Am I understanding time travel correctly? I felt like I did but after reading some reddit posts I am completely confused
Hello, I am currently rewatching the show after watching it withotu too much focus when I was young (I was 11 when this season released). I don't care about spoilers, the point for me is more to recall the story and see how it actually went down.
I am in the middle of season 4, saw the Constant yesterday, and I felt like I understood the time travel system correctly so far but the consciousness jumps left me a bit confused and after trying to check some reddit pages I feel like I don't understand anything anymore; I don't know if I misunderstand or if it's redditors who makes it needlessly complicated in their big explanations.
My understanding is that the time loop are made consistent by simple following the continuity of the characters in the present who happen to be intertwined with the past, if a character does some shit X years ago, it doesn't change the whole present because it already happened, the character just discovers his involvment as it happens because his present is interfering with the past: they aren't changing anything at all because it already happened. For example if I went back in time and told Marc Antony to flee the streets around the Senate before getting killed, it wouldn't change anything to the present, because this event actually already happened, I would just discover that I am the one who caused it. The reciprocal is that you can't change the past, for example Sawyer could not save his mother anyway, because she did actually died, what happened happened.
Then with Desmond it's some different device, it's his consciousness that's jumping between two version of himself in time, I don't know if it will be explained later why but that's how it works so I accept the device for now and try to understand: Desmond sees Faraday in the present to solve a problem in the past, but why wouldn't he remember in the present what he did years ago? As I understand it it's simply because there is a weirder time loop where it's not only the present jumping in the past but the past jumping in the present, therefore what happens in the past is actually happening in the present; he can't remember because what happened is actually sort of happening right now even if it already happened.
That's where I was at this point of the show and it felt quite understandable to me, even if I think Desmond's case is actually ripping the fabric of time and should be explained later which I hope it will rather than just "Desmond was exposed to some shit when using the key, accept that he is like that now". The key and what the countdown do is so far the only thing I didn't really understand.
Then I came here and read some post like this https://www.reddit.com/r/lost/comments/kdqg18/explaining\_the\_time\_travel\_in\_lost/ and now I am completely confused.
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Hello, I am currently rewatching the show after watching it withotu too much focus when I was young (I was 11 when this season released). I don't care about spoilers, the point for me is more to recall the story and see how it actually went down.
I am in the middle of season 4, saw the Constant yesterday, and I felt like I understood the time travel system correctly so far but the consciousness jumps left me a bit confused and after trying to check some reddit pages I feel like I don't understand anything anymore; I don't know if I misunderstand or if it's redditors who makes it needlessly complicated in their big explanations.
My understanding is that the time loop are made consistent by simple following the continuity of the characters in the present who happen to be intertwined with the past, if a character does some shit X years ago, it doesn't change the whole present because it already happened, the character just discovers his involvment as it happens because his present is interfering with the past: they aren't changing anything at all because it already happened. For example if I went back in time and told Marc Antony to flee the streets around the Senate before getting killed, it wouldn't change anything to the present, because this event actually already happened, I would just discover that I am the one who caused it. The reciprocal is that you can't change the past, for example Sawyer could not save his mother anyway, because she did actually died, what happened happened.
Then with Desmond it's some different device, it's his consciousness that's jumping between two version of himself in time, I don't know if it will be explained later why but that's how it works so I accept the device for now and try to understand: Desmond sees Faraday in the present to solve a problem in the past, but why wouldn't he remember in the present what he did years ago? As I understand it it's simply because there is a weirder time loop where it's not only the present jumping in the past but the past jumping in the present, therefore what happens in the past is actually happening in the present; he can't remember because what happened is actually sort of happening right now even if it already happened.
That's where I was at this point of the show and it felt quite understandable to me, even if I think Desmond's case is actually ripping the fabric of time and should be explained later which I hope it will rather than just "Desmond was exposed to some shit when using the key, accept that he is like that now". The key and what the countdown do is so far the only thing I didn't really understand.
Then I came here and read some post like this https://www.reddit.com/r/lost/comments/kdqg18/explaining\_the\_time\_travel\_in\_lost/ and now I am completely confused.
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SPOILERS Was it or was it not a misdirect?
Anyone else here under the impression that the bomb actually did change the course of history, and that season six was not a flash sideways, but a true reality, different than the one that led them to crashing on the island to begin with
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Anyone else here under the impression that the bomb actually did change the course of history, and that season six was not a flash sideways, but a true reality, different than the one that led them to crashing on the island to begin with
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Finale Question
Why didn't the island or more accurately the source heal jack of his stab wound and save his life after he put the cork back in.
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Why didn't the island or more accurately the source heal jack of his stab wound and save his life after he put the cork back in.
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I just finished Lost and it is the greatest show of all time.
The ending made me cry allot during the flashes but even more when they all gathered in the church, knowing the truth made it way more sad for me. It was by far my favorite episode in the whole show, i never got bored of it and was always hyped IMO no seasons were bad i loved them all and loved every characters, truly gonna miss this show and never forget about it.
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The ending made me cry allot during the flashes but even more when they all gathered in the church, knowing the truth made it way more sad for me. It was by far my favorite episode in the whole show, i never got bored of it and was always hyped IMO no seasons were bad i loved them all and loved every characters, truly gonna miss this show and never forget about it.
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Question about Desmond's flashes
I watched the show like a decade ago and now I'm watching it again with my girlfriend. I'm a bit confused about Desmond's flashes in season 3. When Desmond sees Charlie getting hit bit lighting and so on, is Desmond actually seeing the future, but then changing it so it doesn't come to be? I feel like Desmond shouldn't be able to do this, since it would violate the "whatever happened, happened" rule (I get that the future hasn't happened yet for Desmond when he has the flashes, but to my understanding, the future is already just as "real" as the past is in this show--if this wasn't the case, the characters' pre-time-travel lives would be unreal in season 5). So are his flashes not actually telling him about the future? If so, what exactly are the flashes then?
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I watched the show like a decade ago and now I'm watching it again with my girlfriend. I'm a bit confused about Desmond's flashes in season 3. When Desmond sees Charlie getting hit bit lighting and so on, is Desmond actually seeing the future, but then changing it so it doesn't come to be? I feel like Desmond shouldn't be able to do this, since it would violate the "whatever happened, happened" rule (I get that the future hasn't happened yet for Desmond when he has the flashes, but to my understanding, the future is already just as "real" as the past is in this show--if this wasn't the case, the characters' pre-time-travel lives would be unreal in season 5). So are his flashes not actually telling him about the future? If so, what exactly are the flashes then?
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