I think I realize now what is so special about Desmond. He has the ability to make fate...late. Fate will do what it wants, but since Desmond has the ability to see fate's plan and set it off course, it must sometimes course correct. Think about Charlie’s tape on his hands from Season 1, it turned “fate” into “late,” which was an Easter egg for what we are seeing unfold. The universe has a plan, but there is something about Desmond and his overexposure to the electromagnetic radioactive wave that allows him to see this plan.
The events are always as they occur, making it a WHH scenario. Just because things don't go 100% according to the schedule of the universe, doesn't mean it's an alternate timeline, it's just another path to the same result. It’s like we have a friend, we’ll call him Johnny Fate, says that he’s going to meet us at the mall at 5 pm. Johnny had a plan to be there right on time, but he had to stop and get gas on the way. When he went to the gas station and went to pay, he had problems with his credit card and had to go inside. When inside, there was a customer ahead of him named Johnny Hume, who took a very long time to find a pen and write his check. Johnny Fate made it to the mall, but he was 15 minutes late, all because of Johnny Hume. This is similar to Desmond and his impact on fate, he can make it late. Just because Johnny Fate was 15 minutes late, does not mean it is an alternate reality, it’s just life not going 100% as planned.
The characters on our show, many of them, believe that they can change the past and create a future different from the one we’ve seen. Sayid thought he could change things by shooting Ben, Eloise thought she had to work to make thing happen the way they did, Faraday thought he could detonate the bomb and Hurley thinks he can move the final battle of the Empire Strikes Back to Kashyyyk instead of Endor. Despite their efforts, everything that happens, despite how much they try or don't try, continues to prove that what they did in the past is what has happened all along. It IS their present, and they have free will to do whatever they want, we’ve just seen the outcome already. Season 5 was a flash “present.” Just because the characters on LOST think they can change things doesn't mean that the audience has to.
Think of it this way and it makes a whole lot more sense. After shooting her son and leading Jack and Sayid to the jughead, Eloise gets knocked out and acquires Daniels notebook. The notebook talks about the serious radioactive energy in the jughead and how it could offset the serious electromagnetic energy in the island, located where the Swan station is/was. When the incident began, it would have been huge enough to kill everyone in the island. Yet, the jughead bomb was detonated right when the incident started and the radioactive energy offset the electromagnetic energy and there was just a big flash of light, and the island wasn’t destroyed. After this flash of light, the losties are back in their time (2007) and the folks back in 1977 build the Swan station to keep the magnetic energy at bay. When Jacob said, “they’re coming,” he was talking about the losties. The reason Richard thinks he saw them die is because they were never found after the flash of li! ght that was caused by the bomb/EM energy.
I’ve always believed that the energy on the island is significant and is part of the balance that holds our world together. If the island were to be destroyed, I’ve thought that it would result in destruction to the rest of the world. This is why we’ve always thought of the consequence of not pushing the button in the Swan to be the end of the world.
Radzinsky is left to keep the energy back at the Swan because he was so insistent on digging and causing the potential problem. The scientists at Dharma try to prevent any more incidents from occurring, but they have learned something from the first incident, that the energy can be offset by radioactive energy, so the outer core of the jughead is used as a failsafe to be turned in the event that the energy at the Swan becomes unstable. They also conveniently find the jughead core down at Horace's house, but I think Eloise maybe became insistent to help Dharma construct the Swan station failsafe device, going off of Daniel's notes of course. Perhaps this is what resulted in Eloise being casted off of the island, for working with Dharma.
Eloise knows that the very fact that her son goes to the island is the very reason they get the notebook and also the reason the world doesn't perish during the first incident. This is the only reason she was willing to send her son to the island knowing that she was going to kill him in the past.
She doesn't know what is going to happen post 2005 because it is outside of the timeloop. She may in fact have known that she would be visited by Jack, Ben, etc. at the Lamp Post station because it was in Daniels notebook that they had traveled to the past as well. Suffice to say, Eloise was at the Lamp Post waiting for them to show up. Thing is, now that she has sent them off to the past on Ajira flight 316, she doesn't know what will happen next. She knew that Desmond would be safe up to a point, but now she can provide no information about the future because we are outside of the time loop and outside of the scope of anything that can be deduced from Daniel’s notebook.
