I have read a few theories regarding the "island" energy being an alien artifact and I would like to believe that for a few reasons. 1) I am a sci-fi geek and 2). It insures that LOST has some longevity in terms of pop-culture.
I know we have been told before that LOST has a direction and the producers have said they are not going to do this or that and then they do. Who knows how minds turn in Tinsel Town when they.
What if we are witnessing a major event in the making. The event I am speaking of is that LOST is the beginning to a huge franchise that is going to continue on even after our answers are answered.
Let's look at how ground breaking the show already is. What if this is just the pretext to something even bigger than we could ever imagine.
We know that the producers like to throw curve balls at us. We know they like to keeps us guessing. They say they are going to wrap it up all nice and with a bow at the end. But what if they don't. Let's say they wrap it up with a bow and all and answer a majority of our questions, but leave us with some questions to be answered. Well this is where this fun theory takes root. It takes root in the ground that LOST as we see it now, it a pretext for a much larger story. What we have been watching and enduring for what will end up being for the vast population of LOS viewer, the better part of a decade, what we have been watching is nothing more than a prelude.
A prelude to . . . "the War."
So what is The War that has been spoken of? I have read many theories that this war is metaphysical war of good and evil. I have read it is a war of time and space. Control of the energy. Let's play with the idea that the war is like that of Transformers, or even that of MIB (Men in Black). That aliens have hidden, or LOST this artifact in the galaxy that by some chance, a wormhole or what have you, has place it here in our waters, on our planet. Now this artifact has been LOST, or hidden for a very long time. That time period encompasses (almost) our planets existence. Its arrival here could have set our biological world into existence for all we know.
"Before time began, there was... the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born."
I use the AllSpark as device for examining the what the "island" could be and what could be the future for the LOST as a continuing serial drama, maybe even with a film attached.
There are three definitions to the term AllSpark. I list them here from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allspark
• In the Beast Machines: Transformers television series, it is a term for the Transformers' afterlife.
• In the Transformers 2007 live action film, it is a cube-shaped artifact adorned with glyphs and designs which is capable of granting independent life to normal electronic and mechanical objects and is the source of life for all Transformers.
• In the Transformers: Animated 2008 TV series, it shares a similar history and capabilities with its 2007 film counterpart, but resembles the Autobot Matrix of Leadership.
Now I am not saying the LOST is going to lead into a show about robot wars but what if we are witnessing is the beginning to an alien invasion of sorts.
What if Ben and Widmore are really on the same side but have different views on how to defend the artifact in question?
What if there is no defense? That all this will be for nothing. The aliens simply come down and take what belongs to them that which they have been searching the universe for, forever.
The Allspark in Transformer is the term for afterlife.
The Allspark also in the fictional Transformers universes is the Autobot talisman of legend, passed down from leader to leader. It comprises an oval-shaped container, holding a glowing crystal. To open the Matrix is to release an unpredictable wave of power from the crystal. In some continuities, the Matrix seems to have an intelligence of its own, able to determine when and how it will be used. The Matrix also serves as a source of power.
Although the concept of the Transformers afterlife was briefly touched upon in the original series and Beast Wars series, it was not until Beast Machines that the concept was explored further. The Autobot Matrix of Leadership, as seen in the original series, was not merely a receptacle for the consciousness of deceased Autobot leaders - it was a gateway that led to the AllSpark - also called the Matrix - the Transformers afterlife, from which all current and future Transformers' sparks came. Possessing a sentience, the AllSpark had sent Sparks out into the world to live. When any Transformers, good or evil, was destroyed their Spark would return to the AllSpark and share with it all that it had experienced, thereby adding to the timeless fountain of knowledge and wisdom.
Subtract out all the robot jargon and stuff and what we left with is an almost exact replica of what the island is doing here in our waters. But I guess that is par for the course with all alien artifact that land here on our planet.
