"Well, I got some bad news for you, Jack. You don't belong here at all!"
"You knew...you always knew this was going to happen...and you sent me here anyway..."
Consider this:
In a science experiment, the first rule of thumb is that you are only supposed to change one variable at a time. Changing too many things at once will contaminate the results.
I think Eloise sent Dan back to his death because she was already working on producing a variable to the equation (in this case- the variable is sending the O6 back to the Island) and knew that everything else in the equation HAD to, by default, remain constant - even though it meant sending her own son to his death. (Maybe in a previous iteration, she tried to make Dan the variable- but the experiment didn't produce the end result that she was looking for. If at first you don't succeed....)
In fact, I think it’s extremely important that Ben & Widmore were both HEAVILY concerned with getting the O6 back to the Island. I mean, these are two guys who don't agree on much of anything. Yet, both of them tried to facilitate an O6 return? I think it’s very possible that Eloise, Ben & Widmore have lived through enough time iterations to finally realize that the 06 are THE variable to the equation- THE way to reach the end point they have so desperately been looking for. The battle, it seems, is who gets to be in charge when that end point arrives. Widmore or Ben?
Think back to 'Flashes Before Your Eyes' and how Eloise Hawking was overly concerned with making sure Desmond left Penny to follow his path to the Island. She NEEDED that to remain constant just as she needed Daniel's death to remain constant. If these things didn't remain constant, it would ruin the entire experiment. In fact, it kind of makes you think back to all of our other characters and how their lives almost seem to have been manipulated in such a way that they had no choice but to end up on the Island.
I think she sent the O6 back, specifically, as the variable to the equation so that they would change things. Which may be why, for the first time, she has no idea what the future holds.
So let’s look at these again a bit differently:
Variable = "Well, I got some bad news for you, Jack. You don't belong here at all!"
Constant = "You knew...you always knew this was going to happen...and you sent me here anyway..."
"You knew...you always knew this was going to happen...and you sent me here anyway..."
Consider this:
In a science experiment, the first rule of thumb is that you are only supposed to change one variable at a time. Changing too many things at once will contaminate the results.
I think Eloise sent Dan back to his death because she was already working on producing a variable to the equation (in this case- the variable is sending the O6 back to the Island) and knew that everything else in the equation HAD to, by default, remain constant - even though it meant sending her own son to his death. (Maybe in a previous iteration, she tried to make Dan the variable- but the experiment didn't produce the end result that she was looking for. If at first you don't succeed....)
In fact, I think it’s extremely important that Ben & Widmore were both HEAVILY concerned with getting the O6 back to the Island. I mean, these are two guys who don't agree on much of anything. Yet, both of them tried to facilitate an O6 return? I think it’s very possible that Eloise, Ben & Widmore have lived through enough time iterations to finally realize that the 06 are THE variable to the equation- THE way to reach the end point they have so desperately been looking for. The battle, it seems, is who gets to be in charge when that end point arrives. Widmore or Ben?
Think back to 'Flashes Before Your Eyes' and how Eloise Hawking was overly concerned with making sure Desmond left Penny to follow his path to the Island. She NEEDED that to remain constant just as she needed Daniel's death to remain constant. If these things didn't remain constant, it would ruin the entire experiment. In fact, it kind of makes you think back to all of our other characters and how their lives almost seem to have been manipulated in such a way that they had no choice but to end up on the Island.
I think she sent the O6 back, specifically, as the variable to the equation so that they would change things. Which may be why, for the first time, she has no idea what the future holds.
So let’s look at these again a bit differently:
Variable = "Well, I got some bad news for you, Jack. You don't belong here at all!"
Constant = "You knew...you always knew this was going to happen...and you sent me here anyway..."
