LOST theory. очень много букафLet me explain, no let me sum up...
I've been trying to put the pieces of the puzzle that is Lost together for four years, just like you all have been too. I've been theorizing and over analyzing and pulling my hair out. But in the car yesterday on the way home from work, it all sorta just clicked.
So let me get straight to the point ...
I've previously said that everything on Lost could be explained by the concepts of time and time travel, but when I really tried to figure out how that stuff could explain weirdness like the smoke monster and dead people appearing again, I really couldn't.
But now I can ... So I'll just say it.
When a person dies on Lost (according to the concepts of the show), they can do one of two things: die or consciousness travel.
The episode "The Constant" really got me thinking. When Desmond was in Daniel's office in England and he "returned" after having "jumped" back to the helicopter/freighter, Daniel told him that he'd been sitting in the chair all along, sorta comatose. When we saw George Minkowski on the bed, he was a vegetable, then he was awake and said he'd been riding on a Ferris wheel. We also now know that people who can consciousness travel, have been exposed to high amounts of radiation or magnetism.
I was here moments ago ...
When Charlie "drowned" in the looking glass, he didn't actually die, per se. His body did drown, his lungs filled up with water. But his mind consciousness traveled to a past version of himself. Why Charlie, and not someone like Shannon or Boone or Arzt who also died on the island? Because Charlie was exposed to high levels of magnetism. He was in the Swan station when Desmond turned the key.
I've previously said in past theory, that I thought that along with Desmond, three other people time traveled as well: Eko, Locke & Charlie. But I now think I was wrong. At the moment of the key turning, the only one who time traveled was Desmond because he was directly exposed and in the center of the magnetic force when it was released. But at the same time, Locke, Eko & Charlie were also highly exposed to magnetism, giving them the ability to consciousness travel. Proof of this is that the three of them are some of the only characters on the show to get visions from the island in the form of dreams (Claire did as well, but more on her later). So Charlie's final moments ... he showed the "not Penny's boat" message to Desmond, floated in the cabin, crossed himself, and ... consciousness traveled, leaving his floating shell of a body in the looking glass (this brings to mind Miles' quote "that isn't Naomi, it's just meat). He most likely did it without knowing ! that he could do such a thing, but in his last moments of life, he did it, and spared himself the fate of a watery death. Now I know what you're saying. When Desmond consciousness traveled in "The Constant" he didn't yet have a Constant, so he shuttled back and forth between timelines uncontrollably until he made contact with Penny. If this had happened to Charlie, then the minute he shuttled back to his body on the island, he'd be a waterlogged corpse. But he didn't shuttle back and forth, because whether he realized it or not he already had a Constant! Daniel said that a Constant is anything we deem important that exists in both timelines. We assume that a Constant is a person (because so far we've seen it be Penny for Desmond, and Desmond for Daniel), but in Charlie's case it's not a person (not it's not even Claire), it's music. Charlie fulfilled Desmond's prophecy, but how did he do it, he did it with music, by typing in the Beach Boys onto the key pad. Music i! s what got Charlie through Heroin withdrawal, and its the driv! ing forc e in his life. So, when he arrived in the new (albeit past) timeline version of himself, after the looking glass incident, his Beach Boys success was still in his head, and only reinforced his love of music, making it his constant. So how do we know that Charlie indeed consciousness traveled, and didn't just die? Well, he appeared to Hurley at Santa Rosa. And what did he say? "I did die, but I'm also here"