I always have a plan because my futureself had said them to me
Quick & Simple :
* Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel. Maybe he did it to protect the island from the greater evil (aka Charles Widmore). He knew that the island would jump in time & space. He knew that Locke would turned it to make the things straight. So Ben turned the wheel on purpose because he wanted the island to move through time & space.
* Why? Because the Oceanic 06 have a mission. And Ben too. They are like timetraveling postmen. They have to deliver messages. We know for a fact that "They have to go back!". Will they all go back? Maybe Ben just needs a few.
* My guess is that Ben knows where the island will travel. The island appears in 2007 and the 06 and him make their way to it (via the canoes?). Then the island jumps again. A several times. And the island "land" in the good old Dharma Days. Back in the 70ies.
* What's the purpose? So Ben and the 06 (but why the 06, that's not clear for now) could infiltrate the DHARMA Initiative and deliver messages to important people : like the young Ben and maybe Richard Alpert (hmmm... or Jacob? That man definitively is tricky). Daniel Faraday and Miss Hawking (and so do Ben) know that you can't change the past (so you can't change the future). But what about doing the right thing so you can be sure that the future is going on the right track? Ben could meets his pastself (and uses the 06) and tell him everything he knows. So he could turn himself into some kind of hero (into the Benjamin Linus we know).
* For that reason Ben will tell things to the Young Ben. Like things about Locke, the Swan Station, when and where he will be captured by Rousseau, the Widmore threat and all that things that make him such a cool and visionary guy. Maybe he will keep some things secret from his pastself. Like the Alex killing. Maybe he thinks know (the 2008 Ben version) that the lost of his daughter was an important step for being who he is now. A powerful, smart man and sure of himself.
* Ben knows he had to do this because time is like a loop (it's always like a loop when you invoke time-travel) and he had to be sure that his youngerself (and Richard) know certain things. If he doesn't do his task the repercussions could be catatrophic. You know because if you change something, just a little bit, in the past maybe you could disrupt the entire spacetime continuum (and bring the apocalypse to the world, aha!).
* That would be a cool season 5 (second arc?) installment. And maybe the Season 6 could be about something else. Like "what happens next?", why did Ben have to be alive & smart, who is Jacob and what is the "Greater Good"?
* PS: Maybe I'm wrong. Ben just knows the right thing to do because he's smart. I think that would make him even cooler. But I really try to search an aswer about the whole "the Oceanic 06 have to go back" thing. Maybe that's something like that. Maybe they are like a "step" that Ben have to endure. Maybe Ben just tell lies (I think I already have the answer to that somewhere) and wants to use them to find his way home. And maybe Ben has to endure this because he has to be ready for something. Because he's the hero. The good guy.Theory by Hugues Derolez
Quick & Simple :
* Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel. Maybe he did it to protect the island from the greater evil (aka Charles Widmore). He knew that the island would jump in time & space. He knew that Locke would turned it to make the things straight. So Ben turned the wheel on purpose because he wanted the island to move through time & space.
* Why? Because the Oceanic 06 have a mission. And Ben too. They are like timetraveling postmen. They have to deliver messages. We know for a fact that "They have to go back!". Will they all go back? Maybe Ben just needs a few.
* My guess is that Ben knows where the island will travel. The island appears in 2007 and the 06 and him make their way to it (via the canoes?). Then the island jumps again. A several times. And the island "land" in the good old Dharma Days. Back in the 70ies.
* What's the purpose? So Ben and the 06 (but why the 06, that's not clear for now) could infiltrate the DHARMA Initiative and deliver messages to important people : like the young Ben and maybe Richard Alpert (hmmm... or Jacob? That man definitively is tricky). Daniel Faraday and Miss Hawking (and so do Ben) know that you can't change the past (so you can't change the future). But what about doing the right thing so you can be sure that the future is going on the right track? Ben could meets his pastself (and uses the 06) and tell him everything he knows. So he could turn himself into some kind of hero (into the Benjamin Linus we know).
* For that reason Ben will tell things to the Young Ben. Like things about Locke, the Swan Station, when and where he will be captured by Rousseau, the Widmore threat and all that things that make him such a cool and visionary guy. Maybe he will keep some things secret from his pastself. Like the Alex killing. Maybe he thinks know (the 2008 Ben version) that the lost of his daughter was an important step for being who he is now. A powerful, smart man and sure of himself.
* Ben knows he had to do this because time is like a loop (it's always like a loop when you invoke time-travel) and he had to be sure that his youngerself (and Richard) know certain things. If he doesn't do his task the repercussions could be catatrophic. You know because if you change something, just a little bit, in the past maybe you could disrupt the entire spacetime continuum (and bring the apocalypse to the world, aha!).
* That would be a cool season 5 (second arc?) installment. And maybe the Season 6 could be about something else. Like "what happens next?", why did Ben have to be alive & smart, who is Jacob and what is the "Greater Good"?
* PS: Maybe I'm wrong. Ben just knows the right thing to do because he's smart. I think that would make him even cooler. But I really try to search an aswer about the whole "the Oceanic 06 have to go back" thing. Maybe that's something like that. Maybe they are like a "step" that Ben have to endure. Maybe Ben just tell lies (I think I already have the answer to that somewhere) and wants to use them to find his way home. And maybe Ben has to endure this because he has to be ready for something. Because he's the hero. The good guy.Theory by Hugues Derolez
