Do not con­tinue read­ing if you don’t want to run into spoil­ers. This sec­tion of my web­site is for LOST thought and schol­ar­ship, and it pre­sumes that you’re well acquainted with the series and its episodes.

Alter­nate Realities

For the sake of clar­ity, I’ll be using Reality1 and Reality2 for dis­cus­sions of Sea­son 6. Reality1 is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the sto­ry­line from the pre­vi­ous five sea­sons. This is the “bomb didn’t work” time­line. Reality2 is the alter­nate real­ity that starts in Sea­son 6 and seems to be the “bomb did work” timeline.

The LOST YouTube Banner

On Feb­ru­ary 2nd, 2010, YouTube unveiled a spe­cial Flash ban­ner pro­mot­ing the new sea­son of LOST. The ban­ner fea­tures a line-up of the char­ac­ters, appar­ently the same that is being used as part of the over­all Sea­son 6 mar­ket­ing cam­paign. Eight indi­vid­u­als had “+” marks besides them, allow­ing users to mouse over that char­ac­ter to get a treat.

  • Frank
    • The feet and part of the legs of the statue come into view, inter­est­ing because he would only know the statue in its dam­aged form, includ­ing only the right foot.
    • Frank’s voice is heard say­ing, “I’m see­ing it, but I’m still not believ­ing it.” There is white noise (per­haps ocean) in the back­ground and a faint musi­cal note.
      • At first look, he could be refer­ring to John Locke. Frank made a point of men­tion­ing (com­plain­ing) about what he was shown in the box, namely the body of John Locke. Cer­tainly, he’d take some con­vinc­ing that John Lock is, indeed, walk­ing around. If we pick up from where Frank and Locke are at the end of Sea­son 6, Frank is on the beach with the Oth­ers and Order of the Statue peo­ple, and Fake John Locke (Flocke) is in the foot of the statue, killing Jacob with Ben. The setup for this line, then, would be when Flocke comes out of the foot and addresses the group. Frank, with his new knowl­edge of John’s death, would look upon him in won­der and utter the line above. HOWEVER, I don’t think that’ll hap­pen. The mood on the beach, after the Order show­cases John Locke’s body to Richard, is one of con­fu­sion and fear and almost panic. Richard would, at once, worry that Jacob is in harm’s way. Per­haps they would all rush to the foot to aid Jacob against Flocke. Frank’s per­fect moment for utter­ing his line is gone.
      • The other clue is the intact feet and legs of the statue. Frank could be talk­ing about that, directly or indi­rectly. He would only know the statue as bro­ken and par­tial. If (by some method) he ended up back in time, he would have occa­sion to see the com­pleted statue. How he would get there (and to such a serene moment) is beyond me, but it’s another theory.
    • Also high­lighted (with his back to us) is John Locke.
    • REVEALED (Reality1): Frank utters this line after see­ing John Locke leave the Statue. The fer­vor has died down con­sid­er­ably after John, as Smokey, sub­dues a num­ber of Orders.
  • Kate
    • A voice (prob­a­bly Kate’s) is heard say­ing, “They’re pro­tect­ing us… I think…” in an uncer­tain (scared?) tone of voice
      • There is some white noise and some mechan­i­cal sounds. There also might be a heart beat or dou­ble “thump” or some sort.
      • I’m not con­vinced it’s Kate’s voice, but it’s close.
    • Claire is also shown
    • REVEALED (Reality1): Kate actu­ally says this to Sawyer who, injured and lay­ing down in the Tem­ple, wakes up. She soothes him with this line, refer­ring to the Oth­ers who inhabit the Temple.
  • Jack
    • Jack’s voice is heard say­ing, “Do what you have to do.“
      • Water is clearly heard in the background.
      • Jack sounds earnest.
    • REVEALED (Reality1): Jack answers with this when told there could are risks to cur­ing Sayid’s injuries.
    • Sawyer
      • Sawyer’s voice is heard say­ing, “Wel­come aboard.“
        • There is charm in his voice, and he sounds pleasant.
        • The sound is very clear, sug­gest­ing indoors.
      • An ele­va­tor is shown, whose doors open with a *ding* after Sawyer’s line.
      • Kate is also shown
      • REVEALED (Reality2): Sawyer says this to Kate as he holds the door to the ele­va­tor, allow­ing her to get on.
    • Sayid
      • A voice is heard say­ing, “Who are you?“
        • I do not think it’s Sayid’s voice. It sounds closer to Mr. Friendly’s, of those we know.
      • Some Asian-language char­ac­ters slide across the screen behind Sayid. I think they’re Japan­ese, but I’m not pos­i­tive. I don’t know what they say, yet.
      • REVEALED (Reality1): This is spo­ken by an as-yet unnamed Other spo­ken as a trans­la­tion of an Asian decent (Japan­ese?) Other who seems to hold a posi­tion of author­ity and power.
    • Claire
      • Kate’s voice is heard say­ing, “I said go!“
        • Kate sounds out of breath and panicked.
      • The ori­en­ta­tion is the same as Kate’s rollover, with Kate in the fore­ground and Claire in the background
      • REVEALED (Reality2): Kate, gun drawn, threat­ens a cab­bie, with Claire as the unwit­ting passenger.
    • Hur­ley
      • A voice (either not Hurley’s, or Hurley’s with the pitch low­ered) is heard say­ing, “I’m the luck­i­est guy alive.”
      • A Mr. Cluck’s logo sits to the left of Hurley’s head
        • Click­ing on it reveals the com­mer­cial unveiled at ComiCon
      • Some of the num­bers swirl around Hurley
        • The only num­bers they show are: 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
      • There is also a link to down­load a PDF which has a “scan” of Hurley’s win­ning lot­tery ticket
      • REVEALED (Reality2): Hur­ley tells a (pos­si­bly schem­ing) Sawyer this about his lot­tery win­ning and restaurant-owning.
    • Char­lie
      • A voice (pos­si­bly Charlie’s) is heard say­ing, “Where are we?“
        • The voice is harsh and low.
        • No non-American accent can be determined.
        • There is mov­ing white noise in the back­ground, per­haps like a waterfall
      • REVEALED (Reality1): Jack asks this when Kate wakes him up imme­di­ately after the explosion.

