Sean’s Probably False Lost Theories, Part 2
Well, shit. Quite a premiere. I’d like to touch on a few of the theories I spat out in my previous post, mouth-fart out a few more, and then fumble around with the Season 6 premiere, handling it much like a daytime drinker handles money: sloppily and forgetting where much of it went.
This is the third and last time I’m going to tell you to go read the Time Loop Theory.
Most of my previous predictions were pretty open-ended, and for good reason. I know Lost well enough by now to know that I (and every other human on planet earth) have no idea where this thing will end up. I make that statement fully aware of the fact that Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are both humans on planet earth. So I’m making very general points. For funzies.
Nothing arose to really disprove any of my (admittedly broad) theories. We now know Esau (Jacob’s nemesis) is the smoke monster, and I had allowed for him to be some sort of supernatural entity. Regarding supernatural entities, however, I want to refine my theory on Jacob and Esau. It’s pretty obvious that something is going on with Jacob, more so than with any other human on the island, but I still think it’s possible that he is, at least originally, a human being.
However, this being Lost, everyone is wrong about everything, and so Jacob is probably more than human. Should it turn out that Jacob is supernatural, I think it’ll turn into Jacob and Esau being two sides of the same supernatural coin.
“No kidding Sean, you mean this show’s about DUALITY? Like Yin and Yang shit? Gee, I guess I’ve been watching a totally different show than you have, because I totally missed every game of Othello in this one.”
Thanks, asshole-who-lives-in-my-brain (you sound a lot like Scott, by the way). Of course it’s no surprise to have Jacob and Esau be opposites of each other, but I think it’ll be more than one is good/light, one is bad/dark. Here’s my prediction: Esau is the Island itself, its spirit, its protector. Jacob is the rest of the world, trying to fix the Island. The Island doesn’t want to be fixed. This would also play into the Destiny/Fate vs Free Will/Choice theme; the island refuses to be what it’s expected to be, and the world is struggling to make it fall in line.
Aside from all that, nothing else will be supernatural, everything will lie in science. Souls, minds, time travel, dimensions, all of it - it will all be caused by, a result of, or explained through science. Mark my words.
I want to see the Hurley bird, Dharma shark, Adam and Eve, and other small things on the Island be explained, but in the long haul, those really aren’t important to the overarching epic mystery. The writers have enough on their hands trying to wrap up this mammoth of a story, so many things are going to fall by the wayside. For the most part, the things I’m pondering here are things that I believe need to be cleared up.
New theories! We’ve got two new realities now. I read someone call them “Island Reality” and “Plane Reality”, which works great for me. If you’ve seen the premier, you know which realities are which, and if you haven’t seen the premier, then how have you even read this far?
Honestly, I’m totally in the dark about Island Reality. I’m glad it’s still here, but I have no idea how that’s going to be justified. I’m sure something crazy will fall out of my brain and onto your screen soon enough, though, so stay tuned.
But Plane Reality. I’ve heard a lot of theories, mostly revolving around this premise: The bomb worked, and everyone’s minds got scienced into their bodies in this new reality, where Oceanic 815 landed in LAX safely and never crashed. Interesting, but I disagree. Forget that Island Reality exists, for a moment. Everyone in 1977 Dharmaville (Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Juliette, Miles, Hurley, Sayid, etc) was there from the future. Meanwhile, their younger selves in the outside world were continuing on with their lives. Sawyer said it himself- he could have gotten off the island, found his father, and stopped him from killing his mother and himself. People were being born, growing up, living lives separately from those living on the Island. Those people, the ones native to this new timeline, grew up and eventually found their way to Oceanic 815, totally unaffected by Jacob or Esau or the Island or anything. By any definition, these are different people, with different minds, or souls, unshaped by anything their counterparts in other timelines/dimensions did. Perhaps this is simply the nature of time travel, or perhaps this is something relatively new. My point is, these are essentially new characters, and cannot be held responsible for the actions of their counterparts.
Making little to no sense yet? No? Let me try a little harder.
Claire’s missing still. I think she’s not in her right mind- she’s being manipulated or outright mind-controlled. There’s got to be more to her just walking away from her baby in the jungle, after all she’s been through for Aaron.
Once again, Locke will not stay dead, at least in the sense that he is now. Number one, he’s far too great a character for the writers to toss off like that. Two, he’s come so, so far as a character, as a man, as a leader and as a hero, for him to die right as we enter the home stretch. Jack vs Locke has to be a conflict that goes right up to the bitter end. No one else on the island is on Jack’s level, no one else can make that tension as palpable and intense as Locke. Like I said, Locke will be able to actively affect the outcome of events on the island in Season 6.
Bum, bum, bum… Ooh, Richard was one of the slaves on the Black Rock? Maybe. That’s a little easy, though.
And apparently the compass comes from consumemylovedevourmyhate’s butt.
One final note about the premier, then bed me for time it is. I’ve been awake too long, my structure’s beginning sentence to affected by be ass my sleep-deprived.
After Season 5’s explosive finale, the big question was, “Did it all reset? Or are they still on the island? A or B?” Once again, Lost proved it’s the only show on television that no one can predict by not giving us A, or B, or even an unimagined C. They gave us both A and B. And kudos to them for doing it. Lost has always taken risks and has always asked for patience, which has been rewarded. It cut itself off after six seasons. It asked mainstream American television viewers to follow a time-travel plot too complex for most episodes of Star Trek. It mixed in heavy philosophical and literary references, and expected you, the viewer, to do some thinking of your own. I’ve heard people decry getting A and B together as a lazy out, or a way to appeal to everyone, but I think those people just need to be patient. It’s paid off before.
