Bacon Numbers by Albert Awol

And now, for my most outlandish theory yet.

What if we got it all wrong? What if Lost isn't a show about what we think it is. No doubt we are still very much in the dark about a lot of things, but I suspect there is something beneath the plot and beneath the actual production of the show that we're all missing, even though it's right in front of our faces. Something that when revealed, will be obvious even in the pilot as the glue that held the show together. As Fox has stated, the show ends in "an incredibly powerful, very sad and beautiful way. I think it is going to be pretty awesome." Like everything Lost, I take that with the same double meaning I take every line spoken on screen.

Hey, know who Nicolas Cage is? Know how he's been in EVERYTHING? Seriously, you'd be hard pressed to put any type of ensemble show together without *someone* having worked with the Dude himself... right? And when the ensemble grows as big as Lost... well were dealing with what amounts to an extreme mathematical improbability... None of the Losties have ever worked with Cage. Seriously, check it out: oracleofbacon.org. It's almost like a prerequisite for getting placed on the show, you can't have ever worked with Nicolas Cage. Ever.

And this is true for every cast member except one. (And when I originally had this outlandish idea years ago, it was true for them all.) Only Miles has a connection to Cage... a late addition to the show. (No, i don't count naveen andrews because his connection came along way into the show, 2007)

But what is the ramification of this? Why does this even matter?
Simple, Lost has something to do with Cage. In fact, Lost is a continuation of a Cage movie. It's the next scene in the 2007 movie "Next". That's right, I suspect in the final scene of season 6, we will be introduced to the same character played by Cage in the film Next, and find out that NONE of what we've been fighting over (whh, alt, flocke, etc) matter because ALL of the show Lost was just Cris Johnson (Cage) looking into possible futures to figure out what path to take. Remember from the film, when he's with Liz he can not only see farther than 2 minutes into the future, but he can do it recursively. While looking at the future, he can look at the future's future ad infinitum.

That darlton won't hire anyone who's ever worked with Cage is the only clue we've been given to what is certainly the most likely explanation anyone has ever come up with for the show yet. ;-)