ABC’s LOST explained!
Still wondering what the television show LOST was all about? I have answers!
SPOILER ALERT – the following article will completely explain and therefore give away to the most important puzzle pieces from the hit ABC television series LOST. Therefore if you haven’t seen the show and don’t want the end to be spoiled, stop reading this article right here! As for the rest of you who have wondered… what did it all mean? I have the answer for you!
Now that the spoiler warning is out of the way, lets get right to it…
The most mysterious lingering question remaining regarding the television show LOST is… what is the golden light in the cave at the heart of the island?
If only we knew what the light was maybe we could determine what the island was. And if we knew those facts we could piece together all the remaining details. Some might say the question was already answered when Jacob claimed the island was like a cork (when he said that he wasn’t lying which I will explain later) yet saying the island is a cork really only raises another question instead of giving any type of comprehensive answer, after all… if the island is a cork, what does that mean? I for one am glad that the writers didn’t spell it all out for us because if they had, it would have robbed us the opportunity to ponder the larger questions and solve the puzzle ourselves and ultimately that was the fun of LOST.
SO WHAT WAS THE LIGHT?
The golden light in the cave at the heart of the island is the same light that was behind the frozen donkey wheel that the MIB, Ben, and Locke, all were attempting to manipulate or channel to their benefit throughout the show. It also seems to be the same light (or a type of it) that engulfed the island when Desmond flipped the fail safe, when Juliette ignited Jughead, and each time our losties were bounced around when the island was skipping in time.
Most folks assume the light is God, or spirituality, or possibly the personification of goodness, or life, or something similarly vague. None of those solutions help us piece together the puzzle that is LOST.
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@Krafling,
Do you not remember how Jacob/MIB’s mom crashed to the island?
Eric,
Don’t waste you time with TolkienKnew’s link. He’s a thought nazi, who thinks he’s spot on, but is actually clueless.
You made a long theory that has only one problem.
It is wrong.
Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-aTb2Yeffk
I agree with alot of these theories, except one. You say that the egyptians came BEFORE Jacob and the MIB. They came AFTER them. I have two observations the prove it.
1. The statue had not existed when they were children.
2. When Ben summons the smoke monster (MIB), there are egyptian hieroglyphics in the summoning area. This means that the egyptians came and did that after he was already the smoke monster
Really good stuff man. So when some of them escaped the island, was it because they had dealt with the past?
Love your explanation, but disagree with the idea that it was ok, even good, for the writers to leave so much unexplained. As viewers, we invested six years of our life in their story. As story tellers, they owe us something close to a complete ending. It seemed cowardly to not do so. It’s not ok for them to say “it’s good for you to think about the possibilities.” Tell your story, and I’ll decide if I like it.
That said, if they had spelled out, just a LITTLE bit more, the kind of explanation you gave us here, I would have been THRILLED with the season finale. I would have even forgiven them for the “we’re all looking for the redemption in the afterlife” bullshit that they had PROMISED us they weren’t going to do.
I just finished completely rewatching the series, years after it ended. It was immensely enjoyable. I agree it was one of the best TV programs ever produced. Right up until I had to get on the internet and find someone else’s explanation for so many details that the show never addressed.
Great post. Thank you very much.
The hubby and daughter have been watching the series….don’t know what is wrong with me, but I just find the whole thing silly and uninteresting. I cannot for the life of me see what others find so compelling about the show.
the egyptians did not create the smoke monster. jacob said he created it when he pushed his brother into the light cave. i do not think jacob’s brother was ever the smoke monster from the beginning, but he died when he got pushed into the cave and the smoke monster used his body as a medium.
yes this made total sense and i appreciate you taking the time to share yur insights and it explained alotttt of things to me. thank you very much.
LOST series;
boring, uninteresting, and silly.
Bottom line;
LOST : SUCKS.
Thanks for the detailed summary – it expands on my similar albeit briefer theory. Some bits I still can’t get the relevance of: What was the deal with Walt ? Were all the passengers on the original Oceanic flight there independently or was it ‘pre-ordained’, if so by who? What’s the significance of John going walkabout in Australia? The carvings on Mr Echo’s ‘religious’ stick … and many more.
