5 years: it seems everybody sees it as something that happened before he got to the island, and after Richard saw his birth. I guess it may as well have happened after he got on the island, when the two forces (Richard / Abbadon) tried to change the outcome of some things by changing his past. Maybe he has gone back to his childhood after he got on the island, maybe Richard got upset at meeting him at 5 years only to see he was already influenced by Abbadon, then returned for his birth, so he would not be too late this time...
Thank you for sharing the passion for what might be the most interactive series ever. I can almost see the official writers reading, laughing at, getting inspired from fan's posts, or working extra hours to change what they've written because someone has gotten the same idea before the show lighted that up. If this is true, we'll never know it. :)
*** My 10 year old motto seems to have gotten new meanings since... lost: "Love the world that you live in and create the world that you love. You are what you remember about yourself and you become what you think."
Theory by marianadream