In the prequel comic book, Optimus Prime is shown sending the All Spark away from Cybertron to prevent the Decepticons from controlling it. The prolonged absence of the All Spark causes the planet to die, and forces both sides of the conflict to search the galaxy for it. The All Spark is revealed to have landed on Earth.
In the prequel novelization and film it is revealed that the Autobots and Decepticons have been seeking the All Spark for millennia, following transmission signals released by the All Spark once every thousand years.
In one aspect of this Series, in order to end the Great War (shown in the series debut as 'historical' clips from the 1984 G1 series), the Autobots cast the All Spark into a space bridge network gate to a random destination somewhere in the galaxy, thereby preventing the Decepticons from getting it. This ends the war, and finally allows the Autobots to drive the Decepticons off of Cybertron and into exile.
There is more I could put down but I think the idea is clear and what I am getting is a sound conclusion.
Lost has always played to our sense that there is "more than meets the eye" much more than we every expected. And the eye has always been a motif of sorts. Let's look a little deeper in another production by a LOST producer: Cloverfield and Jeffrey Jacob "J.J." Abrams.
Cloverfield is a monster film, but not about a monster.
Kind of like LOST is show about one thing but also a show about alot of other things as well. Just when we think we have the show pinned down it grows in other directions.
In Cloverfield we are actually watching the film, which is really a playback of events, the recovered recording of the events that took place. For all we know it is way in the future possibly even decades after the destruction of a city, maybe even the world, and what we are witnessing is a group of students or scienctists reviewing the video document at hand labeled Cloverfield.
So we are reviewing a piece of history, a previously recorded document and at the end we see the alien land in the water in the background. We think we have just seen the ending to our film, but what we have just witnessed is the beginning to the story. That's the kind of curve ball he like to throw. Whether or not the executive's decide to do another Cloverfield, is up to them, but they left the door wide open for that idea to brew and fester in the spectator. I think LOST might be left to do the same thing with us.
What if all we are witnessing is a precusor to a larger story. All of our investment is in this thing we call LOST is just the beginning. Theory by Jasper the Friendly Host
I know we have been told before that LOST has a direction and the producers have said they are not going to do this or that and then they do. Who knows how minds turn in Tinsel Town when they.
What if we are witnessing a major event in the making. The event I am speaking of is that LOST is the beginning to a huge franchise that is going to continue on even after our answers are answered.
Let's look at how ground breaking the show already is. What if this is just the pretext to something even bigger than we could ever imagine.
We know that the producers like to throw curve balls at us. We know they like to keeps us guessing. They say they are going to wrap it up all nice and with a bow at the end. But what if they don't. Let's say they wrap it up with a bow and all and answer a majority of our questions, but leave us with some questions to be answered. Well this is where this fun theory takes root. It takes root in the ground that LOST as we see it now, it a pretext for a much larger story. What we have been watching and enduring for what will end up being for the vast population of LOS viewer, the better part of a decade, what we have been watching is nothing more than a prelude.
A prelude to . . . "the War."
So what is The War that has been spoken of? I have read many theories that this war is metaphysical war of good and evil. I have read it is a war of time and space. Control of the energy. Let's play with the idea that the war is like that of Transformers, or even that of MIB (Men in Black). That aliens have hidden, or LOST this artifact in the galaxy that by some chance, a wormhole or what have you, has place it here in our waters, on our planet. Now this artifact has been LOST, or hidden for a very long time. That time period encompasses (almost) our planets existence. Its arrival here could have set our biological world into existence for all we know.
"Before time began, there was... the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born."
I use the AllSpark as device for examining the what the "island" could be and what could be the future for the LOST as a continuing serial drama, maybe even with a film attached.
There are three definitions to the term AllSpark. I list them here from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allspark
• In the Beast Machines: Transformers television series, it is a term for the Transformers' afterlife.
