OK, so this theory has a lot of elements that I've used in my past theories. It was my entry into the contest at DarkUFOs forum and it won for the WHH concept. Anyways, the format is specific and I've added some new ideas, even some crazy ones. Enjoy...and as always, feel free to comment.
Lost Season 6:
Opening Scenario
Season 6 starts with a quick recap of the events from The Incident, and in the Lost tradition, as they end the recap of Juliet smashing the bomb with a rock and the screen going white they will start the new season opener with a camera panning on our losties: Juliet, Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Jin, etc covering their eyes to protect from the blinding white light. As the light fades, they all remove their arms from their eyes and we see them looking around, standing around a big pit where the Swan used to be. The camera pans out and a subtitle shows below saying “year:2007” as everyone looks at each other in confusion.
The opening scene will be followed by a flashback to follow the conversation that we saw between Jacob and the MIB. As the MIB continues to look on at the Black Rock, a storm begins, the weather gets intense and Jacob looks at him, pleading for him to stop. The black Rock is lifted high into the air by a large tornado and swept inland where it crashes down and the passengers are all killed. Jacob runs to see what happens, as the MIB follows casually behind. Jacob argues to the MIB that the people on board, though flawed, are still humane creatures and capable of good things. The MIB continues on to point out that there were slaves on board, and that humans are inherently evil. Jacob promises the MIB to someday show him what kind of compassion humans are capable of. The camera pans over to the jacket of the ships captain, which reads “M. Hanso.” Then…..(Thud) LOST (but this time with white in the background and the words written in black).
Theory
Remember back in season 1 when Charlie had the tape on his fingers, and the words spelled out “fate,” but later Charlie changed the L and turned it into the word “Late?” Well season 6 will use this clue from season 1 to show how Desmond is special and how he fits into the WHH concept. Desmond 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. The universe has a plan, but there is something about Desmond and his overexposure to the electromagnetic radioactive light, while on the island, that allows him to see this plan and set it off course (hence the need for course correction).
After shooting her son and leading Jack and Sayid to the jughead, Eloise gets knocked out by Richard 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 light that was caused by the bomb/EM energy. It would a! ppear that they died in the incident.
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 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. His death is not in vain because he helped save the world.
Eloise 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.
The first few episodes of season 6 will wrap up the details of what Dharma did after the incident, but then it will move on to the present time and stay there, focusing on the war between Jacob and the MIB and the role our losties play. As for Jacob and the MIB, I know a lot of you want to believe that there will be a perfectly sound pseudo-scientific explanation as to what is going on, but I beg to differ. I really think that there is a lot of god/deity stuff at work here too. The island is a place, full of good and bad, and white and black, personified by Jacob and MIB. Think of those shows where everyone has a little devil and a little angel, one on each shoulder. Well I think that Jacob and MIB are somewhat like those little guys. Drawn up from the same energy, but on different poles of it. A north and a south, a yin and a yang. They are a part of the island, and I think they are descendants of gods, if not gods themselves. Yet, much like Jesus, were sent here on earth! , with special powers, but with the curse of the human condition.
Jacob has embraced the human condition, he has learned to live with it and love it. He has learned to feel pain, and to feel joy. He learns from his pain and he appreciates the joy more because of it. MIB however does not like this human condition, he doesn't like to pain. He sees nothing but the bad side of human kind, and thinks we are not worthy of the attention of the gods. Jacob is set on teaching MIB the beautiful side of this human condition. Our species is full of pain, torment, torture and so many horrible things, but we are also capable of some pretty amazing and beautiful things as well, which Jacob will someday show to the MIB by utilizing the true goodness of human kind and our losties.
That is what Lost is really about. All of the time travel stuff, as Darlton have said, is just icing on the cake. We are through the time loops, and it will eventually make sense as it ties up in season 6. It won't be a WHH vs. ALT debate, but it shows what these people have been through, and what it has taken for them to believe what is possible in the world, and what is possible within themselves. Remember back in White Rabbit when Christian said that Jack didn't have what it takes? Well I think he will prove to himself that he does, and he'll also learn that he was the only one he had to prove it to all along, not his father. Though, his father will be there watching, proud, when his son sacrifices himself for those that he loves. I believe that the final episode will require Jack to sacrifice himself for everyone else and that it will be a leap of faith, very emotional and redemptive.
