Ok I've been reading posts and theories for awhile now and I think I'm on board with the WHH group but for reasons I have yet to come across...
The 1st reason is, at least for me, quite obvious. If Jack succeeds in blowing up the bomb and stopping the swan from being built and crashing the plane then how can he go back in time to do this? The fact that the losties are in the past and have memories of the island at all kind of makes what Jack and Faraday are trying to do futile. You can’t change the past if u never went back to change it. Even if they do manage to change some things, they can’t change whatever they know to be true. Whatever past experiences they have in 2004 absolutely have to take place or they wouldn’t have those experiences at all!
That being said I do believe Jack will be doing a great thing by detonating the bomb. I believe the explosion that takes place will cancel out the magnetic energy just enough so that the world doesn’t come to an end and the hatch will be built to make sure that the destruction of the world never comes to be. And from then on, just as always, whatever happened will happen again in the exact same way that everyone experienced. Perhaps Widmore and Eloise knew the severity of the coming incident and sacrificed their son and did everything in the world to make sure that the swan DOES in fact get built so the button will be pushed and eventually Desmond will crash the plane and turn the key and everything comes full circle. They do this because they know the alternative is far worse.
On a side note I thought it was very funny when Richard said the compass was a little rusty. I wonder how many trips that thing has taken from 2007 to the 50's if Locke will just give it back to Richard to give to Locke and so on and so on... that thing could very well be older than Richard This compass is a great example of why the producers were gonna name the show "The Circle" before they came up with LOST... What do u think?
The 1st reason is, at least for me, quite obvious. If Jack succeeds in blowing up the bomb and stopping the swan from being built and crashing the plane then how can he go back in time to do this? The fact that the losties are in the past and have memories of the island at all kind of makes what Jack and Faraday are trying to do futile. You can’t change the past if u never went back to change it. Even if they do manage to change some things, they can’t change whatever they know to be true. Whatever past experiences they have in 2004 absolutely have to take place or they wouldn’t have those experiences at all!
That being said I do believe Jack will be doing a great thing by detonating the bomb. I believe the explosion that takes place will cancel out the magnetic energy just enough so that the world doesn’t come to an end and the hatch will be built to make sure that the destruction of the world never comes to be. And from then on, just as always, whatever happened will happen again in the exact same way that everyone experienced. Perhaps Widmore and Eloise knew the severity of the coming incident and sacrificed their son and did everything in the world to make sure that the swan DOES in fact get built so the button will be pushed and eventually Desmond will crash the plane and turn the key and everything comes full circle. They do this because they know the alternative is far worse.
On a side note I thought it was very funny when Richard said the compass was a little rusty. I wonder how many trips that thing has taken from 2007 to the 50's if Locke will just give it back to Richard to give to Locke and so on and so on... that thing could very well be older than Richard This compass is a great example of why the producers were gonna name the show "The Circle" before they came up with LOST... What do u think?