• In the Transformers 2007 live action film, it is a cube-shaped artifact adorned with glyphs and designs which is capable of granting independent life to normal electronic and mechanical objects and is the source of life for all Transformers.
• In the Transformers: Animated 2008 TV series, it shares a similar history and capabilities with its 2007 film counterpart, but resembles the Autobot Matrix of Leadership.
Now I am not saying the LOST is going to lead into a show about robot wars but what if we are witnessing is the beginning to an alien invasion of sorts.
What if Ben and Widmore are really on the same side but have different views on how to defend the artifact in question?
What if there is no defense? That all this will be for nothing. The aliens simply come down and take what belongs to them that which they have been searching the universe for, forever.
The Allspark in Transformer is the term for afterlife.
The Allspark also in the fictional Transformers universes is the Autobot talisman of legend, passed down from leader to leader. It comprises an oval-shaped container, holding a glowing crystal. To open the Matrix is to release an unpredictable wave of power from the crystal. In some continuities, the Matrix seems to have an intelligence of its own, able to determine when and how it will be used. The Matrix also serves as a source of power.
Although the concept of the Transformers afterlife was briefly touched upon in the original series and Beast Wars series, it was not until Beast Machines that the concept was explored further. The Autobot Matrix of Leadership, as seen in the original series, was not merely a receptacle for the consciousness of deceased Autobot leaders - it was a gateway that led to the AllSpark - also called the Matrix - the Transformers afterlife, from which all current and future Transformers' sparks came. Possessing a sentience, the AllSpark had sent Sparks out into the world to live. When any Transformers, good or evil, was destroyed their Spark would return to the AllSpark and share with it all that it had experienced, thereby adding to the timeless fountain of knowledge and wisdom.
Subtract out all the robot jargon and stuff and what we left with is an almost exact replica of what the island is doing here in our waters. But I guess that is par for the course with all alien artifact that land here on our planet.
In the prequel comic book, Optimus Prime is shown sending the All Spark away from Cybertron to prevent the Decepticons from controlling it. The prolonged absence of the All Spark causes the planet to die, and forces both sides of the conflict to search the galaxy for it. The All Spark is revealed to have landed on Earth.
In the prequel novelization and film it is revealed that the Autobots and Decepticons have been seeking the All Spark for millennia, following transmission signals released by the All Spark once every thousand years.
In one aspect of this Series, in order to end the Great War (shown in the series debut as 'historical' clips from the 1984 G1 series), the Autobots cast the All Spark into a space bridge network gate to a random destination somewhere in the galaxy, thereby preventing the Decepticons from getting it. This ends the war, and finally allows the Autobots to drive the Decepticons off of Cybertron and into exile.
There is more I could put down but I think the idea is clear and what I am getting is a sound conclusion.
Lost has always played to our sense that there is "more than meets the eye" much more than we every expected. And the eye has always been a motif of sorts. Let's look a little deeper in another production by a LOST producer: Cloverfield and Jeffrey Jacob "J.J." Abrams.
Cloverfield is a monster film, but not about a monster.
Kind of like LOST is show about one thing but also a show about alot of other things as well. Just when we think we have the show pinned down it grows in other directions.
In Cloverfield we are actually watching the film, which is really a playback of events, the recovered recording of the events that took place. For all we know it is way in the future possibly even decades after the destruction of a city, maybe even the world, and what we are witnessing is a group of students or scienctists reviewing the video document at hand labeled Cloverfield.
So we are reviewing a piece of history, a previously recorded document and at the end we see the alien land in the water in the background. We think we have just seen the ending to our film, but what we have just witnessed is the beginning to the story. That's the kind of curve ball he like to throw. Whether or not the executive's decide to do another Cloverfield, is up to them, but they left the door wide open for that idea to brew and fester in the spectator. I think LOST might be left to do the same thing with us.
What if all we are witnessing is a precusor to a larger story. All of our investment is in this thing we call LOST is just the beginning. Theory by Jasper the Friendly Host
