Hello everybody! I’m new here and thought I’d introduce myself. I’m Nate and have been a reader here for a long time and am happy to be a part of the community!
Just to be clear, I haven’t seen the first two episodes of Season 5 like DocArzt has. My speculation on the opening of the fifth season is purely that-speculation. Also, this is as much my own theory as it is an attempt to spark conversation. I don’t know about you guys, but the anticipation over Season 5 is killing me.
Going over the fantastic openings to Seasons 2 & 3, they are both events in which we think are off-island but, to our surprise, are actually on the island and thus mind-blowing. Season 4 reversed this by showing us something that we thought was on-island but wasn’t. I know I’m repeating information you already know but hear me out.
My theory is that Season 5 opens with someone doing daily tasks at a Dharma facility, much like the opening of Season 2. Heck, it might actually be The Swan. However, it’s not what’s going on or where it’s happening, it’ll be who’s doing it that’ll be mind-bending. What would be the most jaw-dropping character reveal? Widmore. Charles Widmore at a young age.
What if Widmore was with Dharma in it’s prime? What if Widmore (or his father since he would be too young) was part of the team that started Dharma? Think about it. Ben is at war with Widmore. Who else has Ben been at war with? Yep-Dharma. In ‘The Shape of Things to Come’, Widmore tells him the island is his and it will be again. Ben stole it from Dhrama/Charles Widmore. How did he ’steal’ it from Widmore? Father issues. Let’s be honest, what Lost character doesn’t have father issues? I hypothesize that Charles was going ‘inherit’ the Island from his dad. All of this would easily explain how Penny found out about the Island by stealing documents from her father.
Recently, the Global Octagon Recruiting and the reinvigoration of the Dharma Initiative has coincided with the timeline where Widmore begins looking for the Island again. The Island was hidden from the rest of the world until the Swan’s implosion. Widmore finally saw Ben off the Island in 409, realizing that the race is on.
Please post your thoughts in the comments!
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My original thought about the person in the opening scene was Jacob.
Me too. I really hope it is Jacob.
Windmore? Really, you’re calling him Charles Windmore?
hehe…uh oh.
Good theory, I hadn’t actually thought about Widmore being the one we see in the opening scene. For some reason, I’ve just assumed it’d be Candle/Halliwax. Widmore would be cool though. I guess we’re just forced to wait 12 more days to find out!
I think it’ll be Faraday on the Dharma station back in time (or maybe one of the others left on the island).
It would be even better if it was jacob widmore and christian all in dharma. and that there all friends. mind blowing
It’s got to be Halliwax/Chang
i think it´s great…smashin´
in fact i have a theory of my own. i think charles widmore is a survivor of the purge, and somehow he ended up in the main land. since he´s been on the island, maybe working at the sawn, he´s been exposed to high levels of radiation, like Desmond, charles also has flashes (that´s why widmore gives desmond penny´s new adress, so he doesn´t change what he sees)
he knows ben hid the island, so charles somehow manages to send Desmond in that crazy round the world thing, knowing he will end up there, knowing that penny will move the seas to find him, making it easier for him to find his old island.
does this make sense to you guys?
This is definitely a strong possibility. I think the list of possible opening scene characters is limited to Widmore, Christian, Pierre Chang, Faraday, Abbadon, and Richard. If it’s anyone else, consider my mind blown.
I think Widmore had a strong hand in DHARMA, but I don’t think he was ever a staffer on the island. I think it was more that Widmore was funding DHARMA and co-opting their work: DHARMA / the De Groots wanted to research the island to save the world, Widmore just wants to learn the island’s secrets for his own purposes (whatever they may be). So I’m not sure we’ll ever see Widmore on the island.
Viewers have long speculated that Christian is very important to the story, so it wouldn’t be totally shocking to have some big reveal for him in the opening scene. Of the remaining choices, I think Faraday is the most likely. Given this year’s ComicCon video, my hypothesis is that Faraday and the socks in the raft were sent back to the mid to late 70’s (pre-1980, as Chang still has his arm). Daniel wrote the notes in the notebook during this time and somehow got them off the island so that they could be delivered to his younger self. Alternatively, Daniel has had Desmond/Minkowski-like trips into his own future, which is in the island’s past. He wrote the notebook in the late 1990’s when he came back to the “present” from these trips, scribbling down what he could remember.
Either way, I think Daniel knows that he won’t be seeing anyone from the “present” anymore, which puts his comment to Juliet in context: “Right, right… when I get back.”
Hexonxonx–you’re writing is superb (spelling, grammar, etc.) Of course, I’m reading for the content because I LOVE Lost, but just to let you know someone appreciates how well you write!
The key question remains: What will the opening SONG be?!!
Bring on GERONIMO JACKSON!!! Though I think the producers have a thing for Patsy Cline and Mama Cass Elliott. But I miss Charlie’s Pommy Rock music :,(
It may be a bit stupid but I am thinking of Charlotte, due to the recent rumours of Mader apearing on a film with George Clooney.
It only makes sense to me because she has some misteries still unsolved regarding her past on the island, and if the rumour is true, then it may be a good way to tell us the essential about Charlotte and be in time to kill her soon…
I think that it is almost obvious at this point that the person in the beginning of the episode will be piarre chang/hallowax. They will show him doing his normal morning routines, listening to his turntable, and he will be interupted by the arrival of none other then faraday. The question i pondering is wheather or not faraday knows anything about Darma or their experements
WAA WAA!!