The interpretation that Eko's last scene as a child walking away with Yemi is our first glimpse of the flash sideways made me cry. What a beautiful idea.
I have been re-watching this show with my family and using these videos to help explain things to them. The amount of new things you can learn even after 3 watch-throughs is amazing. Love this show so much.
So much better with your voice and not the bot sounding one. Was loving anyway but got to the long ones and have been binging hardcore!! Great work my guy. Appreciate you!
I couldn’t get beyond 30 seconds of the AI videos. And I know it gave him plenty of views and watch time but he would probably keep people around if he deleted those. I almost hit the do not recommend channel button until I randomly found this playlist of his. His voice is perfect. That AI voice was awful with even worse audio quality. Im here for these!
I am so glad you are still making these videos. When I found your videos I binged all of them and watched the series again after your analysis and I got so much more from the series thanks to you. Please keep making these. Though the show is long over these are great. Episode breakdowns would be awesome with full spoilers. THANK YOU!
That's music to my ears, Kelly! Once I have completed 'The Theory of Everything' series (three more parts to go), I shall be launching the episode guide, which I am really excited to do. And it will be made for the fans rather than newbies, so therefore it will be totally spoilerific. That way we can talk about and link ahead to future episodes and make connections.
@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 awesome!! I have tried to get some episode guides and they are all designed for people new to the series and never reference the overarching story, lore, or future episodes. Glad to hear you are making it for us LOSTIES!! I cannot wait.
Now that he stopped with the AI voice, I can actually enjoy it myself. I watched this show way back when they first released the DVD box set and I fell in love with the show. I was like 17 maybe 18, it was before 2010. I don’t have Disney Plus and I think it would seem a little too corny to watch nowadays because it definitely had a sitcom feel to it. So these videos bring me back! Thank you, channel owner!!!
@@juanthompson7395Sucks because this series, the longer “explained” version is the only content that is listenable. The rest is AI voiced. But these ones are good.
I just want to say thank you for these videos, the amount of hours you put into editing, scripts and research, I can't even imagine. You also have the perfect voice for narrating the story, it's soft, clear and very easy to understand even for a non-native english speaker (it's my 3rd language). Once again, thank you for doing these videos, they are truly something else, it's like watching the same yet completely different version of "Lost" once again and I just appreciate it so much, thank you! 🖤
Also Lost has this very peculiar Obsession with “Dan” as a first name. Danielle Rousseau Daniel Faraday Dan Norton (Lawyer Threatening Kate) Danny Pickett (an Other) Daniel (The Nigerian boy from Ecko’s flashback)
I love these videos. It makes the show even greater when you consider the depth of research and knowledge you share with these videos. Incredible. Makes me love the show even more. It’s crazy how well this programme was written
I love LOST so much. I have clear memories of coming to work the next morning and everyone would be talking about the show. I love the music, the scenery. Everything about it. Thank you for taking the time to produce these videos . Truly a labor of love.
Watching your videos reminds me how much I loved the show back in the day and how I love how you explain every tiny little bit in a way I never thought of before. as always thanks for all your hard work!
I can't get enough of these. They are so good and seem to be a huge part of the Lost story. You are wonderfull. I would love some input on Rose and Bernard also. They seem to have a little story of there own. Especially as Season 5 unfolds
I was traveling when you released this on Patreon and only watched the first half and totally missed the Eko part. Hells yeah, Eko is a real one. A total G.
It's one of the biggest "what if" scenarios from the show for me. All we know for sure based on what the writers said is that Eko was supposed to have Desmond's flashes and be the one to deal with Charlie's death arc; that he would be drawn into a longer and more involved conflict with Locke over spiritual leadership of the island; and that they had a general arc mapped out for him for several more seasons to come. But they gave his flashes storyline to Desmond and other unknown elements to Ben (my guess is they transferred over the whole conflict with Locke). By Eko leaving, we got more time with Desmond and Ben, and it's hard to imagine LOST without either of their awesome arcs. But I can't help but wonder what would have been...
It's hard to know how much the writers had planned ahead in terms of plot at this point, but I feel like Eko might have been more likely to follow the path that we see Ben eventually take and becoming the one to kill Jacob, who is someone that Eko might have viewed as a false god. We see the DNA of this idea survive to some extent in Eko's final episode 'The Cost of Living' with the Man in Black trying to manipulate and control him by appearing as Yemi. I imagine that Yemi would have made more appearances throughout the seasons, guiding and coercing Eko along the way.
