Lost: Season 6 Theories
Quite a bit of time (103 days) has gone by since Lost: Season 5 ended and everybody wants to know what happened with the bomb. Did it go off? Were the Losties transported back to 2008? Does nothing happen? Was a rift in time created which causes alternate realities where the Losties can possibly meet up with each other, creating a hole in the space-time continuum which causes the entire universe to implode on itself? Until Season 6 starts up (early 2010), we’ll actually not know. Many theories can arise, but which is actually the right one? Which makes the most sense?
I’ve scoured the internet endlessly trying to find the best and most plausible theories and came up with these. Here are the 3 best theories for what may happen in Season 6 of Lost.
1. Conflicting Realities: Two, to be exact. In this theory, the bomb goes off as planned by The Losties and two realities are created. One is the one we know with our friends on the Island and the other is what Jack had planned on happening (The plane landing in LAX).Unfortunately, in the timeline where the bomb goes off, anyone close to the bomb dies. Their characters still exist in the other reality though. Since Desmond is not on the island, and he’s a constant, his consciousness will switch between both versions of himself. This theory can get really confusing, but once the gap has been closed between the two realities, it will become a tale of Good vs. Evil. More can be read about this theory here.
2. What Happened, Happened — the Moustrap Theory: What happened, happened. No reboot. No alternate timeline. Jughead always exploded. Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Jin — they will all survive the Incident. But they won’t rejoin Dharma and they won’t flash back to where they once belonged. They will have to get back to the future the way we all do — one day at a time — but they will not age because Jacob’s touch “Alpertized” them (they just haven’t lived long enough to see that they don’t physically age yet) and they will go through their lives from 1977 to 2004 with a foreknowledge of what is to come. They will be rescued from the angry Dharma mob by Richard Alpert and the hostiles and they will be recruited into the “what lies in shadow of the statue” club. In the first half of season six, we will learn that Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Jin, Hurley, and Sayid are the main people setting the stage for the oceanic 815 crash — even to the point where they ‘encourage’ and ‘manipulate’ certain events to get people on the plane who need to be on the plane (even their younger selves). But that’s just the first half of Season 6. There is still the overall victory that must be won — the final battle — the loophole that must be closed — the war that must be won. The consequences to Ben’s loophole killing of Jacob and the showdown with un-Locke/MIB and whatever else is going on with this mysterious island and the smoke monster and whatnot. The balance between yin (Jacob) and yang (MIB) must be restored, and Jacob has found a way to out-loophole the loophole — Jack and co. to the rescue (“they’re coming…”). Read more about The Mousetrap theory here.
3. Reset: The bomb goes off and once the explosion destroys the energy source, our Losties are ‘reset’ back to the present.Everyone else in proximity dies, or is badly injured, but those further away live. The radiation from the bomb spreads throughout the island and all Dharma members remaining on the island must wear hazmat suits, and inject themselves while working outdoors to avoid the lethal amounts of radiation. Construction on the Swan is finally completed. However, it’s purpose is now soley to keep the massive electromagnetic energy at bay. The hatch is marked ‘Quarantine’ to remind the ‘button pushers’ to stay indoors, or risk infection, and women are no longer able to have children if they conceive on the island. Bottom line: This is the incident, and this is what always happened. Read more here. So there we go. Three completely plausible theories. Which one do you side with? Either way, the outcome is gonna be one excellent season of Lost, and I, for one, cannot wait.