I believe that Jacob's visit allowed his energy to be dispersed and transferred to the people that he touched. I think we can all agree that, when Ben was stabbing Jacob, that everything was playing out just the way Jacob had planned. MIB is crafty, but Jacob is one step ahead, like a master of chess. He's played the really long con and transferred his energy over to our character before he died. Jacob will now live on through our losties, much like the way Obi-Wan was able to live through Luke. And this energy I'm talking about, it's comparable to the force in Star Wars. As season 6 progresses, it will involve learning more about Jacob and MIB and what they are fighting for. There will be a history found in the temple that will explain what’s going on, and Richard will be the voice that gives all of the details. The mythology and several questions about the island and its history will be explained a little over midway through season 6, leading into the climax and final! showdown. A war will amount between the losties and the MIB leading followers of his own, including some people from flight 316. Big players on the losties side will include those touched by Jacob, as well as Walt, who find his own way back to the island with the help of Eloise. We will learn that Walt spent the past few years learning more about his special abilities, which he hones when he returns to the island. He will have a gift of slightly manipulating magnetic properties and viewing things remotely from a distant location.
Along the same lines of gods/deities, I think that the statue is Tawaret, the goddess of fertility. I've always like the idea that they had to tear town the statue to get enough concrete over the pocket of energy that was left over after the incident. The destruction of Tawaret is the reason why babies cannot be conceived and born on the island. Now, I know that people will disagree with the idea of Tawaret being on the island in 1977, but I would put it right up there with a FDW off its axis, or random people jumping from flight 316 to the year 1977, or pictures in the barracks that were never really inspected. It's just one of those things that TPTB can throw at us as they please and we'd just have to roll with it. Otherwise, I would suspect that Ethan would not have been able make it to his delivery date. Perhaps when Sawyer suggested that whatever caused the baby issue ain't happened yet, he was right, and he was talking about the fallen Tawaret statue. In the episode, ! “Because You Left,” after we see the back of the statue and the final flash happens, the focus goes strait to the well and nobody looks up toward the statue. This was done for a reason.
In the final episode I think we will also see a final flash forward, where the island is still intact and full of inhabitants and good has finally conquered and the MIB has changed his view of humanity. We will see a white man and an Asian woman step out of a boat, hand-in-hand, on to the island. We find out that it is Aaron and a pregnant Ji Yeon and they have made it to the island to find their parents. Later, she gives birth to a son. When Sun congratulates Ji Yeon she asked what her son’s name is going to be, Ji Yeon replies, “we’re naming him Richard.”
5 or More Reasons Why I Believe WHH
1) Ben became an Other as a result of being shot by Sayid. The fact that Sayid shot Ben and the fact that Kate took him to Richard, and Richard took him to the temple and he lost his innocence explains exactly why Ben has always been such a twisted and manipulative individual.
2) Ethan is alive ONLY because a) Sawyer and Juliet saved Amy and b) Juliet delivered him as a baby. Ethan was there in season 1, so it proves that Sawyer and Juliet were there in the 70s all along. Otherwise Amy would have been killed by the Others in 1974 (there were putting her on her knees execution style when Sawyer and Juliet saved here) and Ethan would never have been born. The complications during childbirth could have killed Ethan if Juliet wasn’t’ there to help deliver him as well.
3) Faraday had that conversation with young Charlotte while she was eating chocolate. He said that he would not let it happen, but despite his efforts, he did it. While dying, Charlotte even recalled the detail of the chocolate bar that she was eating when they had their conversation.
4) Faraday was shot by his mom in the past, which caused her to raise him the way she did. These two show a self consistent ontological paradox of Eloise causing Daniel to be a scientist and his being a scientist brought him to the island where she shot him, causing her to raise him the way she did. This only fits with a self consistent (WHH) scenario.