I gotta say, I watched LOST years ago, long enough after it ended that the novelty of it had worn off, but not long enough that people were nostalgic for it yet. It was so frustrating to find hardly any discussions or communities around this show at the time, when it had once been the biggest thing on TV! I’m so glad to have found this channel now! Glad to see others are still obsessed with this show like I am
Just come across this video always loved lost since it first aired in the UK I think the sickness that sayid had was basically the equivalent of ptsd almost to the point of being a fugue state rather than a sickness created by the island your insights are brilliant and you've convinced me to rewatch the series in a new light
This show is DEFINITELY made for lots of reruns. Not just dialogue and clues on what they say, but you'll constantly see one of the crash survivors in the back ground of some flashback of other characters.
Did the Island have a rule against product placement? Is that why everyone wears plain shirts with no logos, clothes with no labels, and eats Apollo bars and Dharma cereal? My god, what sort of power is this!!?? Love all your work!
I absolutely loved when Jack was trying to get the Apollo bar from the vending machine in the flash sideways!! I should have known then that it was the afterlife and not an alternate timeline created by the nuclear bomb (as I had been thinking it was all season 😂)
Thank you! I'm sort-of doing that now with the Episode Guide, going through it one episode at a time and pointing out all of the foreshadowing and connections, plus highlighting the questions and mysteries that were answered in some way. Only a few episodes into the show so far but you can check them out here: ru-vid.com/group/PL5iTj9psbPrNFZaiwhulGTzxdWG5qSeEe
This is such a great analysis and definitely made me realize things about the series that I hadn't before. Watching your channel should be mandatory for anybody who just watched Lost for the first time.
Excellent video, as always. You’re videos inspired me to rewatch the series. I was 19 when it premiered and I watched it as it aired. With maturity and your insights, I got a lot more out of this rewatch than I did when I first watched it. Great work and keep these excellent videos coming ❤
Lost really was one of a kind. They tried their hardest to make a show that had every single genre jampacked in one. It's so silly but entertaining at the same time. I remember being a kid watching on cable and losing my shit each week after being blue balled. I was so glad to stream the whole thing on netflix a couple years ago.
These videos are great for people who really didnt see the connections between the characters and that there really was an overall plan for the series and those who STILL think they were DEAD the whole time. There so many things I missed during the original run. I still wish they would do a sequel series starting with Hugo, Ben and Walt running the Island to see whats been going on the last 13 years starting with the 12 minute NEW MAN IN CHARGE epilog. They could have recruited a new group of scientists to study the Island and help those souls trapped on the Island like Michael to move on to the Sideways/Purgatory universe on their way to THE LIGHT. Some of those who left on Hydra Island on Flight 316 could make a return as well.
My favorite video in the series so far. While the first two had what I would argue are bigger and harder to understand revelations, this one got me far more excited about rewatching the show to notice how all of these connections work. Fantastic work!
My thoughts on the cave, who used it and for what purpose, and my apologies if someone has already beaten me to it: Jacob used it to keep track of which lighthouse VIPs he had activated as candidates (i.e. touched), while putting the MIB on notice who the candidates were so that he would not attempt to kill them. Jacob would have written the names on the lighthouse dial to keep track of which VIP could be viewed at which degree setting, and he would cross out names when those settings would stop reflecting images (probably because they died). Jacob would have needed a separate list to keep track of the VIPs he had marked as candidates (with his touch), and by putting that list someplace MIB could find, he was alerting MIB as to who the game pieces were, which explains why he placed the scale at the cave entrance as a symbol to MIB that the cave is part of the game. "Here are the people you can't kill. Game on." We can deduce that MIB was not aware of the lighthouse because 1. the lighthouse can't be found unless you are looking for it ("I guess we weren't looking for it"), and 2. MIB seems clueless as to what the numbers represent ("Jacob had a thing for numbers"). This also explains why Kate's name is scratched out in the cave but not in the lighthouse. The island marked her as a VIP and she was still alive, and so her degree setting still reflected images in the lighthouse, but in the cave Jacob attempted to "deactivate" her as a candidate, so that the island might spare her to be mother to Aaron (I find it interesting he would do this considering he would likely have known that she comes back to the island in 2007, but I suppose there's a chance he didn't).
