There's alot of speculation going around about how the left behinders are travelling in time and that the island isn't which makes me believe that the island shouldn't have dissapeared at the end of s4 at all,
if the left behinders are going forward or backwards shouldn't there be a moment where they're at a point where the island should be sitting at the same position on the planet where it originally was ?
It might be a bit better explained if the island wasn't just moving through time but if at the same time it was randomly changing position around earth at the same time. Seeing the scene with Hawking at the end of 'the lie' should confirm this with her computer showing a map of multiple positions which I'm assuming are possible locations of the island at that point in time. but how is the island getting to it's new position ?
I'm not exactly sure of the best way I can explain this next part but I hope it isn't too confusing,
I'm thinking that the island is sitting completely still but time is moving underneath it, so as time goes by the planet is still orbiting the sun in the universe and still spinning on it's axis going from day to night, summer to winter etc so when the island stops skipping it lands at a different location on the planet, another way to think of it is when the the sky goes bright the island is lifting up from the earth and above time, the earth spins and rotates beneath it and when the island decides it's time to sit back in time it lowers back down and continues through time until it wants to skip again. maybe that is the purpose of the donkey wheel, to initiate the time skip and perhaps once the donkey wheel is turned they're only supposed to skip once but the O6 threw a spanner in the stopping program by leaving and is making it it repeat the skipping process over and over.
Or maybe ben was getting the shits with that rusty old seized up donkey wheel and while the camera man was filming he oiled up the wheel causing it to continuously spin freely and therefor contantly moving the island, perhaps when john gets to the donkey wheel all he'll have to do is stop the wheel spinning to save the day but because he was down there during the skip he was booted off the island like ben was.
Make any sense ? care to elaborate ? Theory by Tackleberry
if the left behinders are going forward or backwards shouldn't there be a moment where they're at a point where the island should be sitting at the same position on the planet where it originally was ?
It might be a bit better explained if the island wasn't just moving through time but if at the same time it was randomly changing position around earth at the same time. Seeing the scene with Hawking at the end of 'the lie' should confirm this with her computer showing a map of multiple positions which I'm assuming are possible locations of the island at that point in time. but how is the island getting to it's new position ?
I'm not exactly sure of the best way I can explain this next part but I hope it isn't too confusing,
I'm thinking that the island is sitting completely still but time is moving underneath it, so as time goes by the planet is still orbiting the sun in the universe and still spinning on it's axis going from day to night, summer to winter etc so when the island stops skipping it lands at a different location on the planet, another way to think of it is when the the sky goes bright the island is lifting up from the earth and above time, the earth spins and rotates beneath it and when the island decides it's time to sit back in time it lowers back down and continues through time until it wants to skip again. maybe that is the purpose of the donkey wheel, to initiate the time skip and perhaps once the donkey wheel is turned they're only supposed to skip once but the O6 threw a spanner in the stopping program by leaving and is making it it repeat the skipping process over and over.
Or maybe ben was getting the shits with that rusty old seized up donkey wheel and while the camera man was filming he oiled up the wheel causing it to continuously spin freely and therefor contantly moving the island, perhaps when john gets to the donkey wheel all he'll have to do is stop the wheel spinning to save the day but because he was down there during the skip he was booted off the island like ben was.
Make any sense ? care to elaborate ? Theory by Tackleberry
