Lost Predictions Going Forward
Rather than predict what’s going to happen specifically tonight, I’m going to take a snapshot of what I see going forward for the next few episodes or so. Briefly, though, let’s review last week’s predictions:
1. Did Juliet successfully detonate JUGHEAD at the end of last season and cause the crash of Oceanic flight 815 never to happen?
So far, I haven’t been proven wrong. There are two timelines (yay, me!). And I think I nailed the splinter on the arrow of time. And hey, the island is under water in the new timeline! There is no way in hell an h-bomb sunk the island so I think it’s safe to say the magnetic force unleashed at the Swan hatch may have been multiplied 100 fold by the power of the bomb, causing it to get sucked down into a watery grave.
OR…
Was it Jacob’s death in the original timeline? You see you have to remember what was happening in 2007 with Ben and Jacob and Flocke was occurring at the same time Juliet was smacking JUGHEAD with the black rock (black rock, get it?). But wait, how can they be occurring at the same time when one was in 2007 and the other in 1977? You have to go back to the conversation between Miles and Hurley about time travel in Season 5.
Hurley: Let me get this straight, all this already happened?
Miles: Yes.
Hurley: So, this conversation we’re having right now, we already had it.
Miles: [claps] Yes!
Hurley: Then what am I gonna say next?
Miles: I don’t know.
Hurley: Ha! Then your theory is wrong!
Miles: For the thousandth time, you dingbat, the conversation already happened. But not for you and me. For you and me, it’s happening right now.
Hurley: Okay, answer me this. If all this already happened to me, then why don’t I remember any of it?
Miles: Because once Ben turned that wheel, time isn’t a straight line for us anymore. Our experiences in the past and the future occurred before these experiences right now.
Hurley: [pause] Say that again?
Miles: [frustrated, hands Hurley his gun] Shoot me, shoot me please.
Hurley: Ah-ha! I can’t shoot you, because then if you die in 1977, then you’ll never come back to the island on the freighter 30 years from now.
Miles: I can die! Because I’ve already come to the island on the freighter! Any of us can die, because this is our present.
So, although we were seeing 1977, we were seeing their present. It just happened to be in the past. Fried yet? This was also illustrated in the Season 5 premiere when Faraday sent a message to Desmond in the present by talking to him in the past. Although it occurred several years before, Desmond didn’t remember until his present because it was also occurring in Faraday’s present, which happened to be the past.
So, back to my original point, the 1977 and 2007 storylines were occurring at the same time in two separate times. The Incident always happened. JUGHEAD always detonated. Whatever happened, happened. But Faraday was also right. People are the Variable. But he had the wrong person. The Variable was Ben Linus. He killed Jacob. And Jacob allowed it to happen. Why? More on that later. But in terms of this, his death was the new event. And an island without Jacob caused the splinter in time at the precise moment JUGHEAD was detonating.
Now I could be way off on this but we’ve already seen Jacob’s death have monumental implications (the healing water no longer heals). I think Ben killing him reverberated across everyone’s present, including those in the past (because it’s their present, too) and caused the splinter (or wrinkle, wink) in time.
2. Is Bad Locke/Flocke the smoke monster?
Winner winner, chicken dinner. Nailed this one, too.
3. Is Jacob dead?
Nailed him being dead and talking to Hurley. And I think the STAR WARS allusion will play out in future episodes. More on that later.
4. Is Juliet dead?
Yep. Nailed that one, too.
5. Will Sayid die from his wound?
Okay, got some of this right. They did take Sayid to the Temple. And they did try to heal him. But the waters were sour due to Jacob’s death and they ended up drowning him. Is this the normal way of doing business? Or did something abnormal happen? I have theories. More on this later. But I think he did die and did come back.
6. What the hell will happen with the new timeline?
I’m still not sure but am starting to have some new ideas. More on this later.
7. Is Ben bad or good?
My prediction - I'm still working on a grand Ben theory and will hopefully post it in the future
Okay, it’s later. Time for some new predictions and theories.
1. Jacob’s Loophole.
It’s pretty clear Jacob and Flocke/MIB/Smokey are/were playing an adversarial game, whether you choose the chess or backgammon allusion matters not. Smokey found his loophole in Ben. But Jacob knew Smokey would be looking for a loophole. Hell, he told Jacob on the beach he would. So Jacob went into action to start countering him. He knew the only way Smokey could kill him was to turn a human against him. Jacob institutes a new rule: only the leader of the island inhabitants can be granted an audience with him and they have to go through Richard. Richard’s marching orders are to communicate via letters with Jacob and dissuade all leaders from ever seeing him, recommending “It’s not a good time” or “Jacob prefers this” or “Jacob wants that”. Eliminate the need to see Jacob by convincing the leaders this or that is Jacob’s will and execute smartly.
