Traveling Companions

[RussellEarl3]

The issue which interests me the most is why the Losties are moving together in time, seperate from the Others. Does this mean that groups that come to the island together must stay together - in time that is. Could that be at least part of the reason that the 6 must all return together. If that is true why are the people from the Freighter moving with them. The island could be treating everyone who comes to the islandthe same year as the same group. That still raises the problem of the Freighter 3 all of whom have been to the island before and at least two of whom where probably born there. Perhaps the Others are somehow an organic part of the island and don't go slipping around in time the way the Losties are doing. Perhaps the Losties must all be together to become an organic part of the island. And if that is true don't they need to take Walt with them.

The answers to these questions must be the key - or a key - to what is happening. The island treats different people differently somehow according to their status. Desmond is special - the rules don't apply to him. Why? Who is Desmond? Could it be that his parentage make him special? Could Mrs. Hawking be his mother? Could Cooper be his father? Or Christian? Or Widmore? Lost has already had one pair of secret siblings: Jack and Claire. There may be may many more. Ben and Locke? Hurley and Sawyer? Daniel and Desmond? Sun and Miles? Or, perhaps, Jin and Miles?

Lost has gone to great trouble to show trivial connections between the main characters, but none of it can be trivial. Most of the 48 survivors of Oceanic 815 may have only been along for the ride, but the main characters were brought together for a reason that has not played out yet. Did you notice how Ben's attitude toward Jack's drive to leave the island changed once he knew he would have to turn the 'Frozen Donkey Wheel' and be exiled from the island. Where he had previously put his life on the line to keep Jack and company on the island, suddenly he was telling Jack to hurry and leave the island. He knew they would all have to return to the island to meet some destiny. And he wanted to hitch a ride with them.

[Pelegrin_1]

The title prompted this idea:

Travelling companions could very well eliminate the need of having a Constant, if your Constant is always travelling with you. Perhaps not even a person but an object, but I have trouble with the idea of objects being Constants. In fact, I have trouble with the whole idea of needing a "Constant" at all... it seems to be something added in simply for dramatic effect.

[Jeremy]

As for why everyone(excluding the others) are victims to the island's time jumps, I think it's because Ben blew up the wall concealing the kind of energy in the frozen donkey wheel room. I can't recall what kind Cheng said it was, but I assume it was at least similar to the electromagnetism in the Swan(which Desmond got the most of after turning the failsafe key). Desmond is special because it was a sacrifice. Ben isn't affected by it because he's not on the island, but I imagine that if he did go back, the stuff that's still on him could potentially kill him, which is why whoever turns the wheel can't go back.

As for why the Others themselves aren't effected by the time jumps, I believe it has something to do with the temple that we've never seen and only heard about so many times.