Season 6 will not be about playing out everything we’ve seen in different ways. There is no time for it and there is so much that needs to be addressed regarding Jacob and the MIB. It would also be jumping the shark and would be inconsistent with what we’ve seen all along. There are many other events that point to a self consistent timeline as well, i.e. Ethan (would not be alive if Sawyer and Juliet weren’t there all along), Ben (would not be such a crazy manipulative “Other” if he hadn’t been shot by Sayid and saved by Kate), Charlotte (had the memory of Daniel talking to her as a child all along), Daniel (who spoke to young Charlotte no matter how many times he said he wouldn’t…”I’m not supposed to have chocolate before dinner.”), Eloise (who shot her son from the future back in 1977, only to send him there in 2004), Pierre Chang (who’s arm was apparently crushed during the incident, as we knew it would), and Danielle (who’s French team compli! ed with the story she had described all along and who would have gone inside the temple with her crew if Jin hadn’t stopped her).
Aside from the proof in the people, we also have the proof in the set and the actions. The Risk game that Hurley and Sawyer were playing before getting attacked by Keamy and Co., is still intact and unfinished. The runway that Ben had built in 2004 was there in 2007. The overall state of the island is compliant with everything we’ve seen. Just because a processing center sign and a picture of old Dharma recruits wasn’t seen by our characters earlier, doesn’t mean they weren’t there all along. A radio signal that comes from a previous time is par for the course on our island as well. Remember back when Hurley and Sayid were listening to music from the 50’s through the radio? Hurley mentioned jokingly that it could be from another time, but little did he know how right he was; another little Easter egg for the more attentive audience. I also believe that the crate from a food drop that ended up in 2004 was supposed to be sent in to the 70’s, but came in on ! the wrong bearing.
It takes a little acceptance of “memory issues” and “course correction” to understand how it all works. There are also some ontological paradoxes that exist within Lost, such as the compass or the setting used on Faraday’s machine in Oxford. Along with those things, it is an intelligible basic paradox adverse self consistent concept of time travel without parallel universes.
Let me know what you think, or if there are any holes that I should elaborate on. Thanks for reading.
The events are always as they occur, making it a WHH scenario. Just because things don't go 100% according to the schedule of the universe, doesn't mean it's an alternate timeline, it's just another path to the same result. It’s like we have a friend, we’ll call him Johnny Fate, says that he’s going to meet us at the mall at 5 pm. Johnny had a plan to be there right on time, but he had to stop and get gas on the way. When he went to the gas station and went to pay, he had problems with his credit card and had to go inside. When inside, there was a customer ahead of him named Johnny Hume, who took a very long time to find a pen and write his check. Johnny Fate made it to the mall, but he was 15 minutes late, all because of Johnny Hume. This is similar to Desmond and his impact on fate, he can make it late. Just because Johnny Fate was 15 minutes late, does not mean it is an alternate reality, it’s just life not going 100% as planned.
The characters on our show, many of them, believe that they can change the past and create a future different from the one we’ve seen. Sayid thought he could change things by shooting Ben, Eloise thought she had to work to make thing happen the way they did, Faraday thought he could detonate the bomb and Hurley thinks he can move the final battle of the Empire Strikes Back to Kashyyyk instead of Endor. Despite their efforts, everything that happens, despite how much they try or don't try, continues to prove that what they did in the past is what has happened all along. It IS their present, and they have free will to do whatever they want, we’ve just seen the outcome already. Season 5 was a flash “present.” Just because the characters on LOST think they can change things doesn't mean that the audience has to.
Think of it this way and it makes a whole lot more sense. After shooting her son and leading Jack and Sayid to the jughead, Eloise gets knocked out and acquires Daniels notebook. The notebook talks about the serious radioactive energy in the jughead and how it could offset the serious electromagnetic energy in the island, located where the Swan station is/was. When the incident began, it would have been huge enough to kill everyone in the island. Yet, the jughead bomb was detonated right when the incident started and the radioactive energy offset the electromagnetic energy and there was just a big flash of light, and the island wasn’t destroyed. After this flash of light, the losties are back in their time (2007) and the folks back in 1977 build the Swan station to keep the magnetic energy at bay. When Jacob said, “they’re coming,” he was talking about the losties. The reason Richard thinks he saw them die is because they were never found after the flash of li! ght that was caused by the bomb/EM energy.