Jacob then devised a plan to separate the two natures of Smokey. The consciousness or mind side from the smoke side. They somehow trapped the mind side in the cabin. The ash circle ensured the two would remain separate (as established in last week’s premiere, Smokey can’t cross the ash).
But Jacob knew he couldn’t keep them separated for long. So he started Loophole Plan B. What is that? Well, I think he started picking castaways he deemed important to his plan. In last season’s finale, we saw him enter at key times in Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Sayid, Jin and Sun, Locke, and Hurley’s lives. Oh, and Ben Linus. More specifically, Jacob touched them. But did he touch Ben? Oh, yeah. He embraced him as he died. How sweet. And that touch is very important.
Why?
Well, we don’t know why Jacob wants these specific people to stick around but he knows they’re needed to defeat Smokey. But with the healing properties of the water gone, there has to be a back-up plan which allows for these important people to come back around (nice Sawyer reference).
Remember when Desmond was flashing in time? His consciousness moved from one period to the next. He was unstuck in time. Well, I think Jacob wanted to ensure the same thing, only across timelines. So, knowing the splinter would occur upon his death, he ensure a new timeline where all the lostaways are alive again.
But what’s that got to do with Sayid?
Ah, here’s where I step out on a limb. What if Jacob’s death caused the splinter in time to allow for a twin consciousness to be formed on purpose? What if Jacob was creating battle spares?
Crazy, I know. But wouldn’t that f-ing rock? Sayid dies in 2007. And then he ends up in a coma or something in the splinter timeline, allowing his consciousness to get sucked into dead Sayid in 2007 and reanimate his corpse. Oh shit. That means the same could happen to Locke. Which means you could see the real Locke resurrected. Oh shit!
But wait! When Desmond was flashing, he was also losing his mind and bleeding from his nose because he didn't have a constant. Oh, but that's where Jacob comes in again. You see, his touch has three folds. It acts as an anchor between branching timelines. It acts as a constant. And it protects those he's touched from Smokey.
Yep. That means Smokey can't kill them. He needs to manipulate someone else into doing it.
Remember Jacob's dying words? "They're coming." And Smokey got pissed and kicked him into the fire. He realized Jacob had out-flanked his loophole with a loophole. Son of a bitch.
Yes, this is crazy and yes, I am probably wrong. But taking a step back, I might not be too far off. Why? Because this second timeline has to mean more than just showing what could have been. The rules of good storytelling dictate it has to mean something to the original timeline. Nay, it must play a critical role in the new timeline. Maybe this is it. If I’m right, you will all worship me as a demi-god.
2. The Island’s Culture
We got to see the Temple finally. Didn’t look Egyptian. More Mesopotamian or Mayan. I think this is proof that the Island isn’t Egyptian in origin. The architecture of the Island is a reflection of the types of visitors who have been coming there since the dawn of man. Egyptians, Phoenicians, whatever. Dharmaville provided their own suburban influence. And the Others merely adapt them to their own uses. We’ve seen them at the Temple, Dharmaville, camping in WWII era tents, Yurts, etc. They use what others construct and leave. They don’t upgrade or improve. An example off island is the Lightpost Dharma station Ms. Hawking used. Old-ass computers. Vintage maps, etc.
But this also means that cultures have, across time, found the Island and from it developed their myths and took them back home. The Egyptian carving of Anubis weighing a soul in front of Maat seems to parallel the two sides of Smokey: the reanimated/mind weighing the soul before the Smoke Monster side. Interesting.
Does that mean the Temple guards the Water of Life? Lots of mythology surrounding water that can heal all wounds. And those tunnels, clearly the Underworld.
3. Tonight’s Episode
Okay, grand ideas aside, what’s going to happen tonight?
-Sayid will not remember what happened and will recognize Jack, etal, from the flight.
-Sayid will officially be initiated as an Other. Because that’s what happens once you go to the Temple and get healed.
-Hopefully we’ll see some stuff that supports my theories, including more on the splinter timeline and what caused it.
Enjoy the show!
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