Continuando con las divagaciones (TenĂ©is la primera parte aquĂ) sobre el final de Lost y sus incĂłgnitas, me complace presentaros mi sengunda tanda de teorĂas, que en principio iban a estar todas juntas, pero como el post quedaba demasiado largo decidĂ acortarlo. Recordad que no debĂ©is leer nada a menos que hayĂĄis visto la quinta temporada de Lost entera o que seĂĄis unos masoquistas empedernidos. âYou can chooseâ.
Mittelwerk, Alvar Hanso, Ben, WidmoreâŠ
That in the series there is a time loop is something confirmed, even more so when in the last chapter âel barbasâ says that the same thing always happens, that they arrive, fight among themselves and destroy everything. The following video belongs to the Lost Experience and perhaps serves to reinforce the theory that there are fights, although in different periods of history and with different opponents.
In this way, we have that Mittelwerk is to Hanso what Widmore is to Ben (or the other way around) and surely if we move back in the islandâs timeline there will be more similar cases.
4 8 15 16 23 42
The meaning of the numbers had already been found a long time ago: Valenzettiâs equation, which indicates the time left for humanity before it self-extinct. Years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds. Each time the hatch button was pressed, the clock was reset to 108 minutes, which is the sum of all the numbers. When the button was stopped pressing, time continued to pass, and the âlostiesâ left the island for 3 years, which leaves about a year of margin for humanity to become extinct.
Now, add the following point to the time that the numbers indicate: the Casimir Effect.
The Casimir effect
Surely some of you will remember the video âThe Casimir Effectâ, which was published as part of the Lost Experience. In short, it happened like what was stated in the movie âBack to the Futureâ, that if a person travels to the past/future and meets their other âselfâ, there could be catastrophic consequences. Now remember the last chapter for a moment and think about which character we have in duplicate.
Indeed, this is Locke, on whom according to my theory the fate of humanity will depend in the event that he meets his other âselfâ, something that according to the numbers will not take long to happen (less than a year is missing until the time of Valenzettiâs equation is fulfilled). As Jacob says at the beginning of âThe Incidentâ: âIt only ends once. Everything that happens before that is just progress.â
âTheyâre commingâ
It is the last phrase that Jacob says before Locke throws him into the fire, and although one could think that it refers to those on Ajiraâs flight or to Sawyer and company returning to the future, I think the reality is very different. Continuing with my previous ramblings, Sawyer and co. They do not return to the future, but to the past. Jacob means that they are going to reach the past, where it all began.
âI saw them all dieâ
Seguramente a mucha gente le habrĂĄ llamado la atenciĂłn oĂr esta frase de boca de Richard en el capĂtulo 5x15 refiriĂ©ndose a Kate, Sawyer, Jack, etc, pero creo que no se le ha dado toda la importancia necesaria, ni a Richard tampoco. Richard lleva en la isla mucho tiempo, y aunque en ningĂșn momento se especifica cuanto, que Ilina lo llame Ricardus es bastante esclarecedor, ya que indica por una parte que se conocen desde hace mucho y que utilizan el latĂn, por lo que ambos podrĂan pertenecer a la Ă©poca de construcciĂłn de la enorme estatua de la isla.
But then, did Richard see them die or not? Rather, I would say that it was Ricardus who saw them, and, why not, they could die of old age if they stayed dwelling in the past. He could have seen them die just the same. Death does not have to be accompanied by tragedy.
Conclusions
I most likely didnât get a single one right, but at least I had fun trying to tie up loose ends in the series. At this moment I canât think of any other type of outcome for the series other than a fight between two gods (who says gods, says an entity more powerful than the others) to find out which of the two is right. Doesnât it remind you a little of the end of Battlestar Galactica? What do you think? Would you dare to share your theories?