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Overview
After the blunder that was the finale of Lost season 6, we present here an alternative ending that although does not answer all the questions (because let’s face it – the producers of Lost appear to have missed the greater storyline they had created). Therefore, tying everything neatly together would take a bit more integration with a few of the other final episodes. However, we feel that there was a crucial point in the finale where the story could still have been rounded off in a truly mind-blowing way, in absolute “LOST” style. If only! They were so close! Instead at this point, the story moved towards a rather more flaccid ending where Jack, the somewhat mediocre culmination of the ever-powerful Jacob, kills an equally mediocre Lockey (the smoke monster) in hand-to-hand combat. He then dies himself on the island with the main story punch lines being avoided, and a very poor mystery sub-plot arising from a completely unimportant cut on Jack’s neck: A clear failed attempt to generate a wow-ending where other much better ones existed. What we present here is not actually very far from the story they had created. It is more a revisiting of the main plots in the series, with a few answers that would have given us an ending we had hoped for. That is a solution to the main topics, presented in a thoughtful, yet tasteful manner. Even just seeing and experiencing the completion of the series with the breakthrough concepts reinforced by well placed enlightenment would have provided us with the closure we craved.
Here, our adjustments apply to the final 2-3 episodes (616, & 617/618)
Let us first present the main questions I think we all had, that required a little closure:
1. Who or what was Dharma?
2. What and why are the hatches needed?
3. Why was there a Polar bear on the island?
4. What are the numbers, and what is their significance?
5. Who are Jacob, his brother, and their foster mother?
6. What is the island, and the light at it’s core?
7. Why can children not be born on the Island?
8. Why are some kids special?
9. What is the statue, and its significance?
10. Why can the island not be easily found, or departed from?
11. Who are the others, and why do they have an inherently cruel nature?
In all of this, we build on almost all of the concepts the producers made during the series – with a little less vagueness:
1. The island is a cork stopping the flow of evil/the black smoke onto the earth.
2. The Island skips through time if its EM core is affected.
3. There is a list of “candidates” chosen by Jacob.
4. Etc.
How it plays out.
SEMI FINAL
Charles Widmore
The purpose of this adjustment will become apparent in the finale. The main point to mention here though is that Charles Widmore is spared in the second last episode, rather than being executed by Ben. Over the course of the rest of the ending, he does not play a major role apart from bearing witness to the events as they play out, followed by his choice to join up with the rest of the people leaving the island. His next vital role then becomes apparent.
Around the camp-fire
In the second last episode (around the camp fire), Jacob reveals in plain English to Jack, Hurley etc. the purpose of his “candidates”. In this explanation, Jacob reveals that his candidates are a group of people he had chosen since the time of Dharma, to help him at this Cross-road in the Island’s history. As we see in earlier episodes, Jacob has known about this eventuality since the various people were still children. It is not because he is dying; for he cannot die (we find out later that this is because of the EM light source in the heart of the island). As his brother Lockey cannot die, nor can he – even by the hand of an ordinary (un-ordained) man. His apparent murder by Benjamin Linus is merely a delusion to divert his brother’s attention away from him. Another proof that he had not died is the fact that he is sitting there in front of them. His main request around the fire is that he requires a volunteer from the final remaining candidates, to kill his “Evil” brother Lockey, to which Jack accepts. The reason for him choosing another person is because of an inherent characteristic preventing him from killing Lockey himself, otherwise he could have done so in the beginning (explained further in the Alternative ending). Jack is required to undergo the ritual with the cup of water – enabling him with the ability to kill Jacob’s brother Lockey. However, the actual path that he must take, he must discover himself as the ultimate test of free will. A re-iteration of this concept is revealed by Jacob in the season finale tell-all (the last 20 minutes of the show).
