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[raybear]

I just watched last week's episode of Lost and I think I can now explain everything that has ever happened on the show.

I mean, using TV-pseudoscience speak, but still. I can explain it narratively.

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[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

I really liked last week's episode, but it made me like the show less. I don't like this whole space-time continuum aspect of the show.

But let's get a drink soon and you can explain it all.

[ex-fish.livejournal.com]

I don't believe you.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Pick something.

[ex-fish.livejournal.com]

black smoke

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, right after I posted my comment, I realized, wait, please don't say black smoke. I think that's the only thing I'm weak on.

But here's a go:

See, the island is essentially a giant magnet, that is so powerful, it bends the electromagnetic waves of light and space, and therefore time, which is why everything happens in different proportion. The 'time travel' isn't real, its actually just the magnet bending the electrical current of our synapse so we are experience things in our past as if it was the present, etc. etc.

The giant magnet vortex produces things like healing powers, partly because of the time warp, partly related to all of these specific people. I believe its actually all coincidence that these people ended up on the island, in that, I don't believe they were divinely chosen by anything. Instead I think their biology was such that they were specifically drawn to the island, so every single life choice is swayed by this tiny pull, which eventually led to get them all there, at the same time, on the plane. All these microscopic choices along the way, which also explains why they keep running into the background of each other's flashbacks.

So I'm torn between whether the black smoke is going to be one of the few 'magic' things of the island, that is not as explained away by magnets and time, you know something super fantastically like, its some life force that is actually the source of the uber-magnetism, maybe from outer space! haha. Or conversely, its some weird experiment by the Dharma Initiative, which is essentially this giant science playground to see how the giant magnet effects everything: fertility, healing, zoo animals, radiation, consciousness adaptation, and the social experiment of living together even. so of course, there's going to want to be someone who wants to figure out what weapon capabilities it has and/or maybe ben is some crazy rich person who bought the island before others knew what it was and various governments are trying to buy it from him, take it from him, etc.

[vfc.livejournal.com]

So all the personal connections (Locke working at Hurley's box company, Locke and Sawyer hating the same con artist, Claire and Jack being brother and sister, and so on ad infinitum) are just coincidences?

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Sort of. I'm thinking of it as they have some of the magnetic force so they were slowly being drawn closer and closer and closer together. So the connections in their lives before the crash were about their threads getting closer, leading them towards the plane crash.

I feel like this idea combines quasi-science/logic/law and quasi-supernatural/spirituality in a way that is popular in television, whether its Medium or Touched by an Angel or Quantum Leap.

[ex-fish.livejournal.com]

I'm just waiting for the riots to happen when in the final episode, its revealed that Hurley imagined the whole thing.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Or its all an imagined screenplay written by.....Ben!

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

Ha! You answered everything I was going to ask.

[crafting-change.livejournal.com]

damn, I think you really did just explain EVERYTHING!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

1. The coffin. Ok, that is one question I can't answer as definitively, though I suspect it to be Sawyer. But it might also be Locke. I feel confident its one of the plane crash survivors, but they can't attend the funeral because they can't act like they know or care about each other.
2. Polar bear. This is a long shot. But I suspect that animal was being used in some experimentation in the island and rather than the consciousness-flashing that Desmond does that implies time-travel (he's actually just re-living things he's done already), the bear, because of the magnitude of the magnet, was somehow sucked into the earth and transported on the other side of the globe, to the sahara desert. Or maybe he was shot into the atmosphere and landed in the desert. Either way, that bear had the same magnetic force in its body, which is why that rescue worker/archaeologist found the polar bear in the desert. Speaking of, the thing that all of those rescue workers have in common and why Abaddon picked them is that they also have Island Magnetism^TM in them, so they could travel to the island and not be injured by the effects. People who go to the Island Magnet Vortex who don't have it as part of their biology, end up with The Sickness which is what killed the rest of Rousseau's party, but not Rousseau. She had IM.
3. Abbaddon is Ben's competitor, either a black ops government guy trying to take over the island or a black ops corporate contract guy trying to do the same. He understands the most how the island works, hence him picking that team, and visiting them crash-survivors in the flash-forwards.
4. I think Jacob is a contact off the island, someone who had figured out a way to branch the magnet vortex. The house, the voice, the figure, all move around and are inconsistent because electromagnetic waves of light and sound are bent by the magnet. He might also be Ben's "constant".
5. Oh damn, Adam and Eve. I'm going to bet that its Jack and Kate, since they found the skeletons, they have been the main characters, they made it off the island, they have the biggest money contracts on the show....hahahah. In the flash-forward time, they will decide to go back to the Island to rescue the others and find out what happen and the second trip, somehow time bends backwards, they arrive BEFORE the plane crash, like years before, and they get killed so that they will find themselves later on as skeleton. And this would prove that the Lost writers knew all along where the story was going, though 'prove' is a bit loose, since there are numerous ways you can make dead bodies link up to a narrative.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, JB. Could that be James/Sawyer? Or Juliet? I don't know their last names. Because I'm not necessarily a Lost freak in the way that I read spoilers and theories and sites and wikipedias and whatnot, I never re-watch episodes or pause them to examine things on the screen. But I have seen every single episode, and I'm certainly involved, but I've mostly just been the type of viewer who enjoys having the questions and the anticipation of having them revealed to me, clue by clue. So yesterday, it was like this intense flash, were suddenly everything came together for me. EVERYTHING. Well, most things.

You are not alone, sir.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, Juliet Burke. I should have googled first. Thanks for the tip. That actually makes way more sense that John or Sawyer.

[louche.livejournal.com]

omg!!!
i'm still so confused!!!

[blondestallion.livejournal.com]

we should discuss. i can't believe this has never come up in the time we've spent together. i DO re-watch episodes! and have much to say on that matter.

i would like to see you attempt to explain 'Richard' - you may recall he is one of the original 'hostiles' who Ben met as a child on the other side of the fence. there is a whole can of worms there - i have my theories...which i choose not to post in case Charles Widmore has gotten whiff of this discussion! ah!