Your Voice: The Everything Theory, Part 2
Submitted by Jalocke
Read part 1 of the theory here.
Eventually, in the 20th century, another member of the Hanso family found the island. By this time the story of the power the island had had been corrupted into a story of how the Hanso family had been cheated out of the power they deserved. They had grown corrupt and this heir of the Hanso family decided to take control of the island through force. They sent the Dharma Initiative to learn about the island and attempt to control it. Eventually they fell into conflict with the survivors of the Black Rock, as they were men of faith who did not like these foreign intruders. The “original” inhabitants were dubbed “hostiles” by the Dharma Initiative and soon open conflict started. The age old conflict over the island had started up again. It was at this time that the leader was found — Benjamin Linus — a son of one of the workman for the Dharma Initiative, who fulfilled all the prerequisites for the island caretaker. Linus was never meant to be a leader, but he could halt the conflict until those who were supposed to take over actually did arrive. Linus led the purge and destroyed all who would not join the “hostiles.” The survivors of both groups became one and waited for the foretold leaders return.
Widmore was obviously greatly upset, and this is why he tells Ben that he stole the island from him. However, the fates finally did align through the use of Desmond, and Flight 815 did crash. On this plane was John Locke. The foretold leader of the island had finally returned. After all this time, at the end of Season 4 John Locke finally took his place as leader. He took a long road to get there — he had to destroy the Swan Station in order to grant Desmond the ability to see into the future, so that Charlie might destroy the Looking Glass, so that they could be warned of Widmore’s boat, and possibly for other events in the future. Also, I would hypothesize that if Desmond did not destroy the hatch, he would actually have married Penny and never gone to the island. I know this creates a kind of crazy time loop, but something like that is bound to happen when you monkey around with time and course correction. The point of this being, if Desmond had never gone to the island, Oceanic 815 wouldn’t have crashed. But in the end, Locke takes charge, all is well and dandy.
Wrong. As we know, things are not okay on the island and everything goes to hell. Why? Because Locke was not the leader he was supposed to be. Locke was not the leader everyone wanted him to be and which Richard had set him up to be. Locke did not choose the book of laws… he chose the knife. As we all know, Locke is the man of faith. He cannot control or rule people as we have continually seen. In the first season, with Boone, Locke calls Captain Kirk a bad captain, because those around him continually die, the so called redshirts. If that is a telling sign, then Locke is awful. Those around him are in constant peril and are always at risk for their lives. He does not have that practicality and group sense that allows him to be in control. So who is supposed to be the leader? Jack.
Jack has always been the leader, even when he doesn’t want it. Jack controls things and he almost always thinks about the group before himself. He is unwillingly to let people risk their lives needlessly, and can’t ever give up. But why Jack? Because Jack is a descendent of the Hanso line. He is not of direct lineage, however, his blood can be traced back. He has a connection to this island, and that is something that his father Christian understood. It’s even possible that Christian himself was on the island as a researcher during the Dharma Initiative. During that time, he could have found out his own personal connection and could have failed at accepting it. This might be why he turned to alcohol and pushed his own personal insecurities upon Jack. However, even Jack cannot rule alone. He needs Locke in the same way that Locke needs him. While Locke is always looking at the big picture, Jack can’t see the big picture. He doesn’t see the miracles, and he doesn’t believe in fate. It is another continued form of imbalance. And that is what went wrong at the end of Season 4. Jack and Locke were supposed to rule together, but the imbalance in their natures caused them to separate. They could never see eye to eye, and could never accept that they needed each other.
Now Locke is dead. The team of Jack and Locke has failed and there is nothing that can save this. However, redemption can be found. Now Jack needs to get Locke’s body back to the island and discover his own faith in the process. He needs to guide the Oceanic 6, plus Walt, back to the island. On this journey he will be given help from Mr. Linus, and from his good friend Desmond. The only way Jack will be able to do this is by finding his own faith.
However, if Jack and Locke have failed, then what is the point of going back? Well there was always a Plan B. The island knew that Locke and Jack, eventually and most likely would fail, so two more were chosen. Who might these two be? Aaron and Walt. Walt has been given training by Locke, and seems to have become a firm believer that certain things about his life are fairly mystical. And Aaron…. Well he is the last Shepherd after all; he is the last leader, and the last option for the island to find its leader. In my opinion, when Jack learns to accept that faith must be an important part of what he is supposed to do, he will be able to raise Aaron in the way that he is supposed to. Charlie’s message was a warning to Jack, that without faith and without the island Aaron could not successfully complete his destiny and save the island from imbalance. In both of these future leaders they will need to have the mix of both science and faith. They must understand and accept both sides of yin and yang, and not just become paragons of only one. It is this separation of the two forces which caused the initial rift. This is why a Hanso family member is supposed to lead the political side, because this person would still have a connection to the more spiritual side of things.