Wow, love the analysis, very thorough! If anyone remembers the episode when locke went to go see Jacob. Richard leaves Locke in Jacob's hut and leaves him. Who was it that Locke saw on the chair? They never addressed that scene/plot point
You have conflated a couple of different scenes here. It is not Richard who leads Locke to the cabin in 2004 to see "Jacob", it is Ben. This happens in Season Three episode 'The Man Behind the Curtain'. Richard leads Fake Locke (MiB in disguise) to the statue in 2007 to see Jacob in the Season Five finale 'The Incident'. So, what was going on in the cabin when Ben took the real Locke there in 2004? Well, Ben was trying to save face. He had never actually seen Jacob before, which he later confesses. So, he took Locke to the only place he ever knew Jacob to occupy - the cabin. We find out in Season Five that Jacob did use this cabin to meet people in for a time because Ilana goes directly there to see him, only once she gets there she finds it empty. She then tells her colleagues: "Jacob isn't here. He hasn't been here in a long time. *Someone else* has been using it." The implication is that when Ben took Locke to the cabin in 2004, the entity they encountered inside was not Jacob but The Man in Black. This was part of MiB's long con against the two men. When Locke goes back to the cabin for further instructions in Season Four, he does so fully believing that the entity inside is actually Jacob. When he finds Fake Christian inside, he takes everything the man says as gospel as a result. But Fake Christian is also a manifestation of The Man in Black. He is using the cabin as a ploy to con Locke into moving the island and dying, so he can use the man's body as a vessel.
Your essayist skills and deep dive interpretations are elegant, thoughtful and extremely well presented. Extremely impressive. if you decide to analyse another show... please let us know
So I have watched all your videos so far, and im gonna invest the 1oo+ min on this, my question is how close am I to my masters in lost, and can you confirm that I am on pace (not Charlie, see what I did there?) for a doctorate in LOSTology? Brilliant as always, thanks for your dedication
Excellent video! Absolutely loved it mate. I do wish that the rules had never reached Hurley though. In the flash sideways when the plane lands in L.A and Sawyer tells him that he shouldn't be telling people that he won the lottery, Hurley tells him it's okay because nothing bad ever happens to him. Hurley is happy in a world without the island, he does good for people. Then he meets Libby and remembers, I always get a bit sad about that. Hurley was happy to take over the role as protector and he surely would have made a fantastic one, but I can't help but be sad about how happy he was without the island.
I don't believe Hurley would have stayed as a protector for centuries like Jacob and Mother did. It wasn't in his nature to want to hold power for a long time. He was the right man for the job in the aftermath of the Island War, but he wouldn't have wanted to watch all of his loved ones age and die around him. I think that's why we see him and Ben pick up Walt in the epilogue. It's heavily suggested that Hurley will pass the torch onto Walt in the years to come. In the sideways, everyone gets to experience what their lives might have been like without The Island and had Jacob not interceded in their fates. The important part of their lives was that they found each other; something that would not have been possible without their experiences on The Island. So, even though they suffered greatly there, they also found their soulmates along the way.
Thank you for the contribution 🙏 I really, really appreciate it! And I’m extremely pleased to hear that these videos have helped to explain and enrich the show further for you. That was my greatest hope when starting the channel really, to help people see the story in a new light.
These videos are very well put together. Lost was lightning in a bottle; no other shows have come close, not for lack of trying. Anyways, glad your channel is still keeping Lost alive!
Another great video. Thank you so much for your excellent content. I'm looking forward to your bootstrap paradox video. I hope it will touch on Sawyer's part in it at the well when the island skipping through time. His holding the rope that John was on then skipping backwards with it in hands, I believe led to someone finding the rope and then digging the well...
It did indeed! I have discussed the rope part of the time travel loop on the channel before (one of my earliest videos), but I shall be returning to it in more detail in the next video. There are quite a few causality loops in Season Five and most people don't always catch them all. The rope is definitely one of them.
PLEASE keep up the wonderful work! You're videos are amazing and incredibly well put together. TY so much for taking the time for these videos and enriching the LOST experience as a whole! CHEERS mate!
i've binged almost every single video that has your voice in it, the videos are so amazing and fun to watch while learning so much more about my favourite show, and your smooth voice does an even better job explaining everything, love your work and keep it up!
