The “Break it Down” Blog

If you watch Lost, used to love it, and now hate it I’ve got pretty much the best information for you ever… but some folks would consider it a spoiler so I’m going to post it after the jump:

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So I used to love Lost, like all of you… but the constant “OMGZ HERE COMES ANSWERS…. oh wait nevermind” approach the show has makes it a Love/Hate relationship… actually just a Hate relationship. I think the cliffhanger writing is awesome and certainly intriguing, but only if you have all the DVDs and can keep watching without interruption.

So I’ll wait until Season 4 is done before finishing it and maybe just skip 5/6 until those are done, who knows.

Anyway a friend of mine, Lu Tseng, is into the show big-time as well and sent me a link to a page of a guy that has been working on a theory of the show for a year or so now. If it weren’t for the most recent episodes in Season 4, I don’t know that I’d buy into his theory as much as I do, but all the pieces seem to fit.

I shared the theory with a few other friends that all replied “Goddamn… sounds good, I buy it”. So for all intents and purposes, this could likely be the theme/secret/whatever behind the show.

I personally found this super vindicating because now I don’t feel purposefully in the dark all the time and can relax a little bit and enjoy the show for what it is, rather than focus exclusively on being annoyed all the time.

The premise of the theory is that the entire show is actually based on the premise of time travel and fate. The idea of fate is that there is one thread of reality that is “meant” to happen, and fate as a faceless entity will “course-correct” events in light of time travel to bring alternative realities back in line with the one “real” reality that is suppose to happen. It doesn’t apply to every little event (like going to the store on Tuesday or not) but will course correct for big events in your life that you are “suppose” to do.

A quick example… say you get cancer and cure yourself and become some big name cancer doctor. If you went back in time and purposefully tried to avoid being a cancer doctor, fate would “course-correct” by forcing you back into it, by making a family member or loved one get it… something like that.

The theory is called the “Time Loop Theory“, written by Jason Hunter and actually explained almost everything in the show for me pretty clearly. Like the “Others” that caused the Purge of the DHARMA folks; who the fuck the DHARMA folks even are in the first place; why Widmore is even part of this story and what his role is; Who Ben is, why he’s so powerful and where his friend “Richard” (that never ages) comes from and who Jacob is.

It even explains why we see dead people from time to time and what the “whispers” are on the island.

I would suggest first reading the Main Theory, then continuing on to the Q&A page for supplemental information. There are still minor curiosities that linger (like where the sonic fence comes from on the island) but they can be explained-away with this theory… I think we would prefer a more in-depth explanation however at some point, but I still buy that Jason is on the right track with this.