uhhh shit, Lost spoilers? :(

[Powerslave]

A friend of mine told me his idea of what the big mystery about the show was and it kinda makes sense when I think about it

I fucking hate this shit, my excitement for the show dropped a little. I somehow need to know that what I think is false, but I guess no one can really know since the show isn't over.


FUCK  :'(

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[Joe Molotov]

A friend of mine told me his idea of what the big mystery about the show was and it kinda makes sense when I think about it

[SPIOLER]LIEK OMG, I BET THEIR IN PURGATORY!!![/SPOILER}

[Powerslave]

A friend of mine told me his idea of what the big mystery about the show was and it kinda makes sense when I think about it

[SPIOLER]LIEK OMG, I BET THEIR IN PURGATORY!!![/SPOILER}

so this is being said by many other people?

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is it true? :'(

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[Crushed]

it's been said since like the first two episodes and the writers denied it before like the first season was over

[OptimoPeach]

I think one of the creators denied that. That's like the most common "theory" floating around lol

[Joe Molotov]

A friend of mine told me his idea of what the big mystery about the show was and it kinda makes sense when I think about it

[SPIOLER]LIEK OMG, I BET THEIR IN PURGATORY!!![/SPOILER}

so this is being said by many other people?

Are you just being facetious, or was that really your friend's theory? 

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[Beardo]

Was it the one where they are stuck in a time loop in 1995.


Edit: this one?
http://timelooptheory.com//the_timeline.htm

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Early 1800’s: The Black Rock was a slave boat crossing the Pacific.  The boat was transporting a large assortment of metallic minerals, which were highly reactive to other forces of magnetism.  Unexpectedly, the boat encounters the island of LOST.  Being that the island has unique magnetic properties, the magnetic materials on the boat “react” with the magnetic forces on the island, and the boat is literally hoisted onto the island.  The boat, having strong levels of magnetism, creates a hole in the invisible bubble that surrounds the island – this hole is at coordinate “305”, or the “special location/coordinate” that Daniel’s team travels through to get to the island.  Once the Black Rock crashes, the leaders aboard the ship, including Alvar Hanso, begin studies on the magnetic aspects of the island.  Their descendents ultimately form the DHARMA initiative in the late 1900’s.

1960’s: The DHARMA initiative was created for the enhancement of the human race.  What initially began as a simple research initiative developed into a massive project that was designed to test fate.  At some point during DHARMA’S studies, someone managed to leverage the magnetic properties of the island to bend time and space – thus, a time machine was created.
The time machine serves two different functions:
1. one piece of the machine is synced up to the magnetic anomoly that encloses the island. It has the ability to send the entire island back in time - to as far back as when the time machine was created. At the end of season 4, Ben turns the crank to "move the island" back in time to when the machine was created.
2. The time machine also is a phycial device that can transport an individual human back in time, to as far back in time as when the machine was created.

n the beginning stages of testing the time machine, DHARMA chose to run tests on animals (namely, polar bears), as to avoid creating any time-related catastrophes or paradoxes.  The first initiative of testing the time machine was to see they could extend the life of an animal.  They sent a polar bear back in time a few years, and then changed its habitat to see if it could “survive.”  DHARMA saw that once polar bears had gone back in time, they could survive off the island, and even in remote extreme climates (such as deserts) – thus making them partially invincible.  Realizing the power of this time machine, the leaders of DHARMA opt to only keep limited knowledge of the time machine’s existence.  Thus, many of the experiments on the island of LOST are just a façade to conceal the “true” research behind the DHARMA initiative.

Shortly after the experimentation with the polar bears, DHARMA starts sending people back in time.  Over a few years of researching the time machine, DHARMA becomes curious to see if this time machine can allow people to alter the course of history.  In order to see if people can “change a future that’s already written,” DHARMA begins tasking their time travelers with doing things to alter the course of history.  Unfortunately, these time travelers were not able to do anything to permanently alter the future that was already laid out.

 

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[Powerslave]

well I avoided all the threads before I started watching so it's not funny that I too began to wonder about this theory.

IT'S NOT FUNNY

[Powerslave]

Was it the one where they are stuck in a time loop in 1995.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKK

[Joe Molotov]

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Jacob is a sentient A.I.

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[Powerslave]

Does anyone think that the writers changed the outcome of the show because of all these theories?

[TVC15]

Does anyone think that the writers changed the outcome of the show because of all these theories?

They apparently didn't even have the story planned until season 3, so I guess it's a default yes.  One of the creators said something like they knew what the ending scenes would be, but they didn't quite know how they'd get there.  When they got their deal to end it with season 6, they apparently worked out the arc til its end, to some degree.

But like, there are other things to keep in mind, too.  The Lost people said they had big plans for Mr. Eko, but well, shit happened.

[Powerslave]

Yeah ok, now let's hope the show doesn't end with something really lame. Purgatory would have been awesome too, if it wasn't so cliche.


Locke'd