I know that this will be met with uproar like all similar theories before me but it's official... we need to start accepting that aliens... or an advanced form of human civilization are the answer to LOST.
The evidence has been mounting ever since the first episode.. And let’s be honest, how else is a time/space moving island home to eternal living beings with unnatural powers and a mysterious smoke monster along with Egyptian temples and influences going to be answered and wrapped up in the remaining 18 episodes?!?
Let’s start with the monster. It bears so much resemblance to the mysterious black monolith in 2001: Space Odyssey. If anyone is not familiar, the monolith is a tall black igneous looking rock, smooth and futuristic looking which is representative in the movie of being the means by which the alien civilisation that put it there would be able to monitor human’s evolution. What if the smoke monster, able to judge and monitor people, is doing the same thing - monitoring us and testing us to make us better and stronger. Why it would do this, I will discuss later in my ultimate theory of LOST, which has been formed thanks to the help of many theorists here, so thank you!
By the end of season 2, the writers must have had an initial idea of where the show was ultimately heading, and by the end of season 3, they had made a deal with ABC and planned the entire series out to its end. They knew that they had to sprinkle clues throughout or the whole notion of knowing where they were going wouldn’t have pulled off. It is in the season 2 finale that the first reference is made, and its clear -
Sawyer: “My theory, they’re aliens, that’s why they use fake beards, their heads are made of plastetic”
Hurley: “Prosthetic, dude…”
This is the first time wee see the foot of the four toed statue also, what we now know to be the remnants of a giant statue of the Egyptian goddess Tawaret, introducing us to the Egyptian influences of the island. Now the Egyptians are a mystery in their own, an ancient civilisation, highly advanced according to our historians, capable of making huge pyramids; a feat we, with our technologies, would never be able to do today - so how did they do it, well, Im sure all of you have heard of the numerous theories that Earth was visited by an advanced species who aided the Egyptian people and taught them many things.
The next clue came in the season 3 episode One Of Us, where Juliet reaches a tree with a strange mark engraved in the bark. Follow the link if you wish to see lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Tree_mark/
The mark can be known as that of Ummo, an undiscovered planet in the universe. Interesting?
In season 3 finale another subtle clue is dropped in a manner deemed jokable, but is that to throw us off
Sawyer: “So when you pulled us out of the cages and had us on the chain gang, what did you have us breaking all those rocks for anyway?”
Juliet: “We were building a runway… for the aliens. I don’t know, do you think they told me everything.”
It is also in the finale, where the writers had mapped out where they were going with the show that they first introduced The Temple. Now, we still haven’t seen the temple, only its outside perimeter, which appears to be large walls etched with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, and the caverns below, which seem to house the monster ( or maybe the alien monolithic technology). Isn’t it strange that the monster is linked with the mysterious temple. Its obvious the temple is of upmost importance as it factors into the sixth season mysteries… so obviously one of the fundamental endgames of the show. What is inside, I will theorise later.
Now let’s look at the strange chamber beneath the Orchid, emitting unique exotic antimatter, allowing the manipulation of time and space - hardly natural earthly occurring phenomenon. It is here that there is a wheel, which when moved, causes the island to move in time and space…..? Come on, what are we saying here, that there just so happens to be a wheel which causes a piece of land to move. I know, everyone hates the alien spaceship idea, but its really not that bad. The wheel is obviously connected to the ships engines. When Ben turned the wheel, its obvious he was powering something on the other side of the wall up.
Now, the writers themselves have dropped hints and have always pretended to be honest, until it comes to threatening the reveal of the show’s deepest mysteries. Back in Season 1 they blatantly denied the involvement of time travel in the show - where are we now after season 5!! They’ve joked for years about the infamous zombie season - what are we hearing now coming up to season 6, that many of our dead characters will be returning and playing a part - sounds like a zombie season to me! Now, the most interesting statement Ive heard is that Lindelof has said that geographically the show will end ‘somewhere just outside of the Crab Nebula”…. wtf! A very bold statement to make so early in the show!
And if you look at The Man From Tallahassee in season 3, on a handful of pictures on Ben’s wall are images of The Crab Nebula - coincidence…?
Now lets look at Jacob and MIB.
