Comments on: Time Travel, Jughead, and the Alternate Timeline

By: nachochris

nachochris — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:49:02 +0000

forever puzzled makes a valid point.

Essentially in the latest episode Dr Linus, the timelines have already merged! or have they not?

What I mean is, Hurley, Jack (from 1970s as they were in the picture of the Dharma team and we know this anyway) meet with Sun, Ben, Illana etc (who landed in 2007 or whatever date it was).

So, yes there has already been a merging between time travellers. In the entire series we have seen doubles when one of the bodies was a dead one,

Perhaps that is significant within the time travel elements of the show and future merging scenarios.

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By: Mixen Dixon

Mixen Dixon — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:31:59 +0000

Thanks for the support, guys. Here’s some elaboration:
@SawyersGirl45: Actually, I’m not even sure about the sub part, but I figured I might as well throw out everything I had.
@foreverpuzzled: I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking with your first question. And I’m still not sure we will see Alternate Losties running around the Island. However, I will say that I don’t think anybody with a predetermined motive can change the past. I’m not so sure about spontaneous changes, though.
@highbrow: In a way, I say that Young Jack felt a ripple from the explosion in his appendix. I was actually inspired of that by the “Jack’s Appendix” theory by emzi.

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By: highbrow

highbrow — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:14:58 +0000

This is a neat theory… good job…

Did you suggest in there that Young Jack in the alternate timeline absorbed the energy of the jughead explosion in his apendix and that’s why it needed to be removed? Awesome.

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By: foreverpuzzled

foreverpuzzled — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:35 +0000

How do you explain the people from the second flight being on the island already? Does this mean that we should expect to see 2 Jacks running around on the island?Also would you not agree that someone could not have a role in changing their past during time travel?For example YOU could not go back in time and kill your father before you were conceived,because the act of killing your father would cause you not to exist to be able to kill your father.This is why Jacks plan to detonate Jughead at the construction site could never work. Same principle applies here: how could he go back in time to stop himself from coming to the island if he never came to the island?Jughead caused some sort of time distortion, and i guess we will find out what when they let us know.My guess is we are now seeing the means for them to still come to the island in the alt reality.

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By: Yojimbo

Yojimbo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:18:30 +0000

Nothing like a quantum singlarity to explain a fork in the space-time continuum, huh?

I like the sub idea. I’ve theorised that Ajira will have to come into play before - and I still think it (or something like it) will. There needs to be a simple way of merging the timelines.

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By: SawyersGirl45

SawyersGirl45 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:10:22 +0000

This is really well thought out and i agree with almost everything you mentioned.. The only thing i disagree with is them being in the submarine.. I have no reasons to say why, only that it took me by surprise and i need to think about it before i get on board haha

Really good theory

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