my favorite LOST theory i’ve read so far (SPOILERS through 6x01/6x02, duh)
no for serious, SPOILERS for last week’s premiere! don’t say i didn’t warn you!anyway, this comes courtesy of cindy mclennan’s recap at TWOP, and i like it because it focuses on the most headache-inducing aspect, for me, of the sideways reality (and one i haven’t really seen anyone else focus on except other people who are irrationally obsessed with daniel faraday. I LOVE YOU DANIEL. LET’S BE BEST FRIENDS), and because it draws on a common scifi trope (which for this show means it’s probably wrong, but i dig it anyway). i’ll just copy/paste:
Well, here’s another thought. In Sci-Fi (not SyFy; yeah, I’m looking at you), what causes one reality to split into two or more? A paradox. Where’s the real paradox here? It’s not so much the bomb. It’s the man behind it — that is — Daniel Faraday. The last time we saw 1977 on the island, Daniel was a full-grown man from 2004, who had ended up on the island, flashing to all different periods of time, including 1977. And in 1977, he met up with his own mother, who was pregnant with fetus-him. And? His own mother, who was pregnant with fetus-him, then shot adult-him and killed adult-him. If Juliet’s bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang set off the Jughead, the detonation should have killed all our Losties, and probably all the 1977 Dharma folks and the 1977 Others — including Daniel’s parents — (the pregnant) Eloise Hawking, and Charles Widmore. As near as I can reckon, last season, when Jack, Kate, et al were first transported to 1977, there was only one timeline, and they had just jumped back in it. So, if you’re in timeline A and you put a plan into motion that was dreamt up by Daniel Faraday in the year 2004 of that timeline, and explained to you in 1977 (which is when you carried it out), but the guy who dreamt up the plan was not only killed in 1977, his existence was wiped out (because his mother had not yet borne him), then how could the plan happen at all, if Daniel never existed to suss it out. Maybe I should shut up, but do you see where I’m going with this? If you do, can you send me a clearly marked roadmap, because I have no freaking clue and my nose starts bleeding when I think too long and hard about it, so let’s move onto the recap. Ready? Okay!i don’t really want to endorse this as being possibly right, because lol that’s a losing game with this show. but it’s the most intriguing one i’ve seen, and also the one that makes the closest thing to sense.
I like it. :)
I love it. Mostly because Cuse and Lindelof have now mentioned in at least three interviews that we can’t be sure Jughead caused the split. The first time I was basically like “yeah okay whatever, stop trying to convince people that’s not it.” The second time I was like “hmm… well nothing is ever as it seems on this show, but still, what else could it be?” The third time I stared at the computer screen and thought “wait… wtf did I miss? must I rewatch last season’s finale and this season’s premiere for the third time each?!?!”