So what is Desmond’s story and how does Ms. Hawking play into it? My guess would be that with the island in disarray the Universe itself cannot be at peace. Think of it like the island is the spirit of the world. If the island is at peace, then so is the rest of the world. With the island in ruin, peace in the world is not possible, and slowly humanity is working towards its own destruction. However, Humanity is not supposed to be destroyed. Humanity itself has some greater purpose to serve. So because of this the Universe decides it needs to course correct in order to get things right and save everything. Des has been drawn into this because he is the only one who can. Only because of the experiences in his life is he suited to be the man who continues to push the button in the Hatch, as a way to find his own meaning, and only when he is firmly lost spiritually does he not push the button. The Island course corrected to make sure that Des would be there to do that.
Throughout history, certain people have been forced to become course correctors. One example would be Ms. Hawking, who eventually came to talk with Desmond. These course correctors have slowly been guiding the right characters in the right direction to hopefully attain a balance on the island. Because one balance on the island is maintained, balance in the real world will be maintained. In this way it is not the physical pushing of the button that saves the world, it is merely Desmond being there to not push the button and eventually turn the failsafe which will change the world. Also, as Ms. Hawking said, a person’s destiny cannot be changed. However, in the case of Charlie we saw that it can be. Charlie was supposed to die, however, how he died was still up in the air. And as a person who believes that the meaning behind events is more powerful than the event itself, I find this message kind of uplifting. We are drawn towards certain events in our lives, but we can still choose the meaning the events will have. It is entirely possible that John could have been the political leader of the Others, as Richard wanted him to be. However, he chose the knife. He chose his own destiny. Certain events which were predetermined still took place, but Locke was able to decide how he was going to interact with those events.
I hope in my extremely long winded and ridiculous explanation of things I managed to maybe figure a couple things out. Please comment and tell me everything you disagree with, and everything you think could use work, though please do try and keep it constructive as I did put a lot of effort into this. Seriously, I think I spent the last 3 hours typing it out. Double spaced in Word, I bet its like 10 pages. I am also currently working on a post about the science of what is going on. A sort of behind the scenes look at the exotic material, kasmir effect, and time travel we are seeing, so y’all can look forward to that/run away in dread. Hope y’all enjoyed.
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That is pretty awesome, good job on this! You took some creative freedom on this, which makes it very interesting, but some parts may be a tad far fetched. I’m not sure if I buy that Jack is apart of the Hanso family tree. Although I will give you credit, it is an intriguing idea….
Comment by iowa21 — June 6, 2008 @ 7:15 am
This post got me to thinking that maybe Alpert’s test of Locke as a child was not to determine if Locke would be the right person to control the island. It may have been to determine if he was the right Locke to control the island. What I mean by this is: If there are multiple time lines, and the island is connected to them somehow, maybe Alpert is hopping from timeline to timeline to find a particular version of Locke for some reason.
Comment by Leetdewd — June 6, 2008 @ 9:59 am
That is really cool. Good job.
If Aaron is destined to be the next Jack (and Walt the next Locke) then maybe thats why the psychic in Australia told Claire not to let him be raised by another (or an other). Maybe so that he isn’t influenced in the wrong way. Now that Jack’s in his life, his influence will most likely go towards science. But why did dead Claire come to Kate in a dream to say not to take him back to the island? Maybe dead-dreamy-Claire saw the chaos on the island after the O6 left and knew that Aaron was to be one of the next leaders and didn’t want that dangerous life for him.
Comment by AnotherOther — June 6, 2008 @ 10:25 am
Loved this. Great job.
And remember, the Aaron and Walt paring of black/white connects back to the Backgammon game that’s been a major point in the story. Thought that’s kind of a cool connection. Maybe I’m stretching.
Comment by Herb — June 6, 2008 @ 10:46 am
… OK, maybe. I’m not convinced they can get this sort of detailed story across in two more seasons. But one think I really like about it, and I’m now convinced it’s true, is that Widmore is very, very old. I’d never considered it before, but I think you’re on to something there. The fact that he calls Ben “boy” supports this.
Comment by Ed Holden — June 6, 2008 @ 11:35 am
… OK, maybe. I’m not convinced they can get this sort of detailed story across in two more seasons. But one idea in your first post that I really like (and I’m now somewhat convinced it’s true) is that Widmore is very, very old. I’d never considered it before, but I think you’re on to something there. The fact that he calls Ben “boy” supports this.
