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"...a unique effect of time travel is that your womb will always age, however, your body won’t age. When the time comes for Ben’s mom to give birth, she dies, but still manages to produce a baby boy. The reason she died was because the timeline was course correcting to replace her with Ben."
"1981: After a good bit of time on the island, Ben hears and sees his dead mother outside his house on the island! The reason he sees her is because in an “alternate future,” she was actually alive and working on this island for DHARMA. She appears half-dead to him because her dead spirit is designed to “help Ben understand his destiny” so that he can carry on her legacy. Thus, her spirit is time’s way of course correcting the future. "
"the “rules of the time machine” are not governed by any physical definitions of time travel. The “rules,” if you will, are governed by how FATE decides to preserve the timeline. Thus, if you are required to do something profound in a future timeline, fate will find any way possible to preserve the time"
"Shortly after Ben sees his dead mom, he sees Richard in the jungle, who says “you’re not ready.” Richard is a time traveler - and a DHARMA-hater."
"DHARMA releases a disease on the island which infects many of the Others. Then DHARMA claims to the others that they can cure the disease with this special “device,” the device being a time machine. This, however, is NOT obvious to the Others - they just want to get cured, and think the time machine is some type of complex vaccination. What DHARMA is actually trying to test is if people go back in time to a point before they were infected, can they be cured of the virus? As fate would predict, the others go back in time and are cured of the virus, only to be later killed by the smoke monster, as the monster is the “physical means” in which the timeline course corrects itself."
Genius! Especially about the smoke monster.
Thanks for the article, jkmohr. It's very interesting.
It's funny how the creators mentioned how the show would not have any time travel on it. But this was before. They could've changed their minds. And the audience is stupid if they actually get upset about something like that. Suck it up!