Final Lost Theory

Well it has been said before and I'm going to say it one last time. I figured out Lost. Yep I did it, and ladies and gentleman let me drops some knowledge on how it's all going to end, and what the heck just happened.


The original theory was that the island was purgatory, well it's not, but it's close. It is a place outside of our world and it is a place of redemption, but it's not a place where they are dead and living out the last moments of their existence, but it is spiritual.

Now I'm not sure what the device will be that gets them all to this mythical place of the island, maybe it's just a bumpy flight that makes them all evaluate their lives, I don't know, but somehow they have that moment where they stop and say to themselves, "Is this the life I want for myself." Essentially the island is the physical representation of what happens when you decide to change your life.

Sound crazy, well check this out... In almost all cases the people coming to the island were presented with what could be considered a life changing moment.

Jack - Father died
Kate - Arrested again
Sawyer - Just to vengeance on the wrong guy
Sun and Jin - Jin trying to get out of the mob, Sun will she stay with Jin
Charlie - Drugs (take your pick there)
Claire - Giving up her baby
Locke - The reality of not being able to walk just hit him
Sayid - Just had a friend of his blow his brains out because he didn't want to be a terrorist
Shannon - Maybe she didn't want to be a spoiled girl anymore
Mike - He just got his son WALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Walt - Just lost his mom
Rose - Realizing that there is no cure for her cancer
Bernard - Realizing that there is no cure for Rose's cancer

I'm sure I'm missing someone, but the point is, every character was at that moment in life where they were at a potential turning point.

How are they at the end of season 5?

Jack - No longer worried about being sure about everything, is now willing to go on faith on things, including his reason to blow up the island, to have another chance at Kate. Well in the new reality he'll never know Kate (is my guess) but he will know love, something that he couldn't understand because of his dad and ruined his marriage with Sarah. So now he's ready.

Kate - Oh Kate, for years running from the law. My guess is that some how or another she is going to be a mother doing whatever she can to save a child (think Ben). Now how she gets away from the law is beyond me, but I have the feeling that she'll have a more maternal role.

Sawyer - He was left empty and guilty from killing the wrong guy, but he's still consumed with hatred. What is going to happen to him is the same thing that happen to his parents, he's going to move past his thirst for vengeance and fall in love himself. But in the end he's going to break her heart and that will result in her death, and he'll kill himself (guessing there)

Sun and Jin - They will figure out how to make their marriage work and have a child and live happily ever after.

Charlie - Is still going to die, but he's going to do so in a way that will save someone else.

Claire - She is going to keep her baby, how about this. She is going to keep her baby after legally giving up the rights to him and gets help from Kate to do so. In the process Claire dies, and leaves Kate to raise Aaron on her own, and takes on Claire's identity.

Locke - Finally figures out that he needs to actually be a man of action and goes to this amazing spinal doctor that he heard can make miracles happen, named Jack Sheppard. So he gets a surgery that allows him to walk again via Jack. In the end he'll still believe in miracles, maybe too much and still end up dead from trying to save those that are just evil (like his dad).

Sayid - Oh the tragedy in his life. I think he'll find Nadia but she is in fact going to bite it. Driven by rage he's going to become a fugitive, maybe a Jack Bauer guy where he's nothing more than a soulless torturer that he never wants to admit he is.

Shannon - Kind of tossed her in there. She watches out for Vincent which represents that she is taking on responsibility and she also falls in love with a good man. But she dies tragically to a man that loved her more than anything. Oh I don't know, maybe Sawyer...

Mike - Ok he just goes nuts

Walt - We never really see much about how he turns out, so who knows.

Rose and Bernard - Live out their lives quietly together.

There is a CD that I love titled, "The Devil and God are raging inside of me" well that pretty much explains Jacob and Johnny Cash (The man in black), one is evil one is good, I'm going to say that Jacob is the God figure while Cash is the evil that resides in all of us. We're all given a moment in our lives where we're given a choice on how we're going to play out our lives and for the people on Lost, that is the moment when Jacob touches them. That moment is the moment that sets their lives on their path, now the question is at what point will they make the decision to change who they are, and redeem themselves? Like the line in the show said...

"They come they fight, they destroy." - Cash (or something to that effect), meaning that you can't be saved from who you are as a person

"They only have to change once, everything up to that point is progress." - Jacob (again something to that effect). Meaning that there is good in everyone and you can change yourself if you want to.

Tie that in with Lost, none of our fates are decided for us, and yet they are at the same time. We're put on a path that life dictates to us, but in the end, we're the ones that decide how we will react to that path. Meaning both free will and fate exist at the same time. The idea of free will is that we might not have any, meaning that every choice that we make is determined by previous events, but according to Lost, that's not true, at any moment we can break from that fate by saying, "No".

In my opinion there isn't going to be an actual Jesus in the show, if anything all of the Egyptian stuff basically is the foundation for all the religion that took place before Christ, and it all exists in the background of our current religion in some fashion, much like the ruins on the island.

"God loves you as he loved Jacob." - quote from the show. In the Bible, (bare with me here) Jacob tricks his father into giving him the blessing that his father intended to give to his first born. I'm making my own interpretation of that now, but it almost seems like Jacob was fated to be rated second in life, but through his own free will, he found a way to receive the blessing himself.

So God and religion exist in the show for sure, but think of it more as a story of redemption, and don't look for too literal of comparisons.

Wraps it up all pretty neatly if you ask me, and if your reading this, you kind of are. =) But I did leave out one very important character to the mix... Ben. How does Ben work in this whole picture, sure he wasn't on the plane, but he's obviously going to play a big role in the end of the show. In my opinion Ben is a cautionary tale of blind faith, having faith is a good thing, but blindly following that faith without ever taking into consideration anything else, leaves you lost in the end. Ben never gets to see Jacob, much like a worshipper never actually sees God, but yet you follow the teachings of God through a messenger (Hi Richard) or a priest. But you still have to take that message and put some interpretation into it, if you're waiting for God to come and fix all of your problems, you're going to be waiting. Hence Jacob's line to Ben...

"What about you?"

There is another old saying, "God helps those who help themselves." Could Jacob's line mean, "What about you, when are you going to start taking some responsibility for your own life, rather than blindly waiting for me to answer every question for you?" But of course religious figures don't get mouthly like I would, so we get the line we got. So I'd actually expect to see Ben as a priest or something in the show, or more likely a religious zealot, or I don't know, maybe a terrorist, that Sayid is going to have a run in with...

Granted there is a lot more out there that could be thought about, but I think it works out pretty nicely. Thoughts...