I’ve not 100% proof read this but Ricky, I just had to get it on here for you ;-)! I’ve been working on it for too long and I need to get back to real life!!
I’ve just read, “Reset vs. WHH... or both?” theory written by RyBones35. My theory is along the same idea. There are of course other theories out there which are are similar. I hope I can give credit where credit is due but some ideas I present here will most likely have been covered by someone before me. The idea is along the lines of MALT which Ricky was talking about in his theory. I think that part of series 6 we will be shown piviol scenes again to help explain what has been going on. To show that we’ve been watching a time loop being played over and over and in each iteration there’s a slight difference in a sort of spiral. WHH is still predominantly true but not quite. The other thing is that up until now we have only seen certain scenes from sometimes different iterations of the loop. I hope this theory will explain the few inconststencies that are ambiguious in regards to the WHH premise. These inconsistencies are summed up by Locke4God in his theory “Pa! st and Present Link”.
WHH is essential for our time travelling Losties as their bodies are out of the correct time frame. Everthing they do while they are out of time must not affect events which have a certain outcome in the future. They still must abide by the WHH principle to ensure that the loop continues because if WHH is broken then as Mrs Hawking said “God help us all” or as Doc Brown said , “[it] could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe!”. There is no alternative time line, we all just cease to exist, that the message I’m getting from Lost anyway.
These are “the rules”. Mrs Hawking knows then, Ben knows them and Widmore even broke them IMO. That’s why I think that the Others are keepers of course correction or their job is to help it on it’s way. They don’t just protect the island their job is much more important. It expalins why Mrs Hawking knew about the guy in the red shoes, why she was talking to Des in the first place in the ring shop, perhaps why Widmore was off the island and able to have an affair and why Hawking was helping the Losties back to the island. The Others being keepers of course correction is a whole other theory that I cannot get into here due to space (this theory is long enough as it is!). If you don’t believe me fine just think about course correction operating on it’s own for now.
I’ve also read Theron’s theory WHH and the Cognative Cure. Where he/she uses an analogy of having a bike accident as a result of a pothole in the road which I’d like to borrow if that’s OK (sorry if I don’t use it quite right!). As a result of the accident you are taken to someone who sends you back in time. The idea of travelling back in time into your own body to relive a certain point in time with future knowledge means that you might try to avoid the accident in the first place so you’re not in pain after the accident. You might go down a different street but then you wouldn’t go back in time because it was the accident which loop you to the person who sent you back in time and there’s a paradox. We’ve seen an example of this in Lost when Des goes into the past after he turned the failsafe key in Flashes Before Your Eyes. He realises he is in the past and he thinks, hey I’ve got a do-over, this time I’ll do it differently, I’ll ask Penny to marry ! me. He goes into the ring shop but Mrs Hawking is there to stop him, she tells him if he marries Penny he will not end up on the island and fulfil his destiny. We are also told that any differences made will be subject to course correction, like the man with the red shoes. So going back to the bike analogy you cannot go down a different street, you cannot do anything that stops you going back in time. Maybe instead of taking different street to avoid the accident altogether you decide to wear knee pads. Is course correction going to stop you wearing knee pads? Well say it didn’t, you’d still have the accident which is what you are fated to do but you’re better prepared and after the accident you’d not be as much pain. You will also be in a better condition than you were in the first instance. This change could help you in a future which could occur after the time loop is completed. Alternatively it could just be the fact that a small different might eventually cause! a change to the ultimate out come like in the theory of quant! um suppo sition.
