At last, a coherent theory? *SPOILERS*

mr_angry

This isn't my work, so I wont chance my arm cutting and pasting. Please follow this link:

http://p073.ezboard.com/flosttheunofficalforumfortheabcseriesfrm29.showMessageRange?topicID=2272.topic&start=21&stop=40

The poster clayseason1 has a number of posts on this thread. Make sure you read down as far as the one that begins "Expanded Theory".

MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS THEORY!

Pacifico

Is this a spoiler for IRL viewers also?

Before i have a look!

mr_angry

Yeah. Read it after tonight's double-bill and you should be alright.

steveland?

Man... that makes far too much sense...

My head hurts...

qz

That is the most logical explanation I've heard. Fair play to yer man, although he probably should get out more.

Matthewthebig

eh gads!

interesting though

yet again the numbers pop up

KdjaCL

Damn that makes perfect sense.


kdjac

Sandals

absolute crap.

qz

Sandals wrote:

absolute crap.

Please explain.

fightin irish

Wowzers, Thats some serious explanation....But would the ordinary joe in the street( i.e. me ) pick up on this, I doubt it. But then again you never know...

KdjaCL

Sandals wrote:

absolute crap.

Didnt get it eh?


Read it again slowly.

kdjac

Mr E

I like it !!

scojones

Doh, I shouldn't have read on through it!

Gone West

Sandals wrote:

absolute crap.

Sounds like someone doesn't understand theoretical physics very well.
Its nothing to be ashamed of...

tvnutz

Wow...interesting...but that dude really needs to get out more...:p

scojones

A nice explanation of the numbers on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%282004_television_series%29#The_Numbers

Warning, this page contains ALOT OF SPOILERS!!!

fightin irish

sjones wrote:

A nice explanation of the numbers on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%282004_television_series%29#The_Numbers

Warning, this page contains ALOT OF SPOILERS!!!

Jesus h Christ ''alot of spoilers'' is an understatment lol. But nice linky anyways.

Sauron

that wikipedia one is very interesting....

lostexpectation

quite current zeitgeisty.... its explains the premise, but i didn't see where he explain "point" of the show.

i was watching meet the press on cnbc the other day and they were talking about that energy bill and how it they've decided to changed daylight saving time for the US... to save energy consumption, but they never bothered to ask canada of or any other country about it... screwing up trading and god knows what else

I always been a bit confused about this to go a bit off topic, time zones were always delineated in roughly vertical strips so now say american states and canadian states above will be out of sync...

i always wondered how they split america into three time zones, where the blurred line between states, if you fly its easy enough to change your watch,but if you drive from one state to the other at which motor service station do they change the clocks, i know stupid...

trishw78

Holy crap that was a brilliant theory ... It instantly reminded me of a Stephen King Film 'Screachers' I think it's called where an plane flies through the northern lights and ends up in the past... obvisouly there's no screachers eatin up the past in the series YET.. but it's still to do time and 'doorways or portals...

BRILLIANT

Femelade

dont killl me, but i fell asleep while reading that.

Sherifu

Good explanation, nicely put together.
There should be more to it though.......
Something involving aliens or the cia would be nice.

seabee

Wow, that is class!
How long would he have spent developing/thinking about that theory?

Beruthiel

bloody hell
that bloke must have a lot of spare time!!
excellent theory though

voxpop

how is it a coherent theory? - found it slightly boring myself, way too sci-fi - timetravel,inter-dimensional portals, com'on...
Lost is supposed to be grounded in reality - that theory sounds waay too crazy for anything main-stream like lost.

qz

Angry_Penguin wrote:

how is it a coherent theory? - found it slightly boring myself, way too sci-fi - timetravel,inter-dimensional portals, com'on...
Lost is supposed to be grounded in reality - that theory sounds waay too crazy for anything main-stream like lost.

Mainstream yes, but grounded in reality?

Fridge

It's a lot more realistic than aliens, or being in purgatory.

It sounds like the kinda of thing that can happen, it probably can, but we don't know a lot about this kind of stuff yet. Maybe because you go missing if you try to investigate.

trishw78

Fridge wrote:

It sounds like the kinda of thing that can happen, it probably can, but we don't know a lot about this kind of stuff yet. Maybe because you go missing if you try to investigate.

How do we know it doesn't happen? Think of all the people that go missing every year some of those are never accounted for so maybe that's where the go...

On second thoughts what tv show are we watching 'Lost' or 'The 4400'

ross_castle

This is a very ENTERTAINING and compelling explanation as to what happened the Lost survivors. But I strongly feel the need to point out that it has ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDING WHATSOEVER IN SCIENTIFIC FACT. Regardless of what the poster claims

Draupnir

Scientific "facts" are only what is believed to be true at this point in time.

514 years ago, every scientist worth his salt would have had you commited for saying the Earth was flat.

Then again, I have my doubts about how wacky the Lost explanation will be. I think it will be relatively understandable and shockingly obvious!

trishw78

Draupnir wrote:

Then again, I have my doubts about how wacky the Lost explanation will be. I think it will be relatively understandable and shockingly obvious!

Didn't the writers not suggest that it was very obvious and that no wormholes/portals/doorways were involved in the making of 'Lost'...

Khannie

Have you any linkage there trish?

Was thinking that it probably wasn't going to have anything to do with 4 dimensional cubes myself. Too much for the average punter to actually give a poo about.

Ponster

trishw78 wrote:

Holy crap that was a brilliant theory ... It instantly reminded me of a Stephen King Film 'Screachers' I think it's called where an plane flies through the northern lights and ends up in the past... obvisouly there's no screachers eatin up the past in the series YET.. but it's still to do time and 'doorways or portals...

BRILLIANT

It was a short story called The Langoliers from the book "Four Past Midnight".

People wake up to find half of the people on the plane have vanished and realise that they're caught in a pocket of time. Great story.

trishw78

Khannie wrote:

Have you any linkage there trish?

Was thinking that it probably wasn't going to have anything to do with 4 dimensional cubes myself. Too much for the average punter to actually give a poo about.

It was on the E4 Lost revealed show that was on a couple of weeks ago there was a thread discussing the revealed...


Ponstar thanks that was it 'The Longoliers' Brilliant

Lamia

Amazing! Its the most logical theory Ive read so far...havent read that many though TBH

sephirosis

i dont know if i fully agree with the theory, or even completely understand it, and i did have to avert my eyes from whole paragraphs when it looked like a looming spoiler (i learned one or two small things i would rather not have despite my efforts >_<), but it is very well explained and researched so fair play.

has anyone read umberto eco's "the island of the day before"? it reminds me of it a bit

dr gonzo

Very interesting and amazing to think that lost brings out such a quest for knowledge in people but i think it might be a little over the top, its a nice theory but it doesnt explain the "others" or anything and also lost is primetime television it would be a tad difficult to explain all of that on the show. I would imagine its something a little more straight forward.

But i might be completely wrong(Which i wouldnt mind because i quite like that theory and it would also really higher the intellectual level of current tv shows)

cuppa

i prefear this one
http://p073.ezboard.com/flosttheunofficalforumfortheabcseriesfrm29.showMessageRange?topicID=1708.topic&start=1&stop=20

Anima

HHHHmmmmm, I don't think its it.

If the writers are worth their salt, it should be impossible to tell what caused the whole incident at this stage. I mean come on its the first series for christ sake! Tbh I found that theory rather boring. Sure the guy is smart in finding all those connections and ways of explaining the facts but I just don't think it fits Lost's story.