LA X - Some more thoughts...
WARNING! Spoilers from the LOST season 6 premiere!
Just to recap my main predictions from yesterday, since they were a bit muddled up...
- The man in the cabin was actually MIB's "soul," which Jacob divorced from his body of the Smoke Monster, hence the monster's acting out the Island's/Jacob's will.
- In the alternate timeline Sun and Jin are not married. Hence why she was addressed as Miss Paik.
- Christian's missing body will be very, very significant.
- MIB's name will either be recognisable to us OR the name holds mystical power over MIB.
- Sayid is not being possessed by Jacob.
- MIB's comment to Richard about chains may or may not be literal. Either way they will have a metaphorical meaning and will harken back to a shared past they had, shown in flashback.
- This season will really revolve around MIB and that there will be a storyline/episode where each character will interact significantly with MIB in their own centric episodes.
- MIB's "home" is not as simple as just going back to the Temple. It either references the outside world or the Temple is a portal to elsewhere.
- And something I've believed for a very long time ... Christian is his own entity and this will be revealed midway through the season.
Anyway, I'm about to explain my next prediction. It's my way of 'solving' the two realities and how the Island sunk.
I'm seeing a lot of chatter about people calling the 'main' reality the one in which Jughead did not detonate or that the plan failed, whilst in the alternate reality Jughead detonated and reset everything, ie, the plan worked.
I propose that such a dichotomy doesn't work and is fundamentally flawed. I say this because in the reality where it did work you would just be introducing a massive grandfather paradox. If they sunk the Island with the bomb then they never would've landed and never traveled back in time to detonate the bomb. This, of course, presupposes the idea that these two realities co-exist and have always co-existed. It could be that the detonation of the bomb is what caused the universal rift, in which case the grandfather paradox does not apply.
I would suggest, ironically, that the main reality is where Jughead exploded and that in the alternate reality Jughead did not explode.
Hear me out.
My wording is actually misleading, as that still gives us the wrong dichotomy. Rather than saying the difference in these realities has to do with Jughead or the plan, I'm going to say that what separates them is if the Losties landed or not. So in the main reality the Losties did land and in the alternate realities, the Losties did not land.
That is, the alternate reality is not showing us a reset of any sort. It is showing us what it would be like if the Losties never landed at all!
The implications of them never landing are quite interesting. If they never land then none of the events of the past 5 seasons happen (duh) including Ben turning the wheel, them time skipping and Locke turning the wheel. No one will travel back in time to 1974 and the DHARMA Initiative. We know that the sunken Island has the DHARMA Barracks, so the Island existed until at least they arrived.
Potentially, this means that Radzinsky was still around and was the nutcase we saw in season 5. It means they would've attempted to drill into the pocket at the Swan site. Except this time no time traveling Losties to warn them of the dangers and especially no Losties to drop the bomb down the shaft.
To me this would strongly indicate that the Jughead explosion is what caused the Incident. That is, it somehow interacted with the electromagnetic pocket in such a way to necessitate the construction of the Swan and the button to contain that energy. This means WHH (Whatever Happened, Happened) is preserved. This in itself isn't exactly a new idea, it's been debated for quite some time. Where my own idea comes in is that WHH is also preserved in the alternate reality.
In the alternate reality, no bomb is dropped to contain the energy. Therefore the pocket of energy spirals out of control, and possibly is it as a result of this that the Island sinks. WHH is preserved. The Losties never crashed on the Island, so they never travel back in time so they never drop the bomb and stop the pocket of energy. And no grandfather paradox.
I don't think this is too farfetched and definitely within the realm of possibility as a reveal on the show. How they would do this I have no idea, perhaps LOST is not done with Eloise Hawking the time travelin' Nanna just yet.
So yeah, my next prediction is:
I'm seeing a lot of chatter about people calling the 'main' reality the one in which Jughead did not detonate or that the plan failed, whilst in the alternate reality Jughead detonated and reset everything, ie, the plan worked.
I propose that such a dichotomy doesn't work and is fundamentally flawed. I say this because in the reality where it did work you would just be introducing a massive grandfather paradox. If they sunk the Island with the bomb then they never would've landed and never traveled back in time to detonate the bomb. This, of course, presupposes the idea that these two realities co-exist and have always co-existed. It could be that the detonation of the bomb is what caused the universal rift, in which case the grandfather paradox does not apply.
I would suggest, ironically, that the main reality is where Jughead exploded and that in the alternate reality Jughead did not explode.
Hear me out.
My wording is actually misleading, as that still gives us the wrong dichotomy. Rather than saying the difference in these realities has to do with Jughead or the plan, I'm going to say that what separates them is if the Losties landed or not. So in the main reality the Losties did land and in the alternate realities, the Losties did not land.
That is, the alternate reality is not showing us a reset of any sort. It is showing us what it would be like if the Losties never landed at all!
The implications of them never landing are quite interesting. If they never land then none of the events of the past 5 seasons happen (duh) including Ben turning the wheel, them time skipping and Locke turning the wheel. No one will travel back in time to 1974 and the DHARMA Initiative. We know that the sunken Island has the DHARMA Barracks, so the Island existed until at least they arrived.
Potentially, this means that Radzinsky was still around and was the nutcase we saw in season 5. It means they would've attempted to drill into the pocket at the Swan site. Except this time no time traveling Losties to warn them of the dangers and especially no Losties to drop the bomb down the shaft.
To me this would strongly indicate that the Jughead explosion is what caused the Incident. That is, it somehow interacted with the electromagnetic pocket in such a way to necessitate the construction of the Swan and the button to contain that energy. This means WHH (Whatever Happened, Happened) is preserved. This in itself isn't exactly a new idea, it's been debated for quite some time. Where my own idea comes in is that WHH is also preserved in the alternate reality.
In the alternate reality, no bomb is dropped to contain the energy. Therefore the pocket of energy spirals out of control, and possibly is it as a result of this that the Island sinks. WHH is preserved. The Losties never crashed on the Island, so they never travel back in time so they never drop the bomb and stop the pocket of energy. And no grandfather paradox.
I don't think this is too farfetched and definitely within the realm of possibility as a reveal on the show. How they would do this I have no idea, perhaps LOST is not done with Eloise Hawking the time travelin' Nanna just yet.
So yeah, my next prediction is:
WHH is preserved. Alternate reality is one where the bomb never went off because the Losties never crashed. Similarly, the detonation of Jughead is what causes the Incident in the main reality.
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Another passing though I had, and definitely not a prediction I subscribe to, but just had as a passing thought is that the main reality is actually the alternate reality. The "what if" reality. That is, the reset actually worked. The alternate reality is the real reality and the events on the Island is what if the bomb didn't work, what would happen? So that way they are able to give us all the answers, but still have one game-changing twist at the end. We wouldn't be cheated because we know the story-that-could-have-been. It would also adhere to Damon and Carlton's prediction that immediate reactions to the finale may not be positive, although over time they will come to appreciate it.
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