So this idea of quantum supposition. I read a theory which said, “I bring you this, an excerpt from an essay written by Egan that I found at his website: ''In quantum mechanics, alternative ways for the same outcome to arise are said to 'interfere' with each other: the possibility of something happening can just as easily be diminished as increased by the fact that it can happen in different ways.'' Egan is referring (I think) to an aspect of something called ''quantum supposition,'' which deals with probability. This concept would seem to present some intriguing possibilities for Lost. If I'm understanding quantum probability correctly — and please, tell me if I'm not — then the more ways there are to achieve a singular outcome, the less likely that singular outcome will actually happen.” This was posted on Dark UFO “Doc Jensen on Episode 5.14 - The Variable”, Posted by DarkUFO at 4/24/2009 10:59:00 PM. The idea of ultimate possibilities changing the ultimate ou! tcome rings so true of Lost. When you consider that Dharma are studing the Valenzetti Equation, where the ultimate outcome is the destruction of the universe, it’s not hard to surmise that they are looking to create a time loop to try to change the end of the world. What if they did create a loop? The loop that our Losties are trapped in. I think it most likely that it was an accident, maybe it was a test run maybe it was created too soon before the Dharma scientists were ready. Anyway I think it highly probable that the time loop was instigated by the incident causing an unstable EM and then when Ben turned the FDW that’s what started it.
Like Dan said, people are the variables. they can make different choices but only when they’ve time travelled back into their own conciousness not when their bodies have travelled through time like our Losties have done to the 70’s. He sort of tells Jack this when Dan is arranging for the bomb to be detonated and setting up the incident. I believe what Dan says here does two things. He convinces Jack that he can make a difference by helping him detonate the bomb and that it will make a difference, I don’t think he believes this though. He is also giving us, the viewer a hint of what is really going on. In detonating the bomb all Dan wants to achieve is ensuring that WHH and he is preserving the loop. He knows the loop must continue so that he can accomplish the real task which something else entirely. It looks on the surface that he’s telling Jack about variables to convince him that they can make a difference. He is and that doe help convince Jack but the real reaso! n he is talking about variables is in the sense of minds time travelling the differences that one can achieve that won’t be course corrected or affect the loop. So each time events play out the loop is reset and ready for it all to be enacted out again. For the idea I’m talking about to work you have to think about time travel a certain way and not 4th dimentionally. When you think about time travel 4th dimentionally then if one goes to the past and affects that past then it has always happened that way, WHH. The change is instantaneous it almost looks like the future happened first. I am proposing that time is like a spiral. Star Trek fans, think TNG episode Cause and Effect. It’s not alternate time lines either. It’s just one time line which MELDs and any slight differences are absorbed in the loop as they don’t affect the future or impact the stability of the time loop. There’d be no need for course correction in this event IMO. Think about it where the firs! t time the past happens, it happens one way and the future eve! nt doesn ’t affect it, time is like a spiral and it actually has an affect on the next time the past happens. Let me try to explain what I mean.
Time Loop 1
1996 Dan conducts experiments in Oxford on his rat Eloise, he doesn’t meet any time travelling Desmond’s
2001/2 Des is in the hatch quite happily pressing the button and never gets visited by Dan telling him to look for Dan’s Mum
2004 Des is exposed to EM having turned the failsafe key he experiences flashes to the past and goes to meet Daniel. In the episode The Constant we see Des and Dan talking in Dan’s Lab in Oxford, “Daniel then asks Desmond if his future-self remembers this particular meeting between the two men, to which Desmond responds negatively. Desmond adds that "maybe you just forgot", which makes Daniel laugh. Daniel adds that one cannot change the future.” Quote from Lostpedia. This is confusing, did Dan mean that his future self must have remembered it happening because you cannot change the future so it must have always happened? It’s quite ironic that Past Dan thinks he wouldn’t forget because he does get memory problems! So why did Dan ask if he was so sure that the future cannot be changed? I think it’s because P Dan belives that WHH and it’s not until he’s been conducting his experiments for several years he discovers that mind time travel can avoid the WHH rule.! This is actually a big hint to us of what is actually happening in the time loop. I believe that even if Dan hadn’t suffered memory problems he wouldn’t have memories of their meeting because it never look place from F Dan’s point of view, ie in his time line he never experienced it. As you can see above in this time line Dan did not meet a time travelling Des.
