Best Lost Theories contest

[Rydog]

As detailed in this week's podcast, please submit your theory on just WTF is going on in Lost, in 100 words or less. Only theories in this thread will be considered!

[KindGalaxy]

Finale: Camera zooms out from the island, revealing it to be the only landmass on Earth, camera further zooms, solar system, galaxy, universe, continues zooming, it broadens out to a little girl's eye, the entire TV show was from a little girl's imagination, the camera further broadens to reveal the little girl's face, continues to pan out to reveal the little girl being dragged into a van by a clown. That's my Lost theory for the island.

[Kajaah117]

...Vincent.... I rest my case.

[Lombaszko]

We see Locke walking through the jungle, moving closer to Jacob’s cabin. He enters, there is a faint light coming from an open doorway. Locke enters the room and sees the silhouette of a man behind a curtain. Locke slowly pulls the curtain back to reveal a showering Patrick Duffy. LOST

[Klendathu]

The island came from the future with people avoiding their extinction. But they left the island, contaminating the timeline. Due to causality, this leads to their their future doom. Dharma discovered the island and tried to alter time to their benefit. The 'Others' protect the original cycle and their future ancestors; preserving their safe place for the day time ends again. A third group of people (Desmond, Farady, Oceanic 6, etc) tries anything to save loved ones ultimately randomizing the loop beyond the control of any single person. Final scene: grieving Jack restarts the loop, scattering time. Lost.

[czartim]

On the final episode, the surviving characters find "The Kaufman," a movie theater station. There, they watch every episode of "Lost." Afterward, they ask the first question of the entire series, "WHAT THE FUCK?"

The whole thing was a reality show. Every time something bad happened, it was the result of an online poll. Every time someone died, it was because the ratings slipped.

Evey person on Earth was in on it, and when the Oceanic 6 came back, everyone was instructed to "play along."

David Copperfield then explains how he made the island disappear. The players then get 100 grand and are sent home.

[Valke]

Richard Alpert is in reality the embodiment of the Egyptian god RA, who was later merged with the god "Horus" to become commander of the sky, sun, and underworld. That statue seen in the show may be Set, who was said to be the protector of Ra. The Island is the floating island of legend Chemmis, set adrift by Isis to protect her son Horus. The rise of new beliefs caused worship of Ra to die out. All the new people on the island could be looked at as such, which is why Richard is looking to Locke to lead.

[Dr Mrs The Monarch]

The island is actually not an island at all, it's the shell of a giant magic turtle that swims around the ocean causing mischief and mayhem for anyone who gets on it's back. And all that crazy stuff that happened, time travel, smoke monster, crazy big foot, happened because the turtle is magic, and anything can happen cause of magic! Well, expect the polar bear, that was actually the turtles friend from high school. He likes to tag along with him on his wacky adventures.

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[IUMogg]

Lost is about the threat of technology/science corrupting the island. Jacob was created by the incident, which changed him to his unphased state. That is why he hates technology. Jacob sees world ending consequences if science/technology is allowed to exploit the island. It led to the others purging dharma. Science caused problems in the time of the 4 toed statute which resulted in the smoke monster being created, but the science wasn’t advanced so it only effected the island. Jack couldn’t help until he changed from a man of science to a man of faith. Jughead is a technological threat.

[exwingzero]

You find out that what's been going on the entire time is someone trying to cope with the fact that they are dieing after their plane crashed in Season 1. Everything connecting, not making sense, making sense; it's all this one person's imagination trying to put together the fact that they were extremely traumatized and their mind (going a million miles a second) is trying to cope with it. That's my theory.

[graboids]

A man and his nephew use a time machine (this time with the proper crystals) to try and time travel back to the "glory days" of hot tubbing in the early 80s and at the same time cause a plane to crash on an island in the present day 2004. They miscalculate and end up in the late 60s early 70s, where Uncle Rico changes his name to Linus, and then fathers a son named Ben. Nephew Kip joins the Others and becomes known as the mysterious "Jacob". Eventually Kip/Jacob leads everyone to a gigantic football, they all get inside and then Uncle Rico delivers them back safely to the main land by throwing said football over "them mountains". Then Pedro builds him a cake or something. LOST.

[barrbarr]

The Island was created the Daleks, who in an attempt to understand The Doctors ability to travel through time created The Island. However the Daleks unable to control The Islands time travelling capabilities eventually gave up on this Idea and decided to go and EXTERMINATE all life. All Daleks left, except for one whose boosters failed, this Dalek eventually turned into the smoke monster. The reason why all the people are on the island is because The Master bored from hiding from the doctor decided to fuck with some puny humans. The show will end with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CYDgezeQas

[Anthony_Galindo]

The last scene of the series finale will begin with the Jacob explaining all of the island's mysteries to Locke. Right as he beings to open his mouth to speak the show cuts to a hidden camera shot of someone sitting on their couch. The camera slowly zooms in and we see that the person is watching the picture of themselves on the television. After realizing that they are being watched the person looks around to see where the hidden camera is. He stands up, looks at the camera and we see that we have been watching Ryan Scott, his face encrusted with Cheeto dust, sitting in his underwear watching the finale of Lost. He manages a quick "What the Hell?" before the video ends abruptly and the credits begin to roll (and of course it has the dramatic music cue that Lost always seems to end on).

[occamsindecision]

Ben is the antichrist. I'm still debating (with myself) whether the island is the Garden of Eden, or some sort of, well, like a lid on a trap keeping Satan(whatever that is) contained.

Or(this just popped in my head as I was typing). Maybe dark matter or whatever the energy source is was discovered, used and led to the downfall of civilization in the future, causing someone to go back in time and hide all of the dark matter so that humanity couldn't discover and use it to destroy themselves. Yeah, that's lame.

[Sokkratez]

Unfortunately, the true explanation and ending to Lost died along with Travis the chimpanzee.

[Primordial]

At the end you see a boy in his bed and his father standing by him. The boy asks his father to tell him a made up story and Lost is the best crap the father could come up with. Not only that but the father realises the boy had fallen asleep after the first chapter.
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I don't watch Lost.

[Karen]

Jack dreamt it all one night and gets ready to work as J. J. Abrams assistant. Jack tries to pitch his dream to Abrams and the other creators, where they tell him that is the stupidest story they have ever heard.

How very Charlie Kauffman-esque!

[AlmightyTooth]

Hurley wakes up and finds Patrick Duffy in his shower.

[czartim]

Jack dreamt it all one night and gets ready to work as J. J. Abrams assistant. Jack tries to pitch his dream to Abrams and the other creators, where they tell him that is the stupidest story they have ever heard.

"No, I don't see it as a series. Maybe a movie?"

[James-Kond]

Ben is the antichrist. I'm still debating (with myself) whether the island is the Garden of Eden, or some sort of, well, like a lid on a trap keeping Satan(whatever that is) contained.

The Antichrist can´t die