It's a Good Life on "Lost!"

Okay, much as with "Heroes" I have my own wacky theories about "Lost" and I also don't read any fan sites of anything! The great thing about "Lost," bte, is that it reminds me of Silver Age DC comics, wherein there seemed to be some sort of bizarre stream of consciousness plotting going on.

Spoilers and "Lost" theory follows...

Okay, last night with the revelation that Ben killed the Dharmaites and that the guy from Suiddenly Susan had been there all along gave me an idea. We know from Walt that children in the Lostiverse can have reality manipulating psychic powers. I submit these are magnified by something on the island which might be extra-terrestrial in origin/paranormal in origin/or perhaps the gateway to the underworld a la the Divine Comedy.

Ben has these powers. He conjured up his mother and the guy from Suddenly Susan (checks real quick) Richard. Richard is a manifestation of Ben's subconscious. Or a spirit from Hell, which is gatewayed on the island. Walt had these powers (recall his adoptive father talking about weird occurances.)

So, either the gate to Hell is on the island (the island is not the afterlife, but a gateway to Hell from Earth.) or there is some sort of extraterrestrial or weird terrestrial phenomenon on the lisand which can be manipulated by psychic forces. Perhaps a Rimbaldi device. The fence works not because it is somehow more powerful than the island force, but because the force doesn't like technology (Jacob is either a manifestation of this force or a creation of Ben).

Walt and John were studied because they rival Ben for his ability to manipulate whatever forces the island conjures up. Ben/the force can also conjure up things from the outside world, including replications (Locke's father, the wreckage of the plane)

Finally, I have no clue what's happening here and it might as well be governed by the people who did Hawkman's continuity after Crisis..

Posted by Mike Chary at May 10, 2007 11:32 AM