A flasj sideways theory..

[Morpheus 02]

A flash sideways theory..

Don't know if someone mentioned this already...but what if the "flash sideways" (or as i call it, the Flash Cha Cha SLide "Slide to the left , 3 hops this time") was the ORIGINAL timeline, and the Losties crashing the NEW timeline, rather than the other way around.

We'll see the original timeline culminate in someone going back and changing things so that the Losties are brought together on the Island.

Since the "modern" Island still seems to be there (i.e. we're witnessing "present day" events), that portion will be the end, and the "new reality" erased.


i could be wrong, but let's see...

 

[Hober Mallow]

Re: A flash sideways theory..

Juliet's "It worked" would seem to indicate otherwise, but we'll see. It wouldn't be the first time the writers tricked us into thinking one thing only to have it revealed to be something else entirely. Last season a character we thought was dead turned out of be alive and a character we thought was alive turned out to be dead.

My girlfriend had sort of a reverse of your theory. She was thinking maybe the flash-sideways scenes are going to happen at the end as a result of something else that happens in our 2007 island timeline. Personally, I think they are what they appear to be, two distinct timelines, and that the show is for all intents and purposes finished with time travel.

I think the meeting point between the two timelines will be Desmond, who seemed to appear on flight 815 and then disappear without a trace. Maybe Desmond, to whom the rules don't apply, exists in both timelines, popping in and out of each one as his consciousness has popped back and forth through time.

 

[Morpheus 02]

Isn't that what Desmond had been doing for a while...kinda like the Nicholas Cage movie "next", where he has experienced different futures, and goes back to make it better (i.e. he always seems to see Charlie dying in his then-future)

So i'm for that part about Desmond's role not being done.

 

[Brent]

Of course, in this "sideways" timeline, we did see the Island at the bottom of the ocean, so that seems to indicate the bomb worked in that timeline

 

[Mallet]

Unless it was something else that sunk the Island in that timeline, since in that timeline, the plane never crashed, so Jack & co. can never go back in time and detonate the bomb, so it can never be the cause of why it sank.

 

[Checkmate]

Hence it being an alternate reality created by the detonation. The paradox of it ripped reality in twain; one with the "fix" working, one with it failing.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The Flash Sideways reality is our reality, in which there is sadly no magical mystery island in the middle of the Pacific.

Of course, in this "sideways" timeline, we did see the Island at the bottom of the ocean, so that seems to indicate the bomb worked in that timeline

It couldn't have worked in the "boring, normal" reality because someone would have noticed the blast and plus Jack etc would have been dead and not on Flight 815. And the bomb was not detonated in the "boring, normal" reality anyway. It blew up in the magical mystery island reality and yet somehow affected a parallel reality, in ways that haven't been fully explained. How did the blast travel from one reality to another? How did Juliet in one reality intuit what had happened in another reality?

Hence it being an alternate reality created by the detonation.

It's either that, or the blast influenced a parallel reality that always existed, depriving it of its magical mystery island and rendering it the boring reality that we experience on a daily basis. We don't know when the island sunk; might have been anytime after those houses were built.

 

[Lindley]

It couldn't have worked in the "boring, normal" reality because someone would have noticed the blast

Probably, except that no one seems to notice the island in general, so I'm willing to shrug that one off.

and plus Jack etc would have been dead and not on Flight 815.

I have no idea where you're getting that. First, they clearly aren't dead in either reality; and second, even if they did die in the blast, that wouldn't have stopped them from being on the plane since that happened earlier in their personal chronologies.

 

[Checkmate]

Yeah, if no one noticed the blast that the Hatch created, why would they notice that one?