This theory will start out at the exact scene it when it flashed before my eyes, namely, Jin meeting Rousseau.
At first I thought just like everyone else has; Jin has travelled back to a time when Rousseau was young. Of course he has. Clear cut and simple. Right?
Wrong...
The problem with watching a show like Lost is continuing to think about the show using conventional (linear)thinking. We see Rousseau young and therefore, Jin must have travelled back in time. But what if Jin never travelled back in time at all?
For this to make any sense you first have to think back to when the Freighter was first destroyed and the lost crew left behind could still see the boat. Imediately after experiencing the flash the boat was no longer there. Hence, it never traveled back in time with them.
If this is the case, Jin and Rousseau are still in the present (Something the writers haven't shown except in flashbacks...a direct departure from previous shows...a direct departure from previous shows...no matter how many flashbacks or flashforwards we see they have always shown us the present on the island). Now...how does 'young' Rousseau turn into 'old and crazy' Rousseau? How does this make any sense?
Remember the skipping record? If you want the record to start the song over again you would have to reset the needle. What if Rousseau is the needle? In some future episode of lost, in order for all that has happened to happen, the losties will send a very confused and pregnant young Rousseau back in time in order to make sure the timeline proceeds as it should. Wouldn't you go crazy being sent back in time, all alone and living in a jungle. Didn't Rousseau seem to infer that she knew the losties, and have a vauge look of knowing in her eyes?
It all seemed perfectly simple to me, with one big problem. The island. Didn't the 6 see the island disapear? They did.
And therein lies the solution. Maybe if you don't think of the island as dissapearing, but as vanishing from the 6, it will make more sense.
Ever since the Island vanished and the losties began to time travel I have cojoined the two, and I wasn't alone. Everyone was assuimg that the island had been moved. And yet like everyone else, I had a major problem with this; if the island was moving through time and not just the losties, why wasn't anyone else going through the same process, namely the others?
We had thought that since Ben kept repeating, "I'm going to move the island," that he was doing so when he moved the donkey wheel, without any evidence as to what the donkey wheel does. What if the donkey wheel doesn't move the island and at all, but is merely an escape mechanism that can be used>? What if when Ben said, "I'm going to move the island," it was by bringing the six back to the island and completing (changing)the timeline.
I know it's easy to say, "Hey the island couldn't be seen by the six, so it moved through time." But if this is true and the only way the island can dissapear is through time travel, then answer me this; why can no one find the island? Because it's invisible to them once they leave whatever sphere of influence the island holds over reality. When the 6 passed through this, the island vanished, not because of time travel (which seems to be the case because the writers kept it so close to the time travel that the losties were going through) but because the island has always been invisble once you get past a certain point...we are correlating time travel and the vanishing island, but correlation does not mean causation.
Ben is in the process of moving the island right now, not because he turned the donkey wheel.
Comments are appreciated. Theory by Andrew Stellatos
At first I thought just like everyone else has; Jin has travelled back to a time when Rousseau was young. Of course he has. Clear cut and simple. Right?
Wrong...
The problem with watching a show like Lost is continuing to think about the show using conventional (linear)thinking. We see Rousseau young and therefore, Jin must have travelled back in time. But what if Jin never travelled back in time at all?
For this to make any sense you first have to think back to when the Freighter was first destroyed and the lost crew left behind could still see the boat. Imediately after experiencing the flash the boat was no longer there. Hence, it never traveled back in time with them.
If this is the case, Jin and Rousseau are still in the present (Something the writers haven't shown except in flashbacks...a direct departure from previous shows...a direct departure from previous shows...no matter how many flashbacks or flashforwards we see they have always shown us the present on the island). Now...how does 'young' Rousseau turn into 'old and crazy' Rousseau? How does this make any sense?
Remember the skipping record? If you want the record to start the song over again you would have to reset the needle. What if Rousseau is the needle? In some future episode of lost, in order for all that has happened to happen, the losties will send a very confused and pregnant young Rousseau back in time in order to make sure the timeline proceeds as it should. Wouldn't you go crazy being sent back in time, all alone and living in a jungle. Didn't Rousseau seem to infer that she knew the losties, and have a vauge look of knowing in her eyes?
It all seemed perfectly simple to me, with one big problem. The island. Didn't the 6 see the island disapear? They did.
And therein lies the solution. Maybe if you don't think of the island as dissapearing, but as vanishing from the 6, it will make more sense.
Ever since the Island vanished and the losties began to time travel I have cojoined the two, and I wasn't alone. Everyone was assuimg that the island had been moved. And yet like everyone else, I had a major problem with this; if the island was moving through time and not just the losties, why wasn't anyone else going through the same process, namely the others?
We had thought that since Ben kept repeating, "I'm going to move the island," that he was doing so when he moved the donkey wheel, without any evidence as to what the donkey wheel does. What if the donkey wheel doesn't move the island and at all, but is merely an escape mechanism that can be used>? What if when Ben said, "I'm going to move the island," it was by bringing the six back to the island and completing (changing)the timeline.
I know it's easy to say, "Hey the island couldn't be seen by the six, so it moved through time." But if this is true and the only way the island can dissapear is through time travel, then answer me this; why can no one find the island? Because it's invisible to them once they leave whatever sphere of influence the island holds over reality. When the 6 passed through this, the island vanished, not because of time travel (which seems to be the case because the writers kept it so close to the time travel that the losties were going through) but because the island has always been invisble once you get past a certain point...we are correlating time travel and the vanishing island, but correlation does not mean causation.
Ben is in the process of moving the island right now, not because he turned the donkey wheel.
Comments are appreciated. Theory by Andrew Stellatos
