Perhaps its not teleportation
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By Lojozz
- Perhaps its not teleportation
- Created: Apr 29, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 4.9: The Shape of Things to Come
- Status: Current
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Only fools are enslaved by time and space.
— Lojozz
Ok I’m tired and I may have finally lost it, but the whole teleportation thing is bothering me and I’d really like a different explanation so I’m going to try and give one.
OK we know mind travel is possible in the Lost universe, but until the Last episode we have never seen time travel in the traditional sense. In fact the producers have said that this would never happen on lost.
So the fact that Ben is in the desert with no tracks around him leaves us with what seems like the only reasonable explanations being teleportation or the writers lying to us.
Well what if it was actually mind travel, how can that work? People say he must have been there for this to work right?
Now Desmond has never gone to the future he has only gone to the past or his past conscious has been brought to the present. What if Ben has mastered the art and can go to the future. We know you can’t change the future, but if the future is not already written then you are not changing it simply writing it.
What I’m suggesting is (and this may be a bit Bill and Ted) all Ben has to do is decide that in the future he is going to be in the Sahara then he can project himself to that future. Then it is written.
Yeah I know there are holes and it doesn’t explain the parka or the ice, but I still like it better than teleportation.
nice Bill and Ted reference
Well ofcourse that raises tonnes of questions Lo. I mean why didnt he think his way into widmores appartment instead of taking the car and trying to get passed the lobby man.
And if he could imagine himself being in the sahara, why is he lying down? Couldnt he just imagine him standing in the sahara?
Sounds weird yes but I dont think thats it. It sounds more unlikely than teleportation (which I am not a fan of either btw)
He can’t imagine himself with somebody else because he can not control where anybody else would be. He can decided to make sure he would be in a certain place but not anybody else. Which is perhaps why he had to pick such an isolated location
He may have been lying down because his conscious just jumped in, like Des passing out each time he jumped.
Also just as memories aren’t exact perhaps this works in a similar fashion. Perhaps I’m reaching!
This may be real stupid, but what if the characters are archetypes, and being such they arent confined by ‘mere’ time space identity, but are transcendental.
Im with you: teleportation is so hokey. Its a tease to keep the same viewers who think the laws of gravity can be changed watching.
But it’s not teleportation in the sense that Ben can go wherever he wants whenever he wants. Clearly, there is a link between the island, some “cold place,” and Tunisia. Finding the polar bear there was a clue to this. It would be silly if there was some machine that could just send people wherever. But I don’t think it’s hokey if there is some “wormhole” or whatever you would call it that connects certains points on the planet. The Lost writers have something up their sleeves.
Hey whatthefoucault, wormholes, in my honest opinion, are categorically hokey. But hey if mario and luigi can do it, why cant we.
This doesn’t mean that this is not the answer.
I think I love retroactiveman. His comments are awesome—I agree 100% that wormholes are categorically hokey.
You’re joking.
Your refuting teleportation (at least let Lost take a good stab at rationalising it when they present us with The Orchid Station fully!) in favour of… imagining yourself in a different place? (Bill and Ted, dumbasses that they were, still legislated that anything they ‘added’ to their present they would have to physically go and do it. I don’t see how Ben physically manages to make sure he gets there. . .)
I know Lost is full of Wizard of Oz references. (Check out the title of the Season finale!) But all that’s missing from this theory are some red shoes and Ben clicking his heels.
It’ll probably turn out to be spot on. Lost and I, to paraphrase Sawyer, are “on the outs” at the moment.
It is hard to believe that teleportation will NOT be involved one way or another in the storyline. Ben’s awakening in the desert can only be explained a few ways and teleportation might be the most rational explanation. Teleportation being a “rational” explanation. Never thought I would say that.
As far as the writers go, I think they just flat out lie to us when they do these podcasts, and when they say teleportation won’t be a part of the show, etc. In their defense, they can only say so much without ruining it for us. If they just came out and said “Yes. There is and will be more teleportation in Lost”. Well, that would kind of suck. They would give away too much.