Uncorking the bottle…
Wait a dang minute… if the electromagnetic fields around the island (remember the “time bubble”) are not only what keeps it afloat but keeps MIB trapped there… did Jack and friends accidentally “uncork” the bottle? Bear with me here…
Christian Shepherd: It’s pretty fore-gone at this point that MIB assumed Christian’s identity after stealing his body from the plane wreckage, just like he did with Locke. MIB used his body to try to drive Jack crazy and to definitely turn Claire crazy. But wasn’t he also in the tunnels during the whole “time shifting” incident trying to talk Locke out of “correcting” the shifts?
Thin fabric: The fabric that makes up the alternate universe is pretty thin. We’ve already seen that the Losties can “remember” the other reality pretty easily which suggests that it is not an alternative reality at all, but a construct.
Illusionary: We know the MIB can read minds. He has demonstrated the ability to read minds and specifically people’s desires over and over again. What if the alternate reality is what happens when MIB is loose, and not at all the happy place it appears to be? After all, wayyy too many characters in that reality seem to be doing so much better without the island, which sounds to me to be exactly what they would dream up! Also the level of coincidence and the number of characters who were on the island meeting in the alternative world are pretty high. Of course, we know that the writers love coincidence, but we also know they really LOVE misdirection!
So what if the destruction of the world just happens to look like you getting everything you’ve ever dreamed of, at least for a little while?
If all of your ASSUMPTIONS are true, then you are probably right.
“wayyy too many characters in that reality seem to be doing so much better without the island”
LMAO im sure they would be doing alot better without having to live under a tarpaulin roof and hunt for your food whilst dodging bullets and running from a column of black smoke.
Lol, bigdaveg, I think he means that they have a better life off-island in the alternate universe, than in the one with the island. Not actually the living on the island, evading bullets and smoke part.
Like, Jin and Sun aren’t married, they’re still in love, Sun doesn’t seem to be cheating on him. Of course then their story turns pretty much to shit, when pregnant Sun gets shot. 😀
Also, Desmond having Widmore’s approval, Jack having a good relationship with his son (in the end) and not becoming a junkie, Hurley being lucky (not insane).
Nice thoughts, pjdkrunkt. I really like the idea of the ‘thin fabric’. I agree that the alternate reality is some sort of ‘too good to be true’ scenario. I would liken it to biting the apple in the Garden of Eden (I am working on a theory related to this) – Lucifer/Satan promised a ‘happily ever after’ for Adam and Eve if they bit the apple. The alternate reality seems to me Nemesis/MIB’s promise of a ‘happily ever after’ for humanity (and specifically the candidates)…
Also – I believe Nemesis/MIB’s destination is the alternate reality. He needs the 6 to get there via some sort of time constant, and once he is there, he is in his kingdom, his “home”, his land of the loveless so to speak… I also believe that if he gets here, the current ‘real’ reality will begin to fade and become the ‘imaginary’ reality, thereby ceasing to exist.
Anyway – really liked your theory and thoughts.
However, life for Kate off the island sucks. And so does Claire’s, what with the adoptive family bailing on her and everything
I do like this theory though 🙂 I don’t think it’s an alternate reality either, just because of what Daniel was saying last episode.
Krista, I was really considering Kate and Claire’s alternate realities to be good! Remember how conflicted Claire always was about giving up Arron? Now she doesn’t have to make that choice, it’s been made for her, and remember, we can assume that she still spoke to that fortune teller/weirdo who told her how important it was that she keep Arron. As far as Kate goes… she loves being on the run, it’s her style, lol.
The Happily ever after theory makes me think of Eloise talking to Des in this last episode. She points out to him that he has the perfect life and it’s almost as if she somehow gave it to him. Like the plan is to give them the lives that they want, shut them up and maybe they’ll never know differently.
lostinthought: That is exactly the impression I got from that scene! Eloise tells Des that he has the one thing he wanted more than anything else – Charles Widmore’s approval, so he should be content and STOP looking for Penny! Only problem is – the only reason Desmond wanted Widmore’s approval was because of Penny.
So, is the same true for the other characters in the ATL – were they each given the one thing they wanted more than anything else to keep them happy and not wanting to remember their other life? Jack has a son in the ATL – his ambition to be a better father than his could anchor him, not to mention his love for his son – which already “cured” him of alcoholism. Sayid has Nadia alive and in his life – although in a torturous way. Locke has Helen back. Hurley is “the luckiest guy in the world”. Sawyer’s committed to putting the bad guys away instead of playing the bad guy. Charlie, however, is a tough read. He had his near death experience too early – and is already longing for the other life. When Eloise said to Desmond, “You’re not ready yet,” it implies there will be a time when he (they) are ready – probably not much before May23rd.
It has seemed to me for a while that there is a parallel with the island and the Garden of Eden. The temptation of the apple is similar to the temptation that Nemesis brings about. Biting the apple got humanity tossed out of the Garden. Perhaps ‘biting the apple’ with Nemesis gets humanity tossed off the island and into the alternate reality, which ‘seems’ to be great (as promised by Nemesis, similar to the devil in the Garden of Eden) but in reality is devoid of real love (ugh).