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05-14-2009, 12:07 AM
These are his THEORIES on what he believes will happen to 3 questions:
(don't get all excited about SPOILERS - there are NOT spoilers but merely Doc's opionions!)
#1 Why does Locke want to murder Jacob?
THEORY: Last week, I speculated that Resurrected Locke represents forces at war with Jacob. But a friend at my weekly pop culture discussion group, ''The Water Cooler,'' suggested another possibility to me: Locke's plotting a mercy killing. The first and only time Locke saw and heard Jacob, he was presented with the visage and impression of a feeble man, stuck maybe for eternity inside a shack. If there's anything Locke can empathize with, it's gotta be fate-screwed geezers trapped physically and spiritually by their circumstances. Remember what Jacob said to Locke: ''Help me.'' Locke's interpretation: Put me out of my misery. But here's the twist: When Locke arrives to kill Jacob, he's going to learn that Jacob doesn't exist. Why? Because Locke hasn't become him yet. Huh? Exactly. I think Locke is the temporally displaced specter that has always haunted the Island's history. Tonight, we'll see how that happened.
#2 Why does Eloise Hawking know so much about the castaways' destiny? Is she stuck in a self-aware, open-ended time loop, or does she have flashes of the future à la Ben?
THEORY: Neither. Remember in season 3, when it was revealed that that the Others had dossiers on Jack and Sawyer? In the aftermath of this time-travel season, Eloise and Charles will begin tracking the castaways' lives and building those dossiers, culling info to inform their master plan plotting. Of course, if Jack's Jughead gambit fails, and the time travelers remain trapped in the past, the castaways themselves could be forced to cough up their biographies...but I don't think that will happen. Why? Because THIS is going to happen:
#3 What is the significance of the Ajira storyline?
Doc Jensen's big finale prediction!
THEORY: Besides bringing these ''What lies in the shadow of the statue?'' people to the Island, thus setting up conflict for next year, Ajira needed to bring the castaways to the Island because the crash of Oceanic 815 is about to be erased from history. My belief is that the Oceanic castaways were always destined to come to the Island. Remember how fate wanted Charlie dead in season 3, and there was basically nothing Desmond could do to stop that? The same dynamic is at work regarding the castaways' relationship to the Island: No matter what they do, their lives are intertwined with this place. To that end, Ajira 316 represents fate's course correction to the negation of Oceanic 815 from history. Even if Jack is successful at rebooting the past by detonating Jughead, Ajira will bring Jack and company to the Island. My prediction is that, once the time-negation event occurs — call it ''The Incident'' — Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun, Sawyer, and Jin will wake up in the year 2007 inside the Hydra Station, lying among the wounded and unconscious from the Ajira crash. And my guess is that they will remember everything that happened to them in their ''previous life,'' courtesy of Island magic. CRAZY TWIST TO THIS THEORY! Ajira isn't a ''replacement event'' for Oceanic 815 — Oceanic 815 essentially sabotaged the fated arrival of Ajira! Jack is actually correct: Oceanic 815 was never supposed to bring the castaways to the Island. It was Ajira that was always supposed to bring the castaways to the Island! This is the mistake that Fate/the Island has been trying to rectify: The premature arrival of the castaways to the Island! While I'm not ready to pitch my guess for the perpetrators of the quantum hijacking that was Oceanic 815 — my early call: Ben — I'll bet you the pilot of Oceanic 815 was one of their members, which is why Smokey killed him. This could be one reason why Ilana asked Ajira pilot Frank Lapidus the codeword question, ''What lies in the shadow of the statue?'' Because so much was made to establish correlations between the two flights, Ilana's conspicuous question was meant to prompt the audience to consider anew the old speculation that the pilot of Oceanic 815 was part of a conspiracy to bring the plane to the Island.
(don't get all excited about SPOILERS - there are NOT spoilers but merely Doc's opionions!)
#1 Why does Locke want to murder Jacob?
THEORY: Last week, I speculated that Resurrected Locke represents forces at war with Jacob. But a friend at my weekly pop culture discussion group, ''The Water Cooler,'' suggested another possibility to me: Locke's plotting a mercy killing. The first and only time Locke saw and heard Jacob, he was presented with the visage and impression of a feeble man, stuck maybe for eternity inside a shack. If there's anything Locke can empathize with, it's gotta be fate-screwed geezers trapped physically and spiritually by their circumstances. Remember what Jacob said to Locke: ''Help me.'' Locke's interpretation: Put me out of my misery. But here's the twist: When Locke arrives to kill Jacob, he's going to learn that Jacob doesn't exist. Why? Because Locke hasn't become him yet. Huh? Exactly. I think Locke is the temporally displaced specter that has always haunted the Island's history. Tonight, we'll see how that happened.
#2 Why does Eloise Hawking know so much about the castaways' destiny? Is she stuck in a self-aware, open-ended time loop, or does she have flashes of the future à la Ben?
THEORY: Neither. Remember in season 3, when it was revealed that that the Others had dossiers on Jack and Sawyer? In the aftermath of this time-travel season, Eloise and Charles will begin tracking the castaways' lives and building those dossiers, culling info to inform their master plan plotting. Of course, if Jack's Jughead gambit fails, and the time travelers remain trapped in the past, the castaways themselves could be forced to cough up their biographies...but I don't think that will happen. Why? Because THIS is going to happen:
#3 What is the significance of the Ajira storyline?
Doc Jensen's big finale prediction!
THEORY: Besides bringing these ''What lies in the shadow of the statue?'' people to the Island, thus setting up conflict for next year, Ajira needed to bring the castaways to the Island because the crash of Oceanic 815 is about to be erased from history. My belief is that the Oceanic castaways were always destined to come to the Island. Remember how fate wanted Charlie dead in season 3, and there was basically nothing Desmond could do to stop that? The same dynamic is at work regarding the castaways' relationship to the Island: No matter what they do, their lives are intertwined with this place. To that end, Ajira 316 represents fate's course correction to the negation of Oceanic 815 from history. Even if Jack is successful at rebooting the past by detonating Jughead, Ajira will bring Jack and company to the Island. My prediction is that, once the time-negation event occurs — call it ''The Incident'' — Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun, Sawyer, and Jin will wake up in the year 2007 inside the Hydra Station, lying among the wounded and unconscious from the Ajira crash. And my guess is that they will remember everything that happened to them in their ''previous life,'' courtesy of Island magic. CRAZY TWIST TO THIS THEORY! Ajira isn't a ''replacement event'' for Oceanic 815 — Oceanic 815 essentially sabotaged the fated arrival of Ajira! Jack is actually correct: Oceanic 815 was never supposed to bring the castaways to the Island. It was Ajira that was always supposed to bring the castaways to the Island! This is the mistake that Fate/the Island has been trying to rectify: The premature arrival of the castaways to the Island! While I'm not ready to pitch my guess for the perpetrators of the quantum hijacking that was Oceanic 815 — my early call: Ben — I'll bet you the pilot of Oceanic 815 was one of their members, which is why Smokey killed him. This could be one reason why Ilana asked Ajira pilot Frank Lapidus the codeword question, ''What lies in the shadow of the statue?'' Because so much was made to establish correlations between the two flights, Ilana's conspicuous question was meant to prompt the audience to consider anew the old speculation that the pilot of Oceanic 815 was part of a conspiracy to bring the plane to the Island.