Comments on: The Island NEEDS its Constant

By: Foreign Theories: The Island NEEDS its Constant « Not Confused Just Lost

Foreign Theories: The Island NEEDS its Constant « Not Confused Just Lost — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:55:24 +0000

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By: TRoss

TRoss — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:43:50 +0000

Alex was born on the Island as well, wasn’t she?

By: ftball221

ftball221 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:07:32 +0000

Thanks for the correction august. However to me it seems highly likely that whatever the object actually is, is there for a reason. Especially seems possible with all this time travel going on now.

By: August

August — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:24:57 +0000

actually Ben gave the weapon to Locke. watch that scene again. once they’re both inside the station, he even asks Locke if he can have it back as Keamy is heard activating the elevator.

anyhow, that ben’s weapon is actually what’s lying next to jack in the pilot seems highly questionable to me. its probably just a branch.

By: ftball221

ftball221 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:17:13 +0000

What is the black object laying beside Jack in the very first scene of Lost in the pilot episode??? Have the writers addressed this or not?? Sure resembles Ben’s weapon of choice, that he handed to Jack just before surrendering to the freighter folks at the Orchid last season. Any thoughts?

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SR Nest: Forget the crib-rails and look after the baby! | Baby Safety Blog — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:00:41 +0000

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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:00:24 +0000

[...] CTC which was dislodged from the worldline in “the Constant” (much like the island is disconnected now), and was reconnected with Penny (turn the jet pack off and run in the same plane as everything [...]

By: Videomasker

Videomasker — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:05:05 +0000

Maybe Desmond could be the islands constant. He was on the island longer than any of the 06.

By: Ambivalentman

Ambivalentman — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:15:31 +0000

Was Aaron the first born on the Island? Has the show made this clear?

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:08:47 +0000

Isn’t it Aaron? He was the first person born on the island and we already know he has a special connection to the place.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:35:17 +0000

>“So what did Mrs. Hawkins mean when she said Ben only has 70 hours? Maybe Ben only has 70 hours until the Island does a total system wipe and reinstall… thus killing everyone and everything on it. Or maybe not?”

I think, that the 70 hours is how long the “event window” the computer determined stays open (just like the time slot space shuttles have for launching in order to successfully get to the correct orbit). To return within this window makes it possible to reach the island from a certain point on the globe. Maybe they will travel the way back from Tunesia thru the center of the planet to the point where the island will be again (I believe in the “antipodes theory”). You must consider that there are apparently several possible locations of the island. And they have to arrive at a time in the past in order to correct or change things or whatever before they go wrong. This is what Mrs. Hawking (and hey, for sure she’s Daniel’s mother) is figuring out at the chalkboard. So if the O6 + Ben don’t make it now, it could last years for the next event window.

I like the idea that the island needs a constant. Though there’s a difference to Desmond – he used to jump only between something we considered as “now” (around Christmas 2004) and a certain slot in the past. According to Daniel, the island is jumping around between past, future an what else there might be.

One more thing: Am I the only one who recognized Daniel not only as a worker at the orchid station, but also as the guy behind the camera (with grey hair, around 50) during the film shoot?

By: spinflip

spinflip — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:09:15 +0000

I thought of a similar thing: There is this mysterious list of Jacob’s. Maybe it has something to do with who’s the island’s (or Jacob’s) constant?

By: ImOnlySleeping

ImOnlySleeping — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:27:57 +0000

How about Charles Widmore for the island’s constant. Ben trying to get him there would be quite the turn of events.

By: ImOnlySleeping

ImOnlySleeping — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:23:02 +0000

Also, it had to have moved physically close enough for Eko’s brother to crash there.

By: Arinen

Arinen — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:04:49 +0000

“So what did Mrs. Hawkins mean when she said Ben only has 70 hours? Maybe Ben only has 70 hours until the Island does a total system wipe and reinstall… thus killing everyone and everything on it. Or maybe not?”

I reckon she means they have 70 hours until the island moves to a place where they can get to it, i.e. in their timezone. They all have to be together by then so they can go back to the island. Also, I think Hawkins is Faraday’s mother, and there are two bens now walking around (watch the dvds deleted scene of ben getting his money and passports, that proves there are two bens), one in L.A. and another in Manchester, England. He walks into Simon’s butchery (Simon of course being Charlie’s father, the butcher), then goes to see Mrs Hawkins, who met Desmond in England, and I believe is now at Oxford University.