Great work. Definitely one of my favorite shows of all time, if not the favorite. Finishing up my 5th watch. 🤘I still feel like this show is overlooked, or underrated. But I guess deep theory and concept is not for everyone.
i just realized AI voice technology Has gotten WAAAAAy better and you could of used AI voices again, but instead you deliver phenomenal Lost Theory and explanation in your own voice.I appreciate the hard work and effort you do.
@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 I much prefer a real voice. The text to speech can sometimes be hard to understand as it doesn't have the same inflection of a real person.
I love these videos so much, I’ve been listening at bedtime, but I really wish there weren’t so many ads… though I understand why they’re there. Amazing job explaining everything!
This is brilliant! You do such a good job of explaining things, I don't have the same confidence as you do that the writers had any of this planned, but you do an amazing job of connecting it regardless! Thank you!
Hey man you work very hard i can't even imagine how much time and effort it takes to edit the video ... Hope you earn enough from this :) . I really enjoyed your videos goodluck :)
Fantastic videos, cant wait for the next part! Ive seen Lost 4 or 5 times (and just about to start again because of your videos 😁) and youve still given me many many new perspectives, absolutely love your takes!
I absolutely believe that The Island is alive and sentient. I discuss this very concept in The Theory of Everything: Part One, which delves into the origins of the island. You can view it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oTZ88eUQrJo.html
Please keep on dwelling down the rabbitt's hole. Just as effortessly you loured me so far. I cannot overstate how pleasent it is to hear your voice. In comparison to old vids thru maschine. Namaste!
I'm 16 minutes in and it feel slike it's been a full episode and two minutes at the same time and there's still an hour and a half to go. The pacing on this is really good. The information is dense, but it lights on every just long enough to solidify the point and then moves on. Have already listened to hours of the channel on mobile. Just a really good companion to a really great show. I was happy with the ending at air time. The show was about the characters to me , not the mysteries, so I was satisfied. All the mysteries are still loads fun and I appreciate the method this channel uses to investigate them. Just really good all around.
Thank you! Yes, these videos do take a lot of time, energy and effort to create, but I love making them. And I really appreciate the fact that people take the time out of their days to watch them. The reaction to the work I'm doing really makes all the effort worthwhile.
your series is very well edited, narrated & paced, thank you very much for making these & bringing me back to one of my favorite stories. i've learned so much in your theory of everything & will be diving deeper into the mythology & layers of the series with all of the videos. it's been many years since the last rewatch & when i'm ready for the long journey i'll be going in extremely well prepared for all of the mysteries, connections & hidden details like it was the original broadcast & i was running to the pc the next morning to search for screencaps for key scenes to find new clues!
My primary objective with this channel is to deepen and/or enrich the mythology of the show for fans (and convert the naysayers), so I get incredible satisfaction and validation from reading kind comments like this. Thank you🙏
I like your idea of what happened to Danielle R and her team(French team) that was something I was really hoping for more of. I thought the man in black tricked Danielle into thinking he was infected but truly wasn't. So I like your idea of her shooting another and Robert just defending himself. But she and Claire were prety close to the same thing.....good stuff amigo She does have that crazy eye the whole show
This was fantastic!!! I love your videos so much and can't wait for the next one! I hope it will explain one of my favourite episodes "Flashes Before Your Eyes". That one always confuses me.
This is WEIRD ! Last night while watching a FRINGE weekend marathon on HLN - LOST crossed my mind last night and I went to LOST EXPLAINED and saw no new videos in 3 months. I thought "I hope LOST EXPLAINED guy is ok!" - and then today a new video appears! Did I receive a signal from the FUTURE? Are we living in a SIMULATION? 😉😁😃
Do not mistake coincidence for fate ;-) Thank you for the concern though! This video would have dropped a month ago but I had to wait for a copyright claim to clear. They've always been very good about letting my videos run on this channel without restrictions, but sometimes they flag the IP automatically and the process to get the claim taken off can last up to 30 days before it is lifted. I would like to be releasing content more regularly but that does often throw a spanner in the works with the scheduling unfortunately. Thankfully, the Patreon has no such issues with copyright and they let you upload directly onto their platform now, so I can still deliver for the patrons during the long wait on RU-vid.
