LA X - Redux

Three LOST posts in a row? I must be on fire.

WARNING: Spoilers from LOST season 6 premiere.


This is going to be really short, a continuation of what I wrote yesterday. I just read a theory on Lostpedia which very closely mimics my point that the alternate reality is what happens if they never landed on the Island and thus did not detonate the bomb.

It actually resolves the issue of the alternate reality and it's purpose. Here's the theory: The alternate reality is the main reality. It is the original reality and metaphysically speaking it is the first thing that happens. What we've been seeing in the past 5 years, what we call the main reality of season 6 is actually the reset.

So in the alternate reality, something causes these characters to band together to reset their universe to save the Island (and potentially stop the MIB or something). How on earth they do this or find out about this I don't know. I'm not exactly positing my belief in this theory, just that it would really be an insane twist. It would also resolve the issue of "why them?" They would be chosen because they were chosen by themselves in a previous reality, emphasising the power of free will and choice and not pre-determination or destiny. They made their destiny.

EDIT: The same thing can be seen with the Incident, which the Losties always caused. Since they caused the Incident, they created the need for the Hatch and therefore they caused their own flight to come crashing down. Like the compass it's one heap of circular logic and I love it.