Lost Theories
I guess I should go ahead and post these since soon enough they'll be confirmed or negated at the rate the show is going...
So, I wrote this stuff out over the past week, but some of this was confirmed and some negated by the episode tonight...
First my theories / observations / assumptions / questions...
LOST is a struggle between dark and light (good and evil). [This is pretty obvious..]
The fate of the world depends on the struggle taking place on that island. If evil wins, the world ends.
Jacob is Good. MiB is Evil.
Jacob can leave the island, has a special "touch", and can either control spirits of the dead (bodies not required on island) or is able to use illusions/visions of the dead. (Ben's mother..) He also presumably sends the "ghosts" to Hurley (since he references Hurley's "gift" to talk to his friends and asks why he won't (do what they tell him) go back to the island.)
MiB can manifest himself anywhere as dead people so long as their body is on the island. He can even appear off island to the Oceanic Six. He may have even been Kate's horse(?). He can also appear in dreams (Claire to Kate off island..)
MiB can manifest himself as the smoke monster, as the medusa spiders, probably as Kate's horse...
If this is the case, then how do we explain Walt appearing to Locke to send him to MiB in the Cabin when Locke is lying in the Dharma grave? Walt is not dead, nor is his body on the island. The smoke monster "reads" people's memories (their souls?) and manifested the men that Echo killed in Yemi's church at one point -- those people were NOT dead on the island, so maybe Ben's mother was NOT Jacob.... Well, there goes that... ergh...
John Locke was never picked by Jacob, he was always being manipulated by MiB. (Still working this one.. it seems that Jacob and MiB have common interests as they both seem interested in many of the same people..)
MiB's goal is to kill Jacob and return home.
MiB says that Jacob is trying to "prove [him] wrong". MiB says that "it always ends the same". Jacob says, "it only ends *once*, everything before that, is progress." What is the significance of this? And how does this tie into MiB being a "prisoner" (unable to go home)?
The big question is which is Ben and which is Widmore? I'm inclined to think they are both corrupt and possibly both being manipulated by MiB or perhaps merely just caught up in their own rivalry such that they've lost sight of the real importance of the island and the work that must be done there. They've become greedy and materialistic and each view the island as "[his] island".
What are the "rules" of the conflict between Widmore and Ben? (Ben says, "he changed the rules". Widmore says one of the rules is that Ben can't go back to the island.)
What is the deal with Claire?... She is in league with the manifestation of Christian, which presumably is the MiB, but if she's alive then how did she appear to Kate off island? And why is she OK hanging out w/MiB? It may still be possible that MiB has an accomplice with the same "powers" as he does. This would explain why the smoke monster and manifestations (like Christian) were able to freely move about the island, while MiB was stuck in the Cabin by the circle of ash. In this case, a question arises - can they both become the smoke monster? And is Claire really dead? She could have been blown up and therefore her remains were unseen by anyone, and the entity (MiB or accomplice) immediately took her form which means from the moment Sawyer picked her up, she was no longer really "Claire".
[The above was 1 of 2 theories... this one was mostly negated...]
The most interesting thing to me is that the "manifestations" are corporeal.
OK, so now I have an additional possible theory for Claire -- Rousseu's people are "sick" after they make contact with the "Monster". She says Robert is not himself, he is "someone else" -- this meshes with the observations of Claire since the explosion (except that she didn't make contact with the monster/MiB until she saw her dad and left with him) so maybe she's just "sick". This would mean that MiB/Monster is able to "recruit" or "turn" people into his cohorts/control, but if that's true, then why does he have to go to such extremes to manipulate Locke and Ben? Maybe because to kill Jacob, he has to get a mortal man to murder Jacob of his own "free will". It has to be his "choice", whereas if MiB used his "power of influence" (of whatever it is), then it wouldn't be the man's "free will/choice".
[Above is 2 of 2 theories on Claire.... this one was confirmed...]
The concept of "free will" is pretty major on the island... This is why they need Jack to get Sayid to take the poison pill... FREE WILL... but why? Because that is Jacob's way???
Watching "The Lampost" episode, I reevaluated the similarities between the "island" and "Narnia" -- a mystical place that is difficult to get to, where there is conflict between good and evil... makes me want to delve deeper into comparing these two, but there are SO MANY other stories nodded to throughout the show to base too much emphasis on one individual one.
