Previously On LOST

I’m going off the path of sports and into the TV world for one topic. This subject is usually set aside for my good buddy Chris and his blog but let me explain why I am doing this post. About a week ago I completed re-watching the first four seasons of LOST, catching my wife up on the show. So I have had LOST on the brain lately. Well after having a very vivid LOST dream last night I decided I needed to talk about the show so I could get it out of my system. Call it therapy. I won’t talk about the dream because well I can’t even begin to tell it other than to say it was very supernatural. This is some of the stuff that’s been rolling through my head.

-Did Jin die in the explosion? I have to say I don’t think he is. In the Michael episode right before Michael is getting on the “rescue freighter”, we were told by Island resident Tom (Sawyer nickname: Zeke) that the island won’t let you die off of it. I though well maybe they are close enough to the island where those rules don’t apply. Then I think of how the gun jammed on the boat when the head soldier dude was trying to shoot Michael. He told the captain to fix his gun after the jam. The captain later used the gun and said there is nothing wrong with it. So in that way of thinking Jin is not dead.

-Of course that leads me to this. What happened to everyone who was on the boat, including Jin? There were other Losties on the boat. Are they floating in the ocean? If so, are they in the ocean where the island was or are they in the ocean to where the island moved to?

-In sense of trying to figure out what the island is, well what is it? We know there is time travel involved because of all the Desmond episodes. Plus it was confirmed 100% when they shot the test rocket from the boat and it arrived some 30 minutes after the boat said it landed. Confirmation number 3 is when the boat’s doctor washed up the shore and the Losties found him like a day before the event actually happened. Those two events make me think there is certainly a time paradox time thing going on. I am well versed in these types of scenarios due to my Star Trek watching days. A time paradox is very confusing but the short explanation is somehow the past, present, and future are all connected. The future can happen first and the past can happen last and so forth. It's like a circle that is all connected. No matter where you begin in the circle you end up in the same place. Why do I think this is the case? Well, let’s make the island the point of origin. The test rocket lands on the island 30 or so minutes from when the boat people said it did. It landed on the island AFTER it was supposed to. Then the doctor’s body washed up like a day BEFORE it actually happened. In perspective of the people on the island one event happened after the boat’s point of view and one event happened before. Two different time conclusions. Time paradox confirmed. Gotta headache yet? I do. This is also my theory to why you hear voices on the island. There are ripples throughout the island were instability in the time/space/dimensions are semi open. So you sometimes hear voices, see people, and sometimes, like in the case of Walt, they show up and speak backwards. I know that is not all of what’s going on but I am convinced it is a major explanation to part of what’s going on. Don’t forget this is a sci-fi show after all. They disguise it well with the storylines.

-I also think that new arrivals Daniel, Charlotte, and Miles are clues to what else is going on. Miles talks to the dead or sees other dimensions. Charlotte has been searching for the Dharma island for a while it seems and could have even been there before, based on her conversations. Daniel is of course the time travel expert. I got why he's there figured out. We gotta figure out what the other two are doing there. Charles Widmore knows about the island in great detail like Ben so there is a reason why he chose those specific people to be on the team from the boat. He obviously wants some answers though because he sent scientists. Ben seems to know first hand what Charles is still trying to figure out.

-Speaking of Ben and Charles, what the heck is up with with that storyline? They seem to have been going at this for a while. Charles wants the island and Ben has it. Not going to figure this one out for a while but we also figure out that the island is not only a when (as in time travel) but also a where because Ben ends up in the Sahara desert when he moved the island using that wheel thingy. But apparently once you move the island you can never go back. I think Ben has always had his self interests in mind along with the islands. He is using Sayid and Jack for his selfish reasons in the flash forwards. My theory is Ben is not the good guy or the bad. He just wants the island to himself. So whatever he is manipulating Jack and Sayid do is to somehow get order restored and get himself back on the island.

-The island has chosen another leader because Ben has fallen off his path due to his selfishness. That’s why he ended up with a tumor and no longer is untouchable. Locke is a great man who is selfless and is exactly what the island needs as a leader. He is the chosen one to take Ben’s place. He had to go through all the bad things that happened to him to make him become that person that the island needs to lead it. He is fulfilling his destiny. But as Ben said, “Destiny is a fickle bitch”. So I think Locke is only a caretaker of the island for the person who the island is really waiting for…

-That person is Aaron. Yes baby Aaron is being groomed to be the ultimate caretaker of the island. He can’t come yet because he has to go through his path of life to make him that person that Locke is now. That’s why Claire came to Kate in a dream to tell her she can’t bring Aaron back to the island. Also to why Jack’s dad came to him and said “you’re not supposed to raise him, Jack”. That’s why Kate doesn’t want to go back with Jack…because baby Aaron isn’t supposed to come back….yet. But Jack knows the island is haunting him so he feels they have to go back. Maybe they are but I do know that Ben has his own agenda to why he is trying to get everyone back on and I believe the island (or Jacob) has another plan to the one that Ben is trying to pull off. My theory is that Aaron is to be the island’s caretaker of the future. Ben is desperate to get back and well Locke is fulfilling his destiny of the present. There is so much more to this story and I could write for many more hours but really my brain really hurts so I’m ending it here. Please feel free to let me know what ya think.