Awesome videos! I was a huge fan of the series till it ended, then I thought the whole story had been ruined by rewrites and interference from ABC. But you have shown me the writers did have at least a semi coherent set of rules for a story they (almost) stuck to the entire time. Show is definitely worthy of a rewatch. Can’t wait for part 4!
I guess one quite problematic area to address when undertaking an explanation exercise of a production like this, is that the original story arc and all of the facets within are very rarely able to be completely fulfilled and protected once the production is up and running, especially if a series like this is successful and runs for this length of time. There are always ongoing practical adjustments and limitations arising that require rewrites. The departure of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as mentioned in this video is one such example. One of the most taxing and trying things for writers to undertake are fast and affective "write arounds" required when such situations present themselves. The agility and expertise demonstrated by writers in these situations are a testament to their talent, but I think it's salient to observe that a degree of erosion of the original concept occurs over time and multiple adjustments. However, you really have done a stellar job of breaking down the quagmire of detail and themes within this heavyweight production. Well done.
There are a lot of parallels between the Others and Israel in the Old Testament. God directly communes with his people and gives them his perfect law but the people become corrupt over time, twisting the law for the own ends and missing the point. Locke even calls them Pharisees.
We don't know the precise criteria for passing or failing that test beyond the obvious things. Such as: Does his skin sear? Does the ash repel his body? Does the electric current scramble and distort the apparition? If you watch closely, you can see Dogen really studying Sayid and how he reacts to pain and also how the ash spreads across his body. Basically, Dogen was not satisfied by Sayid's reactions, for whatever reason. And while the test proved that Sayid was not a smoke monster manifestation, it didn't mean he wasn't infected by the smoke monster. I think a big part of Dogen's scepticism is the result of the resurrection from death. Sayid should not still be alive. Dead is dead, or that's what they believe amongst The Others. And the only thing Dogen associates with "resurrection" and dead people physically walking around the island is Old Smokey. Sayid was never going to get a fair test. The "invigilator" had already predetermined that he was beyond saving. However, we know that wasn't true. Dogen turned out to be wrong about several things.
quite impressive the amount of work you must have put in to creating the content on this channel - given the huge effort its a shame you don't have more subscribers - Ive now watched part 1 to part 3 & look forward to the next part - as I am rewatching Lost ight now I may try to start watching your original 5+ hour video which I only found after watching part 3
Thank you! It has taken some time to build up an audience and subscribers are increasing each month. Slow and steady. The 5-hour supercut isn't as polished as the content I've been making in the past year -- it used a text-to-speech voice and lower quality resolution footage -- but if you don't mind that then it's still worth a watch. The versions I'm making now are superior in both quality and content (I am rewriting a lot of the old videos as I go through). It's up to you!
Answer me this… How is it that Ethan didn’t recognized Locke after Oceanic 815 crashed? Locke teleported back to the Nigerian plane crash and tried to reason with Ethan (who shot him) about being their leader. Locke disappears with the flashes and Ethan is somehow cool with the idea that the passenger from Oceanic 815 looks exactly like the teleporting guy. That scene was unnecessary because Ethan never developed any interest towards Locke. It would have been a cool way to pay off his curiosity towards Locke if in season 1 Ethan asked suspicious questions. Such as: “Hey… are you sure we never met before?” , “Have you ever been shot?”, “Does the name ‘Richard’ mean something to you?”
Ethan almost certainly would have recognised Locke. That interaction at the beechcraft couldn't have happened more than several years prior before Oceanic 815 crashed. And the fact that Locke disappeared before his eyes would have been quite the eye-opener! I'm sure he told Richard what he saw at the beechcraft and maybe Richard let him in on a few details about his previous encounters with Locke and other time travellers. It's worth noting two things here. The first is that we never get a scene where Locke and Ethan meet or interact one-on-one, so we have no idea what Ethan's questions or reactions were. The second is that we know Ethan *did* interact with Locke off-screen in a significant way because Locke tells Jack: "I hunted with Ethan. I spent time with him. I never sensed anything off." Which means Ethan was going out on hunts with Locke long before Boone became Locke's righthand man. I think Ethan, like many of The Others, recognised Locke was special and a mythical figure in many ways, which is why Ethan wanted to spend time with the man. But he doesn't give the game away. We know that Richard Alpert had met Locke before as well, and he doesn't let onto this fact when they cross paths in Season Three episodes 'The Man from Tallahassee' and 'The Brig'. In fact, we see that Richard actually helps Locke out and spends time with him. So, I imagine it was the same with Ethan. He didn't let onto the fact that he had come across Locke before, but he was drawn to him for obvious reasons.
