Miscellaneous elements of the theory
- Hurley says he won 153M in the lottery. yet in a flash back when he is being interviewed on tv, the reporter says he won $114M. somethings not right there! while this could be used to prove some kind of alternate
reality theory, i dont buy it. theres no reason to change his lotto winnings. so why did that detail change? based on the MP theory, its simply an issue of Ben's mind having trouble keeping straight all the details.
- "we're already dead" - you will see multiple characters use this line. sawyer used it. sayid used it. anna lucia used it. Ben has even used it. (which suggests that Ben may be aware that he's just another multiple personality and that if jacob wakes up, he will die just like all the others). i'm beginning to strongly think that ben's power is that he is the one multiple personality that KNOWS he doesn't actually exist in reality (that in reality he's jacob). but what we are seeing is that Locke is realizing this also (but to a lesser
extent).
- dharma stands for underlying order in nature and life. all this religion symbolism is merely meant to throw people off track into thinking the series might be about something theological. none of this is actually about
religion or god etc. its all an internal drama being played out in ben's head. whoever ben is in the real world, he's probably read a book or two about buddhism and hence incorporated it into his delusion / the island. (although, Ben's/Jacob's internal stryfe over whether god exists or not is real).
- technology versus fate. this is merely an internal struggle Ben/Jacob is having in his mind. if he is a scientist of some sort (which i believe), and he's had a break down due to some life altering event (say being abandoned on the island), he's merely playing out the struggle between why things happen - is it simply atoms and the like, or is there a greater power at work. while this appears to be the central theme of the show, its actually not, its a sub theme. the central theme is psychological in nature (ie. abandonment, getting lost, redemption). but this sub theme is represented in Jack (science) versus Locke (faith) - and how the two of them kind of became co-leaders of the losties.
- smokie. ok lets talk about smokie for a second. on the island it is clearly a mind reading device. when it scanned echo, if you slow it down on your dvd player, you see that echo's 'memories' get displayed in the black cloud. it also makes noise like its a machine. this is just a creation of Ben's imagination from reading the Third Policeman. smokie lets echo go. but later, it kills echo. why you might ask?
when smokie first met echo, echo had found the lord and was repentant. but later in the show, echo meets his brother and has a change of heart and says 'i did what i had to do. i am not sorry!'. the next time smokie meets echo, it kills him. basically, if a character is good, smokie won't hurt them. hence why locke and juliette were both unharmed after being scanned. Juliette did stop smokie once using the magnetic barrier, but not to save herself, but to save kate (who was with her). if a character is bad, they get killed. think of smokie as the real Ben/Jacob's conscience. scanning through his multiple personalities and 'judging' them.
- the famous desmond question 'what did one snowman say to the other snowman?". this actually isn't a riddle, but rather a statement. all the characters in Lost are snowman - ie. they don't exist. a snowman is something that resembles a human being (ie. has a body, a face, etc.) but is not alive. Ben's mulitple personalities are like snowmen - they exist but aren't real. they are just creations residing inside a snow globe.
- ms. clue is the black lady that helped kidnap walt. she is also the nun is Echo's church when he was a kid. once again, this is simply Ben's brain re-uses components to create personal histories for his personalities.
she also says to michael "is he (walt) your biological son? then how come you know so little about him?" (which is the exact same thing michael's ex-wife's lawyer said to him at their custody meeting).
- you know how ben has every detail on every single person on the island? cuz he created their personal histories in his mind. yes, i know, they try to convince us that someone on the outside is gathering this info. but come on - everyone's 'files' have details about them that no one could ever possibily find out. the reason the files contain that info is because Ben/Jacob created their personal histories and created those files (its all part of the delusion he is playing out).
- to the point above. it should be noted, when i say Ben its with the caveat that ben himself may very well be simply the dominant personality of Jacob's multiple personalities. With that in mind, an interesting fact is that when the plane crashes, ben asks for a list of the passengers (the russian is to collect this from the outside world). this suggests Ben isn't creating the delusion, but rather Jacob is (ie. Jacob being the person in real life with these multiple personalities). Since jacob created all these characters, he is able to provide ben with all their information.
- remember that ben lies to EVERYONE! he's the master manipulator. hes the most dominant of all the multiple personalities. but the twist is that he's even lying to himself! all of this so that Jacob doesn't face reality / recover in the real world.
- when jack goes to call for rescue ben says 'making that call is the beginning of the end.' - as long as the multiple personalities are controlled on the island, life for them goes on. but once they can't be controlled, once they leave the island, this will cause psychological changes in Jacob that will threaten the fictional reality he created (assuming Jacob is a real person in the real world).
