Ok everyone, I know people are theorizing about season 6 right now, and we are all being led to believe that SOME kind of reset is on the way. However, my mind turns upside down when I think of this. There is a huge paradox that has to be solved in order for this to happen, and I believe we experienced already two paradoxes:
- The Incident: Ok, so if the bomb did reset everything, 815 landed safely on LAX and all the characters went on to live their lives. If that's true, then the characters did not go to the island, Sayid was never time-skipping and never had the chance to shoot young Ben. Young Ben was never taken to the Temple to be healed, and so never became the leader of the Others. He never banished Widmore from the Island and so Widmore would have no reason to set up a team to go fetch Ben. Without the boat there's no Faraday, so no journal. More importantly, with no boat there's no reason for Ben to turn the wheel. If he doesn't turn the wheel there's no one in 1977 to detonate the Bomb. So THERE IS AN INCIDENT, and then 815 crashes...
- Eloise (the rat): I believe we already witnessed a paradox. When Desmond visits Faraday in Oxford, he experiments with Eloise the rat. He tells Desmond that he will only teach Eloise how to run the maze the next morning. However, when he shifts the poor rat in time, she already knows the path to exit the maze. But remember, the time shifting "short-circuits" her brain and she dies a few minutes after that. If she died that same day, she was never taught how to run the maze in the first place!
- The Compass: We saw that the compass Richard and Locke give each other seem to only exist in that time loop (actually I think that's the loophole man in black told Jacob he would find). Locke gives the compass to Richard in 1954, Richard returns it to Locke in 2004/5 and Locke (or the man in black) gives it back to Richard so Richard can give it to time-skipping Locke. Who made that compass? Where did it come from? And, most importantly, when Locke asks if Richard still has the compass, Richard says that "it is a little rusty but it can still find north"... So apparently the compass is getting older in that time loop. What would happen when the compass eventually decays so much it is no longer there?
There might be another paradox involving Ben and Sayid: what if Ben recruited Sayid as vengeance for the 1977 shot and Sayid shoots young Ben as a vengeance for being made his "personal killer", therefore destroying his life?
Anyways, it would be really great if you guys could post something on the comments, how do you think the authors might reconcile those paradoxes...
- The Incident: Ok, so if the bomb did reset everything, 815 landed safely on LAX and all the characters went on to live their lives. If that's true, then the characters did not go to the island, Sayid was never time-skipping and never had the chance to shoot young Ben. Young Ben was never taken to the Temple to be healed, and so never became the leader of the Others. He never banished Widmore from the Island and so Widmore would have no reason to set up a team to go fetch Ben. Without the boat there's no Faraday, so no journal. More importantly, with no boat there's no reason for Ben to turn the wheel. If he doesn't turn the wheel there's no one in 1977 to detonate the Bomb. So THERE IS AN INCIDENT, and then 815 crashes...
- Eloise (the rat): I believe we already witnessed a paradox. When Desmond visits Faraday in Oxford, he experiments with Eloise the rat. He tells Desmond that he will only teach Eloise how to run the maze the next morning. However, when he shifts the poor rat in time, she already knows the path to exit the maze. But remember, the time shifting "short-circuits" her brain and she dies a few minutes after that. If she died that same day, she was never taught how to run the maze in the first place!
- The Compass: We saw that the compass Richard and Locke give each other seem to only exist in that time loop (actually I think that's the loophole man in black told Jacob he would find). Locke gives the compass to Richard in 1954, Richard returns it to Locke in 2004/5 and Locke (or the man in black) gives it back to Richard so Richard can give it to time-skipping Locke. Who made that compass? Where did it come from? And, most importantly, when Locke asks if Richard still has the compass, Richard says that "it is a little rusty but it can still find north"... So apparently the compass is getting older in that time loop. What would happen when the compass eventually decays so much it is no longer there?
There might be another paradox involving Ben and Sayid: what if Ben recruited Sayid as vengeance for the 1977 shot and Sayid shoots young Ben as a vengeance for being made his "personal killer", therefore destroying his life?
Anyways, it would be really great if you guys could post something on the comments, how do you think the authors might reconcile those paradoxes...
