Because You Left Thoughts

I've been reading boards and blogs and theories about the first two episodes from Wednesday. Instead of posting the same responses on these other pages I'll post it here. This is not a recap or a full theory, just random thoughts...

The survivors on the island are jumping through time. The island is not moving, nor are the rest of the others. The Others are not moving because they are linked to the island in some way, maybe they went through an previous "move" and found their constants... Whatever it is they are stuck in real time on the island. I am a bit perplexed that Richard seemed to know where John was jumping to next, maybe John told him?

The reason the O6 need to go back is because they are the only thing that can be constants for the rest of the survivors. The survivors are jumping all over the place and we saw Charlotte starting to get sick already. I assume the rest will follow with Minkowski-like symptoms. The O6 are the only possible constants for all of these people. They all know each other. And the key is that the O6 were not involved in the time jumping so they are still constant.

I believe there is another reason that the O6 need to go back because of Mrs. Hawkings predictions of apocalypse if they didn't get back to the island. I would assume that the death of the 815ers would not be sufficient to trigger the type of consequences she was hinting at. So I am not sure what that part is about yet.

Desmond is immune from the whole time travel thing because of his experience with the Swan hatch implosion. He is somehow special and is the only person who can change the past or the future. When Faraday met him in the past and Desmond suddenly remembered that in the present it wasn't just a coincidence that Desmond suddenly remembered one night. That memory only got planted in his head when Faraday changed the past. So this makes Desmond pretty critical to the plot, as has been hinted at, because if the past or the future somehow needs to be changed Desmond is the only one who can do it. Maybe it's because he jumped through time, found his constant, and wasn't on the island when it jumped. So he's already partly dislodged in time. I think the Swan thing is a more likely explanation though.

Why does Locke have to die? I think he has to be a martyr to prod the other O6 to return. I do not think he will be coming back to life, although Ben's care of his body seems to indicate otherwise. I just don't see Lost making as big a leap of faith as resurrecting the dead. They asked us to buy the time travel, which we did, but they provided a pseudo-scientific framework for that. I can't see any scientific justification for raising the dead, unless it's one of those Nikki and Paolo spiders.

That's it for now!