My Serious, Logical Thoughts on LAX

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LAX refers to the three-letter designation of the Los Angeles airport. Every major airport in the world has a three-letter designation. For example, BRU is Brussells Belgium. Flight attendants are required to memorize all of them. I spoke to one flight attendant who said in her training she had to memorize them all in one day then take a test on it! Next time you are on a flight give your flight attendant a quiz. J

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As you noticed when the hydrogen bomb went off it created what I call a bifurcation. See my book on time travel called chaotic planet (www.qcms.biz). There is a whole section in there that explains what is going on perfectly. I will give a short version of it here. Think of a straight tree branch coming out of a tree. Then at the end of this branch two other branches come out of that branch and go off in different directions. Time is like the tree branch. At first there was just one timeline, but then time got split in two so that there are two different time lines that now coexist simultaneously. In one timeline the plane crashes and in the other it does not. The two timelines are like the two branches that come off the end of the original branch. The splitting of time into different branches is called a bifurcation. To tell these two timelines apart, I will refer to those characters who landed in LAX at alternate timeline characters or AT characters. For example there is original Locke who crashed and there is AT Locke who did not crash. Same for the rest of the passengers.

Notice that even AT Charlie seems to think it was his destiny to die when he tells Jack that he was supposed to die referring to himself. Interesting. It hints that the other timeline where he did die is the correct one.

Now, for some reason the alternate timeline where the plane lands in LAX is unstable and appears to be slowly disappearing. The following items have now vanished from this timeline: Desmond, the knives of Locke, the Father of Jack. I predict the disappearing will continue until nothing remains of this timeline. I believe this because as Desmond has been told, the universe has a way of course correcting. It was the destiny of the plane to crash and therefore the universe has to erase the timeline where it did not crash. If you can find it, check out a Star Trek the Next Generation episode entitled “Remember Me”. In this episode, doctor Beverly Crusher is transported to an alternate reality when a warp core bubble expands and engulfs her. In her reality people keep disappearing, and when they do, no one remembers the missing person. Eventually she figures out that the entire universe is disappearing and that she is stuck in a shrinking warp core bubble. She escapes at the end. Though I do not believe the alternate reality is a warp core bubble, I do believe that it is disappearing with the one difference that people do remember those who have vanished. Note how Jack does recall Desmond sitting next to him on the plane before he vanished. There is also the faint possibility that the alternate reality is simply the imagination of someone ala Saint Elsewhere, but I doubt that.

THE LOCKE-NESS MONSTER

Finally it is revealed that the smoke monster is not a what but a who. I had previously theorized that the smoke monster was the one impersonating people on the island, and now my theory is vindicated. Feels good to be right folks. I figured it out when the brother of Eko appeared to him on the island, and when he spoke to Eko he said “you talk to me like I am your brother.” Just after that the smoke monster showed up and killed Eko. Now that we know the monster is a who, the scene when Ben meets his dead daughter makes so much more sense. His dead daughter appeared to him and told him to do whatever Locke said. In reality the smoke monster knew the he himself would be impersonating Locke later so this makes perfect sense. He knew that He impersonating Locke would ask him to kill Jacob. Having his daughter tell him to obey would really help persuade Ben to do it.

But this episode never tells you the name of the smoke monster so I will refer to him as the Locke-ness monster. But I have a theory. Here is what I think is going on.

The Locke-ness monster and Jacob are two brothers who are gods. They got into fights because they disagreed on how to get humanity to evolve. The Locke-ness monster thought humans should evolve on their own, but Jacob felt that they needed to intervene to force humans to evolve. Their fights were so severe that the two were banished to an island that the gods created that was shielded from the rest of the world. They were told to work out their differences there. And there was a rule that neither was allowed to kill the other. Though I do not know the real names of these gods, there is evidence that one of the gods may be the god Apollo from Greek mythology. I do not think Jacob is his real name. I present as evidence the candy bar Apollo that has appeared in more than one episode and in the season finale of last year, Jacob gets an Apollo candy bar out of a machine for Jack. One of the gods may be one of the Egyptian gods such as Hippophus. The most obvious Egyptian reference is the Ankh which is a symbol for life. We saw this when the followers of Jacob opened the guitar case Hurley had. Inside was a rather large Ankh which the Others broke apart to get to the secret message inside from Jacob. One member of DHARMA had an Ankh, and the original statue on the island was a crocodile-like creature holding an Ankh in its right hand.

For centuries Jacob would bring people to the island to test his theory on how to get mankind to evolve. At one point inhabitants of the island built a statue to Jacob, and he lived inside it.

Jacob brought the ship called the Black Rock to the island. One of the people on that ship was Richard who is kind of like a priest. I believe this because of a remark that the Locke-ness monster made to Richard when he said “you look good out of those chains”. I thought about all the time in the series where we have seen people in chains. The best example is when original Locke and others went on board the Black Rock. There they saw skeletons that were in chains. That would also fit in with the remark of Juliet when original Locke asked her how old Richard was and she replied “old”.

THE THREE FACES OF LOCKE

It is interesting to note that actor Terry Oquinn plays three different incarnations of Locke. There is AT Locke, original Locke (dead Locke) and the Locke-ness monster. That must be fun for him. How do you think he liked playing the dead guy?

PARDON MY RED SEA

The red healing waters seem very similar to one of the Egyptian plagues in the bible when the water turned to blood. Does the red water have anything to do with the recent death of Jacob? Again – another Egyptian reference and also biblical reference. The similarities are uncanny.

The hourglass reminded me a lot of the wizard of Oz when that witch turned over the hourglass. It was a giant hourglass too like the one in this episode. This movie has been referenced before in the series. Remember the balloon and Henry Gale?

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Why does Juliet say it did not work and then posthumously say that it did work? How would Juliet have knowledge of the alternate timeline?

In this episode the Locke-ness monster was motivated to kill the people who were shooting at him. But why did the Locke-ness monster kill Eko, the pilot of flight 815 Seth Norris, and one member of the team of Rousseau (the guy who got his arm ripped off seen briefly in this episode)?

The contents of the message contained in the Ankh are baffling. Why is everyone in trouble if Sayid dies? Especially if the followers of Jacob were ready to kill our heroes on the spot?

What happened to the rest of the statue?

Why cannot the Locke-ness monster cross a barrier of gray ash?

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Q