What was your silliest theory?

Sad Professor

The theorising was probably the most enjoyable aspect of Lost, but it also led us all at some point to consider all sorts of ridiculous ideas. What was your silliest most outrageous theory? The answer that made perfect sense to you at the time but in retrospect makes you cringe.

I remember in the third season I became convinced that the "bad guys" (which Ben implied in the season 2 finale) were actually other-Others who lived in the island's underground tunnels. I figured that the 4th season would revolve around the battle between these two groups. It never occurred to me that the threat would come from outside the island.

Dman001

I remember around Season 3 someone had a Theory that Lost actually stood for Land of Scientific Tests. The fact that Lost was always spelt "LOST" in all promo material, I had thought that Lost did infact stand for something.

qz

After watching the first episode, I would have put my life savings on the theory that the Losties had gone back in time, and the noises they were hearing was all the dinosaurs roaming about

FredBloggs

The silliest theory was that they were actually all dead - but that was ruled out by the writers early on as being too obvious.....hang on they were dead in the last season (well half of them were) but that was only part of the last season so I guess it doesn't count.:D

tok9

I honestly can't remember any of my theories.. i'm not even sure if I had any but I always remember thinking that the monster was a dinosaur during season 1.

emrys

for a while I was going with the matrix theory - they were all in pods hooked up to some evil computer:)

Frank Black

For some reason I was convinced that the sound effect used to transition between island time and flashbacks was incredibly important - to me it sounded like an airplane crashing so I kinda though that the whole island experience was a vivid dream that the passengers experienced in the few moments before crashing.

In retrospect this was no more stupid than the actual ending.

Mr. Incognito

My silliest theory was that the writers had some idea what they were doing and there would be a grand amazing explanation in the final series instead of everyone hugging in slow motion and nothing at all being explained only getting more and more ridiculous like an old woman murdering a village and filling in a huge well and being home in a half hour.

FredBloggs

Well that was a silly theory!

BengaLover

If you had to condense the story of LOST into a few sentences what would your summary be?

Sad Professor

BengaLover wrote: »

If you had to condense the story of LOST into a few sentences what would your summary be?

It would be get your own thread.

blue_steel

After Season 5 I was convinced that the Temple would contain older versions of the Losties who were instructing the others to behave in the way they did. And that Jack etc would end up time-travelling back to the Black Rock era.
Oh and that we'd have a Locke vs Fake Locke showdown!
Man, theorising was the best aspect of the show

Sea Sharp

I'd like to think the following theories weren't so silly, but I'm hardly the judge of that::pac:

I thought that Jack, Sawyer etc would be sent back in time and stranded when Jacob and Smoky were kids, and there could have been some plot that explained how Jacob got his abilities. (Not a fcuking magic light, Jesus Christ:(:(:(:()

Smokey could have been explained as; life from a parallel universe undergoes some sort of molecular warping when it travels through from another dimension. Had that been the case, at least one other character experiencing anything similar to Smokey's transformations would have been nice.

It would have been cool if the dog had been Smokey all along. I remember watching back over previous seasons a few weeks before the finale and Vincent always seemed to appear just after somebody saw or thought they heard the monster. That would have put lost up there with The Usual Suspects for me.

Flocke was actually Locke from a parallel timeline that got stranded back in time by Ben. Would have been a nice twist that Locke was actually pretending to be Jacob's brother and not the other way around.

I literally cringe and get annoyed any time I remember how much of an abysmal fcuk up the writers made of the final season.:mad:

Deeper Blue

Before the season 5 finale I thought Richard Alpert would be revealed as the main "bad guy", that he was keeping Jacob prisoner in the cabin, that he controlled the smoke monster etc. Would have been a cool twist imo:o

McLoughlin

Hurley was responsible for the numbers he ended up traveling back in time and used the numbers then creating a paradox.

blue_steel

McLoughlin wrote: »

Hurley was responsible for the numbers he ended up traveling back in time and used the numbers then creating a paradox.

