We know Desmond is the “game changer” and can cause time and events to alter. Let’s go back to where this started for of the island. What has he “changed”? We should look at what was happening when he arrived on the island.
• The swan hatch was still operative. Radzinsky was pushing the button “saving the world” with no plans to stop.
• The others existed on the island, respecting it, knowing about the outside world but only having limited, discreet contact.
• The island was hidden from the “bad guys” (Widmore and others) who had been trying for years to find it.
• The experiments the Dharma Initiative started had stopped, due to the purge.
So Desmond arrived – and all of this changed. This set in motion the events we are seeing playing out on screen.
• Radzinsky thought about finally leaving the Swan hatch, knowing Desmond had a boat and he could be left as a replacement. Desmond caused the Oceanic Flight 815 to crash because of Radzinsky’s desire to leave, causing the survivors to arrive and set about “changing things” on the island.
• The losties, trying to leave the island, started changing all manner of things, including the destruction of the Swan hatch (exposing the island to the outside world), and the Looking Glass hatch was disabled, allowing the freighter people to come to the island, requiring the island to be moved and then shift in time.
So – how does this affect the end game of Lost?
Ultimately, what changed when Desmond arrived was the exposure of the island, and the risk that the bad guys might now find it, take control, and cause the “end of the world” through re-starting the Dharma initiative experiments, disturbing the “exotic matter” or something else we haven’t learnt yet.
So the course correction that needs to happen is the island needs to return to the original “string of time” where whatever happened, Widmore and others who would exploit it would not find the island again, even if they came close. Desmond and the Oceanic 6 need to return, in order to make sure the island remains hidden - by keeping all knowledge of it “on-island” and keeping the game-changer, Desmond, on-island and unable to alter the wider course of time and events, and therefore returning to the original string of time.
There are still a lot of unanswered questions, which we will see play out on screen and be “the journey” the writers want us to see on-screen. This is why we watch, to see what happens to the characters, as well as getting the “big” answers the die hard fans want.
• What caused Desmond to be thrown into the mix, and was this part of the overall plan?
Desmond may have been introduced to help Widmore find the island, or may have been part of Mrs Hawkings and “the good guys’ plan” to keep the island safe. Was it Mrs Hawkings, who knew Brother Campbell, who caused Des to meet Penny? Or was it Widmore, through Penny’s involvement in his wine business, caused Des to meet Penny? How did this progress? Was Widmore or Mrs Hawkings trying to get him to the Island or to stop him going, through subtle manipulation such as Libby’s boat, the Widmore boat race, the jewellery shop encounter, the photograph, withholding letters and everything else that was the early part of Des and Penny’s relationship? Was Desmond's life essentially "played with" by Widmore and Hawkings as a battle to stop him or get him there?
• Where does Ben fit into this?
Is Hawkings a higher authority than Ben, and Ben basically used a situation where he could become “leader of the others” to meet his own lust for power and control, allowed by Hawkings because it made no difference to the overall game plan to keep the island hidden from the “bad guys”? Did the purge happen because Richard wanted rid of Dharma to protect the island, and he manipulated Ben into doing it for him? Will Ben kill Penny to avenge Alex's death, or will he spare her once he finds the same "redemption" the losties did?
• How did Richard and the others end up on the island?
Have they always been there, or ended up there over time?
• Where do Charlotte, Daniel, and Miles fit into the overall story?
Is Charlotte Ben’s daughter and will “replace” Alex and give him fulfilment and redemption in his life, and stop his pursuit of enabling women to get pregnant on the island? Is Daniel related to Mrs Hawkings, and will he stay on the island, or will he return to Mrs Hawkings to continue understanding time? Was Miles born on the island to Dr Candle, or was he really just chosen to go to the island because "he sees dead people" and the island has special properties when it comes to time, life and death?
• What will happen to Des and Penny?
Will Desmond become the tragic hero, “saving the world brotha” by dying, and therefore no longer able to change events in time, or will he be allowed a peaceful existence on the island with Penny and Charlie, becoming Adam and Eve? Or will Penny have been killed by Ben in revenge for Alex's death?
• What will happen to the Losties – to the people, the children, the relationships?
Who will end up together out of Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Juliet? Will Jin still be alive, and be re-united with Sun and Ji Yeon? Will Aaron return, and be re-united with Clare? Is Claire dead or alive? Will the losties stay on the island, and be happy? Will Hurley stay and be sane? Will Sawyer stop killing and chill out? Will Rose and Bernard live happily ever after? Where does Walt fit into it all?
• What is the history of the island?
What exactly was Dharma testing on the island, and what did they leave behind? Was the island always “special”, or did someone or something make it special at some time in the past? Was the four-toed status part of a civilisation that caused it to be special, or one that discovered it was special and took root? How did Dharma find it, and what did they learn? Who made the Smoke Monster, and what is its purpose? Why does the island have healing properties? Why is the island able to move around space and time?
I know this raises as many questions as it answers - but this is where the story is fluid and open to suble change while fitting in with an overall plan.
• Will Jack and Kate, or Jack and Juliet, or Jack and Ben (Hell, who knows!) ending up together affect the overall story or plan to get to the end game? Would it have mattered if Richard wasn't available for Lost, and have been replaced by a different "key other" to tell the story? If Nicky and Paulo had been loved by everyone when they were on screen, would they still be dead? No.
• Will the characters all play an important part, and will the writers tweak the character stories to suit viewer feedback, tell the big questions, fit the writer's plan and other considerations, meaning maybe even the writers don't have all of this detail worked out yet? Yes.