MIB: “It always ends the same, they come, they destroy, they corrupt”
Jacob: “It only ends once, everything before that is just progress”
I cant get this conversation out of my mind. When I first watched it it just was clear to me, these men are either an advanced form of humanity from the future, or alien beings from another planet - maybe the Crab Nebula. They have been sent to Earth to monitor, along with their advanced technology, the monster, to monitor and judge human race and study its evolution, testing them to make them better, stronger, to have what it takes to survive. Because, as Jacob says - it only ends once - humanity, its been seen again and again that when a civilisation becomes advanced they end up destroying themselves. Valanzetti even predicted it with the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42. Maybe the Earth is due for extinction, and these eternal beings have been set the task of collecting a handful, a few ‘good people’ to be chosen to restart humanity in another corner of the galaxy, maybe the Crab Nebula, after the earth is gone. These people need to be judged, tested, because they only have on! e chance to make things right and ensure humanity’s survival. The beings have been here since man began to become developed, the Egyptians worshipped these beings on this remote island, a spaceship meant to act as humanity’s last safe place, a garden of eden, which at the last moment, before all is lost, can disappear off into space like Noah’ Ark to transport a new start for humanity to another planet, somewhere near the Crab Nebula! However, MIB has become sick of his job, having seen humanity fail again and again in corruption. He has lost faith in the human race, but Jacob has not. MIB wants to put a stop to it and kill Jacob, which he has succeeded in doing. Now all we have are some survivors, who may be the only chance to becoming worthy enough to restart humanity.
The Temple; the hub of the ship, where the last group of humans will accept their destinies and blast off to space.
From Pilot episode;
Jack: “I took flying lessons once”
Kate: “You don’t anymore?”
Jack: “Nah, I realised it wasn’t for me…”
Quite poetic if the end of the series showed Jack finally accepting his destiny - the saviour of humankind, and taking the cradle of life in the form of a ship off to a new planet, leaving behind the MIB to extinction with the rest of the humanity he had no belief in. doesn’t it sound like the emotional, beautiful, moving finale we’ve been hearing of. I don’t know about you, but that would be a satisfying end to one of the best shows on television.
The evidence has been mounting ever since the first episode.. And let’s be honest, how else is a time/space moving island home to eternal living beings with unnatural powers and a mysterious smoke monster along with Egyptian temples and influences going to be answered and wrapped up in the remaining 18 episodes?!?
Let’s start with the monster. It bears so much resemblance to the mysterious black monolith in 2001: Space Odyssey. If anyone is not familiar, the monolith is a tall black igneous looking rock, smooth and futuristic looking which is representative in the movie of being the means by which the alien civilisation that put it there would be able to monitor human’s evolution. What if the smoke monster, able to judge and monitor people, is doing the same thing - monitoring us and testing us to make us better and stronger. Why it would do this, I will discuss later in my ultimate theory of LOST, which has been formed thanks to the help of many theorists here, so thank you!
By the end of season 2, the writers must have had an initial idea of where the show was ultimately heading, and by the end of season 3, they had made a deal with ABC and planned the entire series out to its end. They knew that they had to sprinkle clues throughout or the whole notion of knowing where they were going wouldn’t have pulled off. It is in the season 2 finale that the first reference is made, and its clear -
Sawyer: “My theory, they’re aliens, that’s why they use fake beards, their heads are made of plastetic”
Hurley: “Prosthetic, dude…”
This is the first time wee see the foot of the four toed statue also, what we now know to be the remnants of a giant statue of the Egyptian goddess Tawaret, introducing us to the Egyptian influences of the island. Now the Egyptians are a mystery in their own, an ancient civilisation, highly advanced according to our historians, capable of making huge pyramids; a feat we, with our technologies, would never be able to do today - so how did they do it, well, Im sure all of you have heard of the numerous theories that Earth was visited by an advanced species who aided the Egyptian people and taught them many things.
The next clue came in the season 3 episode One Of Us, where Juliet reaches a tree with a strange mark engraved in the bark. Follow the link if you wish to see lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Tree_mark/
The mark can be known as that of Ummo, an undiscovered planet in the universe. Interesting?
