This started as a short theory about why Locke needed to use the name Jeremy Bentham. It evolved into a longer theory about Richard Alpert, if that's his real name... When dealing with time travel, where to start?
I guess this theory starts with Locke turning the wheel. Ben went into the future after he turned it. Locke (maybe) stopped the skipping by getting it back in alignment. If he then turns it in the other direction, does he go into the past? On a side note, did Ben intentionally move the wheel out of alignment to cause the time skips?
Locke has been led to believe he has to die, but everyone does, eventually, and no one said how long the poor sap may have to live, which might be worse. My theory is that Locke will indeed move into the past, into a pre-crash past, a time in which he already exists, and he has to wait until the six return until he can begin his work. How long? Two months? Two years? Maybe two decades... To prevent questions John has to assume a new identity, for the duration. This identity is Jeremy Bentham. This might have led to "Jeremy Bentham" causing many events in "John Locke"'s life... Maybe he told Anthony Cooper how to find his mother and his former self to get the kidney. The possibility of his involvement with Cooper's car accident... "Bentham" might have choreographed parts of his own history, already knowing what had to happen.
John didn't look ten years older in the coffin, so I thought he must not have lived for too long, but I remembered that "the island won't let you die," and if it can cure cancer and paralysis, if it can prevent a gun from firing, or death in a car crash, maybe it can truly create the life extension we've seen in Richard Alpert. Christian told John to turn the wheel "a little bit," maybe the farther he turns it the farther he goes back. This longevity for the will of the island begs the question... How far can you go back, and therefore how long can you live? And then... there's Richard.
The Richard part of this theory is that he is from the future, long after the crash of flight 815. In this far-off future he might have been involved in the creation of this time machine. He made a mistake, and went too far into the past, before the crash of 815, before the Dharma Initiative, before the appearance of the Black Rock, and he has been living on the island for centuries, through all of these events. He, also, may have felt the need to take a new name for future interaction with his own history.
This also leads to more questions about the islands past... Maybe Magus Hanso turned the wheel after the Black Rock crash, later becoming the Alvar Hanso that had to find the island again, through the Dharma Initiative.
I'll be the first to admit that this theory seems pretty far out there, but once the island started skipping through time, I guess even farthest theories seem a little bit more within grasp.... Theory by PopeJPMcD
I guess this theory starts with Locke turning the wheel. Ben went into the future after he turned it. Locke (maybe) stopped the skipping by getting it back in alignment. If he then turns it in the other direction, does he go into the past? On a side note, did Ben intentionally move the wheel out of alignment to cause the time skips?
Locke has been led to believe he has to die, but everyone does, eventually, and no one said how long the poor sap may have to live, which might be worse. My theory is that Locke will indeed move into the past, into a pre-crash past, a time in which he already exists, and he has to wait until the six return until he can begin his work. How long? Two months? Two years? Maybe two decades... To prevent questions John has to assume a new identity, for the duration. This identity is Jeremy Bentham. This might have led to "Jeremy Bentham" causing many events in "John Locke"'s life... Maybe he told Anthony Cooper how to find his mother and his former self to get the kidney. The possibility of his involvement with Cooper's car accident... "Bentham" might have choreographed parts of his own history, already knowing what had to happen.
John didn't look ten years older in the coffin, so I thought he must not have lived for too long, but I remembered that "the island won't let you die," and if it can cure cancer and paralysis, if it can prevent a gun from firing, or death in a car crash, maybe it can truly create the life extension we've seen in Richard Alpert. Christian told John to turn the wheel "a little bit," maybe the farther he turns it the farther he goes back. This longevity for the will of the island begs the question... How far can you go back, and therefore how long can you live? And then... there's Richard.
The Richard part of this theory is that he is from the future, long after the crash of flight 815. In this far-off future he might have been involved in the creation of this time machine. He made a mistake, and went too far into the past, before the crash of 815, before the Dharma Initiative, before the appearance of the Black Rock, and he has been living on the island for centuries, through all of these events. He, also, may have felt the need to take a new name for future interaction with his own history.
This also leads to more questions about the islands past... Maybe Magus Hanso turned the wheel after the Black Rock crash, later becoming the Alvar Hanso that had to find the island again, through the Dharma Initiative.
I'll be the first to admit that this theory seems pretty far out there, but once the island started skipping through time, I guess even farthest theories seem a little bit more within grasp.... Theory by PopeJPMcD
