LOST the Final season: discussion thread

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Originally Posted by travisjb

*spoiler for 6-april*

Ok, since we're throwing out theories... Widmore was testing to see if Desmond would survive the EM, which would be verification that they are in a parallel existence... because Desmond is immortal in all but the true time/existence, as Widmore somehow knew... Widmore also wanted to 'awaken' Desmond to the reality of his various existences. Desmond is 'not ready' to handle all the truths about branching realities, which will cause problems in the final episodes... and if Desmond is 'not ready' then it doesn't bode well that he asked for the manifest and decided that everyone else needs to be enlightened about the branched realities... perhaps by 'enlightening them', he dooms them to the island in the first place... Desmond's existence on the island has become aware of the many branches and seeks to converge them or close off that branch... those that exist permanently on the island seek to guard against that branch being closed off

it might be like donnie darko where a tangent universe was created and is making the other unstable ... widmore brought up how things will cease to exist if MIB leaves the island
( im guessing with the other remaining canidates) ... im not sure how he(MIB) is linked to it all but something ceasing to exist sounds like an implosion of a timeline to me..

if this is what we are seeing i dont think the bomb created it.. the bomb maintained the main island timeline .... i think the lack of the bomb created it.. the bomb was like the failsafe and possible saved the island from sinking from the EM leakage at the drilling site.. the lack of the bomb caused the tangent universe maybe?

but then its like a paradox. they flew over the sunken island and didnt crash but the island was sunken because.. they didnt crash on it ( to eventually detonate the bomb)


so im not sure that theory does it for me... you have this story about seemingly multiverses which is more scientific then you have this whole jacob vs MIB myth type story.. i cant yet see how its connected i keep going back to how this is a game jacob is playing and maybe this other sideways is part of it... and damon and carlton both said dont call it an alternate universe..

so ok i will take them at their word for a minute... what if its not a alternate universe what if its like a false created shared conciousness ( related to jacob or MIB's offers about saving/seeing loved ones again and all that) and it isnt actually a living breathing reality.. that would mean people like jacks son.. arnt real?

so many questions.

next week i see is a hurley episode ( the last single character centric episode of lost i think) maybe all those people he has seen arnt ghosts.. maybe they are versions of the people from the sideways? but then what about isabella? ok in talking in circles now