@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 This is also a question I think about quite a lot! I'm honestly really glad someone else brought this up, because it bothered me for the longest time and I've spent quite a bit of time thinking about what the purpose of that scene was, and why it was necessary to include it. I have a theory of my own that I'll run by here :) Some important context I feel the need to preface with is, we know that by Season 5 (at the latest), the map to the end of the series was clear to the writers. Most, not all but CERTAINLY most things in Lost are deliberate. This channel is no stranger to how deep the rabbit hole goes and how big the iceberg of this show is, so the first time I had watched that scene with Ethan and Locke in early season 5, it couldn't escape my mind because much like OP, I had the same questions; "Why did they include that scene? That was obviously deliberate, so why did they feel the need to show us Ethan and Locke meeting prior to the crash?? Wouldn't Ethan have recognized him?????" To me, and why I *think* the writers did it was to further expand on the fear and jealousy that Ben feels towards Locke. So onward to the ACTUAL theory of mine (sorry lol, this might be a lot); might be a leap, but hear me out, I think Ethan might have assumed Locke was possibly a vision/apparition, even considering he shot him. We can assume Richard never told Ethan about John given how hostile he is toward him on encounter (along with the fact he doesn't believe him and then tries to kill him). We can also assume that Ethan is well aware of the supernatural and magic properties of the Island, so visions and apparitions aren't exactly out of the question for him, but NOT time travel, else that whole interaction would have gone pretty differently. So the sequence of events goes as follows; - Ethan is about to shoot this guy named John Locke who claims that Ben made him their leader - Locke then disappears in a flash of light before his eyes - Ethan is confused and reports back to Ben at the Barracks - He tells Ben "Hey so some weird shit happened in the jungle just now; this small plane crashed there and this bald guy was climbing up to get to it and then I shot him, but for some reason he knew my name? He said his name was John Locke and that apparently you made him our leader??? Of course, that's ridiculous, so I was about to put him down...but then he disappeared in front of me. The Island might have just shown me something, do you know anything about this?" - Ben responds "wtf who's John Locke? No. I don't know anything about this, why would I pass on leader to some guy I've never met?" Of course by that point, Ben has also had his share of visions on the Island, namely when he saw his mother in the woods in 'The Man Behind the Curtain', so he's likely to have believed Ethan saying he saw something as bizarre as what he claims. Knowing that Ethan might have had a premonition of sorts of a guy who would eventually usurp him, Ben would probably be shaken up, because why would he ever give up his position WILLINGLY? Jumping ahead a few years, Oceanic 815 crashes, and Ethan infiltrates the group. In that same group of survivors, he sees and meets Locke, the same guy he encountered a few years prior, and he most CERTAINLY would have told Ben. Ben doesn't take it entirely too well, considering that a few weeks prior he found out he had a tumor on his spine, on this Island that has healing properties, now learning that Ethan's supposed premonition of someone claiming to be their new leader is now on the Island in person. So ultimately, my assumption is that this ‘legend of John Locke' so to speak (to Ben exclusively), the man who would be Ben's worst nightmare, actually began with Ethan's encounter. It was only after he crashed on the Island in 2004 and The Others researched every bit into their personal lives that Ben knew he was dealing with a very real, very physical threat to him and his power. Sorry for the wall of text! Hopefully none of this is any stretch too, I figured I'd throw this out there if anyone else had this same question. I love this show and love discussing these things 🙂
@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Thanks for reading, and I’m glad to hear it! Part of why I felt this way is because for the most part of early season 5, the show spends quite a bit of of time building up toward the death of Locke (obviously with how season 4 ended). So I figured, given within that group of episodes we were shown the events leading up to his death, it contextualizes that scene as a very subtle tease or whatnot. To me, I interpret the writers’ intent as, “Hey, wouldn’t Ethan have told Ben about his strange jungle encounter?” which would naturally lead to the audience asking something like ‘does that mean Ben knew of the name John Locke prior to the crash?’. This is *partly* assuming that Richard never told anyone about time traveling Locke, which wouldn’t be too far off, but even if he did, I feel it still would make sense within the context of everything that went down.