Later in 2004 The island starts to skip though time.
Time Loop 2
1996 Dan conducts experiments in Oxford on his rat Eloise, he meets a time travelling Desmond. He asks him if his future self remembers this meeting. Dan doesn’t because he’s got memory problems. Dan jokes about not being able to change the future as he believes that it always happened that way and WHH, at this point he is not aware the time travel is working that way I am describing it to you. As a result of this meeting Dan thinks about what Des coming to the past means in relation to his experiments. He knows one thing, if he does manage to send his own brain through time then if anything goes wrong, Des can be his constant. He then writes it in his diary.
We have evidence of items being passed within this time loop, ie the compass, and this could also be the case with the diary. If the diary is being passed though the loop then things could be added to it and be passed into the next loop. Ellie ends up with it when Dan dies and Mrs Hawking gives it as a gift to her graduating son and so on. Argue ontological paradox if you must but look at the diary in the same spiral I’m showing here. The first time Dan is given the diary it is a brand new one (perhaps a family tradtion) but then as it gets filled in it is sent back to that start of the loop and the next time his Mum gives him the diary it has things written in it.
2001/2 Des is in the hatch quite happily pressing the button and never gets visited by Dan telling him to look for Dan’s Mum.
2004 Des is exposed to EM having turned the failsafe key he experiences flashes to the past and goes to meet Daniel.
Later in 2004 The island starts to skip though time. Dan realises what is happening and from information in the diary and he knows that Des is special and was exposed to EM. He knows that Des’s mind can time travel from when he met him in 1996 and suspects he can make changes in the loop. Because of his memory problems he has just read the words, “If anything goes wrong, Des will be my constant”. So he has an idea, he knocks on the hatch door and tells him to go find his mother. Of course following the rules I started in time line 1, the Des from 2001/2 didn’t experience these events in this time loop, that event has already happened to him in the past from this point in time and he never met Dan. He will not experience those events until the next loop.
Time Loop 3
1996 Dan conducts experiments in Oxford on his rat Eloise, he meets a time travelling Desmond. He asks him if his future self remembers this meeting. F Dan wouldn’t have remembered because he’s got memory problems so the conversation they have will most likely go the same way it always did.
2001/2 Des is in the hatch quite happily pressing the button but then there’s a knock on the hatch door and Dan tells him to look for his Mother.
2004 Des is exposed to EM having turned the failsafe key he experiences flashes to the past and goes to meet Daniel.
Later in 2004 The island starts to skip though time and Dan does what he did again as in the last time loop
2008 Des remembers his meeting with Dan and goes to find Mrs Hawking.
We have not seen everything I’ve just explained about. We have only seen parts of some of the different loops and that’s why they don’t seem to fit. So why does Des not remember until 2008? I couldn’t come up with an answer and then I thought about Dan’s memory problems. He could have got the memory losses from being in close proximity to all the EM. He was wearing something to protect him but I suspect he starts to experiment on himself and that’s when he starts losing his memory. Des could also start to have memory loss due to his exposure of EM. If we’ve not seen any of time loop 3 except the bit where Des suddenly remembers then this is because we are watching the result of the end of time loop 3 not the end of the previous time loops. I think that is the end of the loop. It seems logical that if travelling in time with your body, like our Losties have done when the island was skipping though time, causes brain anyurisms then brain time travelling would als! o have some sort of consequence.
There’s a couple of other little things that seem out of place and why WHH doesn’t seem to fit quite right on it’s own for me.
1) Miles was able to make some sort of change when he performed what seemed to be a sort of exorcism for Mrs. Gardner in Inglewood, California. The photo’s changed on the stairs. If he made a change then would that be something that the Others need to correct?
2) Dan says to Charlotte (when he speaks to her as a little girl sat on the swing) something like, “I know what I say never makes a difference here…but I’m going to try anyway…”. To me it’s the word “never” that stands out, like he knows he is caught in a loop which is being repeated.
