Once there was an island.
Not The Island, just "an" island. Probably in the South Pacific. Unremarkable. The kind of place that would have a few resorts and host a season of Survivor.
Then something came down.
We know exotic matter is deep within the island. I believe it impacted the earth on that unremarkable island and changed it beyond imagination. I think it warped space and time around the island, leaving it in an envelope effectively cut off from the normal world around it.
The natives built a culture and religion around their altered and haunted home -- learned its secrets (or as much as they could understand) and their shamans slowly learned to harness it -- hence the donkey wheel and the rune-covered walls.
And I think they had help, cause I don't think that exotic matter was a simple chunk of fancy ore. i think it was an engine of sorts.
I believe there is an intelligence buried down there with that matter -- or mabye it is the matter -- in the remnants of what we would best describe as a ship, but nothing like the flying saucers we would picture. Not a metal craft, but a craft of energy and thought -- carrying a being of energy and thought, a free-roving consciousness.
I believe it spoke to the natives, in the familiar whispers and manifestations we've seen. I believe it is the very thing we mean when we say "The Island".
So what would it want? I think it would be all but impossible to understand the needs and motivations of so alien a being. Its history suggests a desire to be left alone, to remain hidden. It certainly sees fit to bend reality to direct the lives of simple men and women around the world -- often at their expense.
It may be that such a being would be subject to a kind of inductance -- it would be affected by the minds (souls?) near it, perhaps even becomes over time a conglomerate of those entities, changed by them, like seasoning added to a sauce. It would certainly, then, put a premium on "good people" being the only ones allowed nearby.
I believe people subject to its energies in the right way -- with enough power -- become changed by it. They become permanent, ageless, a fixed point in time and space, a fact.
Richard was touched in this way, and I have a suspicion about that. I think Ben has now been touched via the donkey wheel -- thrown through space and time (yes, I think he's now immortal). I think, without real evidence, that Abaddon is another ageless one. And, for that matter, I think Widmore is one.
I think Abaddon and perhaps Widmore each moved the island once. I have the sense Widmore can't go to the island himself, and that fits. I don't think he knows Abaddon, and I don't think Abaddon actually works for him. I think Abaddon put together a carefully selected team that had nothing to do with Widmore's invasion snatch-and-grab and monkey-wrenched them into Widmore's operation.
Abaddon and Richard seem to be on the same side, and I think they know each other -- I think they were on the Black Rock together.
I think the Black Rock is so far inland not because it moved onto the island, but because the island moved under it! I think it happened to be where the island appeared, and everyone onboard (who didn't die in the event) was consequently transformed. They are at least some of those we call the Others. Abaddon may have moved the island later, or simply left to do its good work overseas.
i think Smokey represents an aspect of the intelligence -- perhaps its id -- or is a lesser component of itself, or perhaps formed an all-purpose system of its ship, a kind of mental hand.
I think Jacob is a conduit -- another Black Rock survivor, but transformed far more than the rest. The latest in a long line of human conduits, stretching back to the early natives. I think he is someone who joined with the intelligence, perhaps finding his way down to it, or perhaps being chosen for such a purpose and taken down by Smokey -- just as it tried to take Locke once (The island didn't want him for Ben's job -- it wanted him for Jacob's. I think the items presented to Locke by Richard were his, except the comic book of course). I think Jacob is either melding too far into the intelligence now to be usable as a conduit, or for some other reason has reached his shelf-life. Ben selfishly interfered with the island's need (perhaps screwing with Locke via the island's time travel abilities -- who was driving the car that hit his mother and later him?) and the Island set down the plague of fatal pregnancy as a punishment.
Quickly written, so I apologize if it seems jumbled or confusing.
Theory by jaxpagan
Not The Island, just "an" island. Probably in the South Pacific. Unremarkable. The kind of place that would have a few resorts and host a season of Survivor.
Then something came down.
We know exotic matter is deep within the island. I believe it impacted the earth on that unremarkable island and changed it beyond imagination. I think it warped space and time around the island, leaving it in an envelope effectively cut off from the normal world around it.
The natives built a culture and religion around their altered and haunted home -- learned its secrets (or as much as they could understand) and their shamans slowly learned to harness it -- hence the donkey wheel and the rune-covered walls.
And I think they had help, cause I don't think that exotic matter was a simple chunk of fancy ore. i think it was an engine of sorts.
I believe there is an intelligence buried down there with that matter -- or mabye it is the matter -- in the remnants of what we would best describe as a ship, but nothing like the flying saucers we would picture. Not a metal craft, but a craft of energy and thought -- carrying a being of energy and thought, a free-roving consciousness.
I believe it spoke to the natives, in the familiar whispers and manifestations we've seen. I believe it is the very thing we mean when we say "The Island".
So what would it want? I think it would be all but impossible to understand the needs and motivations of so alien a being. Its history suggests a desire to be left alone, to remain hidden. It certainly sees fit to bend reality to direct the lives of simple men and women around the world -- often at their expense.
It may be that such a being would be subject to a kind of inductance -- it would be affected by the minds (souls?) near it, perhaps even becomes over time a conglomerate of those entities, changed by them, like seasoning added to a sauce. It would certainly, then, put a premium on "good people" being the only ones allowed nearby.
I believe people subject to its energies in the right way -- with enough power -- become changed by it. They become permanent, ageless, a fixed point in time and space, a fact.
Richard was touched in this way, and I have a suspicion about that. I think Ben has now been touched via the donkey wheel -- thrown through space and time (yes, I think he's now immortal). I think, without real evidence, that Abaddon is another ageless one. And, for that matter, I think Widmore is one.
I think Abaddon and perhaps Widmore each moved the island once. I have the sense Widmore can't go to the island himself, and that fits. I don't think he knows Abaddon, and I don't think Abaddon actually works for him. I think Abaddon put together a carefully selected team that had nothing to do with Widmore's invasion snatch-and-grab and monkey-wrenched them into Widmore's operation.
Abaddon and Richard seem to be on the same side, and I think they know each other -- I think they were on the Black Rock together.
I think the Black Rock is so far inland not because it moved onto the island, but because the island moved under it! I think it happened to be where the island appeared, and everyone onboard (who didn't die in the event) was consequently transformed. They are at least some of those we call the Others. Abaddon may have moved the island later, or simply left to do its good work overseas.
i think Smokey represents an aspect of the intelligence -- perhaps its id -- or is a lesser component of itself, or perhaps formed an all-purpose system of its ship, a kind of mental hand.
I think Jacob is a conduit -- another Black Rock survivor, but transformed far more than the rest. The latest in a long line of human conduits, stretching back to the early natives. I think he is someone who joined with the intelligence, perhaps finding his way down to it, or perhaps being chosen for such a purpose and taken down by Smokey -- just as it tried to take Locke once (The island didn't want him for Ben's job -- it wanted him for Jacob's. I think the items presented to Locke by Richard were his, except the comic book of course). I think Jacob is either melding too far into the intelligence now to be usable as a conduit, or for some other reason has reached his shelf-life. Ben selfishly interfered with the island's need (perhaps screwing with Locke via the island's time travel abilities -- who was driving the car that hit his mother and later him?) and the Island set down the plague of fatal pregnancy as a punishment.
Quickly written, so I apologize if it seems jumbled or confusing.
Theory by jaxpagan
