While watching the show i didnt realize it right away but after reading another members post it makes so much sense that this entire thing may have been caused by Sawyer. when he was helping lock down the well there was the flash and everythin was gone including the well but the rope was still in the ground. in last weeks episode we go from that to them looking up and seeing the statue which is the farthest in time they have traveled back. maybe sawyer holding the rope kept it there then when they vanish the rope is sticking in the ground leading whatever civilization right to the portal. maybe this caused the discovery in the first place. any ideas?
It's the chicken or the egg again. If nobody discovered it before Sawyer, there would not have been a well for Locke to go down in the first place. It's one of those things on this show that makes your head hurt.
It's the chicken or the egg again. If nobody discovered it before Sawyer, there would not have been a well for Locke to go down in the first place. It's one of those things on this show that makes your head hurt.
i mean at this point it can be a time loop so it is like he is meant to hold the rope and he did it in the first place thats why he did it now its kinda simple actually ever seen the movie 12 monkeys? its kinda like the end of that movie
I think in the opening sequence of season 5 we see the D.I. find the FDW with a sonogram, the same one where they melted a couple of drill bits in the rock leading to the frozen chamber.
As we saw the well was built but either filled or not dug yet. to me it looked filled in, maybe someone has discovered whats down there and wanted to hide its powers by filling it in. but i think faraday is the key here, he knows about the wheel and knows where the rope is and he is also in the hole as we saw in the season premiere. this just confuses me ,,,to many loose ends.....
yeah it is all confusing. makes it more interesting. nice to hav at least one show that isnt mind numbing. the plot reminds me of a crossword puzzle. nothing is pointless. everything fits so nicely so far. dont want it to end but cant wait to know how it will all turn out
This seems to not work as a theory. Wells are built to get water. It seems that this one was built for just that purpose and not to access some time machine donkey wheel. My guess is the Well was built for water. When it dried up, someone recognized the power source and built a device to control it. I don't think a piece of rope would lead to building a Well. Maybe a curious investigation, but not the engineered Well.
Also, that was a natural rope, which, in the jungle, would rot rather rapidly. It would also be overgrown very quickly by jungle vegetation.
And it would make more sense for the Well to be built for access to a "magical" water source that may work like the fountain of youth. Right Richard Alpert?
This seems to not work as a theory. Wells are built to get water. It seems that this one was built for just that purpose and not to access some time machine donkey wheel. My guess is the Well was built for water. When it dried up, someone recognized the power source and built a device to control it. I don't think a piece of rope would lead to building a Well. Maybe a curious investigation, but not the engineered Well.
Also, that was a natural rope, which, in the jungle, would rot rather rapidly. It would also be overgrown very quickly by jungle vegetation.
but imnagine being in the middle of nowhere and finding a man made material runnin to nowhere anyone had ever been. i just cant see anything being found accidentally. everything on the show comes back to mean something. i think with the time period it threw them in with the statue it has to mean someting. maybe the well never had anything to do with water. even when it wasnt filled in there was no sign of water
Also, that was a natural rope, which, in the jungle, would rot rather rapidly. It would also be overgrown very quickly by jungle vegetation.
This is a good point. This makes me feel better about the idea that the rope has a necessary ending (and then a beginning). So essentially that rope will rot away (what, 10-15 years?) and then a new one would need to be created.
I still think that there's sufficient time for the rope to be discovered and curiosity to lead to the digging of the well, though.
Sawyer and the damn rope
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