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there was a thread here that i read many weeks, maybe even a couple months back about somebody trying to explain the whole lost story and exactly what was going on.
i remember thinking it would be great if it was what the writer's were doing, but cannot remember what it was anymore. can anybody point out the thread to me...?
Yeah, and that's a guide to what explanation will work: one that fits into TV show parameters.
Whatever the explanation is, it will have to be about one paragraph long. There isn't any theory that can explain everything so succinctly, so there will have to be a lot of elements that are explained implicitly.
That's why I think the explanation will boil down to "The Island has superpowers and the ability to do many amazing things. That's why people are fighting over it."
We might get a brief explanation for the "superpowers" (Vile Vortex influence; asteroid crash-landed in the Pacific that contains Solaris-style alien intellect). I wouldn't expect this to be very detailed at all.
My theory you might be thinking of (I've had a lot ) is kind of a sub-theory below the "superpowers" mega-theory level, explaining one of the powers - time travel. I thought that the Island could be a gateway between realities. From Reality A, you enter the Island on a certain heading. If you exit on that heading, you're back to Reality A. If you exit on a different heading, you're in another reality (Reality B).
You said no spoilers, so I'll code the rest of this.
I thought that might explain the 815 wreck (assuming it's really not faked). The Losties entered the Island by Heading A and left on the copter by Heading B. And that explains why Charlie and Christian are alive in Reality B, why there's such a fuss about proper headings, even why the doc washed up dead (there are many different realities out there, where very similar but not identical events are occurring; the doctor might have been killed a little earlier in a different reality). And it certainly would explain why Jack thinks they have to go back to the Island.
The jumping-around-in-time phenomenon that Danny and Desmond experienced confirms that there's more than one timeline, and therefore more than one reality. The reality where Desmond and Danny didn't meet at Oxford wasn't erased when Des did his time-jump to meet Danny; it still exists because Danny remembers it and realizes the timeline has changed. The slight changes in all the realities might be caused by the time-jumps. Which neatly synchs up two of the Islands powers -the "hub of realities" power and the "causes time-jumps" power. Maybe the Island is a hub because it causes time-jumps (or the reverse?)
That's all way too frakkin long for a TV show explanation so it'll be left up to us to figure out if that's what's happening, based on whatever brief explanation we do get.
^^^ They will probably make the explanation longer than a couple of paragraphs. The way the show goes it will likely be Ben giving 2 or 3 paragraphs a week for the last half of season 6!
^^^ They will probably make the explanation longer than a couple of paragraphs. The way the show goes it will likely be Ben giving 2 or 3 paragraphs a week for the last half of season 6!
They can't really convey that much info in the TV format without it being clunky. But they will probably leave a whole lot of things for us to infer from whatever the explanation is.
) is kind of a sub-theory below the "superpowers" mega-theory level, explaining one of the powers - time travel. I thought that the Island could be a gateway between realities. From Reality A, you enter the Island on a certain heading. If you exit on that heading, you're back to Reality A. If you exit on a different heading, you're in another reality (Reality B).