Comment by Ed Holden — June 6, 2008 @ 11:36 am
I really enjoyed reading this. Does the smoke monster being black and the Biblical Jacob being white have to relate to Backgammon being black vs. white?
Comment by Adam — June 6, 2008 @ 11:51 am
Love the blog but, one question not mentioned in there, where does Jin, and Sun’s baby come into this? Your talking about the importance of Walt and Aaron but what about Sun’s baby, dont you think that that baby or kid is probably important as well.
Comment by Wil — June 6, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
I applaud your theory. While I do not agree with everything that you say, I would not be upset with the writers if this did occur in the show. Great job thinking this thing through and expressing it in a coherant way.
Comment by Joe — June 6, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
UUGGGHHHH!!!
Comment by dolce — June 8, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Really?!!…R E A L L Y ???!!!! Come ON!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by DOLCE — June 8, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
Hey, I really like this theory. I’m from Uruguay, and some of the chapters you mention haven’t aired here yet. I have my two cents however.
There is one chapter in which Hurley, Locke and Sawyer are playing “war” or some sort of game like that (it’s the lastest chapter I’ve seen). There, Hurley says “Australia is the key of the game”. I got into wikipedia, made a quick search and found out it truly is.
First of all, some of the events that take place in the island are related to australian history, like the kidnap of children (look for “stolen generations” in wikipedia), or infectious diseases that killed the indigenous population.
But I found something even more interesting! The whole Lost-series seems to be based on australian indigenous culture and religion, specially with what they call “The dreamtime” (represented by “the island” in the series). This ideology says that time is not linear, and that part of us lives in the everyday life, while the other lives in the dreamtime (like desmond). All timelines converge at the Dreamtime (“the everywhen”), and that “archetypical personalities” live there (or are gathered there, which might be the case for the Oceanic 815 passengers). These archetypical people are some sort of “models” that people in the outside world are copied from. Hence, Jack is the leader-type (sheppard), Locke is the philosofer/man of faith (the poet John locke), Hurley is the people’s person, Desmond is the hero, Ben is the villain, and so on….. and they are all templates for people in the rest of the world.
Oh, there’s also a mythical figure called the “Rainbow serpeant”, which is a creator deity and a guardian of the Dreamtime, which I think is what Locke saw when he faced “the monster”.
Anyway, just do your oun websearches and you’ll find out. I actually got extremely interested in australian aborigin culture, which is another point for the creators of LOST. Good job guys!
Hope this adds to this LOST theory.
Best regards
GL.
Comment by gaeasherald — June 8, 2008 @ 8:27 pm
Wow that information is great gaeasherald. Ive never looked at that aspect of the show before, but its really interesting to see that a lot of aboriginal culture might play into whats going on here. Perhaps this all really is the Walkabout Locke was supposed to go on. Some really interesting stuff here.
Comment by Jalocke — June 9, 2008 @ 5:23 am
Entry on Wikipedia for something called the rainbow serpent:
“It is known both as a benevolent protector of its people (the groups from the country around) and as a malevolent punisher of law breakers. The rainbow serpent’s mythology is closely linked to land, water, life, social relationships and fertility.”
That’s our Smokey alright!
Comment by filthygee — June 9, 2008 @ 5:37 am
I was wondering if Ben Linus wasn’t watched and tested just like Locke was by Richard Alpert. Perhaps it wasn’t a coincidence that Horace Goodspeed “found” Roger, Emily and baby Ben Linus coming out of the forest. Maybe Ben was chosen as well.
Comment by Alaine — June 9, 2008 @ 9:06 am
Gaeasherald wins the prize. I hope a moderator puts your post in its own “Your Voice” thread. Really interesting discovery about the dreamstate. It really fits well.
Dreamstate: “A co-existance of past, present and future.” Check, check and more check.
Sorry to hear Uruguay is behind on airing Lost episodes. If you have internet access and a computer, you can watch all the episodes that have aired through the end of season 4 at ABC.com for free.
Comment by blutoschmooto — June 9, 2008 @ 9:59 am
Okay, there are some interesting thoughts here…although I ‘personally’ don’t buy any of them.
What people tend to forget while weaving these massive convoluted plots is LOST has to be told to ‘regular’ people who don’t theories about multiple dimensional planes of existence etc, and it has to be understood in 45 minute chunks over a period of 16 weeks. It has to be easy to understand.
Of course the LOST mythology can go deeper for the fans who want it, but the core story needs to be understood by the average viewing intelligence.
Comment by Van — June 9, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
Jalocke…What a great job you did putting this together. It certainly gives all of us something to think about.