Going back to the analogy from Theron’s theory WHH and the Cognative Cure. I suggested that instead of taking a different street to avoid the accident altogether you wear knee pads instead. This time when you have the accident you’re better prepared and you don’t have scuffed knees. I suggest that Daniel will be preparing our Losties so that they will be better prepared when they get to the end of the loop. What that involves exactly I can theorise for ages and you might like to have a go too. I also theorised that I thought the Losties would become each others constants as a result of exposure to the EM. This would be because I believe that after the incident they will have a similar experience to when Des turned the failsafe key. They will time travel into their own minds but in their past. They can make different choices in their past and become slightly different people to the ones we have come to know. In fact maybe the flashbacks we’ve already seen are the new ! improved Losties that have already become the people we know because of the choices they’ve made who knows.
From their backstories we know that many events in the lives of our Losties have led them to the island. I say they were influenced and the choices they made were based on events where their fates were changed somehow. They all ended up on the island because of outside influence which was a result of someone/thing on the island. Maybe Jacob maybe the MIB. One thing that come to mind; Kate was caught in Australia and was being brought back to the US by the marshall but a horse jumped in the road and allowed her to escape. This prolonged her return to the US until the marshall caught up with her again and eventually she ended up on the plane that crashed on the island. The horse that caused the accident was an island apparition, funny that.
I think it’s possible that Jacob brings people to the island to test them and to see if they are worthy of ascention say like in Jacob’s ladder. Whether you believe the religious connotation or not, it’s not important why Jacob does it. It does seem from the conversation between Jacob and the MIB on the beach at the start of the Incident episode that that’s what he was doing. It could be that the MIB has influenced the players who have come to the island. If the Losties, the people Jacob has chosen to come to the island this time, are cards from a pack to be played in Jacob’s game the the MIB has tried to stack the cards against Jacob. If Dan can change that and help our Losties be different to what the MIB believes them capable of then our Losties may have a better chance of stopping him. If indeed he needs to be stopped.
I’ve just read, “Reset vs. WHH... or both?” theory written by RyBones35. My theory is along the same idea. There are of course other theories out there which are are similar. I hope I can give credit where credit is due but some ideas I present here will most likely have been covered by someone before me. The idea is along the lines of MALT which Ricky was talking about in his theory. I think that part of series 6 we will be shown piviol scenes again to help explain what has been going on. To show that we’ve been watching a time loop being played over and over and in each iteration there’s a slight difference in a sort of spiral. WHH is still predominantly true but not quite. The other thing is that up until now we have only seen certain scenes from sometimes different iterations of the loop. I hope this theory will explain the few inconststencies that are ambiguious in regards to the WHH premise. These inconsistencies are summed up by Locke4God in his theory “Pa! st and Present Link”.
WHH is essential for our time travelling Losties as their bodies are out of the correct time frame. Everthing they do while they are out of time must not affect events which have a certain outcome in the future. They still must abide by the WHH principle to ensure that the loop continues because if WHH is broken then as Mrs Hawking said “God help us all” or as Doc Brown said , “[it] could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe!”. There is no alternative time line, we all just cease to exist, that the message I’m getting from Lost anyway.
These are “the rules”. Mrs Hawking knows then, Ben knows them and Widmore even broke them IMO. That’s why I think that the Others are keepers of course correction or their job is to help it on it’s way. They don’t just protect the island their job is much more important. It expalins why Mrs Hawking knew about the guy in the red shoes, why she was talking to Des in the first place in the ring shop, perhaps why Widmore was off the island and able to have an affair and why Hawking was helping the Losties back to the island. The Others being keepers of course correction is a whole other theory that I cannot get into here due to space (this theory is long enough as it is!). If you don’t believe me fine just think about course correction operating on it’s own for now.
