So from my perspective, we got 4 types of dead going on in Lost land after this season finale. The fourth one is iffy.
- Bomb dead – including the 1977 group, perhaps that entire island, and I would include Juliet in this one.
- We saw you die dead – Jacob
- We saw you die but were led to believe you were alive dead – John Locke
- Everyone else in the 2007 story post-bomb dead(?) – Ben, Richard, Sun, The Others and the 316 group
This is leading to mass confusion and conjecture as to what Season 6 is going to be like and who is even going to be on the show.
1. Bomb Dead – As I said on here yesterday, a hydrogen bomb was exploded in 1977 in the yet-to-be-finished Swan station. Even though that H-bomb was detonated underground, that blast would still have killed anyone in that area. This includes Juliet, Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Sayid, Miles, Dr. Chang, Radzinksy and all those other Dharma folks. You cannot tell me that the bomb would only have killed Juliet. It’s a hydrogen bomb. The explosion would have gone up that shaft Juliet fell down and destroyed that entire, already unstable area. Not to mention that the explosion would have been mixed in with all of that electromagnetism. They died.
But, they died in this reality. My theory for next year is that Daniel’s crazy plan sorta worked. Our Losties died in this reality but were thrust into an alternate timeline in which 815 never crashed on the island. Lost version 2. I think the interesting part will be if our peeps remember everything that happened in these last 5 seasons.
2. We Saw You Die Dead – If Jacob is/was a deity, he’s an awfully mortal one. Ben stabbed him in the heart (watch that scene again, it’s chilling) twice and NotLocke kicked him into the fire. Seems pretty dead to me. It does raise the question, multiple questions, on what exactly Jacob is/was, why did NotLocke/Man On Beach Guy want him dead, and what was the loophole? That only a mortal could kill him? Seems like there’s more to it than that. Regardless, I think Jacob’s gone. Definitely could be wrong there though.
3. We Saw You Die But Were Led To Believe You Were Alive Dead – I’ve been reading some comments on the finale that are somewhat very hostile to the idea that John Locke really is dead. His body tumbling out of that metal box (magic box? prolly not) was a pretty good confirmation that yep, Ben killed Locke back in L.A. and he was not reincarnated. At least not in that body. But wasn’t the lettering on Ben’s van in L.A. an anagram for “reincarnation”? Weren’t we led to believe through 5 seasons that Locke is someone special, someone tuned in to the magical properties of the island? Was that all just a ploy to get this Man On Beach Guy through his loophole?
Something very similar to this happened on the show Angel. In Season 5, Winifred Burkle was consumed by an ancient God named Ilyria. While Fred’s body was turned to rock, Ilyria retained all of the memories, characteristics, and emotions that Fred had when she was living. Applied to Locke, this NotLocke has the same mannerisms, the same memories, and the same gleeful pursuit of sticking it to the people who had made him crazy pre-time jumping that our known Locke had. Though not in the same body, this NotLocke figure looks, talks, speaks, tastes, sounds like Locke. So is Locke dead or has Locke just become what fate has always set out for him to be?
4. Everyone Else. – Hydrogen bomb goes off in 1977, doesn’t that negate everything happening in 2007, especially if it did indeed change the past? And by changing the past, I think I mean this theory of an alternate timeline – much like what the new Star Trek saga is claiming to be. If the bomb made it so 815 never came to the island then none of what’s happening with Locke, Ben and Jacob would be happening, at least in the way we saw it. So these characters are necessarily dead but they are nonexistent in the world we are going to venture into in Season 6.
On the beach, Jacob says “It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.” Right now, after thinking about the above, it seems to me that Lost is suggesting that time is an endless series of loops. What the hydrogen bomb did was start another loop. Again, the question I have, if this is semi-close to being correct, is if our people are going to remember what happened. Will this loop be any different or is Jack going to wake up in that jungle just like he did in Season 1?
This is all guesswork, me just trying to make some sense of this finale.