5) The jammer in the looking glass could have only been stopped by Charlie (the musician), and un-jamming it set events in to motion that caused the time traveling to occur. The fact that a musician had to un-jam the signal is meant to show that only Charlie could have done this. If Charlie had died any other way, he wouldn’t have been able to help stop the jammer and the whole series of time traveling events would not have occurred. Since the other listed reasons are true, then the time traveling always had to occur and Charlie always had to make it down to the looking glass. This also implies that Desmond’s actions are also consistent with the WHH scenario.
6) Desmond's jumps have not yielded any changes, e.g. the fact that he still took the picture with Penny at the pier with the ring and he had the picture with him in the Swan all along.
7) The risk game and the runway are there in 2007, proving that nothing has changed.
8) Danielle would have gone into the temple with her team if Jin had not been there all along. If she went into the temple, she too could have caught the “sickness” and she might not have killed her crew.
9) Richard visited John at his birth in 1956 because John time traveled and told him to in 1954. This proves that John was there all along.
10) The others buried the bomb in 1954 because of the advice they got from Faraday when he time traveled. This proves that he was there all along as well.
11) Pierre Chang’s hand was crushed in the incident to remain consistent with his fake arm in the Swan orientation video.
12) There is a perfectly reasonable explanation to every argument presented by an alternate timeline supporter. Some of them are just simple production errors, but the processing center sign and pictures of the recruits from 1977 were there all along, we just didn’t see them. The radio signal playing the numbers that was picked up by 316 was from another time, just the like radio signal of 50s music that Hurley and Sayid heard when they used a radio at the beach (not sure what episode exactly).
13) 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.
Will Lost Fans Like This
Yes, I truly do believe that all of the fans would ultimately be happier if this was the case. It keeps the story as a tight knit cohesive unit. Due to the proof provided above, a completely new reset timeline would negate all of the efforts put forth in the past seasons. If Lost was a case of iterations in which things can be changed each time, and there are alternate universes, then it would have to mean that there are an infinite number of alternate universes. If that is the case, then why would we care about the one we’ve been watching all along? It wouldn’t mean anything. This is why I like the WHH scenario, because anything else would open up a paradoxical can of worms and would make everything we’ve seen moot. We’ve heard Darlton talk about this in podcasts as well. To take a 6 season overarching storyline that involves time travel and is self consistent is a brilliant task by the writers and to change something in the 11th hour would be like throwing ! all of the effort away.
Lost Season 6:
Opening Scenario
Season 6 starts with a quick recap of the events from The Incident, and in the Lost tradition, as they end the recap of Juliet smashing the bomb with a rock and the screen going white they will start the new season opener with a camera panning on our losties: Juliet, Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Jin, etc covering their eyes to protect from the blinding white light. As the light fades, they all remove their arms from their eyes and we see them looking around, standing around a big pit where the Swan used to be. The camera pans out and a subtitle shows below saying “year:2007” as everyone looks at each other in confusion.
The opening scene will be followed by a flashback to follow the conversation that we saw between Jacob and the MIB. As the MIB continues to look on at the Black Rock, a storm begins, the weather gets intense and Jacob looks at him, pleading for him to stop. The black Rock is lifted high into the air by a large tornado and swept inland where it crashes down and the passengers are all killed. Jacob runs to see what happens, as the MIB follows casually behind. Jacob argues to the MIB that the people on board, though flawed, are still humane creatures and capable of good things. The MIB continues on to point out that there were slaves on board, and that humans are inherently evil. Jacob promises the MIB to someday show him what kind of compassion humans are capable of. The camera pans over to the jacket of the ships captain, which reads “M. Hanso.” Then…..(Thud) LOST (but this time with white in the background and the words written in black).
Theory
Remember back in season 1 when Charlie had the tape on his fingers, and the words spelled out “fate,” but later Charlie changed the L and turned it into the word “Late?” Well season 6 will use this clue from season 1 to show how Desmond is special and how he fits into the WHH concept. Desmond 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. The universe has a plan, but there is something about Desmond and his overexposure to the electromagnetic radioactive light, while on the island, that allows him to see this plan and set it off course (hence the need for course correction).
After shooting her son and leading Jack and Sayid to the jughead, Eloise gets knocked out by Richard 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 light that was caused by the bomb/EM energy. It would a! ppear that they died in the incident.
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 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. His death is not in vain because he helped save the world.
