Alternate Locke by Locke4God

I'm coming more and more to think that Flocke, may actually be Locke. I just keep wondering about a few things, such as why wouldn't the real Locke be back for season 6, and if they did, what the point of 2 Lockes would be.

The simple answer is obviously that Flocke is just an impersonation by Smokey or MIB or what have you. But I'm nearly convinced that there must be more to it.

Now I've had this theory for sometime related to the course of time on the island. Clearly that's a mystery yet to be solved, but we've seen various evidence of the island being in different amounts of time relative to the outside world.

The rocket Daniel had fired at the island arrived 30 minutes late, meaning the island was in the past and had to catch up. Doc's body washed up on shore almost a day before he had died on the freighter, meaning the island was in the future. Then of course Ben Donkey wheeled himself off Island and landed several months into the future in the real world. Meanwhile Locke did the same and landed 3 years into the future. So the island it seems to me, is not in one fixed point in time.

I promise this works back to Locke. Stay with me.

The time idea got me to imagine the island's time flux with the outside world as a record, and I stole that right from season 5. But in a different way. Just as Daniel described the skipping of time as that of being on a record, I began to think about how a record spins. Imagine the left side of a record being the past, and the right side being the future. If you place a marker on the record to indicate the island, as the record spins, the island would move from the right to left and back, moving back and forth between the past and present.

But note, that it never touches the center, or the present, and that's why you can't see the island from the real world.

Now we all have the analogy that Daniel also used that time is a stream, or a singular line. But a record moves in circles. If the left side of the record is the past and the right the future, then you could draw a straight line through the present, or the center of the record, connecting them all. So where exactly does the island go as it moves from past to present in a circular motion?

I think it goes to an alternate reality.

I've been the biggest critic of the ALT theories, but if in it's avoidance of the present, the island swings into Alternate times, it may well pick up a variety of visitors that may otherwise have never met, such as 2 versions of Locke.

The downside to this, is that the Oceanic 6, appeared to have gotten off the island in a very very familiar timeline to the one they crashed in. In fact it was damn near identical if not the same, and that would make me question what the chances were of them getting off at the exact same time they left in, although I suppose I could explain that.

But at some point, and I'm willing to now put some faith in, the island touched down in some alternate timelines. Perhaps there are only 2, both created out of the Incident. But I'm starting to see that it could be possible to get a few crossover characters from this other reality.

That doesn't mean there's going to be a massive exploration into an alternate reality. There will not be a reset. There's just going to be a character or two, like Alternate John, who steps in and says to the Losties, "hey this is what you should do".

It would actually be an interesting character twist for John. It would prevent any need for a massive explanation as to some alternate Island history, everything we've seen so far would still be valid, and it would open the show up to delve fully into the multi-timeline idea that it's just briefly touched on before. Similarly to how it skimmed over time travel over the course of the first few seasons.