What is the deal with Aaron?... there was all this building up of how important it was that he not be raised by anyone but Claire, and now it seems like they've just abandoned that storyline. They dropped Walt after all.
The island has a portal to Tunisa, the "old" parts of the island are covered in Hieroglyphics... Jacob and MiB were first seen by us on the island at the time that the black rock appeared. How did they get there? Were they the only "things" (don't want to call them "people") on the island at that point?
Is the island at it's core purpose, simply a way to imprison the MiB, in which case Jacob is his jailer? Or is Jacob a biblical reference to the book of Jacob in which the Lord and Devil basically play a competitive match with the life of Jacob, a devout follower of the Lord's. Here, Jacob and MiB are playing a competitive game with the people that come to the island.
What is the deal with Eloise?? How did she gain the ability to see flashes of the future like she does of the guy in the red shoes? How does she know what Desmond's destiny is and what he is supposed to do when he relives his past? Why is Desmond "different" when it comes to time travel? Why does Desmond (assumably) lose his "flashes" after his time-sickness getting to the boat?
Miles can read the last thought that a dead person's brain had. He can also seemingly read living people's minds to some degree (He knows "Kevin" is not Michael's name, and that Charlotte spent "so much time" getting to the island.) Simillarly MiB reads a dead person's last thought/s (as w/John Locke), and reads people's memories as the smoke monster (as w/Mr. Eko).
Out of synch question -- How do the "others" have things in their files that "we" know through flashbacks, but "they" could not possibly know because the information would never have been documented in any form. (Like that Sawyer killed that man the night before he crashed on the island, or that Locke's dad is the con man that "killed" Sawyer's parents)
adding... Man, it just hit me... That may just be Christian's ACTUAL body.. but it doesn't make sense that that was Yemi's ACTUAL body... it was too badly burned... but wait... didn't Eko say it was missing... (sorry for the stream of consciousness, but this is mind blowing stuff here... wow.
ALTERNATE TIMELINE
Observations / Assumptions / Theories / Questions
Why did Hurley go to Austrailia if he's lucky and wasn't there to find out about the curse? Possibly to do with his Mr. Cluck Cluck chain.
Why did Locke go to Austrailia for the walk-about that Abadon would never have set in his mind to go do if the island is under water?
Why would Claire be going to LA if the psychic hadn't seen her ending up on the island?
So, I wrote this stuff out over the past week, but some of this was confirmed and some negated by the episode tonight...
First my theories / observations / assumptions / questions...
LOST is a struggle between dark and light (good and evil). [This is pretty obvious..]
The fate of the world depends on the struggle taking place on that island. If evil wins, the world ends.
Jacob is Good. MiB is Evil.
Jacob can leave the island, has a special "touch", and can either control spirits of the dead (bodies not required on island) or is able to use illusions/visions of the dead. (Ben's mother..) He also presumably sends the "ghosts" to Hurley (since he references Hurley's "gift" to talk to his friends and asks why he won't (do what they tell him) go back to the island.)
MiB can manifest himself anywhere as dead people so long as their body is on the island. He can even appear off island to the Oceanic Six. He may have even been Kate's horse(?). He can also appear in dreams (Claire to Kate off island..)
MiB can manifest himself as the smoke monster, as the medusa spiders, probably as Kate's horse...
If this is the case, then how do we explain Walt appearing to Locke to send him to MiB in the Cabin when Locke is lying in the Dharma grave? Walt is not dead, nor is his body on the island. The smoke monster "reads" people's memories (their souls?) and manifested the men that Echo killed in Yemi's church at one point -- those people were NOT dead on the island, so maybe Ben's mother was NOT Jacob.... Well, there goes that... ergh...
John Locke was never picked by Jacob, he was always being manipulated by MiB. (Still working this one.. it seems that Jacob and MiB have common interests as they both seem interested in many of the same people..)
MiB's goal is to kill Jacob and return home.
MiB says that Jacob is trying to "prove [him] wrong". MiB says that "it always ends the same". Jacob says, "it only ends *once*, everything before that, is progress." What is the significance of this? And how does this tie into MiB being a "prisoner" (unable to go home)?
The big question is which is Ben and which is Widmore? I'm inclined to think they are both corrupt and possibly both being manipulated by MiB or perhaps merely just caught up in their own rivalry such that they've lost sight of the real importance of the island and the work that must be done there. They've become greedy and materialistic and each view the island as "[his] island".
