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Why was the island shown underwater at the start of the series?
Thanks for the knowledge,
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It did exist. Ben and his father talked about it over breakfast.
You could surmise that it was under water many years in the future after the protector failed to protect it and the cork was removed again but this time not replaced.
And the world ended? It was certainly implied that the world would end (or at least really nasty things would happen) if the island wasnt protected.
Maybe thats why there were all dead
Which was why they never crashed on the island in the alt universe/purgatory.
Who knows, just one of the many questions they left unanswered. :rolleyes:
Was this ever explained? Are we to assume Ben and his dad had had a memory flash at some point previous? How come Ben didn't recognise Alex/Locke/Russou/Anyone?
Probably not. They seemed to feel as if they neednt bother.
Yes, the island could have sunk (died) at any time in the future, even millions of years and showed up in the afterlife/purgatory universe along with losties who also died as it was important to their lives.
This.
it was made in their sub coincious so maybe they subconciously created an imaginary universe where the hydrogen bomb did go off and the island did sink to the bottom of the sea, allowing their purgatory world to exist how they wanted it without the island?
what doesnt really make sense is juliet sacrificing herself was all for nothing? as the island didnt sink
As Islands don't tend to sink, even after a nuclear explosion it was a bit of a long shot.
Why doesn't that make sense? They thought setting off the bomb was going to save them all - the fact that she was wrong doesn't make it nonsensical. No one expected it to sink anyway.
They left when Ben was still a kid, giving him time to get his doctorate in European History. Way before Rousseau arrived on the island (presumably never happened), Alex was born, etc.
None of them remember the island/bomb though, apart from Daniel who was pretty sure he had set off a nuke.
yeh true it can be explained with it just not working as they wanted,its just the s6 opening made it seem it worked
obviously now we know that wasnt the case but i think writers could have done a bit better job explaining that
subconsciously...dont have to remember it
i mean if island didnt go down in real life and you say it didnt go down in purgatory land either that means the s6 opening shot is just completly fake and pointless...i dont think thats the case persoanlly
Not quite the simple question you thought, eh?
I also agree with this.
The writers had quite a lot to say about what they were up to after the season 6 premiere aired (full interview here):
As Damon Lindelof explains:
"We knew that the ending of the time travel season was going to be an attempt to reboot. And as a result, we [knew] the audience was going to come out of the “do-over moment” thinking we were either going start over or just say it didn’t work and continue on. [We thought] wouldn’t it be great if we did both? That was the origin of the story....
...Should you infer that the detonation of Jughead is what sunk the island? Who knows? But there’s the Foot. What do you get when you see that shot? It looks like New Otherton got built. These little clues [might help you] extrapolate when the Island may have sunk. Start to think about it. A couple of episodes down the road, some of the characters might even discuss it."
So according to the writers, the intention of that shot was to make the audience think about why and when the island got sunk.
I remain unconvinced that they had even planned to make the flash sideways some form of afterlife/ purgatory from the start of the season.
They knew.
Rose said to Jack "you can let go now"
yeah i noticed that; after watching back LA X, I am pretty sure they knew exactly where they were going with the 'flashsideways' then
1) Something really happened to the island in the subsequent years that put it under water. We'll never know what it is, just another of those Lost curve balls.
2) The island isn't really under water, it's just that in the world the characters have created they have chosen to see it under water to help them move on to the next life/heaven.
Does that make sense?
It does make sense. You could also say that the Island had to "die" and the light go out before they could all meet up. In fact you can make up anything you want. You could say that sometime in the future a group along the lines of Dharma went there and started breeding Kangeroos. The population of the Roos got out of control and all the jumping up and down sunk the island.
Until the writers give a definitive plot line no one can say you're right or wrong.:)