My current thinking about LOST Time Loops: S1-S4 showed us the Penultimate Time Loop - which was set in motion by “Christian” and “Vincent” in Mobisode 13 “So it begins”. In various previous TL’s, there were no survivors of the Flight 815 crash, Mikhail met a Paralysed John Locke (of whom he had a “fleeting memory” in “Par Avion”), Charlie programmed the LG jammer and Juliet received her first three shoulder dislocations.
In a previous TL, Ford made his up-close-and-personal-with-Kate Birthday Wish and Rose found out that Bernard had survived the Tailie crash, fleeting memories of which they carried with them into Season 1 (great observation, Erika)
Ms Hawking and her team have been “tweaking” these Iterations, getting them progressively closer to success in a “run ten tests and get ten different results” kind of way - and there are small and large differences between Iterations. Small changes would include the Swan crater being full of debris (as seen in 501) as opposed to the gaping empty hole we all saw in S3 ... also ... Sawyer stepping on a nail instead of a dart ... and the compass Richard gave John in 501 being similar but not identical to the version he showed/will show Young John. Large changes would include “actual survivors” of the plane-crash and an ambulatory John Locke.
Note that Ben’s FDW effort has shifted the Island to the year in which the Beechcraft crashed - 2000 or 2001 - which is well before the 9/04 arrival of Flight 815.
Seasons 5 and 6 will show us the End Game of the Hawking/Linus Strategy, the Final Iteration of the crash of Flight 815 and its aftermath - in which we should see some minor and major differences from the events of Seasons 1 to 4. I’m guessing that the Time-Travelling Losties will get to interact with their Final Iteration selves as Whisperers and that by the end of Season 6, everything will have worked out “right”.
Theory by Roland
In a previous TL, Ford made his up-close-and-personal-with-Kate Birthday Wish and Rose found out that Bernard had survived the Tailie crash, fleeting memories of which they carried with them into Season 1 (great observation, Erika)
Ms Hawking and her team have been “tweaking” these Iterations, getting them progressively closer to success in a “run ten tests and get ten different results” kind of way - and there are small and large differences between Iterations. Small changes would include the Swan crater being full of debris (as seen in 501) as opposed to the gaping empty hole we all saw in S3 ... also ... Sawyer stepping on a nail instead of a dart ... and the compass Richard gave John in 501 being similar but not identical to the version he showed/will show Young John. Large changes would include “actual survivors” of the plane-crash and an ambulatory John Locke.
Note that Ben’s FDW effort has shifted the Island to the year in which the Beechcraft crashed - 2000 or 2001 - which is well before the 9/04 arrival of Flight 815.
Seasons 5 and 6 will show us the End Game of the Hawking/Linus Strategy, the Final Iteration of the crash of Flight 815 and its aftermath - in which we should see some minor and major differences from the events of Seasons 1 to 4. I’m guessing that the Time-Travelling Losties will get to interact with their Final Iteration selves as Whisperers and that by the end of Season 6, everything will have worked out “right”.
Theory by Roland