I’ve also read Theron’s theory WHH and the Cognative Cure. Where he/she uses an analogy of having a bike accident as a result of a pothole in the road which I’d like to borrow if that’s OK (sorry if I don’t use it quite right!). As a result of the accident you are taken to someone who sends you back in time. The idea of travelling back in time into your own body to relive a certain point in time with future knowledge means that you might try to avoid the accident in the first place so you’re not in pain after the accident. You might go down a different street but then you wouldn’t go back in time because it was the accident which loop you to the person who sent you back in time and there’s a paradox. We’ve seen an example of this in Lost when Des goes into the past after he turned the failsafe key in Flashes Before Your Eyes. He realises he is in the past and he thinks, hey I’ve got a do-over, this time I’ll do it differently, I’ll ask Penny to marry ! me. He goes into the ring shop but Mrs Hawking is there to stop him, she tells him if he marries Penny he will not end up on the island and fulfil his destiny. We are also told that any differences made will be subject to course correction, like the man with the red shoes. So going back to the bike analogy you cannot go down a different street, you cannot do anything that stops you going back in time. Maybe instead of taking different street to avoid the accident altogether you decide to wear knee pads. Is course correction going to stop you wearing knee pads? Well say it didn’t, you’d still have the accident which is what you are fated to do but you’re better prepared and after the accident you’d not be as much pain. You will also be in a better condition than you were in the first instance. This change could help you in a future which could occur after the time loop is completed. Alternatively it could just be the fact that a small different might eventually cause! a change to the ultimate out come like in the theory of quant! um suppo sition.
So this idea of quantum supposition. I read a theory which said, “I bring you this, an excerpt from an essay written by Egan that I found at his website: ''In quantum mechanics, alternative ways for the same outcome to arise are said to 'interfere' with each other: the possibility of something happening can just as easily be diminished as increased by the fact that it can happen in different ways.'' Egan is referring (I think) to an aspect of something called ''quantum supposition,'' which deals with probability. This concept would seem to present some intriguing possibilities for Lost. If I'm understanding quantum probability correctly — and please, tell me if I'm not — then the more ways there are to achieve a singular outcome, the less likely that singular outcome will actually happen.” This was posted on Dark UFO “Doc Jensen on Episode 5.14 - The Variable”, Posted by DarkUFO at 4/24/2009 10:59:00 PM. The idea of ultimate possibilities changing the ultimate ou! tcome rings so true of Lost. When you consider that Dharma are studing the Valenzetti Equation, where the ultimate outcome is the destruction of the universe, it’s not hard to surmise that they are looking to create a time loop to try to change the end of the world. What if they did create a loop? The loop that our Losties are trapped in. I think it most likely that it was an accident, maybe it was a test run maybe it was created too soon before the Dharma scientists were ready. Anyway I think it highly probable that the time loop was instigated by the incident causing an unstable EM and then when Ben turned the FDW that’s what started it.
Like Dan said, people are the variables. they can make different choices but only when they’ve time travelled back into their own conciousness not when their bodies have travelled through time like our Losties have done to the 70’s. He sort of tells Jack this when Dan is arranging for the bomb to be detonated and setting up the incident. I believe what Dan says here does two things. He convinces Jack that he can make a difference by helping him detonate the bomb and that it will make a difference, I don’t think he believes this though. He is also giving us, the viewer a hint of what is really going on. In detonating the bomb all Dan wants to achieve is ensuring that WHH and he is preserving the loop. He knows the loop must continue so that he can accomplish the real task which something else entirely. It looks on the surface that he’s telling Jack about variables to convince him that they can make a difference. He is and that doe help convince Jack but the real reaso! n he is talking about variables is in the sense of minds time travelling the differences that one can achieve that won’t be course corrected or affect the loop. So each time events play out the loop is reset and ready for it all to be enacted out again. For the idea I’m talking about to work you have to think about time travel a certain way and not 4th dimentionally. When you think about time travel 4th dimentionally then if one goes to the past and affects that past then it has always happened that way, WHH. The change is instantaneous it almost looks like the future happened first. I am proposing that time is like a spiral. Star Trek fans, think TNG episode Cause and Effect. It’s not alternate time lines either. It’s just one time line which MELDs and any slight differences are absorbed in the loop as they don’t affect the future or impact the stability of the time loop. There’d be no need for course correction in this event IMO. Think about it where the firs! t time the past happens, it happens one way and the future eve! nt doesn ’t affect it, time is like a spiral and it actually has an affect on the next time the past happens. Let me try to explain what I mean.
