First I have to say sorry for my english, I'm no native speaker. This is my first posting here, and I'm afraid it might become a very long one. Of course I can't explain the "big whole thing". But I gathered some puzzle pieces, and now I will try to stick them together. And there will be some I can only throw on the table to make other people think about, too.
I'd like to start with Ben. I have the idea, that Ben somehow is responsible for many things that happen on the island, especially corresponding to certain appearances of smokey (love that name). I furthermore have the idea, that Ben somehow CREATED parts of the environment (even persons) around him.
These people might be so real, that they even think that they are real.
His father blames him for having his Mom killed when - because!- he was born. To say something like that to your child is even as horrible as stealing it's kidney...lalala.
Ben sees his Mommy through his window on the island. Of course his Mommy is dead and even if she would not be, how could she be on the island? So, what Benny saw, was an appearance, a vision - maybe it was another smokey-manifestation-of-the-viewers-greatest-guilt.
Anyway, this thing lured him to the other side of the fence, and there he met her again. And she lured him directly to Richard Alpert. (Or did she/it turn into Richard? Or did he somehow invent Richard?)
We could talk about Richard now, who is in my opinion very, very important (perhaps even more than Ben). But instead I want to focus on little Ben again.
His new home - the Dharma Initiative - is being attacked by strangers Ben has never seen, and he has never been given an explanation why they attack. Just imagine how a child would feel in this situation...
If a boy like Ben would live alone on an island with some strange force on it, which makes thoughts come real (like in Forbidden Planet, adapted from Shakespeare's "Storm", remember that the authors refer to these stories), what would this world look like?
I say it would exactly look like the island, including food, chirurgists, pregnancy scientists and daughters that fall from heaven when needed/wished, strange, invincible "intruders" without any explainable reason to attack, women that must die because they are pregnant without any medical explanation and father figures who tell him what to do if he does not know the answers himself.
We don't know yet what happened in the years between Ben's childhood and the day of the Dharma-Wipeout. I am sure that we will find out more about these missing years and this will make us find out, how similar "The Stand" really is.
I am also sure, that we will find out more about Juliet's relationship to Goodwins wife Harper. I assume, that she was one of the nine pregnant women who died during Juliet's experiments and that she was not real in "The Other Woman". That's what Juliet meant when she said that Ben "knew how to reach her".
So, now let's talk about time travels. Many of you already have asked not WHERE, but WHEN the island is. And there was the idea, that the island could have moved to the past. So the crash did not happen yet.
Let's just imagine one thing for a second: Daniel Faraday can and will travel in time during the next episodes. (Desmond Hume will be his constant). Let's imagine that Daniel will find a way (and a reason) to set the toxic gas from orchid station free. Let's say not in the same time like "today", but in the Dharma period...!?
Okay, okay, was just a thought.
Let's say the island now is in the past of the "real time", where the o6 are at home again. Some of them want to go back (and altough some of them don't want, we all know that Jack will find a way to stick them all together again. (Just because it would be too boring if Kate would insist: "no, leave me alone, I will never go back!" which would make the mission impossible right before it started).
Okay, so they come together again and try to find a way back. And of course they will find one. But it will take time.
If the theory is right and the island has moved back 10 months and it will take another 10 month until Jack can bring the o6 back to the island, wouldn't this mean that they will arrive in the moment when the plane crushes down "again"?
And this would mean, that they have the chance to bring the whole story to a happy end, where all those who died because of their mistakes are still alive.
It is a fact, that the island time is different to the rest of the world. And it seems to be proven by Daniel Faradays experiment, that it runs faster on the island than elsewhere.
Most important for this theory:
!!!Doc Rays dead body reaches the island before he is killed on the freighter!!!
This means, that the crash happened on the island BEFORE the plane started in Australia!
Now think by yourself what we might see in the next episodes. All the people who were on the plane had certain reasons to be there. But maybe the true chain reactions, that lead them there, might be revealed in the future.
Last not least:
Let's look at LIBBY.
We still have no explanation why she was in "Santa Rosa".
And isn't it strange, that she appears right when Desmond needs a sailing boat?
Would you say that "her story has been told"? No...she still is a mystery, and I am sure that we will meet her again. I assume that Libby knew where she should be to influence the future-time-story and it will be shown how she got there.
I bet the moment when she meets Desmond will be told again from another perspective. And we will have an explanation for her mysterious, content smile after she prevents Hurley from committing suicide. Maybe what we saw there was the first of many many following steps of all the Lostie's way to a "better tomorrow".