In season 3 finale another subtle clue is dropped in a manner deemed jokable, but is that to throw us off
Sawyer: “So when you pulled us out of the cages and had us on the chain gang, what did you have us breaking all those rocks for anyway?”
Juliet: “We were building a runway… for the aliens. I don’t know, do you think they told me everything.”
It is also in the finale, where the writers had mapped out where they were going with the show that they first introduced The Temple. Now, we still haven’t seen the temple, only its outside perimeter, which appears to be large walls etched with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, and the caverns below, which seem to house the monster ( or maybe the alien monolithic technology). Isn’t it strange that the monster is linked with the mysterious temple. Its obvious the temple is of upmost importance as it factors into the sixth season mysteries… so obviously one of the fundamental endgames of the show. What is inside, I will theorise later.
Now let’s look at the strange chamber beneath the Orchid, emitting unique exotic antimatter, allowing the manipulation of time and space - hardly natural earthly occurring phenomenon. It is here that there is a wheel, which when moved, causes the island to move in time and space…..? Come on, what are we saying here, that there just so happens to be a wheel which causes a piece of land to move. I know, everyone hates the alien spaceship idea, but its really not that bad. The wheel is obviously connected to the ships engines. When Ben turned the wheel, its obvious he was powering something on the other side of the wall up.
Now, the writers themselves have dropped hints and have always pretended to be honest, until it comes to threatening the reveal of the show’s deepest mysteries. Back in Season 1 they blatantly denied the involvement of time travel in the show - where are we now after season 5!! They’ve joked for years about the infamous zombie season - what are we hearing now coming up to season 6, that many of our dead characters will be returning and playing a part - sounds like a zombie season to me! Now, the most interesting statement Ive heard is that Lindelof has said that geographically the show will end ‘somewhere just outside of the Crab Nebula”…. wtf! A very bold statement to make so early in the show!
And if you look at The Man From Tallahassee in season 3, on a handful of pictures on Ben’s wall are images of The Crab Nebula - coincidence…?
Now lets look at Jacob and MIB.
MIB: “It always ends the same, they come, they destroy, they corrupt”
Jacob: “It only ends once, everything before that is just progress”
I cant get this conversation out of my mind. When I first watched it it just was clear to me, these men are either an advanced form of humanity from the future, or alien beings from another planet - maybe the Crab Nebula. They have been sent to Earth to monitor, along with their advanced technology, the monster, to monitor and judge human race and study its evolution, testing them to make them better, stronger, to have what it takes to survive. Because, as Jacob says - it only ends once - humanity, its been seen again and again that when a civilisation becomes advanced they end up destroying themselves. Valanzetti even predicted it with the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42. Maybe the Earth is due for extinction, and these eternal beings have been set the task of collecting a handful, a few ‘good people’ to be chosen to restart humanity in another corner of the galaxy, maybe the Crab Nebula, after the earth is gone. These people need to be judged, tested, because they only have on! e chance to make things right and ensure humanity’s survival. The beings have been here since man began to become developed, the Egyptians worshipped these beings on this remote island, a spaceship meant to act as humanity’s last safe place, a garden of eden, which at the last moment, before all is lost, can disappear off into space like Noah’ Ark to transport a new start for humanity to another planet, somewhere near the Crab Nebula! However, MIB has become sick of his job, having seen humanity fail again and again in corruption. He has lost faith in the human race, but Jacob has not. MIB wants to put a stop to it and kill Jacob, which he has succeeded in doing. Now all we have are some survivors, who may be the only chance to becoming worthy enough to restart humanity.
The Temple; the hub of the ship, where the last group of humans will accept their destinies and blast off to space.
From Pilot episode;
Jack: “I took flying lessons once”
Kate: “You don’t anymore?”
Jack: “Nah, I realised it wasn’t for me…”
Quite poetic if the end of the series showed Jack finally accepting his destiny - the saviour of humankind, and taking the cradle of life in the form of a ship off to a new planet, leaving behind the MIB to extinction with the rest of the humanity he had no belief in. doesn’t it sound like the emotional, beautiful, moving finale we’ve been hearing of. I don’t know about you, but that would be a satisfying end to one of the best shows on television.