Time Loop 1
1996 Dan conducts experiments in Oxford on his rat Eloise, he doesn’t meet any time travelling Desmond’s
2001/2 Des is in the hatch quite happily pressing the button and never gets visited by Dan telling him to look for Dan’s Mum
2004 Des is exposed to EM having turned the failsafe key he experiences flashes to the past and goes to meet Daniel. In the episode The Constant we see Des and Dan talking in Dan’s Lab in Oxford, “Daniel then asks Desmond if his future-self remembers this particular meeting between the two men, to which Desmond responds negatively. Desmond adds that "maybe you just forgot", which makes Daniel laugh. Daniel adds that one cannot change the future.” Quote from Lostpedia. This is confusing, did Dan mean that his future self must have remembered it happening because you cannot change the future so it must have always happened? It’s quite ironic that Past Dan thinks he wouldn’t forget because he does get memory problems! So why did Dan ask if he was so sure that the future cannot be changed? I think it’s because P Dan belives that WHH and it’s not until he’s been conducting his experiments for several years he discovers that mind time travel can avoid the WHH rule.! This is actually a big hint to us of what is actually happening in the time loop. I believe that even if Dan hadn’t suffered memory problems he wouldn’t have memories of their meeting because it never look place from F Dan’s point of view, ie in his time line he never experienced it. As you can see above in this time line Dan did not meet a time travelling Des.
Later in 2004 The island starts to skip though time.
Time Loop 2
1996 Dan conducts experiments in Oxford on his rat Eloise, he meets a time travelling Desmond. He asks him if his future self remembers this meeting. Dan doesn’t because he’s got memory problems. Dan jokes about not being able to change the future as he believes that it always happened that way and WHH, at this point he is not aware the time travel is working that way I am describing it to you. As a result of this meeting Dan thinks about what Des coming to the past means in relation to his experiments. He knows one thing, if he does manage to send his own brain through time then if anything goes wrong, Des can be his constant. He then writes it in his diary.
We have evidence of items being passed within this time loop, ie the compass, and this could also be the case with the diary. If the diary is being passed though the loop then things could be added to it and be passed into the next loop. Ellie ends up with it when Dan dies and Mrs Hawking gives it as a gift to her graduating son and so on. Argue ontological paradox if you must but look at the diary in the same spiral I’m showing here. The first time Dan is given the diary it is a brand new one (perhaps a family tradtion) but then as it gets filled in it is sent back to that start of the loop and the next time his Mum gives him the diary it has things written in it.
2001/2 Des is in the hatch quite happily pressing the button and never gets visited by Dan telling him to look for Dan’s Mum.
2004 Des is exposed to EM having turned the failsafe key he experiences flashes to the past and goes to meet Daniel.
Later in 2004 The island starts to skip though time. Dan realises what is happening and from information in the diary and he knows that Des is special and was exposed to EM. He knows that Des’s mind can time travel from when he met him in 1996 and suspects he can make changes in the loop. Because of his memory problems he has just read the words, “If anything goes wrong, Des will be my constant”. So he has an idea, he knocks on the hatch door and tells him to go find his mother. Of course following the rules I started in time line 1, the Des from 2001/2 didn’t experience these events in this time loop, that event has already happened to him in the past from this point in time and he never met Dan. He will not experience those events until the next loop.