THE FINALE
Desmond and the EM source
The finale arrives, and proceedings are continued as in the original, with Lockey manipulating Jack’s crowd to help him get off the island, by leading them all to the EM source cave followed by his promise to kill Jack. Desmond is required to pull the rock off the EM source, thereby disrupting the stability of the island along with Lockey’s immortality. Although this is the state he requires to be able to leave the island, it is now apparent that he is mortal – a characteristic that the ordained Jack is now to able to capitalize on. Not long after the EM source has been affected, the stability of the Island is jeopardized, setting it into a previously experience time-warp spin. Instead of the new unrelated concept of the island sinking, the original concept of the island skipping through time is now seen again. The same rock-falling earth quaking effects are observed from the finale, while in the theme of Lost special effects, we see the Islands explosive disappearance, and reappearance (possibly in the stormy seas down-current of an 18th century naval battle, followed by the arrival onto the scene of a 2nd world war aerial battle, as well as into the midst of a frozen ice-berg forest etc). Because the actual core of the EM source has been affected, the island in its entirety is ported – damaged planes, survivors and all.
Lockey’s death and the fate of the Island
In the commotion of the earth-quaking time spin, jack is able to carry out his apparent duty to kill Lockey; which he does only to be mortally stabbed in the process (as in the finale). The Island – still in an aimless time spin has to be stabilized. There is a tearful parting of Jack and Kate, where Jack vows to pursue his final “destiny” to save the island. Enter Charles Widmore. A main twist of the finale is revealed, where Charles Widmore (having seen the immense power of the EM source and it’s fantastic potential), vows to return to the mainland, and send an organization back to the island to help stabilize the island EM source, and study it’s potential for healing and time-travel. Charles Widmore himself is the creator of the Dharma initiative, at a time when all the main characters are present! The group then divides, with Kate and Charles choosing to take the path of the plane off the island, while Jack, Hurley and Ben return to the EM source to save Desmond, and stabilize the EM source. Jack takes it upon himself to return the rock into place, thereby refilling the pool with toxic EM fluid. The island is temporarily stabilized, while meanwhile its time-spin has left it situated in the late 1960’s… just in time for the historical start of the Dharma initiative. Jack’s demise is finally seen at the end of the show, (in a similar manner to the finale). The responsibility of the remaining 3 is now agonizingly apparent, whereby Desmond’s EM immunity is to prove crucial. Although the EM pool is refilled, it is not resolved. Like a plugged bath, it will continue to fill indefinitely until the rock plug is pulled again. This must of course be done periodically, otherwise the pool will fill to explosive levels. Furthermore, it cannot be left unplugged, as it would continue on it’s time warp spin. Desmond (in fateful irony of an earlier season) must reset the plug every 108 minutes (the time for the pool to full to the brim) while the 3 remaining islanders await the return of Widmore’s 1970’s Dharma initiative. Shown in a collage of dream-like clips, Charles Widmore and the other survivors take off from the island, watched by a newly arrived polar bear (from the time skip through the ice-berg forest) followed by the subsequent arrival of the dharma initiative, and the start of the events seen 30 years later in season 1. The continued irony of the scenario is apparent where the numbers used in the hatches are not a supernatural co-incidence to Hurley’s lottery numbers, but are amusingly the same because HE, himself is the one who chose them. The mysteries which plague the characters in the beginning of the show are ironically a product of their own actions in the “future” which ultimately come to rest 30 years in their past.
Jacob’s Tell All
The finale at this point has only answered the first 4 of the questions listed above. For the sake of the viewer’s sanity, and to finish off the story, Jacob meets up with a mortally wounded Jack. Tending to him and warming him around a fire, once again Jacob begins a fire-side tell all.
In unambiguous English, Jacob thanks Jack for his role in bringing to an end a feud that he has had with his brother for centuries. What becomes increasingly apparent however is that Jack and his other remaining candidates were merely pawns in what is most simply described as a Cain vs. Abel type brotherly duel; the details of which stem from a difference of opinion between Jacob and Lockey. Lockey’s primary interest has been to leave the island, and return to his homeland. However the main limitation has been the nature of the island itself.
The Island
The island is the cross-over point of a higher physical dimension of the universe – and the 4-dimensional earth. A tear between the dimensions known as a dark matter portal had produced an infinite energy source of the EM pocket. Comparing 2D and 3D, our universe being the 2D (like a flat piece of paper), the higher dimension universe would have been like a bullet (in 3D) being fired through the paper. Effectively the EM source is that crossing point of the bullet and the paper. The energy supply at the underground pool however is effectively infinite, due to it being infinitely supplied by the higher dimension universe. The underground pool is the entry point to this unlimited energy source, which if left unplugged would release a surge of power large enough to vaporize the solar system. In essence, igniting the piece of paper with a flame at the bullet hole. Hence the need for an Island keeper to maintain its stability.