What are the "rules" of the conflict between Widmore and Ben? (Ben says, "he changed the rules". Widmore says one of the rules is that Ben can't go back to the island.)
What is the deal with Claire?... She is in league with the manifestation of Christian, which presumably is the MiB, but if she's alive then how did she appear to Kate off island? And why is she OK hanging out w/MiB? It may still be possible that MiB has an accomplice with the same "powers" as he does. This would explain why the smoke monster and manifestations (like Christian) were able to freely move about the island, while MiB was stuck in the Cabin by the circle of ash. In this case, a question arises - can they both become the smoke monster? And is Claire really dead? She could have been blown up and therefore her remains were unseen by anyone, and the entity (MiB or accomplice) immediately took her form which means from the moment Sawyer picked her up, she was no longer really "Claire".
[The above was 1 of 2 theories... this one was mostly negated...]
The most interesting thing to me is that the "manifestations" are corporeal.
OK, so now I have an additional possible theory for Claire -- Rousseu's people are "sick" after they make contact with the "Monster". She says Robert is not himself, he is "someone else" -- this meshes with the observations of Claire since the explosion (except that she didn't make contact with the monster/MiB until she saw her dad and left with him) so maybe she's just "sick". This would mean that MiB/Monster is able to "recruit" or "turn" people into his cohorts/control, but if that's true, then why does he have to go to such extremes to manipulate Locke and Ben? Maybe because to kill Jacob, he has to get a mortal man to murder Jacob of his own "free will". It has to be his "choice", whereas if MiB used his "power of influence" (of whatever it is), then it wouldn't be the man's "free will/choice".
[Above is 2 of 2 theories on Claire.... this one was confirmed...]
The concept of "free will" is pretty major on the island... This is why they need Jack to get Sayid to take the poison pill... FREE WILL... but why? Because that is Jacob's way???
Watching "The Lampost" episode, I reevaluated the similarities between the "island" and "Narnia" -- a mystical place that is difficult to get to, where there is conflict between good and evil... makes me want to delve deeper into comparing these two, but there are SO MANY other stories nodded to throughout the show to base too much emphasis on one individual one.
What is the deal with Aaron?... there was all this building up of how important it was that he not be raised by anyone but Claire, and now it seems like they've just abandoned that storyline. They dropped Walt after all.
The island has a portal to Tunisa, the "old" parts of the island are covered in Hieroglyphics... Jacob and MiB were first seen by us on the island at the time that the black rock appeared. How did they get there? Were they the only "things" (don't want to call them "people") on the island at that point?
Is the island at it's core purpose, simply a way to imprison the MiB, in which case Jacob is his jailer? Or is Jacob a biblical reference to the book of Jacob in which the Lord and Devil basically play a competitive match with the life of Jacob, a devout follower of the Lord's. Here, Jacob and MiB are playing a competitive game with the people that come to the island.
What is the deal with Eloise?? How did she gain the ability to see flashes of the future like she does of the guy in the red shoes? How does she know what Desmond's destiny is and what he is supposed to do when he relives his past? Why is Desmond "different" when it comes to time travel? Why does Desmond (assumably) lose his "flashes" after his time-sickness getting to the boat?
Miles can read the last thought that a dead person's brain had. He can also seemingly read living people's minds to some degree (He knows "Kevin" is not Michael's name, and that Charlotte spent "so much time" getting to the island.) Simillarly MiB reads a dead person's last thought/s (as w/John Locke), and reads people's memories as the smoke monster (as w/Mr. Eko).
Out of synch question -- How do the "others" have things in their files that "we" know through flashbacks, but "they" could not possibly know because the information would never have been documented in any form. (Like that Sawyer killed that man the night before he crashed on the island, or that Locke's dad is the con man that "killed" Sawyer's parents)
adding... Man, it just hit me... That may just be Christian's ACTUAL body.. but it doesn't make sense that that was Yemi's ACTUAL body... it was too badly burned... but wait... didn't Eko say it was missing... (sorry for the stream of consciousness, but this is mind blowing stuff here... wow.
ALTERNATE TIMELINE
Observations / Assumptions / Theories / Questions
Why did Hurley go to Austrailia if he's lucky and wasn't there to find out about the curse? Possibly to do with his Mr. Cluck Cluck chain.
Why did Locke go to Austrailia for the walk-about that Abadon would never have set in his mind to go do if the island is under water?
Why would Claire be going to LA if the psychic hadn't seen her ending up on the island?