Ed…I’m wondering about Widmore and Ben also. Not only the fact that he calls him “boy,” but that he says “I know WHO you are, WHAT you are.” I believe this statement is key to this part of the story. Also, when Miles asked Ben for the 3.2 mil, he tells Ben that he knows who he is and what he is capable of doing and not to treat him (Miles) like the others (Losties). Yes, something more is definetly playing out here, something that we’ll just have to wait and see.
Comment by Eve — June 9, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Ok, regarding my previous post, some of my recent searches lead me to some interesting “definitions”. Here are some of them:
Wikipedia, query: Australian Aboriginal mythology
“…..This ‘Rainbow Serpent’ is generally and variously identified by those who tell ‘Rainbow Serpent’ myths, as a snake of some enormous size often living within the deepest waterholes of many of Australia’s waterways; descended from that larger being visible as a dark streak in the milkyway; it reveals itself to people in this world as a rainbow as it moves through water and rain, shaping landscapes, naming and singing of places, swallowing and sometimes drowning people; strengthening the knowledgeable with rainmaking and healing powers; blighting others with sores, weakness, illness, and death…..”
Dark streak? Healing powers? Huh!
wikipedia, query: Dreaming (spirituality)
“…..They made separate countries, but interlaced them (related them) with their story tracks. They created frameworks for kin relations. Many different ancestors created a country, by travelling across it and meeting each other. In that way, a particular country is shared by all creatures who live there, their essences arising from the Dreaming, and returning to it. Some Dreamings crossed many countries, interacting with local ones as they went, and connecting places far from each other. Thus the pulse of life spreads, blood-like, through the body of the continent – node/pathway, node/pathway – as far as, and sometimes into, the sea…..”
Interlaced? Kin relations? Meeting each other? Huh! huh! Their essences arising from the dreaming and returing to it!!!!!
“…..It is not quite right, however, to say that the creation period is in the past, because it is a past that is eternal and therefore also present. Ancestors sink back into, but also emerge from and pass through, sites. In other words, an ancestor’s journey, or story, became a place, and that place holds past, present and future simultaneously….”
“Ancestors emerge” The dead characters “ghosts” maybe? The voices in the jungle?
“…… Each sacred site contains a potentially limitless supply of the particular species left there by an ancestor. But in order to ensure their continued generation, ceremonial action is required. If this isn’t done, or isn’t done properly, that life-form will eventually disappear [a term Aboriginal people call Looking after Country]. Children, too, are born from the ancestor’s spirit which arises out of its place to impregnate a woman. Such children belong to and have responsibility for that place, and will return to it after death, so that its life potential isn’t dissipated…..”
Polar bears??? The stuff about children could have something to do with Sun’s child?
“…..Not only did the mythical ancestors give the world its shape, they imbued it with moral and social structures – handing down laws whereby all humans have intrinsic value and a share of goods. Living by these laws invigorates the life-force surging and burgeoning through the land. In fact, to sing a ritual song is to move that ancestor along through the land. Earth is sacred, sentient stuff; it is not a counterpoint to heaven. Heaven and earth are embedded together, on the same plane. A country is saturated in consciousness. It recognises and responds to people. It depends on people….”
Earth is sentinent and responds to people. Huh. It depends on them too. Huh.
Maybe I’m taking it too far, but these seem to be some strange coincidences, right? As I said before, do your own investigation on the subject and see what you find out.
Cheers everybody!
Comment by gaeasherald — June 9, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
Dude, do you have a job to go to at all?
Comment by dave — June 10, 2008 @ 7:08 am
or better yet a girlfriend or wife? i would assume not.
Comment by john — June 10, 2008 @ 10:34 am
previous post mentioned them play a “war” game. wanted to point out that they were playing Risk.
Comment by evan — June 12, 2008 @ 10:13 pm
Dr Taylor teaches us how to attain deep inner peace - easily, simply, without drugs, anytime we want it. Forgive me for doing everything I can to be sure everyone reads this book and sees this video, but I think all of us benefit and in the larger sense, if everyone reads this, our world will benefit in a very large way.
Comment by Dustin — June 23, 2008 @ 8:34 pm
“Now Locke is dead.”
That’s not entirely true. Yes, we saw him in the coffin, but we all know that was a flash-foward, that is, it was in the future.
I’m saying this, because the use of the word “Now” implies that Locke is already dead when the Oceanic 6 is rescued in the middle of the ocean by Penelop Widmore, because that’s when “now” is, being the last scene of the (currently) last season.
I liked your theory, though. You didn’t have to have Desmond’s ability to see into the future to see that you put a lot of effort into it
Good work.
Comment by Thomas — September 12, 2008 @ 12:18 pm