So Damon & Carlton have recently gave away a big clue during one of their interviews/podcasts. They said that we shouldn't be asking now if Claire is dead, but rather what happened to her. They said we should be asking "what is dead?"
What I take from that is that maybe death on the island isn't what we assume it is in the real world. That maybe dying on the island isn't possible, or that something else happens to you.
First off, when they introduced Miles in "Confirmed Dead" and showed him working as a ghostbuster, I was going "what the hell is this, he can talk to the dead! no!" But now I'm starting to think that maybe Miles isn't really communicating with the dead, but rather people who exist on another stream of time. Maybe Miles' power is that he can communicate between timelines.
So maybe when a character dies on the island, they aren't actually dead, but instead sent to another timeline. Maybe a past version of themselves (like Desmond going back to 1996 when the Swan exploded), or maybe into the future (like Charlie visiting Hurley at Santa Rosa).
Miles has been a huge hint recently that something strange is going on. Mainly with Claire. Okay, so Claire's New Otherton house blows up and she's fine without so much as a torn limb or anything. She comes back into Ben's house and says "I'm okay I'll live" and Miles says "I wouldn't be so sure about that". What? Then later on when Miles, Claire, Aaron & Sawyer are trekking back to the beach, Claire complains about having headaches and seeing things and Miles immediately responds with "What did you see?" Also, let's not forget that the moment Sawyer woke Claire up from the house wreckage, the first thing that Claire said was "Charlie?" Miles knows that something's up with Claire. And now we've seen her interact with Christian Shepherd and is now inside Jacob's cabin.
And we know that Miles isn't just a con man, he really does have some kind of power because he sat with Naomi's body and knew that Jack & Kate were telling the truth. Also, he heard Danielle & Karl's voices when he was standing on their grave.
So far we've seen several "supposed to be" dead people wandering around on the island: Christian, Yemi, Emily Linus. We've also seen Christian off island in the future as well as Libby and Charlie. In dreams we've seen Ana-Lucia, Horace, Yemi, Boone and Shannon getting killed by the monster which didn't actually happen. Then there's also been the case of Kate's horse and the boar that Sawyer thought was Frank Duckett.
Then of course there are the whispers. I've read the whisper transcripts and listened to the audio files. I'm still not sure that the transcripts are accurate, but the whispers definitely mean something. Somehow I get the feeling that the whispers are people in another dimension/timeline watching the events of the island play out and trying to influence the events in some way. Also, isn't it strange that the whispers usually happen when characters are near graves or burial sites? The Dharma pit, Danielle & Karl's grave, the real Henry Gale's grave, the Lostie's graveyard, near Danielle's fort which was probably where she buried her team, near the sonic fence where many people probably died, etc.
So what does dying have to do with time travel? Well, here's something I want everyone to ponder. Is George Minkowski and Eloise the rat actually dead? I'm sure by now after Daniel did the autopsy Eloise is dead, but did she actually die? Did Minkowski actually die? Or are they now permanently stuck in time? Their bodies go limp in the time they were traveling from, but do they still exist in another timeline. You know it always concerned me that we never actually saw how Christian Shepherd died. They said it was a heart attack. We assume it was from drinking. We see his body in the Australian morgue and when know it was in the coffin on the plane. But what if he wasn't actually dead? What if his consciousness was traveling and his body was in that catatonic state. What if he had the nosebleed thing happen to him and his body really looked dead, just like Minkowski, his heart stopped and everyone thought he was dead, but on the plane, when it went through the ti! merift, maybe his consciousness came back to him ... inside the coffin. And when the plane crashed, he got out of the coffin and got Vincent to find Jack. Since he was time traveling he knew that Jack had work to do.
Maybe all the people that we think are dead on the island aren't really dead? Maybe their consciousness is still traveling through time.
Who's really dead, and who's just time traveling?
Theory by Scott Gingold
What I take from that is that maybe death on the island isn't what we assume it is in the real world. That maybe dying on the island isn't possible, or that something else happens to you.
First off, when they introduced Miles in "Confirmed Dead" and showed him working as a ghostbuster, I was going "what the hell is this, he can talk to the dead! no!" But now I'm starting to think that maybe Miles isn't really communicating with the dead, but rather people who exist on another stream of time. Maybe Miles' power is that he can communicate between timelines.
So maybe when a character dies on the island, they aren't actually dead, but instead sent to another timeline. Maybe a past version of themselves (like Desmond going back to 1996 when the Swan exploded), or maybe into the future (like Charlie visiting Hurley at Santa Rosa).
Miles has been a huge hint recently that something strange is going on. Mainly with Claire. Okay, so Claire's New Otherton house blows up and she's fine without so much as a torn limb or anything. She comes back into Ben's house and says "I'm okay I'll live" and Miles says "I wouldn't be so sure about that". What? Then later on when Miles, Claire, Aaron & Sawyer are trekking back to the beach, Claire complains about having headaches and seeing things and Miles immediately responds with "What did you see?" Also, let's not forget that the moment Sawyer woke Claire up from the house wreckage, the first thing that Claire said was "Charlie?" Miles knows that something's up with Claire. And now we've seen her interact with Christian Shepherd and is now inside Jacob's cabin.
And we know that Miles isn't just a con man, he really does have some kind of power because he sat with Naomi's body and knew that Jack & Kate were telling the truth. Also, he heard Danielle & Karl's voices when he was standing on their grave.
So far we've seen several "supposed to be" dead people wandering around on the island: Christian, Yemi, Emily Linus. We've also seen Christian off island in the future as well as Libby and Charlie. In dreams we've seen Ana-Lucia, Horace, Yemi, Boone and Shannon getting killed by the monster which didn't actually happen. Then there's also been the case of Kate's horse and the boar that Sawyer thought was Frank Duckett.
Then of course there are the whispers. I've read the whisper transcripts and listened to the audio files. I'm still not sure that the transcripts are accurate, but the whispers definitely mean something. Somehow I get the feeling that the whispers are people in another dimension/timeline watching the events of the island play out and trying to influence the events in some way. Also, isn't it strange that the whispers usually happen when characters are near graves or burial sites? The Dharma pit, Danielle & Karl's grave, the real Henry Gale's grave, the Lostie's graveyard, near Danielle's fort which was probably where she buried her team, near the sonic fence where many people probably died, etc.
So what does dying have to do with time travel? Well, here's something I want everyone to ponder. Is George Minkowski and Eloise the rat actually dead? I'm sure by now after Daniel did the autopsy Eloise is dead, but did she actually die? Did Minkowski actually die? Or are they now permanently stuck in time? Their bodies go limp in the time they were traveling from, but do they still exist in another timeline. You know it always concerned me that we never actually saw how Christian Shepherd died. They said it was a heart attack. We assume it was from drinking. We see his body in the Australian morgue and when know it was in the coffin on the plane. But what if he wasn't actually dead? What if his consciousness was traveling and his body was in that catatonic state. What if he had the nosebleed thing happen to him and his body really looked dead, just like Minkowski, his heart stopped and everyone thought he was dead, but on the plane, when it went through the ti! merift, maybe his consciousness came back to him ... inside the coffin. And when the plane crashed, he got out of the coffin and got Vincent to find Jack. Since he was time traveling he knew that Jack had work to do.
Maybe all the people that we think are dead on the island aren't really dead? Maybe their consciousness is still traveling through time.
Who's really dead, and who's just time traveling?
Theory by Scott Gingold
