Lost Theories: My Head is Hurting
By stephanie - Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Lost is starting to piss me off. I consider myself to be a smart person so why can’t I figure out what the hell is going on? (And why don’t they just spill the beans already?)
I’m of two minds on this. One, the actual concept is so simple we’ll all be going “d’oh” when we find out. Two, the writers don’t know what the hell they are doing and they are spinning a convoluted yarn that will be as unsatisfying when it wraps up as the X-Files UFO conspiracy was.
Here’s what I’ve observed (note: spoilers from the last episode):
1. Desmond can predict possible futures.
2. There’s a “magic box” on the island that produces what you imagine, according to Ben.
3. Ben produced Locke’s father at the end of the last episode.
4. Ben is in a wheelchair and isn’t healing miraculously, but Locke did…
5. All the characters are interrelated in some bizarre way in the “real world,” in ways that are beyond logic. (Like Jack and Claire sharing the same father…c’mon!)
6. Ben grew up on the island, and doesn’t want other people to leave.
7. The Others are not the Dharma Initiative…they are the “Hostiles” that fought the Dharma Initiative….but…
8. Danielle said that the Others were sick and had caught some sort of disease.
9. The outside world has only been seen once, where there were some guys in arctic weather and they called Penny.
10. Both Locke and Sun have had miraculous healings, where Locke can walk and Sun can have a child (ooorrrr…Sun got pregnant by the bald Asian guy).
11. Two of the Others wanted to die, but they wouldn’t kill themselves…yet they were grateful when someone else killed them.
From this I can potentially gather (and none of this is new theory-wise):
The memories that the survivors have are false and have been implanted somehow, that’s why everyone sees everyone else in their memories. Thus, Locke wasn’t healed. Locke was never in a wheelchair in the first place. Sun was always able to have children.
Ben was able to produce Locke’s father because Locke’s father really isn’t his father but just some other dude on the island who was imprinted into Locke’s memories.
Desmond does have real memories…but he also has psychic gifts…note that when he ran into Charlie in his flashback, Charlie was not famous but just a guy on the sidewalk playing guitar for donations. Was Charlie ever famous? Probably not.
Thus I can figure: The island has the ability to magnify psychic abilities. The island has the ability to materialize thought. Maybe it magnifies whatever your worst tendencies are and you create a personality based on all your internal BS.
Here’s another puzzling question: Why did those two Others want to be killed? Why couldn’t they commit suicide? Would they have to come back if they killed themselves? Does the island not let you kill yourself? Do people have eternal life on the island?
Well, I don’t think I’m getting any farther with all this speculation. One thing for sure: I do not believe the flashbacks the survivors have are real. I am even more convinced now that we know that Locke “survived” a fall from eight stories, and his dad just “happens” to be on the island.
Here are some other theories:
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
P.S. I believe they have unofficially announced that next season will be the last one for Lost, and it might only be half a season. If that’s true, then they may be beginning to wrap things up.
March 25th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I’m done with Lost because:
1. ABC (stupidly) put this on @ 10 when I’m too tired to watch it
2. The idiotic hiatus of the show
3. I really don’t think that the writers have a plan
’nuff said!
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April 2nd, 2007 at 4:04 pm
first time at your site. I dig it.
I don’t think the writers have a plan. I think they’ve just kind of wandered into the last season of Xfile territory.
This is the only show I actually want to start a petition to end so that I can know what the crap is going on!!!
Still addicted to it though…*sigh*
April 25th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I have given up watching this show as it finally became just too stupid to watch! It looks to me as if the WRITERS have LOST the plot.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
all the survivors are actually members of dharmas second experiment the others are the first experiment which hasnt worked out correctly, the island is actually manhattan 200 hundred years after mankind has almost been wiped out by a supervirus ie the huge foot on the island is part of the statue of liberty . all the survivors of flight 815 have had memory implants to begin the process of starting a better world, all the survivors are specifically picked for their skills,ie jack doctor, locke leader and believer. the others are there to look over and carry out experiments on the survivors
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:15 am
I read a recent interview with the writers where they flat out said something along the lines of “we really don’t know where we’re going with it, part of the plan was to make the story as we went, so it was always evolveing. The only way we’ll create a conclusion is if we’re cancelled and told to wrap it up.”
So I’m sure they don’t have a clue as to what they are doing with the story. Even bringing on new writers doesn’t seem to have helped, too many of us bailed out after Season 2 when the feeling was obvious that they had no plan for the story.