I have some theories about the show that Jared has covered and some he hasn’t.
Jacob:
- Jacob is the island or the island is Jacob. I’m thinking the later since Ben does did say he’s doing things for the island and Jacob told him these things.
- Jacob told Locke to “help me” which I believe meant save me the island from the impeding ruin.
- Jacob is what he want’s you to see. He’s the horse, Jack’s Dad and now Walt. That is why Locke didn’t see Ben’s Jacob.
The island:
My overall theory of what the island holds a lot of special abilities but the main one includes a sud-o fountain of youth which is what Dharma was after and now Whidmore primarily wants (more later). There are a few things that help or go along with this theory about the fountain of youth.
- The story is old, so old that the some of the early founders could have built that statue to glorify it. That statue could be a statue of Jacob, of course not the jacob we see since he’d have 5 toes instead of 4.
- The children are taken to protect them, like Ben said. Protecting them from either another force on the island or the island’s population control…
Smoke Monster:
- I think the smoke monster is controlled by Jacob and is the grainy sand stuff outside the hut that Locke looked so closely at.
- I also think the smoke monster is part of the population control that goes with the premise of the fountain of youth. Since no one can die it deems if people are acceptable enough to live either for ever or an extended period and also reep in the rewards of the mythical island.
Show:
I think the rest of the show will play out from the current time and have flashbacks to the past (2003) on the island. This lends to the production moving to L.A.. I’m not sure about this move because the island is the show and is the entire plot of the story.
Future/Present Time:
The reason for Jack was so upset because it was Locke who died. And the reason for him to be so upset was becuase John believed in the island. He wanted to keep the island a secret as Ben did and knew that it should be kept a secret, John helped the island.
My theory for future episodes on how it will play out:
Widmore is on the ship, they come to destroy the island and fight against the inhabitants which includes the “others” and Locke. Jack and the other cast-a-ways help with that struggle against the “others” effectively helping the truly bad people the Whidmore corporation.
The Whidmore corp. in return helps out the castaways. Gives Kate and Sawyer some kind of pardon and who knows what else for the others.
I do think Kate had Sawyers kid and is with him now. The reason for not dying from the pregnancy was because they got off the island or Whidmore helped destroy the island enough to not let the island kill the mothers and pregnancy.
As you can tell the episode revealed a lot to me. And I’m getting a lot of it by listening to Ben and actually believing what he’s saying is true, in the past we was the master manipulator but I think the writers are trying to play that angle when they actually are revealing a lot.
 Notice how everyone on that island had daddy issues:
- Kate
- Jack
- Ben
- Hurley
- Sun
- Claire
- Sawyer
- …
One the left you’ll see that there are three deceased listings the second has a 4 letter first name and a 5 letter last name.
J-O-H-NÂ Â L-O-C-K-E
Maybe…I’m willing to bet that it’s Locke in that casket since it goes with my plot theory but I’m positive that the paper although cleverly has the correct number of letters does not have the printed name. Since if that secret where to get out by the actors or the production crew it would blow the mystery.
The dead person.. They made it seem like it would be Michael…but I doubt it..clues were too obvious. Whoever it was, Kate showed disdain for. It would then have to be someone she cared enough about.. Sawyer. Sawyer has clearly reached an inflecton point in his life. Killing “Sawyer” triggered it…and he definitely showed signs of distancing himself from her…that baby comment was just a killer. You know..a woman scorned. Sawyer also had no friends. Locke would also never leave the island. We’ll see.
The future look. I just thought that was an awesome move by the writers. I definitely want to know what happens to several of these folks once they have to face the realities of the people and circumstances they left behind.  Not to mention the impact of living on the island..the surreal, detached experience had to change them. I agree with another poster..the ‘father’ comment was just him being really unhinged. Matthew Fox really did an incredible job in that episode..he really looked tortured.Â
Charley is dead.  Catch the baby start to cry at the moment he died? But I’d like to know how that one-eyed jack is so indestructible.Â
Not Penny’s Boat. I hope Desmond got the message.
Why didn’t Locke kill Jack? because he’s not a killer? Uh…then wasn’t it he who killed the new girl from the helicopter/boat?Â
What a great series. Â
Here’s a thought…. Maybe next season everything in the present will take place with the survivors back home and dealing with problems from the aftermath of being rescued off of the Island. The flashbacks will be comprised of telling the story of just how they were all rescued, and hopefully it will describe why Jack grows a beard and becomes suicidal and why Kate for some reason can no longer talk to Jack.
Also, it was probably Ben in the coffin, because when Jack was asked if he was a friend or family he said neither, and when Jack asked Kate if she went to the funeral she asked him why she would have gone. Apparently this person had no friends or family and Kate wanted nothing to do with him/her. Fits perfectly with Ben. And Jack might have been upset enough to kill himself when hearing of Ben’s death because Ben may have been the only one able to get Jack back to the Island.
I don’t necessarily think we can assume that Walt’s appearance means that he’s there on the island again as a real, physical person. So far he’s no different than any of the other appearances of people on the island who may or may not be real and/or dead.
Heck, with Walt we even have precedence for him appearing when he wasn’t really there, and you also have precedent with Locke seeing and interacting verbally with people who have formerly moved on (such as Boone).
We always wondered what happened to Michael. It makes sense that it’s Michael in the coffin. He had no friends or family and lived in an inner-city area. And Jack would feel guilty over his death, since he wrote him off as a traitor. Maybe his boat was picked up by the big ship this whole time and his son somehow made it back to the island.
Might well be that the series will end with quoting the opening few lines of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets:
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Clearly the losties are lost not only in space, but also in time. The island is somehow interwoven with time, such that past, present, future are indistinct, circular, recurrent…and certainly not representative of the ordinary works’s linear time experience and progression.
Other connections with the Four Quartets:
Desmond’s Premonitions
Babies dying: (”in our beginning is our end”)
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Here are some things to notice from the Season finale… let me know what you think!!
1. Did you hear Jack say “Bring my father down here and if I am more drunk you can fire me!” His father is dead on the island… why is he alive in the future? Is anyone dead then?
2. I know Naomi says that the flight has been found… but remember she could be lieing.
3. Ben’s position is weird. He heard the threat that Jack would kill him but the plan was to spare the three Lostee’s life and make Jack believe they are dead. This in turn would cause Jack to contact the outside world! Also, Jacob told Lock to “help me.” I think Ben is bringing a new group onto the island or perhaps more troops and is no longer working on behalf of the island.
4. In the last future clip, Kate says “I can’t be gone long or you know he will notice.” What’s that about? Is HE Sawyer, Ben, or a new character from a boat.
Let me know what you all think!
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