Comments on: LOST Theory – The Four Toed Statue Solved (?)

By: lostman

lostman — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:15:03 +0000

One that I cant put my finger on is that if Jacob, Illana and the others are the “Good Guys” and the monster is Jacobs’ nemesis and referred to as the “bad guy” and he/it resides in the Temple, then why does Richard take Ben in there to be healed after he was shot by Sayid? Wouldn’t that be considered as a conflict of interest? WTF? Kind of makes you wonder who the Good Guys really are.

By: Huntsong

Huntsong — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:51:38 +0000

Are those beer cans at his feet? Heh heh, that’s funny^^

By: oh my god

oh my god — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:36:04 +0000

Sun has no thumbs!

By: Mehdi

Mehdi — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:51:50 +0000

The monster(non locke) Broke the statue, You will se in the 6th season

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By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:17:40 +0000

I hate to spoil your party, but this is clearly just a case of lazy photoshopping. For promos like this lots of times they’ll shoot the people individually and then put them all together in photoshop afterwards, and this is clearly what they’ve done here (if you have any doubt about it, you’re either blind or don’t know anything about photoshop). When they added Daniel, there was a bush in the foreground that his foot had to fit behind. Instead of taking the time to edit it so that you could see his foot through the bush, they simply erased his foot. You can even see part of his sock (the rest of his sock is obscured by shadows). If they were going to intentionally remove his foot as a clue, why would they not remove that tiny sliver of sock?

By: Paradox

Paradox — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:23:09 +0000

If Daniel does get sent back in time, and then realises that by creating time travel in the past he creates the problem in the future, then even if he chooses not to invent it I think the Island would still find a way, just like Jack not helping save Ben a 2nd time. Whatever happens in the future must happen irrelevant of what they do in the past, so if Daniel does go back in time and his followers create a statue of him etc, it’s more than likely that he’ll be involved in the creation of time travel, but I just think he’s clever enough to realise that by doing so it would then result in him travelling there in the future. It’s seems so very chicken/eggy which is why most people are struggling with the idea, but I think I understand you. I originally thought the statue might of been Richard Alpert, as he seems almost god like and I always wondered how he never aged. I read on another site that someone thinks he looks “sorta Egyptianesque”. I cant remember if Richard has met Farraday in the present (I dont think he has), and if not, maybe thats deliberate as maybe he’d recognise him from his past and Farraday’s future (depending on how long Richard’s been around and how long we’re guessing Farraday is thrown back).

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:54:56 +0000

There’s also a wonder that Horace (suspiciously like the fertility God’s name of Horus in Egyptian mythology) Had the only child on the island back in the 70s and once the statue was broken – no more babies!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:03:19 +0000

And how the hell you get Hurley up there in the sofa? And Kate seems to be scratching some kind of a strange itch both in her bottom and face, maybe related to time travel?
Now, seriously, the foot was taken out during the making of the photoshop work, they were adding branches on the floor and have taken out Daniel’s foot so they could arrange it accordingly later (like someone above said, his leg is arranged as supported on something), yes they made the rim of his pant leg , to be easy to add/paste the arranged foot later on the composition. I think this was a rushed photo and they left behind some details, like Juliet’s toes right next to Daniel. Why they would ask all websites to take out highres versions of this particular photo? They made a mistake and people just went crazy making up stories/theories LOL

By: Cosmic

Cosmic — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:07:16 +0000

If you look closely at Daniel’s left hand it only shows three fingers and a thumb. ?

By: MATT

MATT — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:50:05 +0000

very interesting theory. but does it explain the statue only having 4 toes???

By: Benny

Benny — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:07:20 +0000

… and forgot to mention. Dan’s leg is arranged as supported on something. A certain something that has been removed to make place for the branches.

By: Benny

Benny — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:04:13 +0000

Has anyone noticed or mentioned that Juliet who sits opposite Daniel has the toes missing off of one of her feet with a branch that come from behind her and ends up in front of her foot, just as in a photo editing error.
It seems more like digitally adding branches on the floor resulted in an unfortunate “red herring” scenario rather than a intentional clue.

