The LOST Pool

TELEVISION Specific Shows
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Post your best theory as to how LOST ends.

Rules:

No editing.
To be fair, people who are following spoilers should opt out of the game.
Place your theory before midnight 2/22.
Try to be as specific as reasonable. Don’t just say ‘They get off the island.’ Have some fun with it.
Prize: Bragging rights.

MY THEORY:

The Losties discover that they’re pawns in this game between Jacob (who will return) and the Man in Black. While some may be tempted to choose sides (and some may choose sides) the eventual decision comes to be that both must be defied.

Desmond will bridge the gap between the alt timeline and the real timeline, bringing characters between the two. Prime crossover characters: Locke and Faraday.

The unexploded H bomb will be recovered from the wreckage of the Swan hatch and used to detonate the volcano, completely destroying the island, killing the Man in Black and robbing Jacob of his source of power.

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I say Aaron is the new Jacob, And some of the losties get systematically killed off while searching for the final candidate. The island gets moved again, but this time completely out of time/space and Ben is the one to do it getting stuck with the island. The few losties survivors get off someway and get happy endings.

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I have nothing to add other than I like your The Stand take on the ending Devin. I would actually be satisfied if it ended that way. Though some autistic kid’s dream would be just as good.

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Alt-timeline Locke becomes a full time teacher. About a year after Helen dies, he decides to take a flight to Tahiti on Ajira Air. His consciousness jumps timelines and he wakes up in his body on the Island, only to suffocate in his grave.

Or, more likely: He manages to claw his way out of his grave before dying (again) and assumes Jacob’s mantle. He allows everyone else to leave the Island and permanently seals it off from the world, trapped for all time with Not Locke (still in Locke form). I almost want them to merge somehow and have the final shot of the series be a close up of his face with one black eye and one white eye, like in Claire’s dream from Season 1.

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This is more of an epilogue idea, and its very silly, but there are waaay too many kids on this show for some of them not to be important. I predict we’ll have a scene of Aaron, Ji-Yeon, Charlie Hume, Clementine (yes, Sawyer’s kid) and an older Walt all somehow ending up on the Island after the main conflict with our current character is resolved.

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Should clarify that they’ll all be older, not kids in this epilogue.

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My Theory:

MiB and Jacob are extensions of both the the metaphysical conflicts and the personal ones explored throughout the series: Faith vs. Science, Destiny vs. Self-Determination, Logic vs Emotion, The Others vs. The Survivors, Widmore vs Ben etc. The two sides exist as balancing forces on the Island to prevent its immense power from being in the hands of “one side”.

MiB is tired of the “game” and wants to just leave. He was once a man who was “destined” to be the “other side” on the Island, was brought there to play his role and wants no more of it. He can’t leave as long as Jacob and the potential for the extension of his “side” and the “other side” exists.

The “candidates” aren’t just for Jacob’s role but MiB’s as well. Because of the Rules, MiB has to eliminate these candidates and break this chain of succession before he can be set free.

The Alt Timeline is the result of the MiB’s endgame. The “game” is ended and the lineage is broken. This creates a shattering effect that results in the Island’s destruction and a paradox creating two timelines that will eventually unravel both. Desmond saves the day by being able to transport himself between the two, somehow fixes the lineage and the game by moving pieces from the alt timeline to the “original”, we end up with a new Jacob and a new MiB (and a new Richard too acting as the fulcrum for the opposing forces as the Island’s "avatar) that comes out of the “candidates”. With the possibility that the new Jacob is Jack and the new MiB ends up being Sayid or even an Alt Locke.

Then the Ewoks have an intergalactic bonfire/keggar and everybody gets laid.

And I feel like I just wrote some really bad fan fiction. I guess I can take solace that I didn’t have Hurley and Jin tonguing each other.

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But they’ll all be played by kids aged through traditional Lost “Crap-CGI”, right Syd?

Anyway, I posted this in the other thread, but I think it’s possible it will play into the ending so I’ll throw it up here as my theory for part of what might happen:

According to some, the numbers represent the current values of the variables in the Valenzetti Equation, which purports to predict the end date of humanity. One of the aims of the Dharma Initiative was apparently to attempt to change at least one of the variables in order to stave off the end of humanity.

Now, Jacob’s motive is apparently to protect the island because it is presumably important to the world’s safety. Now we find that certain losties, whom Farraday has referred to as “variables in the equation” are tied into the numbers that are the current values of the equation. Now, with the alternate timeline we even have alternates of these variables (different values, possibly?). Maybe Jacob is working the same idea as Dharma from a different angle.

So ultimately it comes down to Goofy science. How it plays out is anybody’s guess, and I wouldn’t have a problem with it playing out like Devin’s theory.

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On the island, the Smoke Monster continues to do his damnedest to get off the island. He’s a bad dude, but not necessarily evil. More like a personification of chaos or some shit. He and Jacob, some sort of order entity, have been on this island as a form of penance. Maybe Jacob trapped them there, maybe it was space elves.

Jack and crew chill with the temple folks and learn about how they help the “gods” continue their ever-long duel by resurrecting or killing or enabling possession. This will have something to do with the nature of Jacob and Smokey, like maybe if one is to eternally die, the universe is totally fucked.

