If the present hasn't happened yet and you DO change something in the past...it can only affect events that haven't happened yet in the present.
In other words What Happened Happened plus (WHH+)!!!
My earlier LOST Theory turned on two suppositions: Jacob's death wasn't what it seemed and this series of events is part of a cycle. Jacob's body burned wrong. That Jacob's body burned inconsistently with a normal human body hangs on my observation made when MIB kicked the dying Jacob into the fire; It burned like it was made of paper...or completely dried out. Then, I say the cycle continues. It appears that it was assumed I meant that all of these events reset and just happened over and over again. Not true. The cycle I spoke of was that the people were brought to the island and in some way tested or judged. The Losties were just the latest batch caused to come to the island.
Most of the back and forth in my view has been WHH vs. ALT. Damon and Carlton have stated that there is no ALTernate universe. There will be NO parallel time line. This isn't Star Trek. There is only a single timeline. They never said it couldn't be altered in some way. And there hangs the crux of my theory.
What if everything happened, but the reason changed. What if the events surrounding the WHH event were skewed a bit? Let's look at Charlie's death first. It was fated to happen...however; instead of a meaningless death...Charlie died a heroic death. His death counted for something. WHH+
In the same way, Jack and the others were sent back for a reason. They were meant to change something. Remember when Desmond wakes up with a NEW memory of talking to Daniel when he was still in the hatch? Daniel told him he had to go see Ms. Hawking. That was a new created at the time memory. Daniel knew what he did change something. It didn't happen in the present until Daniel did it past. It hadn't happened before. When Daniel did it in the past, that memory rippled through time to when Desmond needed to recall it. I assume that the time it appeared had something to do with the present as Daniel would have lived it. The new memory could appear in the present; it was new with Desmond. It affected events going forward only. That last part was a new thought while writing. Here it is in a nutshell:
If the present/future hasn't happened yet and you DO change something in the past...it can only affect events that haven't happened yet. In other words WHH+.
The island has been established to exist out of time. Remember Darlton said the island was moved. But when was it moved to. Not where. Time doesn't work on the island the same as it does in the rest of the world.
What if the island isn't OLD? What if events in the future caused the problem with the island? That would mean that events that were supposed to happen could be altered within the present of the people brought to the island.
I believe that the events of the incident happen, but they happened differently than the first time around. I haven't noodled it through yet...but I'm trying. Richard told Sun that he saw "them all die." I have to assume that what Richard saw wasn't the Losties' deaths. When they weren't there after the flash, Richard assumed they died.
Ok, that is as far as I've gotten so far. My head hurts.
The Babylon5 Fan
In other words What Happened Happened plus (WHH+)!!!
My earlier LOST Theory turned on two suppositions: Jacob's death wasn't what it seemed and this series of events is part of a cycle. Jacob's body burned wrong. That Jacob's body burned inconsistently with a normal human body hangs on my observation made when MIB kicked the dying Jacob into the fire; It burned like it was made of paper...or completely dried out. Then, I say the cycle continues. It appears that it was assumed I meant that all of these events reset and just happened over and over again. Not true. The cycle I spoke of was that the people were brought to the island and in some way tested or judged. The Losties were just the latest batch caused to come to the island.
Most of the back and forth in my view has been WHH vs. ALT. Damon and Carlton have stated that there is no ALTernate universe. There will be NO parallel time line. This isn't Star Trek. There is only a single timeline. They never said it couldn't be altered in some way. And there hangs the crux of my theory.
What if everything happened, but the reason changed. What if the events surrounding the WHH event were skewed a bit? Let's look at Charlie's death first. It was fated to happen...however; instead of a meaningless death...Charlie died a heroic death. His death counted for something. WHH+
In the same way, Jack and the others were sent back for a reason. They were meant to change something. Remember when Desmond wakes up with a NEW memory of talking to Daniel when he was still in the hatch? Daniel told him he had to go see Ms. Hawking. That was a new created at the time memory. Daniel knew what he did change something. It didn't happen in the present until Daniel did it past. It hadn't happened before. When Daniel did it in the past, that memory rippled through time to when Desmond needed to recall it. I assume that the time it appeared had something to do with the present as Daniel would have lived it. The new memory could appear in the present; it was new with Desmond. It affected events going forward only. That last part was a new thought while writing. Here it is in a nutshell:
If the present/future hasn't happened yet and you DO change something in the past...it can only affect events that haven't happened yet. In other words WHH+.
The island has been established to exist out of time. Remember Darlton said the island was moved. But when was it moved to. Not where. Time doesn't work on the island the same as it does in the rest of the world.
What if the island isn't OLD? What if events in the future caused the problem with the island? That would mean that events that were supposed to happen could be altered within the present of the people brought to the island.
I believe that the events of the incident happen, but they happened differently than the first time around. I haven't noodled it through yet...but I'm trying. Richard told Sun that he saw "them all die." I have to assume that what Richard saw wasn't the Losties' deaths. When they weren't there after the flash, Richard assumed they died.
Ok, that is as far as I've gotten so far. My head hurts.
The Babylon5 Fan