Eloise 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.
The first few episodes of season 6 will wrap up the details of what Dharma did after the incident, but then it will move on to the present time and stay there, focusing on the war between Jacob and the MIB and the role our losties play. As for Jacob and the MIB, I know a lot of you want to believe that there will be a perfectly sound pseudo-scientific explanation as to what is going on, but I beg to differ. I really think that there is a lot of god/deity stuff at work here too. The island is a place, full of good and bad, and white and black, personified by Jacob and MIB. Think of those shows where everyone has a little devil and a little angel, one on each shoulder. Well I think that Jacob and MIB are somewhat like those little guys. Drawn up from the same energy, but on different poles of it. A north and a south, a yin and a yang. They are a part of the island, and I think they are descendants of gods, if not gods themselves. Yet, much like Jesus, were sent here on earth! , with special powers, but with the curse of the human condition.
Jacob has embraced the human condition, he has learned to live with it and love it. He has learned to feel pain, and to feel joy. He learns from his pain and he appreciates the joy more because of it. MIB however does not like this human condition, he doesn't like to pain. He sees nothing but the bad side of human kind, and thinks we are not worthy of the attention of the gods. Jacob is set on teaching MIB the beautiful side of this human condition. Our species is full of pain, torment, torture and so many horrible things, but we are also capable of some pretty amazing and beautiful things as well, which Jacob will someday show to the MIB by utilizing the true goodness of human kind and our losties.
That is what Lost is really about. All of the time travel stuff, as Darlton have said, is just icing on the cake. We are through the time loops, and it will eventually make sense as it ties up in season 6. It won't be a WHH vs. ALT debate, but it shows what these people have been through, and what it has taken for them to believe what is possible in the world, and what is possible within themselves. Remember back in White Rabbit when Christian said that Jack didn't have what it takes? Well I think he will prove to himself that he does, and he'll also learn that he was the only one he had to prove it to all along, not his father. Though, his father will be there watching, proud, when his son sacrifices himself for those that he loves. I believe that the final episode will require Jack to sacrifice himself for everyone else and that it will be a leap of faith, very emotional and redemptive.
I believe that Jacob's visit allowed his energy to be dispersed and transferred to the people that he touched. I think we can all agree that, when Ben was stabbing Jacob, that everything was playing out just the way Jacob had planned. MIB is crafty, but Jacob is one step ahead, like a master of chess. He's played the really long con and transferred his energy over to our character before he died. Jacob will now live on through our losties, much like the way Obi-Wan was able to live through Luke. And this energy I'm talking about, it's comparable to the force in Star Wars. As season 6 progresses, it will involve learning more about Jacob and MIB and what they are fighting for. There will be a history found in the temple that will explain what’s going on, and Richard will be the voice that gives all of the details. The mythology and several questions about the island and its history will be explained a little over midway through season 6, leading into the climax and final! showdown. A war will amount between the losties and the MIB leading followers of his own, including some people from flight 316. Big players on the losties side will include those touched by Jacob, as well as Walt, who find his own way back to the island with the help of Eloise. We will learn that Walt spent the past few years learning more about his special abilities, which he hones when he returns to the island. He will have a gift of slightly manipulating magnetic properties and viewing things remotely from a distant location.
Along the same lines of gods/deities, I think that the statue is Tawaret, the goddess of fertility. I've always like the idea that they had to tear town the statue to get enough concrete over the pocket of energy that was left over after the incident. The destruction of Tawaret is the reason why babies cannot be conceived and born on the island. Now, I know that people will disagree with the idea of Tawaret being on the island in 1977, but I would put it right up there with a FDW off its axis, or random people jumping from flight 316 to the year 1977, or pictures in the barracks that were never really inspected. It's just one of those things that TPTB can throw at us as they please and we'd just have to roll with it. Otherwise, I would suspect that Ethan would not have been able make it to his delivery date. Perhaps when Sawyer suggested that whatever caused the baby issue ain't happened yet, he was right, and he was talking about the fallen Tawaret statue. In the episode, ! “Because You Left,” after we see the back of the statue and the final flash happens, the focus goes strait to the well and nobody looks up toward the statue. This was done for a reason.
