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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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[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!