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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It mostly makes sense, but there were hieroglyphics around the finished wheel when Ben turned it to leave the island, indicating the Egyptians arrived AFTER MIB became the smoke monster.
The writing on the plug in the centre of the island was cuneiform which is a much older form of writing, so that was probably built by an earlier civilization.
Still compatible with most of your ideas though.
wow eric !
this theory is awesome am glad because i read it
thank you so much .. 🙂
I thought this was a great way of thinking about LOST. I still have one question (perhaps it’s a simple one). One thing that has bothered me is not knowing what the “box” was that Locke’s father supposedly came out of. Was there actually a box…?
Thoroughly enjoyed the theory! Thanks for the read.
Dazza, michele, balke johanson, Peter, élisabethpotier, Chris, Julia, Tore, Simone, owen, thank you so much for your encouraging comments on my ULTIMATE LOST theory!!
Eric,
That has to be the best I have ever read with regards theories, My wife and i were discussing our own after Season 5 and I thought that Jacob and the MIB were the Good and Evil in everyone on the island had been selected to prove their worth due to their troubled pasts in order to move on to a better place! (The Church final Episode). HOW WRONG WAS I.
I Never thought of the Island being the center of time but it all makes sense.
Awsome dude! Awsome
I love it!! But I’m missing explanations about Sun and Jin- I am not seeing how this all connects when looking at them and their past/time.
Well written. A collective Thank You from our time and place for sharing your thoughts!
Very interesting.
I had recently had a re-think about MIB and realised that he was not all bad and that he could have, at times really been protecting the Island as was Jacob.
The past/present thing does makes sense, but there’s still the good/evil theme that runs though the show. Perhaps it should not be viewed as good vs Evil but just simply overcoming your past daemons. I never saw Ben as a good guy, but then he claimed that he was, so does this mean he was lying? He never got past his past?? Perhaps if he admitted he was a bad guy, he would be a good guy and ‘move on’??
need to leave a comment as the fact that it’s precisely 108 right now makes me feel a bit uneasy 😉
Great read. I was very happy with the show and the general theme of battling with the past before but you put it all in detail and it all adds up perfectly well. Thanks for that!
Hello Eric, I confss I haven’t read the whole article yet (I’m frenck, so it’ an exercize for me to think in english) but for sure I’ll keep o reading it. Seeing the shoq, I had the intuition, thr feeling (not a theory) that the light was “MEMORY”, so the link between TIME & Mmory is quite obvious,isn’it ?
Been thinking about your theory more… I rewatched the Lighthouse and given that it Jacob was able to watch (or find) the candidates using it, and Jack’s PAST house was reflected on the mirror, the fact that the mechanics turning the lighthouse sounds like the smoke monster might be an intentional link – if your theory is something the writers planned.
Very good text! Now I understand much more what the serie is all about. Just what I needed! Had so many questions about it when I recently watched the last episode. Thank you very much 🙂
I have to say that this is THE BEST theory on Lost I have ever read! It really put everything together for me. I was thinking the other day that I couldn’t understand the purpose of the Dharma Initiative and that the Egyptian influences on the Island were never explained. This made me feel so much better about the ending and the show in general. Thanks Eric, you are AWESOME!!
great read mate
Wow! Over 100 comments! I want to thank all of you for taking the time to read my ULTIMATE LOST theory. I am glad that so many of you enjoyed it.
What a great read – and while I’m still not satisfied completely with your explanation of smokey being released and becoming MIB the rest makes complete sense and I will be thinking of this theory when I rewatch the series. 🙂
Lost blows.
As I said before, I love your overall time-theory!
Still have unanswered questionmarks (a big one being: how come Ben can kill Jacob in Smokey’s presence, but Kate can’t kill Smokey in Jack’s presence. Is it because she’s a candidate?) – but the big picture’s complete.
What I can’t follow at all is your explanation of the “sideways reality”.
I don’t see it happening that the incident kills them all…and still they keep doing whatever it is they each do on the island. Their dead souls couldn’t be in 2 places at the same time, could they? (On the other hand, what do we know bout soul-splitting?!). After all, their “physical bodies” did continue on the island!
So, Juliet is killed by the blow-up…I understand that she would/could be in the sideways reality. Jack follows soon after when his present, time-traveling physical body dies, ok.
But what about Kate and Sawyer who manage to leave the island. They are alive in real time. Or am I missing a bit there?
What you’re saying is that a portion of their souls went to the sideways reality…?!
The problem I had/have with Desmond’s role in this sideways reality, could be solved with an alleged exposure to “future time” as you suggest, I guess.
The rest….I don’t get it. Yet.
Very nice!
Young Faraday: “I can MAKE time!”