"Only fools are enslaved by time and space."
We are no fools, are we?
Theory by Timmorn
I'd like to start with Ben. I have the idea, that Ben somehow is responsible for many things that happen on the island, especially corresponding to certain appearances of smokey (love that name). I furthermore have the idea, that Ben somehow CREATED parts of the environment (even persons) around him.
These people might be so real, that they even think that they are real.
His father blames him for having his Mom killed when - because!- he was born. To say something like that to your child is even as horrible as stealing it's kidney...lalala.
Ben sees his Mommy through his window on the island. Of course his Mommy is dead and even if she would not be, how could she be on the island? So, what Benny saw, was an appearance, a vision - maybe it was another smokey-manifestation-of-the-viewers-greatest-guilt.
Anyway, this thing lured him to the other side of the fence, and there he met her again. And she lured him directly to Richard Alpert. (Or did she/it turn into Richard? Or did he somehow invent Richard?)
We could talk about Richard now, who is in my opinion very, very important (perhaps even more than Ben). But instead I want to focus on little Ben again.
His new home - the Dharma Initiative - is being attacked by strangers Ben has never seen, and he has never been given an explanation why they attack. Just imagine how a child would feel in this situation...
If a boy like Ben would live alone on an island with some strange force on it, which makes thoughts come real (like in Forbidden Planet, adapted from Shakespeare's "Storm", remember that the authors refer to these stories), what would this world look like?
I say it would exactly look like the island, including food, chirurgists, pregnancy scientists and daughters that fall from heaven when needed/wished, strange, invincible "intruders" without any explainable reason to attack, women that must die because they are pregnant without any medical explanation and father figures who tell him what to do if he does not know the answers himself.
We don't know yet what happened in the years between Ben's childhood and the day of the Dharma-Wipeout. I am sure that we will find out more about these missing years and this will make us find out, how similar "The Stand" really is.
I am also sure, that we will find out more about Juliet's relationship to Goodwins wife Harper. I assume, that she was one of the nine pregnant women who died during Juliet's experiments and that she was not real in "The Other Woman". That's what Juliet meant when she said that Ben "knew how to reach her".
So, now let's talk about time travels. Many of you already have asked not WHERE, but WHEN the island is. And there was the idea, that the island could have moved to the past. So the crash did not happen yet.
Let's just imagine one thing for a second: Daniel Faraday can and will travel in time during the next episodes. (Desmond Hume will be his constant). Let's imagine that Daniel will find a way (and a reason) to set the toxic gas from orchid station free. Let's say not in the same time like "today", but in the Dharma period...!?
Okay, okay, was just a thought.
Let's say the island now is in the past of the "real time", where the o6 are at home again. Some of them want to go back (and altough some of them don't want, we all know that Jack will find a way to stick them all together again. (Just because it would be too boring if Kate would insist: "no, leave me alone, I will never go back!" which would make the mission impossible right before it started).
Okay, so they come together again and try to find a way back. And of course they will find one. But it will take time.
If the theory is right and the island has moved back 10 months and it will take another 10 month until Jack can bring the o6 back to the island, wouldn't this mean that they will arrive in the moment when the plane crushes down "again"?
And this would mean, that they have the chance to bring the whole story to a happy end, where all those who died because of their mistakes are still alive.
It is a fact, that the island time is different to the rest of the world. And it seems to be proven by Daniel Faradays experiment, that it runs faster on the island than elsewhere.
Most important for this theory:
!!!Doc Rays dead body reaches the island before he is killed on the freighter!!!
This means, that the crash happened on the island BEFORE the plane started in Australia!
Now think by yourself what we might see in the next episodes. All the people who were on the plane had certain reasons to be there. But maybe the true chain reactions, that lead them there, might be revealed in the future.
Last not least:
Let's look at LIBBY.
We still have no explanation why she was in "Santa Rosa".
And isn't it strange, that she appears right when Desmond needs a sailing boat?
Would you say that "her story has been told"? No...she still is a mystery, and I am sure that we will meet her again. I assume that Libby knew where she should be to influence the future-time-story and it will be shown how she got there.
I bet the moment when she meets Desmond will be told again from another perspective. And we will have an explanation for her mysterious, content smile after she prevents Hurley from committing suicide. Maybe what we saw there was the first of many many following steps of all the Lostie's way to a "better tomorrow".
"Only fools are enslaved by time and space."
We are no fools, are we?
Theory by Timmorn