I’ve always believed that the energy on the island is significant and is part of the balance that holds our world together. If the island were to be destroyed, I’ve thought that it would result in destruction to the rest of the world. This is why we’ve always thought of the consequence of not pushing the button in the Swan to be the end of the world.
Radzinsky is left to keep the energy back at the Swan because he was so insistent on digging and causing the potential problem. The scientists at Dharma try to prevent any more incidents from occurring, but they have learned something from the first incident, that the energy can be offset by radioactive energy, so the outer core of the jughead is used as a failsafe to be turned in the event that the energy at the Swan becomes unstable. They also conveniently find the jughead core down at Horace's house, but I think Eloise maybe became insistent to help Dharma construct the Swan station failsafe device, going off of Daniel's notes of course. Perhaps this is what resulted in Eloise being casted off of the island, for working with Dharma.
Eloise knows that the very fact that her son goes to the island is the very reason they get the notebook and also the reason the world doesn't perish during the first incident. This is the only reason she was willing to send her son to the island knowing that she was going to kill him in the past.
She doesn't know what is going to happen post 2005 because it is outside of the timeloop. She may in fact have known that she would be visited by Jack, Ben, etc. at the Lamp Post station because it was in Daniels notebook that they had traveled to the past as well. Suffice to say, Eloise was at the Lamp Post waiting for them to show up. Thing is, now that she has sent them off to the past on Ajira flight 316, she doesn't know what will happen next. She knew that Desmond would be safe up to a point, but now she can provide no information about the future because we are outside of the time loop and outside of the scope of anything that can be deduced from Daniel’s notebook.
Season 6 will not be about playing out everything we’ve seen in different ways. There is no time for it and there is so much that needs to be addressed regarding Jacob and the MIB. It would also be jumping the shark and would be inconsistent with what we’ve seen all along. There are many other events that point to a self consistent timeline as well, i.e. Ethan (would not be alive if Sawyer and Juliet weren’t there all along), Ben (would not be such a crazy manipulative “Other” if he hadn’t been shot by Sayid and saved by Kate), Charlotte (had the memory of Daniel talking to her as a child all along), Daniel (who spoke to young Charlotte no matter how many times he said he wouldn’t…”I’m not supposed to have chocolate before dinner.”), Eloise (who shot her son from the future back in 1977, only to send him there in 2004), Pierre Chang (who’s arm was apparently crushed during the incident, as we knew it would), and Danielle (who’s French team compli! ed with the story she had described all along and who would have gone inside the temple with her crew if Jin hadn’t stopped her).
Aside from the proof in the people, we also have the proof in the set and the actions. The Risk game that Hurley and Sawyer were playing before getting attacked by Keamy and Co., is still intact and unfinished. The runway that Ben had built in 2004 was there in 2007. The overall state of the island is compliant with everything we’ve seen. Just because a processing center sign and a picture of old Dharma recruits wasn’t seen by our characters earlier, doesn’t mean they weren’t there all along. A radio signal that comes from a previous time is par for the course on our island as well. Remember back when Hurley and Sayid were listening to music from the 50’s through the radio? Hurley mentioned jokingly that it could be from another time, but little did he know how right he was; another little Easter egg for the more attentive audience. I also believe that the crate from a food drop that ended up in 2004 was supposed to be sent in to the 70’s, but came in on ! the wrong bearing.
It takes a little acceptance of “memory issues” and “course correction” to understand how it all works. There are also some ontological paradoxes that exist within Lost, such as the compass or the setting used on Faraday’s machine in Oxford. Along with those things, it is an intelligible basic paradox adverse self consistent concept of time travel without parallel universes.
Let me know what you think, or if there are any holes that I should elaborate on. Thanks for reading.
