This theory is whacked!
There are uncountable theories out there concerning what's going on. Most focus on the minutae--who is Jacob, what's smokey, who are A&E, can what happened not happen, etc. Some creep beyond the minutae but they don't go far enough.
I started rewatching the series a month or so ago and with every show I see, including the current eps, there is a voice screaming in my head that I am missing something huge. That we all are (save the Garden of Eden/Atlantis type theories). So I took this to its extreme.
There are a few things that bother me more than others. Ben's overall eye-twinkling mysteriousness (along with Hawking's). Ben telling Jack to take everything he wants with him because he's not coming back. The war. The incident and how desperate Chang sounds in last summer's Dharma vid. Not to mention his comment "time isn't of the essence, it IS the essence." The complete, utter disregard for killing people-something that even cropped up in Jack on flight 316.
So, here goes: What if all of time is wrong since the first time humans encountered the island. I know we're spending a lot of time in Dharma time but that may be because this is where humans get to a point where they can correct this. But the correction is monumental. It will affect almost the entirety of human history. But time is running out, for there is a point coming where it will no longer be possible to correct it (Jughead detonating?)
Why our losties? Because this is the first time a group of people have entered into this whacky situation where they can choose to "not go back" to what they had. Where they can choose to do that one thing where they will lose what they were, yet gain what needs to be gained. They are the last, true outsiders to enter into it. They're all in this till the end. And at this point in time, they have all, basically, chosen to be there.
The war is the battle between two forces--one to correct this and one to keep things as they are. Widmore's comfortable with the way things are, Ben isn't. Or maybe it's the other way around.
Jack's not coming back because he and the others with him are to be involved in the correcting force that must somehow get back there and fix things by preventing humans from ever finding the island. They may do this directly (by actually being the ones to do this by going back 3000 years and defending the island from all intruders, something, maybe, the "others" were to do but lost their way) or indirectly (by provoking DI into setting it up for it to be accomplished). Killing people doesn't really matter because they should not be alive anyway. And time, the time where history has occured, is where the essence of the problem lies.
What we've been focusing on are the little things. But my mind keeps seeing something huge that we're all missing. Maybe I've been drinking too much Dharma Kool-Aid. But I can't shake the feeling that this is not a short ride. This is for all the marbles. This is monumental.
Something this huge could not simply be explained to people like our losties. They must experience it in its fullest. They must get to the point where they willingly take this on with an eye toward succeeding. Ben can't simply say "You guys have to go back so you can change the history of mankind." It's too big. It's too hard to explain, convincingly. One can't simply wrap their head around something like this. It must be lived. It must be experienced. And Ben is the main director behind this experiencing.
All that said, what say you? Do you feel we're missing the primary theme because we don't yet have all the information and that theme is huge? Do you think my idea is something possible or could it be something else equally monumental? After all, a lot of people went to a lot of trouble and expense to get these guys on and back on the island. Why bother if what happened, happened? If only Des can change things, why is he a secondary character right now? And why bother with everyone else? They must all play a crucial part in something and that something must be huge.
Please keep in mind that my imagination is limited and this "change all of history" notion may not be the real situation. But something big is. Something very, very important. And we don't have all the pieces, yet.
I'm going to post this and then go fishing. I'll be thinking about this and maybe come to a point where I'll take exception to it. I realize it has lots of holes and probably isn't THE solution. It's just me placating that voice in my head. I can't shake the feeling we're missing something huge.
This just might be too far out there to be acceptable. I took a few elements and tried to draw them out. It's what we all do here. It's how we entertain each other.
What you can do is take my idea of changing the entirety of history and offer another suggestion that is similarly huge. Huge is the keyword, here. Personally, I doubt it's to change all of history. But it's something huge. HUGE, I tell you! Changing all of history is my interpretation of hugeness. And maybe this will jar some ideas loose in some of you who are far more fluent in Lost mythology than I. I'll be back later to see if anyone took the bait.Theory by Tsar Bomba
There are uncountable theories out there concerning what's going on. Most focus on the minutae--who is Jacob, what's smokey, who are A&E, can what happened not happen, etc. Some creep beyond the minutae but they don't go far enough.