So sit back, enjoy the ride, and lets see if we end up with a corrected timeline and the rest of the answers at the end of this crazy journey... Theory by dgattr
• The swan hatch was still operative. Radzinsky was pushing the button “saving the world” with no plans to stop.
• The others existed on the island, respecting it, knowing about the outside world but only having limited, discreet contact.
• The island was hidden from the “bad guys” (Widmore and others) who had been trying for years to find it.
• The experiments the Dharma Initiative started had stopped, due to the purge.
So Desmond arrived – and all of this changed. This set in motion the events we are seeing playing out on screen.
• Radzinsky thought about finally leaving the Swan hatch, knowing Desmond had a boat and he could be left as a replacement. Desmond caused the Oceanic Flight 815 to crash because of Radzinsky’s desire to leave, causing the survivors to arrive and set about “changing things” on the island.
• The losties, trying to leave the island, started changing all manner of things, including the destruction of the Swan hatch (exposing the island to the outside world), and the Looking Glass hatch was disabled, allowing the freighter people to come to the island, requiring the island to be moved and then shift in time.
So – how does this affect the end game of Lost?
Ultimately, what changed when Desmond arrived was the exposure of the island, and the risk that the bad guys might now find it, take control, and cause the “end of the world” through re-starting the Dharma initiative experiments, disturbing the “exotic matter” or something else we haven’t learnt yet.
So the course correction that needs to happen is the island needs to return to the original “string of time” where whatever happened, Widmore and others who would exploit it would not find the island again, even if they came close. Desmond and the Oceanic 6 need to return, in order to make sure the island remains hidden - by keeping all knowledge of it “on-island” and keeping the game-changer, Desmond, on-island and unable to alter the wider course of time and events, and therefore returning to the original string of time.
There are still a lot of unanswered questions, which we will see play out on screen and be “the journey” the writers want us to see on-screen. This is why we watch, to see what happens to the characters, as well as getting the “big” answers the die hard fans want.
• What caused Desmond to be thrown into the mix, and was this part of the overall plan?
Desmond may have been introduced to help Widmore find the island, or may have been part of Mrs Hawkings and “the good guys’ plan” to keep the island safe. Was it Mrs Hawkings, who knew Brother Campbell, who caused Des to meet Penny? Or was it Widmore, through Penny’s involvement in his wine business, caused Des to meet Penny? How did this progress? Was Widmore or Mrs Hawkings trying to get him to the Island or to stop him going, through subtle manipulation such as Libby’s boat, the Widmore boat race, the jewellery shop encounter, the photograph, withholding letters and everything else that was the early part of Des and Penny’s relationship? Was Desmond's life essentially "played with" by Widmore and Hawkings as a battle to stop him or get him there?
• Where does Ben fit into this?
Is Hawkings a higher authority than Ben, and Ben basically used a situation where he could become “leader of the others” to meet his own lust for power and control, allowed by Hawkings because it made no difference to the overall game plan to keep the island hidden from the “bad guys”? Did the purge happen because Richard wanted rid of Dharma to protect the island, and he manipulated Ben into doing it for him? Will Ben kill Penny to avenge Alex's death, or will he spare her once he finds the same "redemption" the losties did?
• How did Richard and the others end up on the island?
Have they always been there, or ended up there over time?
• Where do Charlotte, Daniel, and Miles fit into the overall story?
Is Charlotte Ben’s daughter and will “replace” Alex and give him fulfilment and redemption in his life, and stop his pursuit of enabling women to get pregnant on the island? Is Daniel related to Mrs Hawkings, and will he stay on the island, or will he return to Mrs Hawkings to continue understanding time? Was Miles born on the island to Dr Candle, or was he really just chosen to go to the island because "he sees dead people" and the island has special properties when it comes to time, life and death?
• What will happen to Des and Penny?
Will Desmond become the tragic hero, “saving the world brotha” by dying, and therefore no longer able to change events in time, or will he be allowed a peaceful existence on the island with Penny and Charlie, becoming Adam and Eve? Or will Penny have been killed by Ben in revenge for Alex's death?
• What will happen to the Losties – to the people, the children, the relationships?
Who will end up together out of Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Juliet? Will Jin still be alive, and be re-united with Sun and Ji Yeon? Will Aaron return, and be re-united with Clare? Is Claire dead or alive? Will the losties stay on the island, and be happy? Will Hurley stay and be sane? Will Sawyer stop killing and chill out? Will Rose and Bernard live happily ever after? Where does Walt fit into it all?
• What is the history of the island?
What exactly was Dharma testing on the island, and what did they leave behind? Was the island always “special”, or did someone or something make it special at some time in the past? Was the four-toed status part of a civilisation that caused it to be special, or one that discovered it was special and took root? How did Dharma find it, and what did they learn? Who made the Smoke Monster, and what is its purpose? Why does the island have healing properties? Why is the island able to move around space and time?
I know this raises as many questions as it answers - but this is where the story is fluid and open to suble change while fitting in with an overall plan.
• Will Jack and Kate, or Jack and Juliet, or Jack and Ben (Hell, who knows!) ending up together affect the overall story or plan to get to the end game? Would it have mattered if Richard wasn't available for Lost, and have been replaced by a different "key other" to tell the story? If Nicky and Paulo had been loved by everyone when they were on screen, would they still be dead? No.
• Will the characters all play an important part, and will the writers tweak the character stories to suit viewer feedback, tell the big questions, fit the writer's plan and other considerations, meaning maybe even the writers don't have all of this detail worked out yet? Yes.
So sit back, enjoy the ride, and lets see if we end up with a corrected timeline and the rest of the answers at the end of this crazy journey... Theory by dgattr