In the final episode I think we will also see a final flash forward, where the island is still intact and full of inhabitants and good has finally conquered and the MIB has changed his view of humanity. We will see a white man and an Asian woman step out of a boat, hand-in-hand, on to the island. We find out that it is Aaron and a pregnant Ji Yeon and they have made it to the island to find their parents. Later, she gives birth to a son. When Sun congratulates Ji Yeon she asked what her son’s name is going to be, Ji Yeon replies, “we’re naming him Richard.”
5 or More Reasons Why I Believe WHH
1) Ben became an Other as a result of being shot by Sayid. The fact that Sayid shot Ben and the fact that Kate took him to Richard, and Richard took him to the temple and he lost his innocence explains exactly why Ben has always been such a twisted and manipulative individual.
2) Ethan is alive ONLY because a) Sawyer and Juliet saved Amy and b) Juliet delivered him as a baby. Ethan was there in season 1, so it proves that Sawyer and Juliet were there in the 70s all along. Otherwise Amy would have been killed by the Others in 1974 (there were putting her on her knees execution style when Sawyer and Juliet saved here) and Ethan would never have been born. The complications during childbirth could have killed Ethan if Juliet wasn’t’ there to help deliver him as well.
3) Faraday had that conversation with young Charlotte while she was eating chocolate. He said that he would not let it happen, but despite his efforts, he did it. While dying, Charlotte even recalled the detail of the chocolate bar that she was eating when they had their conversation.
4) Faraday was shot by his mom in the past, which caused her to raise him the way she did. These two show a self consistent ontological paradox of Eloise causing Daniel to be a scientist and his being a scientist brought him to the island where she shot him, causing her to raise him the way she did. This only fits with a self consistent (WHH) scenario.
5) The jammer in the looking glass could have only been stopped by Charlie (the musician), and un-jamming it set events in to motion that caused the time traveling to occur. The fact that a musician had to un-jam the signal is meant to show that only Charlie could have done this. If Charlie had died any other way, he wouldn’t have been able to help stop the jammer and the whole series of time traveling events would not have occurred. Since the other listed reasons are true, then the time traveling always had to occur and Charlie always had to make it down to the looking glass. This also implies that Desmond’s actions are also consistent with the WHH scenario.
6) Desmond's jumps have not yielded any changes, e.g. the fact that he still took the picture with Penny at the pier with the ring and he had the picture with him in the Swan all along.
7) The risk game and the runway are there in 2007, proving that nothing has changed.
8) Danielle would have gone into the temple with her team if Jin had not been there all along. If she went into the temple, she too could have caught the “sickness” and she might not have killed her crew.
9) Richard visited John at his birth in 1956 because John time traveled and told him to in 1954. This proves that John was there all along.
10) The others buried the bomb in 1954 because of the advice they got from Faraday when he time traveled. This proves that he was there all along as well.
11) Pierre Chang’s hand was crushed in the incident to remain consistent with his fake arm in the Swan orientation video.
12) There is a perfectly reasonable explanation to every argument presented by an alternate timeline supporter. Some of them are just simple production errors, but the processing center sign and pictures of the recruits from 1977 were there all along, we just didn’t see them. The radio signal playing the numbers that was picked up by 316 was from another time, just the like radio signal of 50s music that Hurley and Sayid heard when they used a radio at the beach (not sure what episode exactly).
13) 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.
Will Lost Fans Like This
Yes, I truly do believe that all of the fans would ultimately be happier if this was the case. It keeps the story as a tight knit cohesive unit. Due to the proof provided above, a completely new reset timeline would negate all of the efforts put forth in the past seasons. If Lost was a case of iterations in which things can be changed each time, and there are alternate universes, then it would have to mean that there are an infinite number of alternate universes. If that is the case, then why would we care about the one we’ve been watching all along? It wouldn’t mean anything. This is why I like the WHH scenario, because anything else would open up a paradoxical can of worms and would make everything we’ve seen moot. We’ve heard Darlton talk about this in podcasts as well. To take a 6 season overarching storyline that involves time travel and is self consistent is a brilliant task by the writers and to change something in the 11th hour would be like throwing ! all of the effort away.
