My theory on young Locke, this will blow your mind.
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By IknowWalt
- My theory on young Locke, this will blow your mind.
- Created: May 11, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 4.11: Cabin Fever
- Status: Current
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Faraday set up a test. He sent a mouse into the future, then tested it to see if it would be able to solve a maze when it’s consciousness was sent back. My theory is this……perhaps more of the losties are “mind” time jumping than we know.
What if, instead of having consciousness sent back a few years, like Desmond in the military, a Lostie had his consciousness sent back to the point of birth. I’m theorizing that Locke’s consciousness was sent back to the earliest possible time, and like Desmond, he had momentary glimpses of the future. Desmond has Penny as a constant, Faraday has Desmond as a constant, and just maybe, Locke has Richard as a constant. Alpert, like Faraday, keeps an eye on his test subject, and then presents items to a young Locke to see if he can remember his future self. Young Locke eventually picks the knife, just like the mouse runs the maze, able to recall his future training and purpose. Why not, if people can time jump, and consciousness can go back into a younger version of someone, then it is possible that we were seeing not a flashback, but a loop of time when Locke got to do his life over again. We’ve seen evidence of Losties seemingly reliving days they have some faint memory of, and I propose this as my latest theory.
By the way, did Anthony Cooper take Locke’s kidney before or after he hired Dalton to clean up the Double Deuce?
Sorry I can’t buy this one, but I’ll plus one you for originality.
Just barely passes my brain’s test of believance (I made the word, sue me). +1.
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I will give you a +0. I think that is fair.
The reason why is because even though it is an original idea, I really think there isn’t much of a chance that this is really what is going on. It is just really complex. Keep in mind, there are a lot of casual Lost viewers out there who don’t follow every tiny detail like we do. And they will be totally baffled and confused if the writers try to explain this to them in the show.
I like it. I think everything i wanted to say has been said already. So +1. But I think i accidentally gave you a minus. Sorry
I gotta give props to this one, I was thinking something similar way back when Desmond’s flashes were introduced. I thought, “what better way to explain Locke’s rant about destiny?” In other words, why was he so insistent that it was his destiny to go on a walkabout? Did he see it? Did he already know somehow what was to be?
Now, of course, I did also theorize that Locke had been convinced that he could make his own destiny. That through determination alone he could make something happen, and maybe that’s the kind of thing he’s been convinced of his whole life. The whole basis of his “Don’t tell me what I can’t do” philosophy.
Which sounds more plausible to the rest of you? Both might fit, in my opinion, though it may not be both.
Well, we know Desmond’s ‘mind-travel’ isn’t unique to him. But we know also that mind-travel can be a very risky and possibly lethal adventure. Not to mention how that pesky course-correction always manages stop you.
Not saying it isn’t outside the realm of possibilities for Lost, it just doesn’t fit for me.
That could also explain Jack and why he seemed to know what to do, n where everything was after they crashed onto the island in the first episode. He’d already been through this.
Nice theory. +1 from me.
Any post that references Roadhouse gets a +1 from me
I was thinking along the same line. Exept i don’t think richard is lockes constant. I think that john had a miserable life just like everyone else did that ended up on the island. Maybe after locke serves the island he gets to go back and ‘do his life over again’. It reloops. Than again if locke is actually higher up in the ‘others or hostiles’ than it would be possible richard is his constant, but if hes not, i think richard is too high up to be his constant.
I laughed out loud at your reference to the double deuce. thanks - i needed that! : ) +1