If you have read the Dark Tower you will know that at the end the hero has to start over from the beginning of the first book again, with just a tiny bit of difference in the next loop, but without being aware he was in one.
Now the lost loop.
So they prevented the plane from crashing, so all very good, the plane doesn't crash, the islands location isnt sent out, the freighter never comes, Desmond is still in the hatch, Daniel is still a bit loopy in the head.
But, the plane has to crash for the freighter to come, for the time travelling to start happening, for them to prevent it.
Soooooooo, they will end up back on the plane, they will have no memory of it, but the plane will crash again, events will start over in a loop, as I suspect they have been doing for a while.
Remember the conversation on the beach something to the effect of "it will happen again, it wont ever end" "it only has to end once"
Also remember how there is a link between Desmond and Daniel, and how Daniel was crying when he saw the plane crash on the tv, but couldn't remember why?
Maybe hes crying because its happened again, and somewhere in the back of his mind he knows its his fault.
Remember how Desmond kept trying to save Charlie, because he knew how he would die?
Maybe its because he can remember from the last loop how Charlie died, and each different death is a partial memory from a different loop.
Even Miles got it, by trying to prevent the anomaly from happening they guaranteed it would, over and over again.
I think only Desmond and Daniel can stop the loop from happening, and to do that, they both need to be alive (and on the island) before Jack drops the bomb down the shaft, so they can prevent it from happening.
Once they stop trying to change the past they can have a future.
Now the lost loop.
So they prevented the plane from crashing, so all very good, the plane doesn't crash, the islands location isnt sent out, the freighter never comes, Desmond is still in the hatch, Daniel is still a bit loopy in the head.
But, the plane has to crash for the freighter to come, for the time travelling to start happening, for them to prevent it.
Soooooooo, they will end up back on the plane, they will have no memory of it, but the plane will crash again, events will start over in a loop, as I suspect they have been doing for a while.
Remember the conversation on the beach something to the effect of "it will happen again, it wont ever end" "it only has to end once"
Also remember how there is a link between Desmond and Daniel, and how Daniel was crying when he saw the plane crash on the tv, but couldn't remember why?
Maybe hes crying because its happened again, and somewhere in the back of his mind he knows its his fault.
Remember how Desmond kept trying to save Charlie, because he knew how he would die?
Maybe its because he can remember from the last loop how Charlie died, and each different death is a partial memory from a different loop.
Even Miles got it, by trying to prevent the anomaly from happening they guaranteed it would, over and over again.
I think only Desmond and Daniel can stop the loop from happening, and to do that, they both need to be alive (and on the island) before Jack drops the bomb down the shaft, so they can prevent it from happening.
Once they stop trying to change the past they can have a future.
