So I was rewatching the season premiere and was struck by something that is either very telling or simply me reading in to the scripting of the show a little too much.

At the beginning of hour one Marvin Candle is brought to the Orchid Station where he tells them not to drill any further into the wall. The exact wording may be off but what he says is "If you drill so much as a centimeter in and risk that energy being released, god help us all". At the end of hour two, Ben asks Ms. Hawkings what would happen if the Oceanic Six are not brought back to the island and Ms. Hawkings says "God help us all". To me, this just seems too specifically placed in the episodes and two specific of a statement to just be a coincedence.

So, we know by Marvin Candle's admission that by controlling that energy would allow them to control time. I think it's safe to assume that releasing that energy would completely release any control of time, which by moving the island is what Ben has done to those who are still on it. We've seen what has happened to Desmond when he is not in control of his place in time and now we're beginning to see it in Charlotte, so I think it's possible that the risk is perhaps that happening to everyone.

But specifically it's said that bringing the Oceanic Six back will solve whatever horrible crisis that's happening on the island. So perhaps by bringing them back would lock the island back into a regular stream. Ben told Jack to pack his most important belongings because he will never come back. On top of that, redemption has been the major theme of the show, and on top of that, Damon and Carlton has said that the ending of the show would not satisfy some people.

So my thought is this; What if by the Oceanic Six returning to the island it locks it back in place but far in the past, giving all who are on it a clean slate to live their lives and leave behind their pasts, and they are the original hostiles who have kids and eventually they have kids and so on and so forth, the cycle continues, etc... This idea poses the classic problem of the chicken or the egg, which I think to some would be very unsatisfying.

This is all just a thought, something that I welcome to be completely torn to shreds. It's fair to say it does actually make sense, but I wouldn't go as far to say that I honestly can say for sure I believe this to be the conclusion of the show, just a theory.

a little unrelated, but i really believe the O6 are the island's constants.

Yes, the O6 may indeed get stuck in the past. This is an interesting theory. But I thought babies couldn't be born on the Island?

a little unrelated, but i really believe the O6 are the island's constants.


Totally agree.


Just the way Desmond needed his constant (Penny) to stop his dangerous flashes;
The island needs the O6 to stop its flashes through time too.!

After that, the Island will stay still in the present, just the way Desmond did!!!!! And whatever happens.... wont be a problem

And Charlotte may be dying because she is the strangest character at that time of the history....

I have to say that the idea of the losties ending up together on the Island, even in the past would be more satisfying then some of the other Conclusion theories I've heard out there. And the Losties being the original Hostiles would make some sense considering the show was originally called "the circle".

Here is my opinion, Desmond is the one who can stop the time travel, the Island doesn't need a constant, no one else will,the Island isn't jumping throught time the Losties are, the Island moved once in physical location and then the Losties started to jump through time, and yes when the time jumping stops it will stop in the past, hence Faraday in the Orchid at the begining of the episode, he is there to access the FDW to get all of them back to the right time. Mathew Fox has said that he knows how it all ends, I think he knows because he has already filmed the scene, ok it wasn't my idea I heard it on the Jay and Jack podcast but when I heard it, it made perfect sense to me, It will be a scene with Jack and little Walt filmed during season one but not put into an episode because it wasn't meant for season one it was meant for the series finale and they knew they couldn't stop the actor from growing up during the run of the series

Spoiler relates to a theory regarding the last scene of the show, it might not actually be a spoiler but it might be, will just have to wait and see.

Here is my opinion, Desmond is the one who can stop the time travel, the Island doesn't need a constant, no one else will,the Island isn't jumping throught time the Losties are, the Island moved once in physical location and then the Losties started to jump through time, and yes when the time jumping stops it will stop in the past, hence Faraday in the Orchid at the begining of the episode, he is there to access the FDW to get all of them back to the right time. Mathew Fox has said that he knows how it all ends, I think he knows because he has already filmed the scene, ok it wasn't my idea I heard it on the Jay and Jack podcast but when I heard it, it made perfect sense to me, It will be a scene with Jack and little Walt filmed during season one but not put into an episode because it wasn't meant for season one it was meant for the series finale and they knew they couldn't stop the actor from growing up during the run of the series

Spoiler relates to a theory regarding the last scene of the show, it might not actually be a spoiler but it might be, will just have to wait and see.0

I had never heard that one, but i find it hard to believe that they would trust the secret of the show to MDK, he's only a child, he would tell friends.

it wasn't my idea I heard it on the Jay and Jack podcast but when I heard it, it made perfect sense to me, It will be a scene with Jack and little Walt filmed during season one but not put into an episode because it wasn't meant for season one it was meant for the series finale and they knew they couldn't stop the actor from growing up during the run of the series

Spoiler relates to a theory regarding the last scene of the show, it might not actually be a spoiler but it might be, will just have to wait and see.

I heard this as well and find it intriguing. How the scene is edited and cut, how it might be worked into the endgame, etc., leaves a huge area of flexibility, so I think it's possible. The MDK part may be small, and thus he may not KNOW what he knows, if that makes sense.

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I had never heard that one, but i find it hard to believe that they would trust the secret of the show to MDK, he's only a child, he would tell friends.
They could have told him it was cut from the episode, and he wouldn't neccessarily tell friends, not all kids are the same, or maybe they just never told him anything about it, I was able to keep secrets as a child why can't he?

And future paint that makes perfect sense, trust me it does.