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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Eco
Here's my theory....
The island is some sort of purgatory. Everyone's dead. They all died in the plane crash. The events that happen on the island makes sure that people redeem themselves for the lives they lived earlier and the bad things they may have done.
Linus and Mr. Whiddmore are some kind of watchdogs of the good or bad of this island. Linus is heaven, and he's trying to make sure people do good and go to heaven. It's like a chess match. That's why so much emphasis is put on board games, like John playing backgammon, Hurley playing chess, and another scene with checkers I can't remember. For some reason, these scenes aren't really that important but Abrams puts them in there and gives them good amount of time (Hurley's "checkmate" scene in the Season 4 finale).
Linus and Whiddmore are playing chess of sorts, using their good/bad guys to influence the other ones. Somehow, I think Linus made sure Whiddmore (hell) couldn't influence the island anymore. All the guys you didn't like in Season 1 (Jin, Sawyer, etc.) all turn into likeable people by Season 4.
I view it as a chess game because when Whiddmore kills Alexandra, Linus says "he broke the rules". Now, with all this stuff involved, it's hard to understand how they're dead. I'm guessing they're all dead but somehow able to change things in the real world. That's why they can interact with real people, but still get visits from Charlie, Claire, Mr. Eko, etc...
I think everything was disturbed through Jack's choices of action. He threw something off that made them hurl into another time and place. For Jack to JUST read Locke's obituary years later, I'm not sure what that means but that's gotta be something big. To make things right again, they ALLLLL have to go back together. I think this means they all have to die again, to make everything right.
Eeeek, it's a long shot, but it's a pretty interesting theory. I just watched ALL of Lost Season 4 in the past 3 days for the first time, so everything's fresh in my mind. |
I subscribed to the Purgatory theory early on too, unitl I read an interview with the creators. They were asked point blank about that, and they answered very directly that its not the case. No idea what is really going on. 
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