Mystery Solved!!
What if I told you I’m pretty sure I’ve figured things out on LOST. Would fans of LOST keep reading? Consider that your warning.Here are my theories.
1.) The BOMB that went off in last year’s finale did NOT reset the LOST timeline. All it did was transport the castaways from 1977 back to thier present: CIRCA ISLAND 2007. Juliet detonating the bomb WAS the incident.
2.) That being said….What we are seeing each week with the survivors in LA is not what would have happened had the plane never crashed on the island.
3) The “flashsideways”, as they are being called on the message boards, are what happens to the castaways if NOTLOCKE aka MAN IN BLACK aka SMOKEY wins. It’s what will happen if they follow him off the island.
Hear me out. I no longer think that jughead, the detonation, the incident, etc had much at all to do with the creation of the sideways verse. I think the AlteVerse is going to be the reality that NOTOCKE creates when he lets our survivors go off the island and gives them “whatever they want”
So far, Sayid got Nadia back…but not in the way he would have wanted. But she is still alive, he can still “see her again”. Sayid made a deal with the devil. I don’t know know if that makes sense to anyone else, and I still think Jughead obviously has something to do with the why the island sunk…but I don’t think it directly created alti-verse.
They are all getting what they wanted, but in that twisted “deal with the devil” way where you dont get exactly what you thought you were getting.
Locke got his life back, for better and for worse. He has family and loved ones, but he can’t walk. Jack gets to break the cycle of his fathers anger, but hes still very much alone. Kate…well, I don’t really know on that one…she got to help keep Claire and Aaron together, but shes still a convict on the run.
I also think it makes sense in terms of where the season is going, that eventually we will find out this Sideways Universe is actually what happens if MiB wins and everyone gets to leave.
Think about it this way, DOgen told us a story about a bargain that Jacob gave him (his son life in exchange for his “life” off the island) which is a damned hard bargain. He made a deal. NOTLOCKE is making a deal too, and driving a hard bargain. You can get everything you ever wanted…but it wont be perfect.
Of coruse, as with any theory, could be wrong, but something about that rings true to me. It just seems to fit in with actually making the sideways universe mean something to us, instead of just being the distraction it has appeared to be so far.
In simplest terms:
Smokie promised that he could make a way for Sayid to see Nadia again. Lo and behold, in alternate timeline Sayid bumps into Nadia and is given a second chance.
This has thus led me to conclude that what many have speculated is right: The Alternate timeline is the end of Lost. Something happens on the island that pushes them to the alternate reality.
Everything NOTLOCKE has been promising people HAS been occuring off island. Claire & Her baby reunited? Smokie promised her that – and it happens OFF island. Jack getting a chance to fix his daddy issues? Just turns out he has a son off the island now. And Finally Sayid visiting Nadia. Promised on the island — happened off the island.
Flash-Sideways IS THE Lost Ending.
The Series Finale is 10 EPISODES AWAY, don’t say I didn’t warn ya.
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March 9, 2010 at 4:19 am
I see where you’re going with this one…..and it does make sense….but still leaves lots of questions unanswered.
What about the purpose of the island and the ‘chosen ones?’
I love the show, but I’m not enjoying the serious sci-fi twist it’s taken lately.
That being said, Alice in Wonderland didn’t impress me as much as I hoped it would….but it was definitely very Tim Burtonesque!
March 9, 2010 at 4:24 am
I was really let down by Alice. Should have been so much better