      Pre­dic­tions

      Fol­low­ing is a list of LOST pre­dic­tions that I’ve come up with. I’m try­ing to post this before the Sea­son 6 pre­mière. The­o­ries will have the date of edi­tion next to them (a flimsy attempt at “proof”).

      Rose and Bernard are Adam and Eve from the Caves (2010−02−02 8:36:14AM)

      Richard (Ricar­dos) Alpert came to the Island as a pas­sen­ger on the Black Rock (2010−02−02 1:13:14PM)

      As Jacob and The Man in Black sit on the beach (in The Inci­dent, Part I) dis­cussing mat­ters of the Island, their con­ver­sa­tion leads us to believe that cer­tain events take place upon the Island in a cycli­cal (if not, out­right recur­sive) fash­ion. They watch a ship dur­ing their inter­course, a ship that many pre­sume to be the Black Rock. This sug­gests that per­haps the sur­vivors of the Black Rock’s col­li­sion with the Island went through sim­i­lar dif­fi­cul­ties to those of our heros. How­ever, what if the pas­sen­gers were sim­i­lar as well? What if our cast­aways have been to the Island before but as pas­sen­gers on the Black Rock instead? What if this had hap­pened before then, even? And every time, the sur­vivors end up at some endgame where every­one dies. Then it starts over, every­thing up to that point hav­ing been “progress”. (2010−02−02 1:13:14PM)

      The con­cept of light rocks ver­sus dark rocks is a preva­lent one. The show seems to reveal them in pairs: John Locke’s backgam­mon pieces, the rocks with Adam and Eve, and the rocks in the scale in the Can­di­date Cave. We know that our Island has a giant black rock, in the form of a slave ship called the Black Rock. Then where is the White Rock? It might be a slave ship, too, or sim­ply another large trans­port vehi­cle. Maybe it’s 815? Maybe it’s on another island (in another real­ity). (2−22−2010)

      (Wild­card) The Neme­sis is Jacob’s son. (2−22−2010)

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