I started rewatching the series a month or so ago and with every show I see, including the current eps, there is a voice screaming in my head that I am missing something huge. That we all are (save the Garden of Eden/Atlantis type theories). So I took this to its extreme.
There are a few things that bother me more than others. Ben's overall eye-twinkling mysteriousness (along with Hawking's). Ben telling Jack to take everything he wants with him because he's not coming back. The war. The incident and how desperate Chang sounds in last summer's Dharma vid. Not to mention his comment "time isn't of the essence, it IS the essence." The complete, utter disregard for killing people-something that even cropped up in Jack on flight 316.
So, here goes: What if all of time is wrong since the first time humans encountered the island. I know we're spending a lot of time in Dharma time but that may be because this is where humans get to a point where they can correct this. But the correction is monumental. It will affect almost the entirety of human history. But time is running out, for there is a point coming where it will no longer be possible to correct it (Jughead detonating?)
Why our losties? Because this is the first time a group of people have entered into this whacky situation where they can choose to "not go back" to what they had. Where they can choose to do that one thing where they will lose what they were, yet gain what needs to be gained. They are the last, true outsiders to enter into it. They're all in this till the end. And at this point in time, they have all, basically, chosen to be there.
The war is the battle between two forces--one to correct this and one to keep things as they are. Widmore's comfortable with the way things are, Ben isn't. Or maybe it's the other way around.
Jack's not coming back because he and the others with him are to be involved in the correcting force that must somehow get back there and fix things by preventing humans from ever finding the island. They may do this directly (by actually being the ones to do this by going back 3000 years and defending the island from all intruders, something, maybe, the "others" were to do but lost their way) or indirectly (by provoking DI into setting it up for it to be accomplished). Killing people doesn't really matter because they should not be alive anyway. And time, the time where history has occured, is where the essence of the problem lies.
What we've been focusing on are the little things. But my mind keeps seeing something huge that we're all missing. Maybe I've been drinking too much Dharma Kool-Aid. But I can't shake the feeling that this is not a short ride. This is for all the marbles. This is monumental.
Something this huge could not simply be explained to people like our losties. They must experience it in its fullest. They must get to the point where they willingly take this on with an eye toward succeeding. Ben can't simply say "You guys have to go back so you can change the history of mankind." It's too big. It's too hard to explain, convincingly. One can't simply wrap their head around something like this. It must be lived. It must be experienced. And Ben is the main director behind this experiencing.
All that said, what say you? Do you feel we're missing the primary theme because we don't yet have all the information and that theme is huge? Do you think my idea is something possible or could it be something else equally monumental? After all, a lot of people went to a lot of trouble and expense to get these guys on and back on the island. Why bother if what happened, happened? If only Des can change things, why is he a secondary character right now? And why bother with everyone else? They must all play a crucial part in something and that something must be huge.
Please keep in mind that my imagination is limited and this "change all of history" notion may not be the real situation. But something big is. Something very, very important. And we don't have all the pieces, yet.
I'm going to post this and then go fishing. I'll be thinking about this and maybe come to a point where I'll take exception to it. I realize it has lots of holes and probably isn't THE solution. It's just me placating that voice in my head. I can't shake the feeling we're missing something huge.
This just might be too far out there to be acceptable. I took a few elements and tried to draw them out. It's what we all do here. It's how we entertain each other.
What you can do is take my idea of changing the entirety of history and offer another suggestion that is similarly huge. Huge is the keyword, here. Personally, I doubt it's to change all of history. But it's something huge. HUGE, I tell you! Changing all of history is my interpretation of hugeness. And maybe this will jar some ideas loose in some of you who are far more fluent in Lost mythology than I. I'll be back later to see if anyone took the bait.Theory by Tsar Bomba