Time Loop 3
1996 Dan conducts experiments in Oxford on his rat Eloise, he meets a time travelling Desmond. He asks him if his future self remembers this meeting. F Dan wouldn’t have remembered because he’s got memory problems so the conversation they have will most likely go the same way it always did.
2001/2 Des is in the hatch quite happily pressing the button but then there’s a knock on the hatch door and Dan tells him to look for his Mother.
2004 Des is exposed to EM having turned the failsafe key he experiences flashes to the past and goes to meet Daniel.
Later in 2004 The island starts to skip though time and Dan does what he did again as in the last time loop
2008 Des remembers his meeting with Dan and goes to find Mrs Hawking.
We have not seen everything I’ve just explained about. We have only seen parts of some of the different loops and that’s why they don’t seem to fit. So why does Des not remember until 2008? I couldn’t come up with an answer and then I thought about Dan’s memory problems. He could have got the memory losses from being in close proximity to all the EM. He was wearing something to protect him but I suspect he starts to experiment on himself and that’s when he starts losing his memory. Des could also start to have memory loss due to his exposure of EM. If we’ve not seen any of time loop 3 except the bit where Des suddenly remembers then this is because we are watching the result of the end of time loop 3 not the end of the previous time loops. I think that is the end of the loop. It seems logical that if travelling in time with your body, like our Losties have done when the island was skipping though time, causes brain anyurisms then brain time travelling would als! o have some sort of consequence.
There’s a couple of other little things that seem out of place and why WHH doesn’t seem to fit quite right on it’s own for me.
1) Miles was able to make some sort of change when he performed what seemed to be a sort of exorcism for Mrs. Gardner in Inglewood, California. The photo’s changed on the stairs. If he made a change then would that be something that the Others need to correct?
2) Dan says to Charlotte (when he speaks to her as a little girl sat on the swing) something like, “I know what I say never makes a difference here…but I’m going to try anyway…”. To me it’s the word “never” that stands out, like he knows he is caught in a loop which is being repeated.
Going back to the analogy from Theron’s theory WHH and the Cognative Cure. I suggested that instead of taking a different street to avoid the accident altogether you wear knee pads instead. This time when you have the accident you’re better prepared and you don’t have scuffed knees. I suggest that Daniel will be preparing our Losties so that they will be better prepared when they get to the end of the loop. What that involves exactly I can theorise for ages and you might like to have a go too. I also theorised that I thought the Losties would become each others constants as a result of exposure to the EM. This would be because I believe that after the incident they will have a similar experience to when Des turned the failsafe key. They will time travel into their own minds but in their past. They can make different choices in their past and become slightly different people to the ones we have come to know. In fact maybe the flashbacks we’ve already seen are the new ! improved Losties that have already become the people we know because of the choices they’ve made who knows.
From their backstories we know that many events in the lives of our Losties have led them to the island. I say they were influenced and the choices they made were based on events where their fates were changed somehow. They all ended up on the island because of outside influence which was a result of someone/thing on the island. Maybe Jacob maybe the MIB. One thing that come to mind; Kate was caught in Australia and was being brought back to the US by the marshall but a horse jumped in the road and allowed her to escape. This prolonged her return to the US until the marshall caught up with her again and eventually she ended up on the plane that crashed on the island. The horse that caused the accident was an island apparition, funny that.
I think it’s possible that Jacob brings people to the island to test them and to see if they are worthy of ascention say like in Jacob’s ladder. Whether you believe the religious connotation or not, it’s not important why Jacob does it. It does seem from the conversation between Jacob and the MIB on the beach at the start of the Incident episode that that’s what he was doing. It could be that the MIB has influenced the players who have come to the island. If the Losties, the people Jacob has chosen to come to the island this time, are cards from a pack to be played in Jacob’s game the the MIB has tried to stack the cards against Jacob. If Dan can change that and help our Losties be different to what the MIB believes them capable of then our Losties may have a better chance of stopping him. If indeed he needs to be stopped.