My take on the cave list; that was the MiB’s list of his ‘candidates’. That’s the reason Kate’s name is scratched off. At some point he realized he couldn’t use/convert her.
The same happens with every new video you post, I am completely and uttely in awe and lost for words. As I don't like to use the same praising vocabulary every time, just refer to my other comments... I'll just say a biiig "wow" again.
This video series is absolutely incredible- I have just watched lost for the 3rd time and I missed half of this stuff! It makes so much more sense now that you have taken the time to lay out everything. Thank you for this
Young Locke chose the items correctly. He used knife all the time in the island and never used the book of laws since he never got to that level of leadership. Richard's disappointment was misguided, since he expected the leader to own the book of laws but we never saw Locke receive it.
Young Locke chose correctly for himself, I agree. But he did not pick the items that Richard needed him to pick which would have proven the boy was a special child destined to become the time travelling bald man whom Richard had already met, and who also claimed to be the leader of The Others in the future. It wasn’t about what was right for the boy, it was about whether or not this boy was right for The Island. That’s why Richard was disappointed.
@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 1960s Richard wouldn't have known how long Locke would be the leader or what he would even do as a leader. The question Richard asked young Locke are "which items belong to you", The Book of Laws never belonged to leader Locke and he never even seen it as far as I remember, but Richard couldn't have known that. He expected the leader to know what is the Book of Laws, but Locke never reached that knowledge. That's why Richard's disappointment is just misguided and misunderstanding of Locke's role as a leader. Young Locke proved he was special with the painting and the backgammon reference.
I'm not saying the test was fair or even a test that Young John could ever have hoped to get right without being psychic, but Richard was basically testing for a couple of things. The first is to see if that bald guy who walked into The Others camp in 1954 calling himself John Locke and claiming to be their leader in the future was telling the truth. That he would be born in 1956 and grow up to become this time traveller standing before Richard. But the test is also to check if this young boy is special in some way, to see if he demonstrated any abilities, or had a innate sense of his own destiny. Hence the items that belong to him "already". For instance, this is something that someone like Walt might get right. Richard also believes in destiny and if The Island wanted Locke then it would guide the boy into making the right choices. But the boy doesn't pick right, so Richard walks away frustrated because of the contradiction between the man he met in 1954 and the boy he is testing now. It is precisely because Richard does not know when Locke is supposed to come to The Island in the future that he keeps holding out hope. But Locke's destiny isn't what anyone thought it was going to be.
@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 You're looking it from the wrong perspective in my opinion. Since Richard heard from time travelling Locke that he is going to be the leader. If someone is able to do that and time travel he will probably be a very significant leader for them. If this was the case there was no way he would not know about the Book of Laws. If he would spend years or decades as leader that would be obvious that he will know about it. That was Richard's expectation of a leader but he doesn't know of the circumstances of him becoming a leader. Young Locke clearly showed special abilities by picking his objects, drawing the picture and playing backgammon. One could argue that fate or destiny made it that Locke wouldn't pass the test by Richard's eye that way the chain of events of the series happened. Blaming it on Locke lacking special abilities is a misjudgment, he picked the right objects and it was clearly Richard's fault since he really couldn't know how long or what Locke did as leader. You can treat Richard's mistake at the test as destiny or look it like you did, it's up for interpretation and depends on the way you look at it, since we clearly see the same even in 2 different ways.
I agree that Young Locke was special, he just wasn’t special in the way that Richard thought he was or even in the way that older time travelling Locke claimed he was. In fact, Locke becoming their leader was just a self-fulfilling prophecy created by Locke as a result of that interaction in 1954. Locke would be their leader for all of five minutes before disappearing from The Island present permanently. So technically, Young Locke was never supposed to pass the test since it was not his destiny to lead The Others. It was only his destiny to make them believe he would be their leader. It’s all a connivance of The Man in Black. And while that shouldn’t devalue Locke’s specialness, it’s not the kind of specialness that Richard was testing for.
what i find interesting about jin and rousseau is that prior to season 5 they have never interacted with each other. there were a few times where they were near each other or in the same general area but never noticed each other due to rousseau interacting with other characters. i assume this is due to the writers deciding later on down the road to have jin encounter young rousseau during the time loop in season 5.
I like to think, that Danielle telling Claire to kill Aaron, was only partially due to her thinking that Aaron was infected, and at least subconsciously an act of desperate bitterness because she had lost Alex.
