Danielle Rousseau – I’m guessing we’re going to see her back story sometime this season, especially if she’s going to die after getting shot last time.
I suspect we’ll also see a Libby – Whidmore connection from the past at some point, probably this season. I think it’s likely that Whidmore was involved in her giving the boat to Desmond. If that’s the case, then it also raises a few interesting questions: was she on the flight to intentionally get onto the island, and (if so) how did she / Whidmore know that plane was going to crash – perhaps it was intentional, etc.
I think we’re going to get at least one surprising or interesting flashback (or forward) from a character that we haven’t seen one for before. I’d love to see one from Richard, although I don’t know if they’ll do that this season.
Other longshots that I don’t know whether they’re going to eventually bring back in to the story are Thomas (Claire’s ex-boyfriend / Aaron’s dad), and Hurley’s friend from the institution that kept repeating the numbers over and over again. Neither of them will have a dedicated flashback (unless they become major characters), but it would be cool to see their backstories overlap with the island in some way at some point in the past.
So I have a theory that at first glance, when I spit it out during the episode last week, sounded absurd. But the more I think about it the more it seems not only plausible but probable. And if it is I’ll be stoked to have made even one correct prediction, just like Jason and Dan with this sites name. But again be warned if you don’t wanna know about this weeks trailer like Dan or if you wanna be surprised next week, then you might wanna skip this, but I think you should read it. If you don’t, come back and read it after this weeks episode.
So to my theory, in the trailer at the end of last week they talk about this upcoming episode saying that there will be things such as betrayal deceit and “lies”. “Lies” being the only word I’m sure of, but right after the narrator says “lies” it changes shots to a piece of paper for 1/4 of a second that says “DONT TRUST THE CAPTAIN”. Leading me to think that they are telling us that the piece of paper is a lie. Also, in last weeks episode Locke says to Ben that he wants to know who his “guy” on the ship is. The fact that they have kept the Captain hidden for so long leads me to believe that Ben’s “guy” IS the Captain. Before I say who I think the Captain is, the reason I think who I think it is, is in the trailer for this week the narrator also says we’ll see someone we never thought we’d see again. Also last week Minkosky(?) said “looks like you guys have a friend on the ship” or something like that. So now to who I think it is… Michael!!! I think that Ben made a deal with/or manipulated Michael into working for him before he let him and Walt leave, the way that we have seen Sayid do for Ben in the flashforwards. I think Michael went and got the job as ships captain for Whitmore’s ship under the instruction of Ben. Also, Michael may or may not be one of the Oceanic Six. Which then gives new thought to the theory on who (Michael?) is in the casket and why no one showed up to the NON-viewing/memorial, other than Jack.
So what do you guys think?
I’ve always thought that the flashbacks we’ve seen throughout this show were not entirely accurate views of past events, and I think the recent Desmond episode backs that up.
My theory is that the flashbacks we see are the memories of the people involved, but only as they remember them now, which may or may not be completely “true”. In addition, I think the island (or something on it) influences these memories for some reason.
In addition, whatever process the island uses to do this is not strictly limited by time, so that it could perhaps influence the memories / thoughts that subjects had before they even got to the island, as long as they get there at some point (destiny, etc.)
Finally, Desmond was exposed to an extreme version of whatever force enables this distortion, which is why his recent “flashback” was so vivid, long and lucid (he was able to realize that he was experiencing a flashback but still participate in it, like a lucid dream).
One interesting question to ponder (whether this theory is accurate or not) is that the effect that Desmond experienced could not have been just seeing his future flash before his eyes, because that future has changed several times since. He said he saw Charlie die from the lightning, AND later die drowning trying to save Claire. So either Desmond saw multiple branches of the future timeline at the time he turned the key, OR he is continuing to see variations as things change.
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