Plus, RandomZombie’s comment is right on. Until we actually see Daniel with four toes, this is a bust.

By: RandomZombie

RandomZombie — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:52:43 +0000

I’m rewatching Live Together, Die Alone, and noticed that the statue doesn’t look like a foot with a missing toe, but like a foot that is supposed to have four toes. There’s no spot where a missing toe would fit. Four toes, each side by side, extending the entire width of the foot.

Damon Lindelof and Carleton Cuse have stated that the statue was originally supposed to have six toes. The sculptor said that it looked too much like a regular five-toed foot.

My bet is an ancient civilization (or maybe future civilization) with four-digit limbs.

By: Marc Oromaner

Marc Oromaner — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:21:44 +0000

I can totally see this Doc. The missing foot on Faraday may be a red herring trying to trick us into thinking he’s the statue, but I can totally see it. Just him showing up in a flash alone would make him a god to the ancient people. And he might use the hieroglyphs to contact with a future civilization, not knowing if English would evolve the same way due to his interference. Or, perhaps it was all from the ancient civilization on the island after he died.

I do see a flash to a very ancient time as the inspiration for the statue. Not sure it creates the technology though, or that Faraday will get stuck there, but it all makes sense to me. I like it.

I had been thinking that all the Losties were going to go back to that ancient time but thought they’d see that Alpert was already there and he was the statue. I like your theory better.

By: docarzt

docarzt — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:34:29 +0000

Nah, you misunderstood. They did not have the technology UNTIL Daniel arrived.

By: andres

andres — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:13:58 +0000

If that race in the past had the technology to make time travel possibly, I can hardly believe that Daniel would seem like a deity to them. He would be less advanced than them.

I don’t buy it, but cool speculation. But that somehow the promo pic and the 4-toe statue are linked I do see plausible, just not in that way.

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By: j.bentham

j.bentham — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:52:08 +0000

Too many comments, can’t read everyone. But listen to this: is Daniel’s fault if no baby can born on the Island. He was trying to save Charlotte without making her to be born.
Or kinda.

By: rick

rick — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:50:54 +0000

fair enough but .. do the writers center most of the remainding seasons focusing on that and not the other major loose ends

By: Bobvertigo

Bobvertigo — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:36:13 +0000

Anyone know where I can find this promo picture? I just googled “season 5 promo pic” and got nothing.

By: Zack M.

Zack M. — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:19:31 +0000

or……maybe this is an epically huge foiler used by the creaters to through us off

By: ElPrez

ElPrez — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:18:39 +0000

Dharma and Widmore never overthrew them. If you remember, keamy and his mercs were taken out by slingshots. And did you miss season 3 completely? The hand me downs were to disguise their true nature, which we have yet to see.

By: docarzt

docarzt — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:13:01 +0000

Dharma was resistant to the hostiles, and eventually failed. Granted they were overtaken from within, but they were engaged in combat with the hostiles and ultimately lost. Dharma did put up the best fight by erecting the fence and staying vigilant. They failed none-the-less.

By: Handsome Smitty

Handsome Smitty — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:58:02 +0000

Dharma was overthrown itself, not failed. Ben, as the new Leader helped bring this about.

While some, like yourself, obviously, find living in the woods and control on the island a recurring struggle, superior to science and civilization, I do not.

Richard lost control. Ben found him in the woods, became his recruit.

Ben then, continued a Dharma-like operation. It’s arguable if he was working in the interest of the Richard/Island or himself. While his research was about the conception/birthing issue, we don’t know if that was out of his own desire to have his own child or to find a receptacle for Smokey/Richard/Unknown reincarnation.

While your theory may be close, I certainly hope it is not; just too kitschy for me. Too easy.

And I cannot buy the statue-foot-as-Daniel-God. The foot suggests a connection to a superior or at least a more developed culture than is seen elsewhere on Island. Ruins of ancient civilizations discovered in modern times always reveals connections elsewhere.

Island has to be part of a bigger whole, one we cannot see.