sick cycle carousel. a LOST theory.

i told myself i wouldn't do this. anytime someone would say, "you're kind of obsessed with lost aren't you?" my answer would always be, "well, i READ blogs about it, yeah, but i would never WRITE my own." well, i've officially crossed over to pinnacle of geekdom. a blog about lost. if you haven't seen lost and are mildly interested, don't read this. or the dark tower series. here we go
let me first tell you i have no clue how this show is going to end and i'm not going to pretend i do. what i will do, though, is present some thoughts, similar to the show, and maybe these clues will give insight as to how it all will end. i've got a couple things i've caught on my official 'lost rewatch 2009 tour' (this is the third time around) that got me thinking.
'and here we go now one more time'
i'm not a huge fan of lifehouse. let's be up front. as i thought about what i think may happen in season 6 i kept thinking of this circle. a cycle. a carousel? sure. then it hit me. no name face. a cd released by lifehouse which i purchased (yeah, i know) a few years ago. i'll admit, 'hanging by a moment' was the song i'd sing super loud driving in car when i knew no one was watching in like 2001. sickening isn't it? HA! sick.
which brings us here. lost? i'm getting there.
on the special features of lost season 1, there is a interview with one of the writers of the pilot episode of lost. during the interview, there is a fancy graphic of the official cover the screenplay for the first episode....only it's not called lost. the title says 'the circle.' yes, i understand the circle could very well represent the island itself, but the writers of lost have a way with misdirection. case in point, season 4. when jack visits hurley in the mental hospital he mentions to jack that charlie came to visit. what was charlie's message? "you aren't supposed to raise him?" of course he means aaron. hmmm? also in season 4, when kate wakes up to find ghost claire in her room, claire says, "don't you dare bring him back?" again, speaking of aaron. hold it right there. a decent slight of hand from the writers but i'm not falling for it. how about a warning from 'the other side' by ghost claire and ghost charlie that they aren't supposed to bring dead john locke back to the island. "you aren't suppose to RAISE him" because now we know what happens john does gets 'raised.' he kills jacob.
the lost producers always joke about zombies on the show. i never realized how much the undead are influencing everyone. one puppet at a time. all these dead people returning to give advice are the same person. i guess that wasn't really speculation. apparently, this is a theory. jacob's buddy on the beach, let's just call him esau is using these 'zombies' as puppets to make his loophole come true. he did in fact go through a lot to get where he wanted to be. i'm not going to get into details. just go back and watch. i think almost everytime we've seen a dead person come back and talk to someone ON THE ISLAND has been esau.
anyway, a little tanget there. back to my lifehouse obsession and the misdirection. i think the original title on the screenplay refers to the entire show. 'the circle' is the infinite loop are characters are caught in. locke was right. it was their destiny to go the island...over..and over...and over again.
but that's not entertaining at all! that's six years of my life wasted!!!! not so fast. let's playback the conversation between jacob and esau on the beach.
esau: they come, fight, they destroy, they corrupt. it always ends the same.
jacob: but it only ends once. everything that happens before that....is just progress.
"it always ends the same" followed by "it only ends once." jacob isn't contradicting him...they are talking about two different endings. i believe esau is referring to the cycle or perhaps 'the circle.' jacob is looking at the bigger picture. it (everything) only ends once. everything (that happens before the cycle is broken) is just progress.
i think juliets super sad h-bomb smashing did reset everything. but somehow, someway, the island will get them back.
how can i think this has any merit? i really don't. but the writers do love stephen king, and that folks brings us to 'the dark tower.' (HUGE dark tower spoiler dead ahead)here is a blog entry someone posted about how the dark tower ends. you won't understand some of the stuff he is referencing. doesn't matter. real carefully.
"then at the top of the tower he is sucked through time and returns to the beginning of his journey, right before the first sentence of the gunslinger (book one of the dark tower series.)"
the dark tower is an infinite loop. more?
"a lot of people have been knocking the idea of the loop, but i think to do that is to ignore one crucial thing, the presence of the horn when he begins his next journey. what this implies is that with each journey he's doing things better, and it's implied that his one failure this time is the fact that he didn't pick up the horn at the end of the battle in 'wizard and the glass,' so now he has it, and i get the feeling that this next journey will be his last time, and then he will find peace at the top of the tower."
so, the journey does change each time and he has this horn that apparently he needed the last time he went through the loop, or in other words, "everything...is just progress."
eventually, things will turn out, how they are supposed to. the cycle will stop. sometime. until the ending is....perfect. and as a fan of lost, i hope it is.