I couldn’t agree more with your explanation. I actually got at the same conclusion at some point and honestly I really liked the end. I think that somehow is a way to show us all that in the end we are the same. we all have issues to deal with but when we die we are not better than any other. Talking about the real human race not just the lost cast, I believe that we are here for reasons that just a few can understand, that we have to understand that everything that we do has a cost and doesn’t matter when we will pay for it. So the saying you reap what you saw is totally truth. Doesn’t matter if you are going to pay in this life or next life, in the end we all will pay for our sins and will have another chance to make things better letting the past in the past but using our mistakes at that time to make a better future for us and all around us.
it is really the best explanation, acctually it is the only explanation that makes sence.
but I have a question I really hope you to answer it, What happend when island drawn in the ocean?
What about the OTHER life they got?
Best theory I’ve read yet. I just finished the last episode today and I’m already going through withdrawl. thanks for this!
The best analysis of Lost yet. It all makes sense now!
David’s comment from March 19 is relevant. But in my mind, the scientific relationship between electromagnetic energy, time, and light are tied together enough that this theory is close to the mark. While I don’t necessarily buy the fact that the Dharma Initiative was ever able to control their scheme and live forever, they were manipulating space and time through the electromagnetic field they had located. And yes, it appears someone else was doing this long before them.
This answers a nice disconnect I noticed between the Others and Dharma. It’s also interesting to speculate on exactly how Jacob was working behind the scenes during the two periods of ‘occupation’ when the army came in and when Dharma came in.
Further, when Ben’s Mother appeared (let’s assume it was his past, as embodied by the smoke) was Jacob somehow manipulating MiB ? Of course he was. It is that manipulation between the two brothers that is so fascinating, because so much of it is behind the scenes.
‘Long after the Egyptians were gone, pregnant Claudia washes up on shore and “Mother” is there’
I disagree, I believe the Egyptians didn’t show up until After Jacob was the protector.
Thats why the light looks Very Bright when we see it in ‘Across the Sea’ compared to ‘The End’ and there are No tunnels or temple seen around the island in ‘Across the Sea’
Fascinating stuff. I haven’t watched the show in years, and just recently started watching it again from the beginning with my 10 year old, who is mesmerized by it. We are in the 2nd season.
One question that I always wanted answered… whats with the statue that only had 4 toes? Anyone have any ideas?
Great theory! I’ve just finished watching the show, and this theory makes me want to watch it all over again :).
Anyway, I have some reservations with time resetting every 108 minutes. That’s well pointed out in some of the previous comments.
Regarding Locke’s recovery and Ben’s tumor, I think that could be explained simply as some kind of BS monster (divine) intervention since both of those events seem to be crucial in it’s plans to kill Jacob and leave island. That was just part of the big plan. Though, Locke’s recovery might be Jacob’s doing. Maybe he wanted Locke to change for better after the crash so that he would become a better person/candidate and that just happened to fit perfectly in MIB’s plans.
love your theory UNTIL you hit a rough patch with the dharma initiative wanting to live forever and so they made a button that reset time and ben got a spinal tumor when desmond forgot to press the button.
A.) going back in time over and over again does not make you live forever, cause it is YOUR present. So, you might be experiencing the past over and over, but you can never change your own eternal clock and live forever by turning the wheel. (reserved only for jacob, nothing to suggest that moving the wheel has makes them live forever). moving the wheel dislodges the island in and out of time, and therefore also the individual partaking in the action
2.) ben had the tumor before the plane crash…so much for that theory. remember, Ben tells Jack that he believes in God because two days after he found out he had a fatal spinal tumor, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky.
therefore the past did not ‘catch up’ when the button was not pressed. cause ben had it, and charles widmore would have had cancer as well because he traveled to the island even more than ben when he was in charge, even having an affair and illegitimate child. but alas charles is not sick.
C.) the button desmond presses is to release small amounts of energy, keeping the energy (electromagnetism) at bay. not to ‘reset time’ that makes zero sense. BECAUSE of the icendent at the swan, if they do not release small amounts of energy every two hours, it will overload and the extreme electromagnetic energy will get so powerful it will suck airplanes out of the sky. it is not ‘catching up’.
4.) the reason the station claire was in looked so abandoned was maybe just because the others didn’t want them to know they were still there so when claire left they messed it all up. and or maybe the parts that were a full hospital were on hydra island, and that was only where she was part of the time. suggesting that time caught up is an interesting theory but males very little since.
otherwise, good expose (pup intended)