Something has always niggled the back of my mind regarding the opening of Pilot 1. Jack ran full tilt in a straight line towards the beach. Perhaps I missed the ‘Beach this way’ signs. He had not heard the survivors’ hysterical screams at that point, yet he knew exactly where the beach was. When he got there, he looked to the right, still no screams. No immediate visible sign of wreckage to the left. Just seemed slightly odd. As if it was not the first time he’d been there.
Here’s a thought, could the Indian Airways wreckage be evidence of the future return of some of the Oceanic Six?
Undisturbed, the island appears to move between past and future, becoming briefly visible as it passes through the present. Remember Said and Des’s first helicopter journey, the corpse of the freighter’s doctor, the delay in the arrival of the payload. These events seem to suggest that the island, in it’s entirety, goes forward and backward in time, but by no more than a day.
It does not explain how Faraday managed to speak directly to Regina, to ask for the payload to be fired, if the island was out of sync with the present. Unless radio transmissions are unaffected by time anomalies on the island. Or the island was in the present during their conversation, but slipped back into the past as the payload was fired.
That’s about as much sense that I can make out of time issues on the island. Maybe it’s better to just sit back and enjoy, and not analyse the rest of it. Because the rest of it doesn’t make much sense at all. This is not meant as a criticism of the plot for having so many loose ends as far as time issues go. To demonstrate, here are some random musings of a sad person who takes Lost all too seriously.
In series 5, we have learned that Benjamin dislodged the wheel, making the exotic matter machine unstable, resulting in the intermittent flashes. A select few now move back and forth in time in decades, not days. Their clothes, compasses, wounds, guns and zodiac boats go with them. But Richard and the Others do not seem to move in time with John. “Next time we meet I won’t know you.” “You left us, John.” So we must assume that the Others are immune from the flashes emitted by the malfunctioning island. If Richard had travelled back to 1954, he would have met himself and introduced John to 1954 Richard.
But when therefore, is the eternal Richard’s proper time? Or did the island choose him as everyone’s constant, unaffected by time, restoring sanity to those with symptoms of Cabin fever? Just check for nosebleeds everyone.
Remember that John re-aligned the wheel after Benjamin dislodged it, so must have returned to near present to do this. Otherwise the helpful Christian would have appeared as an apparition in the past before he had died in the future. We will find out whether or not John has restabilised island time.
Did Bernard, Rose and Vincent go back and forth in time with each flash? Why did Desmond emerge from the hatch, wearing the yellow safety suit? Kelvin never allowed him to wear it, and Desmond discovered it wasn’t needed when he followed Kelvin out of the hatch 22-09-04.
Ah, Desmond, Desmond. The only one to travel in time and lose his clothes, or was he reborn? The only one we know of for certain who can change the future by allowing his consciousness to drift back into the past. Or was he repairing the past to course correct the future? Has Desmond unknowingly become a fully qualified Other?
There is also something sinister about the way some of the Others appear to accept death, as if they know a way of cheating it. Bea Klugh seemed to insist Mikhail shoot her in ‘Enter 77’. Attempted wounding went wrong? Fanatic brainwashed into self sacrifice for tactical advantage? Or accepted death in the knowledge that, on the island, through death, you can shift into a parallel time line, still alive, and where events unfold differently. Mikhail, perhaps anticipating death, actually thanked John for pushing him into the sonic fence, as if he welcomed the chance to jump time lines. Perhaps that is the dimension from which the whispers emanate. But the island apparently healed him on that occasion.
It is also clear that glimpses of possible futures appear to the likes of Desmond (when he referred to John’s speech), also John “You’re not supposed to leave.” And Ben “I used to have dreams”. Ben’s vision was strong, but weakened when John came to the island. Ben often appears to anticipate events, as if he has experienced it all before. When 815 crashed, his orders were instantaneous, as if it was a scenario that the Others were familiar with. When the sky turned purple, none of the Others on the Jetty were moved to ask “What the **** was that!?” afterwards. It seemed but a minor inconvenience, apart from the ear drums, which they had been expecting.
Alpert believed the younger John had this foresight. “Which of these already belongs to you?” Mikhail may have confused his memories of possible futures with reality, in this half sentence “Why, the John Locke I knew was a p…..” Unless, of course, he had full memory of John’s character in a parallel time line.
Perhaps that is what the Others are about. They already know what the desired future is, and they have spent centuries trying to achieve it. It is their job to keep the island on course, possibly manipulating time, so that the island’s ultimate purpose can be achieved. But there must be something more than time factors involved in that purpose, and the conclusion of the Lost. Consider the evidence :
Apparitions of the dead, and of an older Walt give guidance to the living, and they seem to be sure of the future, and mostly on the side of the Others. The Cabin Club, run by some erratic old ghost called Jacob, roam the island at night. An entity, part invisible monster, part black smoke, also goes walkabout. Can get nasty too, if it doesn’t like what it sees in your head. There might also be an evil relation, a snakey grey smoke thing that kills indiscriminately. Where is the rest of that statue? There are many religious and biblical references. Dharma described holes in the ground as Cerberus Vents.
The mere mortals are cured of serious medical conditions, unless they upset the island. Pregnancies conceived on the island will self terminate in the second trimester, unless the unfortunate lady manages to escape. And yet, the male fertility count increases fivefold.