They really could have used time travel to explain so much on the show. I was shocked when season six contained no time travel. I always thought Flashes Before Your Eyes was a major foreshadowing of a final unifying theory.

Sad Professor

Tbh they made such a hash of the time travel in season 5 that I was glad to see the end of it. Although I kinda wish the Sideways had been an alternate timeline, as it would have given some meaning to the time traveling detour the show took.

Dman001

Sad Professor wrote: »

Tbh they made such a hash of the time travel in season 5 that I was glad to see the end of it. Although I kinda wish the Sideways had been an alternate timeline, as it would have given some meaning to the time traveling detour the show took.

My biggest gripe with Lost was the time travel. Even for Lost it came out of nowhere and went nowhere. It was a good way to learn more about Dharma, but they could of made a way better attempt at Season 5.

Sad Professor

It didn't really come out of nowhere though. There was a time travel episode in season 3 and in season 4. And there's evidence that the writers had been thinking about it for some time prior to that.

But I wasn't mad it about myself. Mostly because of the execution. However, as a way to learn more about the history of the island, I think they used it effectively enough.

Dman001

Sad Professor wrote: »

It didn't really come out of nowhere though. There was a time travel episode in season 3 and in season 4. And there's evidence that the writers had been thinking about it for some time prior to that.

But I wasn't mad it about myself. Mostly because of the execution. However, as a way to learn more about the history of the island, I think they used it effectively enough.

Actually that's true, I forgot about The Constant episode. Will defo have to do a Lost re-watch soon.

charlieharper

qz wrote: »

After watching the first episode, I would have put my life savings on the theory that the Losties had gone back in time, and the noises they were hearing was all the dinosaurs roaming about

MATE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ACE!!!!

I thought that Hurley was creating all the things happening on the Island kinda like the movie Sphere...

conor.hogan.2

Didn't time travel cause the whole smokie becoming flocke thing?

Brennaldo II

I thought after the season 1 finale that Walt would of returned to a much bigger role than what actually happened.

Also I thought that weird green bird that said hurleys name would of had more meaning too

1huge1

I'm more interested in the fact that she show has been over for more of a year now, and I can barely remember what happened, there was just too much stuff to remember.

Irish Guitarist

Actually a lot of theories I've read on forums weren't half as ridiculous as what the writers came up with.

Anyway, one theory I had was that when Michael shot Libby and Anna Lucia I thought he was either an evil clone or some type of a cyborg.

Also I thought Richard Alpert was ancient. After he said something like "I'm older than you could ever imagine" I thought his flashback would show him living in the stone age, or at the very least show him as a slave in Egypt building the pyramids.

me-skywalker

Oh the Ricahrd Alpert age debacle! That to me was when I think most fans actually realised the writers had built this huge yearn and couldn't string it together.

blue_steel

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Also I thought Richard Alpert was ancient. After he said something like "I'm older than you could ever imagine" I thought his flashback would show him living in the stone age, or at the very least show him as a slave in Egypt building the pyramids.

Yeah 140 years is an unimaginable period of time alright :-)
Yet another indication that the writers were not planning ahead.

Sad Professor

This reminds me of Randall Flagg. In The Stand he was described as being older than the earth itself. But it turned out he was only 1500 years old. I mean, what a disappointment! :pac:

Seriously though, 170 years is very old. Richard obviously didn't mean his age was literally unimaginable. Because Ancient Egypt isn't unimaginable. Ramirez in Highlander was born in Ancient Egypt and I have no trouble imagining that. You know what would be unimaginable? If he was older than the Universe and existed before the Big Bang. But I don't think they had enough money to show that, so they settled with making Richard a mere 170 years old and tying him into an existing mystery instead of creating a new one involving pyramids and sh*t.

What he meant was that he was pretty old, older than a normal human being. Stop nitpicking, you guys! :P

Old_-_School

That the polar bears were actually just albino grizzlies.

Handsome Bob

There was a brief moment in time when I thought Desmond was the second coming of Jesus. I know I know...