"The Island won't let you die."
"The Island isn't done with you yet."
"The Island told me."
For almost five years, there's been the debate raging on about what the island's purpose is. Why it seems to have special powers that influence events and create miracles. Why visitors to the island can somehow have knowledge of events that haven't happened yet, or can revisit events that have already happened, the events that shaped their lives.
And with the new element of time travel, the debate over fate vs free will, paradox, and infinite loops rages on. When the past is changed, history "course-corrects" ... or does it?
My theory is that the reason the Island is special is because the energy within it is the very force of fate itself. Whatever it is that causes history to correct itself, the island is the source. That is the reason and the mechanism that allows it can travel back and forth through time and space, like a painter going back and forth over a canvas.
Fate is what keeps events happening. However, as we have witnessed, sometimes fate needs a hand. How do time loops start? How are paradoxes avoided or dealt with?
The answer, at least in our time frame, is Jacob.
The reason why Jacob is trapped in time is because the island needs him to be the agent of First Event. He is the voice that have guided Benjamin, Richard, Eloise, and now Locke towards the destiny the island chose for them. The one who grants unknowable knowledge of future events, that they must attend to in order to cause things to happen. Like the ignition switch that starts an engine, once events happen the universe can sustain itself, but it needs the kickstart to begin the whole process.
For example, we witness Locke being told by the island that he needs to take Richard and Benjamin to the beechcraft. Why? So that Richard can tell Locke he has to die in order to bring the O6 back. But Richard has ALREADY helped Locke, so this time loop must have started somewhere. Cue the Island, keeper of fate. Jacob would have told the first iteration of Richard to help Locke. Now that Locke has returned, he can step in to that role and keep the loop intact.
It is for this reason that Locke must go and kill Jacob. To shut off the starter, so to speak. Now that his role in time has been established, the island has no use for it's prophet. John has arrived, the island's chosen caretaker, and the events that lead to him being there have occurred without paradox and the timeline is safe.
Or is it?
My theory is that what Daniel started is going to be in direct opposition to the Island's will. Something will happen that will create a paradox that only Locke can resolve in the island's favor. While the island is the progenitor of fate, it is not the final decider. It's will is not absolute, as Desmond has clearly shown.
Ultimately, the battle between the Island's Will of Destiny versus the Free Will of Man must be decided. I predict that the end battle will pit Locke and Ben against Desmond and Widmore for the ultimate prize -- the future.
"The Island isn't done with you yet."
"The Island told me."
For almost five years, there's been the debate raging on about what the island's purpose is. Why it seems to have special powers that influence events and create miracles. Why visitors to the island can somehow have knowledge of events that haven't happened yet, or can revisit events that have already happened, the events that shaped their lives.
And with the new element of time travel, the debate over fate vs free will, paradox, and infinite loops rages on. When the past is changed, history "course-corrects" ... or does it?
My theory is that the reason the Island is special is because the energy within it is the very force of fate itself. Whatever it is that causes history to correct itself, the island is the source. That is the reason and the mechanism that allows it can travel back and forth through time and space, like a painter going back and forth over a canvas.
Fate is what keeps events happening. However, as we have witnessed, sometimes fate needs a hand. How do time loops start? How are paradoxes avoided or dealt with?
The answer, at least in our time frame, is Jacob.
The reason why Jacob is trapped in time is because the island needs him to be the agent of First Event. He is the voice that have guided Benjamin, Richard, Eloise, and now Locke towards the destiny the island chose for them. The one who grants unknowable knowledge of future events, that they must attend to in order to cause things to happen. Like the ignition switch that starts an engine, once events happen the universe can sustain itself, but it needs the kickstart to begin the whole process.
For example, we witness Locke being told by the island that he needs to take Richard and Benjamin to the beechcraft. Why? So that Richard can tell Locke he has to die in order to bring the O6 back. But Richard has ALREADY helped Locke, so this time loop must have started somewhere. Cue the Island, keeper of fate. Jacob would have told the first iteration of Richard to help Locke. Now that Locke has returned, he can step in to that role and keep the loop intact.
It is for this reason that Locke must go and kill Jacob. To shut off the starter, so to speak. Now that his role in time has been established, the island has no use for it's prophet. John has arrived, the island's chosen caretaker, and the events that lead to him being there have occurred without paradox and the timeline is safe.
Or is it?
My theory is that what Daniel started is going to be in direct opposition to the Island's will. Something will happen that will create a paradox that only Locke can resolve in the island's favor. While the island is the progenitor of fate, it is not the final decider. It's will is not absolute, as Desmond has clearly shown.
Ultimately, the battle between the Island's Will of Destiny versus the Free Will of Man must be decided. I predict that the end battle will pit Locke and Ben against Desmond and Widmore for the ultimate prize -- the future.
