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30 Apr 2009

Only Sorta LOST Part 5

It’s been a while since I’ve documented anything having to do with LOST. The show has been absolutely amazing this season with a butt load of back story, observations, and shock. Last night’s show was certainly no exception and I think my theory has evolved quite a bit based on new facts. If you haven’t seen April 29th’s episode, stop reading. Otherwise continue and tell me your thoughts. Feel free to read my other LOST theory posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

I suspected there was something up with Daniel Faraday from the start. His meekness was too meek and I could smell right through his timid nature. He knew something. Bingo. We knew his mother was Eloise Hawking a while back and then we learned she knew how to get back to the Island by sending the Oceanic Six back. What we didn’t know until last night was just how involved she was. Nor did we know just how involved Daniel was. In fact, the entire chain of events throughout the entire show has supposedly been constructed by Daniel and Eloise, from time travel to the hatch to the magnetic eruption causing the plane crash.

The plane crash was a result of a huge magnetic fluctuation which was a result of a Dharma Initiative worker drilling too far into the core of the island which was a result of the Islands strange properties.

Last night Daniel Faraday finally spilled his knowledge of the Island and that he knew “if we don’t stop them from drilling there will be a huge magnetic discharge and a plane will crash on this island tomorrow”. So history repeats itself, but instead of the survivors being Jack, Kate, Hurley, etc. they’ll be new survivors. And instead of Ben’s old group of scoundrels it’ll be Jack, Kate, Hurley, etc. The Others are still the Others and there will again be three groups on the island: The Dharma Initiative, The Others, and The Survivors of Flight whatever, essentially taking us back to square one with the only difference being we, the viewers, are aware of who’s who.

It’s like, in our previous generation our mothers and fathers watched LOST and saw Ben crash on the island to lead the survivors to safety and had run-ins with the Dharma Initiative and Others and then Ben became absolved into the Dharma Initiative in the 1970s only to see history repeat itself when Oceanic Flight 815 crashed bearing Jack, Kate, Hurley, etc.

Okay so my revised theory is that everything is circular. What we’ve seen happen has happened many times before, each time with each group getting a chance to “right” things. If the previous group had prevented the magnetic fluctuation, Flight 815 would’ve never crashed. But they did allow it, for whatever reason, and now the survivors of Flight 815 are given a chance to make things right.

Oh and get this:

The term Dharma is an Indian spiritual and religious term, that means one’s righteous duty or any virtuous path in the common sense of the term. … Throughout Indian philosophy, Dharma is presented as a central concept that is used in order to explain the “higher truth” or ultimate reality of the universe. (Wikipedia)

So going along with the whole “chance to make things right” mindset the Dharma Initiative are appropriately named, and if the storyline continues to go as Daniel suggested, the members either live up to the name and stop the ride or they don’t and let history repeat itself once again.

What do you think?