I had this theory for some time about how the Island forsaw the end of time, and used it's unique powers to transport itself into the past so that it could form Dharma and use the Others in a fake war against them to keep up appearances, but that Horace and Richard were sercetly alligned. It was a big long thing, but I did think about Horace as he related to the finale.
Where the hell was he?
You saw him for like 2 seconds become Radzinsky's bitch. Why did that happen? Why did he let Radzinsky talk him out of sparing Sayid's life? Why did Horace seem to be a little cozy with Richard earlier on this past season? Why does Horace always have to seem the same motivation as the Others do?
Horace all but dissappeard in the season finale, which I think is very odd, not only for a charater of such importance with Dharma, but for a character who we were told was significant to the show.
As of right now, we've still never seen Horace do much of any significance, which makes me go back to my idea that he's got something up his sleeve. Something he knows about or was behind, which makes him more important than what we've seen so far.
The bigger theory I mentioned in the opening paragraph, revolved around the idea that time was coming to an end, and the only way to solve it was through scientific means. Hence the island sought out and recruited Dharma to fix the problem.
But the island, much earlier had already recruited protectors, the Others, to defend it by physical means. In order to make the plan work, the two groups had to be kept in the dark as to the real purpose they were both serving, and the only way to do that was to keep up hostilities between the groups. But in order to prevent an actual war from breaking out, leaders of both sides had to be aware to let these faux hostilities break out, and so "rules" were instituted to maintain order, and men like Richard and Horace were the two men in the know about the whole sharade.
Why else would Horace be so laxadazical when it came to the chaos that erupted at the end of the season? My take is that he knew that this had to take place, and thus there was no reason for him to take sides, or show any great effort. "The Incident" was what he'd been helping the island work to achieve.
Now just to finish of the theory, I believe there were two reasons, well 3, to bring the losties to the 70's.
The first, the most superficial, and the least important, was to show us, the viewers, a first hand account of the Dharma Initiative. It wouldn't have been nearly as fun to watch all this merely in flash back format.
The 2nd though was to hide the losties from the Man in Black. In other words Jacob intentially set them up to arrive in the 70'd so that the MIB wouldn't see them coming at him.
Which brings me to the 3rd and most important reason they were there, which was to understand what exactly it was that Dharma was trying to accomplish, and then to finish or complete that objective when they eventually returned to 2007.
Whatever it was Dharma was doing, and that Richard was allowing them to do through his alliance with Horace (and I don't pretend to know what that is), was Jacob's doing to attemt to get around or fix this world wide calamity that the Island saw coming. Perhaps it's mankind creating a new Armaggedon or something. I called it the end of time earlier, but you get the idea.
So he's sent everyone to the 70's for the above stated reasons, only to have them return after his death, because there was one more reason he needed to go this route.
That is reason number 4, and the very most important. He knew that the Man in Black was going to sabotage him, and so he had to allow that sabotage to happen. He had to let the Man In Black manipulate the events of the Incident so that he had thought he'd won back then. And then he thought he'd won again by finally killing Jacob in 2007. But what he didn't realize was that those in the 70's hadn't actually died. They'd lived on to be drawn back to 2007 to not only stop him, but to finish the mission Jacob had begun and intentially left incomplete, between the Others and the Dharma Initiative.
In the end, the Losties will complete that mission, and avoid, or skip over the armageddon event that is coming.
Where the hell was he?
You saw him for like 2 seconds become Radzinsky's bitch. Why did that happen? Why did he let Radzinsky talk him out of sparing Sayid's life? Why did Horace seem to be a little cozy with Richard earlier on this past season? Why does Horace always have to seem the same motivation as the Others do?
Horace all but dissappeard in the season finale, which I think is very odd, not only for a charater of such importance with Dharma, but for a character who we were told was significant to the show.
As of right now, we've still never seen Horace do much of any significance, which makes me go back to my idea that he's got something up his sleeve. Something he knows about or was behind, which makes him more important than what we've seen so far.
The bigger theory I mentioned in the opening paragraph, revolved around the idea that time was coming to an end, and the only way to solve it was through scientific means. Hence the island sought out and recruited Dharma to fix the problem.
But the island, much earlier had already recruited protectors, the Others, to defend it by physical means. In order to make the plan work, the two groups had to be kept in the dark as to the real purpose they were both serving, and the only way to do that was to keep up hostilities between the groups. But in order to prevent an actual war from breaking out, leaders of both sides had to be aware to let these faux hostilities break out, and so "rules" were instituted to maintain order, and men like Richard and Horace were the two men in the know about the whole sharade.
Why else would Horace be so laxadazical when it came to the chaos that erupted at the end of the season? My take is that he knew that this had to take place, and thus there was no reason for him to take sides, or show any great effort. "The Incident" was what he'd been helping the island work to achieve.
Now just to finish of the theory, I believe there were two reasons, well 3, to bring the losties to the 70's.
The first, the most superficial, and the least important, was to show us, the viewers, a first hand account of the Dharma Initiative. It wouldn't have been nearly as fun to watch all this merely in flash back format.
The 2nd though was to hide the losties from the Man in Black. In other words Jacob intentially set them up to arrive in the 70'd so that the MIB wouldn't see them coming at him.
Which brings me to the 3rd and most important reason they were there, which was to understand what exactly it was that Dharma was trying to accomplish, and then to finish or complete that objective when they eventually returned to 2007.
Whatever it was Dharma was doing, and that Richard was allowing them to do through his alliance with Horace (and I don't pretend to know what that is), was Jacob's doing to attemt to get around or fix this world wide calamity that the Island saw coming. Perhaps it's mankind creating a new Armaggedon or something. I called it the end of time earlier, but you get the idea.
So he's sent everyone to the 70's for the above stated reasons, only to have them return after his death, because there was one more reason he needed to go this route.
That is reason number 4, and the very most important. He knew that the Man in Black was going to sabotage him, and so he had to allow that sabotage to happen. He had to let the Man In Black manipulate the events of the Incident so that he had thought he'd won back then. And then he thought he'd won again by finally killing Jacob in 2007. But what he didn't realize was that those in the 70's hadn't actually died. They'd lived on to be drawn back to 2007 to not only stop him, but to finish the mission Jacob had begun and intentially left incomplete, between the Others and the Dharma Initiative.
In the end, the Losties will complete that mission, and avoid, or skip over the armageddon event that is coming.