All this points to a future which the island is being prepared for. So I hope that the ending of Lost is a sum of all the elements involved, original and controversial, not just a neat manipulation of a time line by the heroes, to defeat the villains. Most of all I would love to see an episode dedicated to the Black Rock. It’s about time. Theory by Dishyvaeda
Here’s a thought, could the Indian Airways wreckage be evidence of the future return of some of the Oceanic Six?
Undisturbed, the island appears to move between past and future, becoming briefly visible as it passes through the present. Remember Said and Des’s first helicopter journey, the corpse of the freighter’s doctor, the delay in the arrival of the payload. These events seem to suggest that the island, in it’s entirety, goes forward and backward in time, but by no more than a day.
It does not explain how Faraday managed to speak directly to Regina, to ask for the payload to be fired, if the island was out of sync with the present. Unless radio transmissions are unaffected by time anomalies on the island. Or the island was in the present during their conversation, but slipped back into the past as the payload was fired.
That’s about as much sense that I can make out of time issues on the island. Maybe it’s better to just sit back and enjoy, and not analyse the rest of it. Because the rest of it doesn’t make much sense at all. This is not meant as a criticism of the plot for having so many loose ends as far as time issues go. To demonstrate, here are some random musings of a sad person who takes Lost all too seriously.
In series 5, we have learned that Benjamin dislodged the wheel, making the exotic matter machine unstable, resulting in the intermittent flashes. A select few now move back and forth in time in decades, not days. Their clothes, compasses, wounds, guns and zodiac boats go with them. But Richard and the Others do not seem to move in time with John. “Next time we meet I won’t know you.” “You left us, John.” So we must assume that the Others are immune from the flashes emitted by the malfunctioning island. If Richard had travelled back to 1954, he would have met himself and introduced John to 1954 Richard.
But when therefore, is the eternal Richard’s proper time? Or did the island choose him as everyone’s constant, unaffected by time, restoring sanity to those with symptoms of Cabin fever? Just check for nosebleeds everyone.
Remember that John re-aligned the wheel after Benjamin dislodged it, so must have returned to near present to do this. Otherwise the helpful Christian would have appeared as an apparition in the past before he had died in the future. We will find out whether or not John has restabilised island time.
Did Bernard, Rose and Vincent go back and forth in time with each flash? Why did Desmond emerge from the hatch, wearing the yellow safety suit? Kelvin never allowed him to wear it, and Desmond discovered it wasn’t needed when he followed Kelvin out of the hatch 22-09-04.
Ah, Desmond, Desmond. The only one to travel in time and lose his clothes, or was he reborn? The only one we know of for certain who can change the future by allowing his consciousness to drift back into the past. Or was he repairing the past to course correct the future? Has Desmond unknowingly become a fully qualified Other?
There is also something sinister about the way some of the Others appear to accept death, as if they know a way of cheating it. Bea Klugh seemed to insist Mikhail shoot her in ‘Enter 77’. Attempted wounding went wrong? Fanatic brainwashed into self sacrifice for tactical advantage? Or accepted death in the knowledge that, on the island, through death, you can shift into a parallel time line, still alive, and where events unfold differently. Mikhail, perhaps anticipating death, actually thanked John for pushing him into the sonic fence, as if he welcomed the chance to jump time lines. Perhaps that is the dimension from which the whispers emanate. But the island apparently healed him on that occasion.
It is also clear that glimpses of possible futures appear to the likes of Desmond (when he referred to John’s speech), also John “You’re not supposed to leave.” And Ben “I used to have dreams”. Ben’s vision was strong, but weakened when John came to the island. Ben often appears to anticipate events, as if he has experienced it all before. When 815 crashed, his orders were instantaneous, as if it was a scenario that the Others were familiar with. When the sky turned purple, none of the Others on the Jetty were moved to ask “What the **** was that!?” afterwards. It seemed but a minor inconvenience, apart from the ear drums, which they had been expecting.
Alpert believed the younger John had this foresight. “Which of these already belongs to you?” Mikhail may have confused his memories of possible futures with reality, in this half sentence “Why, the John Locke I knew was a p…..” Unless, of course, he had full memory of John’s character in a parallel time line.
Perhaps that is what the Others are about. They already know what the desired future is, and they have spent centuries trying to achieve it. It is their job to keep the island on course, possibly manipulating time, so that the island’s ultimate purpose can be achieved. But there must be something more than time factors involved in that purpose, and the conclusion of the Lost. Consider the evidence :
Apparitions of the dead, and of an older Walt give guidance to the living, and they seem to be sure of the future, and mostly on the side of the Others. The Cabin Club, run by some erratic old ghost called Jacob, roam the island at night. An entity, part invisible monster, part black smoke, also goes walkabout. Can get nasty too, if it doesn’t like what it sees in your head. There might also be an evil relation, a snakey grey smoke thing that kills indiscriminately. Where is the rest of that statue? There are many religious and biblical references. Dharma described holes in the ground as Cerberus Vents.
The mere mortals are cured of serious medical conditions, unless they upset the island. Pregnancies conceived on the island will self terminate in the second trimester, unless the unfortunate lady manages to escape. And yet, the male fertility count increases fivefold.
All this points to a future which the island is being prepared for. So I hope that the ending of Lost is a sum of all the elements involved, original and controversial, not just a neat manipulation of a time line by the heroes, to defeat the villains. Most of all I would love to see an episode dedicated to the Black Rock. It’s about time. Theory by Dishyvaeda