At the end of it all, someone, more than likely Jack, Sawyer or Saiyd will be given some ultimate choice to make, vis a vis preservation of this eternal battle and the life of the island. That person will tell them to eff off and this time loop will cease to be. There will be some sort of tender moment as the realization sinks in that they’re done for, but most will accept the end and rejoice in grasping destiny by the balls and telling it to go to hell.

That, or Hurley makes some goofy/impassioned statement and Jacob and Smokey are moved to let things end and be friends. It will be super cheesy but people with say they cried.

As it turns out, the alt 2004 timeline is kind of a “what if” mixed with a “maybe that’s what REALLY happened”. It give them opportunity to tell happy/better endings for these characters if destiny Jacob and crew hadn’t been such douches. But, if they’d actually done the last 5-8 episodes like that, people would’ve been super pissed off at the ROTK style ending, so they’re having their cake and eating it, too.

Ultimately, it be like an inverse of the BSG ending. Not so much that God did it, but gods coulda done it, and the awesomeness of the human spirit made them realize they shouldn’t or some horseshit.

This is all bullshit, but I wouldn’t be surprised if elements of it pop up during the season. I have absolutely no faith or trust in the Lost creators. Oh, it’s a show that I like and have really like a lot, but I still think they’re completely winging a bunch of it and the whole thing will be less than the sum of it’s parts. They listen to their damn fans, the shitty ones anyway, too much and for a show like this I think that’s a major mistake. Anyway, I’m on the ride until the end.

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The series ends very similarly to the Dark Tower. Jack wakes up in the same position as in the beginning of the series, only armed with knowledge to make things work this time, a literalization of Jacob’s line “it only happens once, the rest is progress”.
This is not a good idea, but it might happen.

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This is probably completely wrong, but it’s been nagging at me for three or four seasons now.

It’s the early part of John Byrne’s Next Men. They’re all in some kind of virtual reality experiment being run by Jacob and MiB.

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THe monster, aided by Claire, and Sayid, will go on a killing rampage, killing all the others. Sawyer will kill Hugo, Sun, and Jin leaving Jack and Kate. Sawyer will kill Kate in front of Jack and there will be a final battle between Jack and Sawyer that Jack (aided by Ben and Des) will win. Ben again kills Locke, causing the Monster to go into Sawyer. Jack becomes Jacob on the promise, that if he does all the Killed people will come back and the island will sink. Jack and Sawyer continue what ever Jacob and the monster did, but off the island.

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Bob Newhart wakes up in bed next to Susanne Pleshette, turns to her and says, “I just had the weirdest dream.”

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I think the kids are much more crucial to the endgame. Ben and Locke will have several of the children in their classes, and I’m also guessing that Daniel Faraday will also be part of the faculty.

Meanwhile, Desmond will be rounding up the others. Desmond will then arrive at the school, and after some side-drama due to his anger towards Ben for shooting him (since he’ll be the only one that remembers), Faraday will then have a five-minute exposition-filled monologue that will establish why they all need to go back, which I hope won’t be too hilarious.

Once they get back to the island, I think some, if not all of the main characters will die (at each other’s hand, by sacrificing themselves, etc) and then be revived / resurrected somehow. From there, the endgame will unfold pretty much how Devin describes it.

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Of course, considering how ABC’s version of Life on Mars ended, there’s no way I’m right.

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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post Of course, considering how ABC’s version of Life on Mars ended, there’s no way I’m right.

I’m just curious as to why you thought of that. Or what information you had to support that theory?

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Devin’s theory about the end seems pretty probable, however more than guessing what the end is I’m more curious about just what the true nature of the island is (and Jacob and MiB). I guess that’s the harder thing to guess.

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Jack is sitting on the beach, eating fish. Real Locke (or, perhaps, Sawyer) approaches and sits on a nearby rock. They both gaze out over the ocean and we see a ship off the coast, although my love of symmetry would love to see a passenger jet breaking up in the sky above the Island. They then engage in the “It only ends once” conversation.

*Boom*

Lost

Additionally, I remain convinced that the blood on AlternaJack’s neck indicates that he’s going to be visited by the Ghost of Faraday Blast(ed).

Additionally additionally, several years will pass and we will have a sequel series, “The Hunted Ones”.

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Originally Posted by Tati View Post I’m just curious as to why you thought of that. Or what information you had to support that theory?

No real info, it’s just a feeling I get every now and then from the show. It popped up again when they showed the numbers and names on the cave wall. Seeing the numbers next to the names like that, it made me think of subjects in an experiment: “Subject #15 - Ford”. Little things like that. I haven’t sat down and tried to incorporate everything to fit it, it’s just a nagging notion that’s stuck with me.

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Like the Hollow Men: not with a bang but a whimper.

That’s not in the spirit of the topic, but I don’t have much concrete to posit. I think the ending will be underwhelming. Either Jack or Sawyer will choose to stay on the island, alone*, and the other will ride off into the sunset with Kate. They’ll explain why Aaron matters with some throwaway about other kids.

*I’m thinking Sawyer, although they’ve already done that once.