Desmond… Again.
I’m going to make this one quick and dirty to get it in before tonight’s episode.
In my last theory I kind of ended with Desmond’s ability not being that he can sort of time travel into the past but that he can move between the two timelines we’ve seen on the show. The more I think about it the more it makes sense to me… If Desmond were able to change the past then sure, that would be a pretty awesome power… but it would be a game ender. If you can go back and change the past then you can do pretty much anything, right? He’d become the Superman of Lost. Too powerful to be interesting.
What if his power is really to reach into the ATL? That would kind of explain his appearance on the plane, wouldn’t it? I think this makes him Jacob’s loophole. Think about it. In the ATL the island is underwater… So far the island has been central to everything as far as the Losties being effed with, right? With it underwater it seems that Jacob hasn’t been able to do his touchy-feely thing with them and that is the difference between the two timelines. So Jacob (or Team Jacob, including Widmore it would seem) has an ace in the hole. Desmond. He can travel back and forth between the two lines and communicate with the Losties in the ATL even though the island (and Jacob with it I guess) are under water.
So that’s it. That’s my compromise. To those of you who have been arguing with me that Desmond is super-duper important, I agree with you. He is. But he cannot change the past.
Oh, and sorry if this has been discussed without me… I haven’t been on the site much since last week and haven’t really read up on the newer theories yet…
I lot of us that believe Desmond is important agree with what you say here. WHH still applies within a given universe. I believe a swan like flash sends you to the ATL, and we will also see Juliet have one of those this year.
Flashes like we saw in the Constant, however, are to the same universe. We don’t really know what happened to ATL Desmond after he returns in Flashes Before Your Eyes.
Maybe Desmond will fail in his attempt to help Widmore, but Juliet will succeed.
Well, your timing is impeccable. The site just came back up from a few day hiatus.
This is a great idea about what Desmond can do. I still don’t understand how there are only two timelines (If that’s all there are). But I know what you’re getting at, and it would be nice to see this sideways timeline making sense with what you’re saying here, because it really needs to start making sense soon.
I don’t think that Lost multiple Universes are the type where a new one is created with each and every decision made (making them basically infinite). Everything in Lost hinges on the island so the ATL was created when the incident happened, and that’s why there are only two.
I don’t think the accident has anything to do with the two timelines. Jacob’s death has.
In fact I think that we will soon see that Ben killing Jacob was always a key part on Jacob’s plans. By dieing two loopholes have been created.
One for MIB trough using Locke’s body and one for Jacob where he would be able to bring some of the losties from the Dharma times back.
That’s why Jacob says “they are coming” before actually dieing in there.
I really think Jacob is the real man behind the curtains here and is playing a really long con on MIB to get rid of him for once and for all.
The only thing that is annoying is that there are only 6 episodes left and nothing much has been answered so far.
Highbrow, I totally agree I think ur right about Desmond being able to move between the 2 timelines…
Well, easy to say now having seen the new episode that Daniel seems to think it was the incident that created the ATL. Desmond has his mission in the ATL now and that’s to bring the Losties together and, I assume, to bring them back to the island.
The love stories seem to be the thing bringing the Losties in the ATL back to their crash landing selves… I imagine we’ll see ATL Hurley and Libby reunited for a minute or two and Sawyer and Juliet as well. There are two left out though. Sayid found Nadia but kind of rejected her… For her own good, I guess, but it’s still a rejection. Jack might run into Kate and I bet that will be enough for Jack but what about Kate? Does she love Jack? Maybe that kind of explains her sort-of-insider, sort-of-outsider status.
I suppose that also means that I’ll have to abandon (for now anyway) the idea that both Sun and Jin are candidates. Sun seems to be the candidate and Jin is the one who ‘wakes her up’ in the ATL.
If the Losties from the ATL come to the island then what effect will that have on Claire? I mean, Charlie is amoung them… Will his return wake her up in a sort of opposite manner, curing her infection? I guess maybe I’m running a bit too far with this.
We were shown that moment back in LA X where Kate looked out of the taxi and saw Jack. And now the last that we have seen of Kate is that Sawyer has her pinned up against a wall. … How that is going to play out in Sidewaysland will be interesting.
I don’t think that all Losties will need to go back to the island. Especially since Daniel and Charlie are dead, and they are the ones remembering their ‘other’/past life and loves and kind of guiding Desmond. I think Hurley seeing Libby (another dead one) could be what triggers things for him, especially if Desmond ends up tracking him down. I would like to see ATL Charlie’s love of Claire be the thing that helps them both, but I’m prepared for none of that to transpire in 5 episodes.
What I’m most concerned about at this point is Desmond wandering off with Sayid. Now that is troubling.
I’m not worried about Desmond. I think that he gained a lot of knowlege and understanding (enlightenment maybe) during his little electromagnetic adventure… If I were sided with Old Greeny I might worry about them because I don’t think they are aware or at all prepared for Desmond as he is right now. I see Sayid walking back into camp with him and seeing fear in eyes of Mr. Smoke.
I think we have yet to see Hurley/Libby, Sawyer/Juliet and Jack/Kate in Sideways Town. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to Kate.
I agree highbrow, I believe Desmond is now the variable.. He can foil Mr. Smoke’s plan, w/out being on the cave wall or the lighthouse…