That's what I like to hear! :-D

Little longer for me, I find myself going back 10-20 seconds from time to time 🤯

Yep we all in!

That would honestly be my dream job. 🙏

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I agree, it sucks that he died so early into the show... John Lock and Echo was a great duo in my opinion

I wish i could see echo versus linus

Thats a lot of re watching.

@@Luke_wait_for_it_marengo I have a lot of time... lol

@@iamme201 fair call there mate.

Thank you, Christian! :-)

I love your comment!

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108whats up with the 🐍 on the logo on the dharma logo ? Seems every culture here around the world there it a type of snake worship

@@oscar_jjuarez5266 It's a swan to represent The Swan station. Every DHARMA station logo has a different picture that represents the specific station.

Daaaaamn, Daniel (Faraday)

Widmore: o dzendobry dzis njedzela jest dzis pan Linus chce mnje z wyspy wyrzucici jak ja przywudcq innych jestem

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.

Agreed! Eko is one of my favourite characters on the show. And considering how short lived his arc ended up being, it shows how much impact he had.

So sad the actor who played Ekko wanted out because his was one of the most compelling stories on the show and would have loved to see where it went.

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...

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 I wonder if Eko would have been the one to spin the donkey wheel, and not Ben.

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.

LOL! I'd say that you are three more videos away from graduating with honors, my friend.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 its going on my resumé

You'd think at least one can of coke would have survived the crash! Do Oceanic water bottles count? 😂

Ashton, you continue to be an absolute diamond of a supporter on both here and the Patreon. Thank you ❤️

Thank you, Silas! I will explore Rose and Bernard within the context of the show before the end of The Theory of Everything series.

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 UKposts.

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: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/p4SLbG6cjIejq6M.html

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

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.

I was before my time lol. But thank you. I think my real voice has proven to be a bigger hit overall.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Your voice is majestic sir.

This is such a great outcome 👏

@@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.

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.

You will be pleased to hear that I am absolutely diving back into 'Flashes Before Your Eyes' in the next video.

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🙏

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 🙏

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.

That's music to my ears! Thank you for saying 🙏

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!

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.

Yes, that’s a good summary of how Richard’s arrival on The Island changes Jacob’s trajectory.

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 🙂

@@spiiirrriiit This is an excellent comment and theory! One that I broadly agree with. Thank you for sharing.

@@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.

I will be exploring a significant part of The Lost Experience in the next video. Not a complete overview of the ARG, but I shall be addressing the background info that it gives us on Alvar Hanso, DHARMA, and the numbers.

I don't tend to watch LOST UKposts channels unless their content differs significantly from what I'm doing on here. The problem of consuming too much of what other people are thinking and interpreting about the mythology is that it can pollute your own thought process. You start comparing and contrasting how you're doing it with how they're doing it, and it can be a frustrating experience if there is a lot of disconnect. I think if your own ideas are going to be challenged and/or validated, it's better that it happens through the comment section where a dialogue can take place between yourself and others rather than seeking it out from people doing similar work. "Does this content creator agree or disagree with my ideas?" isn't nearly as helpful as "Do my ideas hold up to scrutiny when questioned by a viewer?" My scripts for videos have improved immensely as a result of my interactions on here. Don't get me wrong, I still need to do relevant research for the videos themselves, e.g. checking transcripts, revisiting creator interviews, finding soundbites, mining facts from Lostpedia, reading up on any historical/scientific contexts, etc. So, I'm immersed in all of that stuff. And I enjoy a good debate in the comments here. I just don’t actively need to watch or study other people's attempts to explain the series as I feel like I've gotten there on my own. Hope that makes sense!

And you are super awesome for watching. Thank you!

I take it that you’re referring to the Pierre Chang quote? He’s talking about the rules of time, and he’s right. The rules of time cannot be broken, as the show demonstrates and reinforces.

@LOSTEXPLAINED108 "You can only go forward in time" is a rule that could not be broken, up until it was. "Lifting 160 tons takes at least 250 strong men and at least 40 horses" was a rule that couldn't be broken up until it was. From the origin of everything until the end of everything, it is the nature of rules to be broken. That's why exclaiming over any particular rule when you've already cleared one as massive as time travel being possible is kind of hilarious.

Sorry, I'm not really following what you're saying here. What character in LOST ever says "You can only go forward in time"? No one says that in the show. Or do you mean that in a non-time travel sense? Also, are you arguing that there is no such thing as unbreakable "rules" in the LOST mythology or are you arguing that about the rules of our own real world? LOST establishes that there are two different types of rules within the story: those made by men (that can be bent and broken) and those that are baked into physical reality, like gravity. These latter rules are based on physics and quantum mechanics. So essentially, the characters cannot change the past anymore than you could choose to fly into space right now. There are rules to reality that cannot be broken. Sure, we can adjust our understanding of how things work and why -- that's the point of scientific research -- but there are fundamental principles at the core of the physical world that we have no power to change. Not sure if that's what you were getting at BTW, but just wanted to make it clear what both the show is conveying, and what I was explaining in the video.

@LOSTEXPLAINED108 It's an irony. When you've broken the law that says time travel isn't possible (as it wasn't until they did it) It's funny for him to act like there are somehow harder and faster rules that govern the thing rule that was already broken.

Okay, I get what you mean now! I think Pierre Chang goes into The DHARMA Initiative already believing that time travel is possible, as that's his field of study. Technically, Chang hasn't actually performed any time travel experiments yet because they have only just started building The Orchid when he talks about "rules". However, he's basing his assessment on the theoretical principles of time travel -- also known as The Novikov self-consistency principle -- which is what most physicists agree with. The idea is that even if time travel were indeed possible, we couldn't change anything about the past and whatever time travellers end up doing is already part of our timeline. So, I agree to some extent that Chang's proclamation is premature since he is talking about the rules of time travel as being set in stone before actually knowing that for certain (which is what the Orchid experiments would later try to prove or refute). The rules he speaks of are theoretical at that point, but he subscribes to them being accurate because the Self-Consistency Principle doesn't break the laws of physics. We also know Chang has far more data on the light than we do, so it's hard to say if his understanding is based on something more concrete than what we are shown. Either way, the show does prove this theory correct. Whatever happened, happened. You can't change the past. And that is a rule that cannot be broken within the laws of LOST. I actually delve into a lot of this stuff in my latest video on Science and Time Travel, which you should check out if you haven't already.

I explore what the island is and how it first formed in the first part of this new video series, which you can watch here: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/p4SLbG6cjIejq6M.html

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Thank you. I sure will. I'm watching more of your videos as we speak.