How They’ll Move The Island
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By atswag21
- How They’ll Move The Island
- Created: May 10, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 4.11: Cabin Fever
- Status: Current
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At the end of episode 11 of season 4, Locke claims “they have to move the island” after he asked Jack’s dad how to save it.
Essentially: remember when Ben told Michael and Walt to leave the island, he told them a bearing of 325… well, after the hatch blew up and the magnetic forces that held it together exploded into the air; the bearing was changed and now, after hearing the new bearing in episode 11, it’s 305. They’ll have to “move the island” by again creating another massive magnetic disturbance. Next time someone tries to find the island based on the bearing of 305, they’ll never find the island.
The test the scientists did on the island gave them a new bearing. They’ll fail to do another test probably not realizing the bearing had changed again.
No physical movement is needed, just change the bearing.
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben | Benjamin Linus | 3.20, 4.9, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13 | 1566 |
| John | John Locke | 3.3, 2.17, 1.4, 1.19, 3.13, 3.19, 4.11, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13 | 1121 |
Key episodes
| # | Title | Aired | Central character | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.11 | Cabin Fever | 5-8-2008 | John | 170 |
Key events
| Theme | Relevant Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|
| Michael and Walt released | 2.23 | 278 |
Key locations
| Theme | Relevant Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|
| The Swan station | 2.20, 2.23, 2.14, 2.17, 2.1, 2.2, 1.11, 3.3, 3.8 | 410 |
I agree. I thought they might also try to work in the volcano too somehow — sink the island. But much more likely they are going to have another electromagnetic explosion.
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Yes Yes…I agree. +1 from me. I also read somewhere (can’ t recall where) recently that we have not seen the end of that “bright light” after reading what you wrote I too believe they will have to create another form of magnetic phenomenon to move the island. Awsome!!
Wow this is the first “How they will move the island” theory that I actually like! Congrats, heh.
325 is the bearing Ben told Michael. 305 is the bearing that the freighter was using, which is wrong. In “The Constant” Faraday said that if they did not have the bearing correct then they would experience side-effects. But they stayed on 305 the entire time, and Desmond still experienced the side-effects, hence 305 is not the correct bearing. It hasn’t changed yet, it is still 325.
KamilD,
Desmond got to the island at a different time and presumably from a different bearing than our losties. That’s why he has a different “correct bearing.” 305 is the correct bearing for the losties — thus Sayid’s safe crossing.
No Kam. Actually they went off bearing by about 4-6 degrees. They are on bearing 309-311 if you zoom in. (305 is also the psalm written on Ecko’s staff.
whoaaahhh….
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I’m going to be a little pedantic here. If I understand this right then, basically, it’s not the Island that will move, rather the access point will. Sort of like shifting the door in a room so people can’t get in from the West because you put the door in the East wall? Is that the idea here?
Firstly, I like the theory - because it posits something a little more reasonable than the unreasonable proposition of moving an Island. However, Locke was told that the Island had to be moved. That’s the task. That’s the plan. Moving the Island. And moving the access point for the Island is not the same as moving the Island - therefore, as much as I do like the idea, I struggle to get on board with it.
Angelo. Moving can mean displacing. DIsplacing in the sense of hiding. Moving could just mean hiding. It does not need to be a literally physical term. Also, maybe Locke was just trying not to tell the whole story of what must be done. If he said to everyone, “we must create a magnetic disturbance similar to the hatch, to offset the current bearing to balk the freighters’ attempts to reach the Island.” It might overwhelm them. I find this to be the most believable theory of the Cabin scene yet.
Um, the freighter’s engines are dead. The anchor is not in the water. So it’s floating at the mercy of winds and currents. I humbly submit that if any bearing has changed up to now, it’s not because the Island has moved, but because the freighter has drifted.
I believe that “Move the Island” is not movinging it physically but “Move it in Time”. There seems to be a lot of time shifting going on and how better to make un-reachable than to put it a few seconds in the future. The 305 degrees or what it was previously is the route to find the portal to the time warp. Just an idea.
Door shift great idea! The island is not a location in the map. The bearing is the entrance to the parrallel world! +1
OK I kinda like it, but Ben gave Michael the co-ordinates after the swan imploded and we know he got away. So the bearing remained the same after the ‘massive magnetic disturbance’. So perhaps Ben thought that bearing was now compromised after Michael used it so he ‘moved the island’ to bearing 305. This bearing is now compromised so they have to move it again.
I agree, this is a good theory. However, the ‘time travel’ movement is also a good theory. Desmond discharged the first electromagnetic explosion in season 2 and this would explain why the island is now a few hours ahead of the rest of the world?