With the island being both a 4-dimensional and a higher-dimensional place – it effectively gives it a God-like nature. Having been around for millennia, the native tribes worshiped the mythological status of the island by building mythological temples and statues. The keepers of the island are special, harnessing abilities from both the earthly dimension and the higher dimensions. This gives them what can only be described as god-like characteristics. Jacob and Lockey – although human by birth can be otherwise considered to be the last remaining children of the Gods. This brotherly feud is the result of what would have been classified in mythological times as a battle of the gods. Their foster mother (who had killed their biological mother) was the former keeper of this island. They had been subsequently appointed, following a long line of god-like island keepers. Jacob was the jealous brother who could not relinquish the godly duty he had received, nor could he live with the admission that he had to do this task alone.
The island is an accessible physical location on the earth, but requires specific time-distance co-ordinates to go to or leave from. Children cannot be born on the island, because people are inherently 4-dimensional creatures. At a point of crossroads though, as often happens by the forces of nature, the universe creates its own evolution. For this reason, in the event that there is instability in the dark matter continuum, the universe allows a child to be born with the special abilities required to take over as the next Island Keeper. In response to the instability cross-road of Jacob and Lockey, Claire was brought to the island and Aaron was born – giving him all the abilities necessary to take over as the next Island keeper (as Jacob and Lockey had done themselves). Walt was a second child with the abilities to take over as an Island keeper – in the event that Aaron was unable to do so.
Good Vs Evil
Being a higher dimension universe on a 4 dimensional planet, has affects that are morbidly apparent in any normal person who goes there. The effect is the magnification of a person’s righteousness and integrity. Being closely linked to a person’s spirit, goodness and evil (such entities being of a higher dimension) are magnified and projected in each person on the island. This explains the apparent cruel nature of almost every person who goes there – a dooming quality that appears apparent in humanity. Thus, the most natural of people’s traits – whether they are good or evil tends to be presented whilst being magnified. This explains the inherent evil nature of “the others” (a previous colonization of failed potential candidates), as well as the ability of inherently evil people to still do good. The EM pylon surrounding the Dharma village is a protection mechanism set up to shield the inhabitants from the effects of this Good/Evil magnification, thereby enabling them to live a somewhat peaceful life.
After throwing his brother into the EM cave, his brother (although unable to be killed) was transformed to an ultimate culmination of his existing feelings/emotion, often a demonic black smoke). It should be noted however that Lockey was likely no more evil than his brother Jacob, and being inherently human, was subject to the same trials of righteousness and integrity. For example Jacob’s reasons for the entire plane crash are also to be questioned, for which he apologizes. It had been Jacob’s influence on Desmond that caused him to let the EM pulse go off, and crash flight 815.
The Shattered Space-time continuum
Jacob’s final admission is his explanation that Jack should not worry, as in a parallel universe, he is living in a world where he is happy. The universe is in balance after they have destroyed the Island dark matter portal, and there is no inter-dimensional crossover. He calms Jack telling him of his son, and family, how Hurley and Saeed and all the rest of the survivors are living out their lives as they should be.
The Final Good bye
At this point, the story continues with Jack, meeting up with everyone else at his father’s funeral. In a similar turn of events, the characters are presented with a flashback memory of their time on the island, giving them the appreciation and personal growth of having experienced being on the Island. Jack is able to have closure on his father’s funeral, and they are all able to move on with their lives. The final scene then ends with Jack – closing his eyes on the Island in death, closing the book on Lost as it had started 6 years ago in season 1 with his eyes opening after the plane crash.
As we have presented here, this is not a theory about what everything meant in Lost। Rather it is the sort of ending that we had hoped would be shown. Using similar concepts to what were already presented over the years, we just present a possible way in which they could have been tied together. The fuel was there for the finale of the century. We’re just sorry that the producers didn’t create the climax themselves. Please feel free to present comments, and adjustments that can simplify, boost or otherwise add to the experience that could be considered as the Ultimate Lost alternative ending!
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This is the intellectual property of J R Sayer। Permission is not given for any commercial use or sale of this material. No parts of this document can be copied or used without the written consent of the author (J R Sayer).
