flashbacks (present/past or future?) are they ALL time travel??
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By ruggur7987
- flashbacks (present/past or future?) are they ALL time travel??
- Created: Mar 3, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 2.23: Live Together, Die Alone
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time travel awareness from radiation????
— ruggur7987
i was just thinking about the last episode i wathched were desmond goes back to 1996. and it made me wonder. what if all the flashbacks from all the episodes so far have been the same as this for each of the charicters but desmond is the first one who can control and change his actions in the past. im guessing the reason for this could be the radiation that he was subjected to in the hatch explosion. this could also explain why daniel thinks he needs a constant (desmond) to survive as he has also been subjected to alot of radiation.
so basically my theory is that all the characters are jumping back and forth in time (which we witness as flashbacks). and that if your subjected to alot of radiation you gain the abillity to act in both ‘times’ and not just follow the same path.
this theory still asks more questions than it answers but it seems to make sense. what does everyone think?
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desmond | Desmond David Hume | 2.23, 3.17, 4.5 | 858 |
I am sold on the idea that they are simply flashbacks i.e. just a way for the writers to tell a story of the characters past.
do you not think its a bit of a coincedence that weve been seeing all these flashbacks which have all been linked to a characters past experience and then the character displays emotions in the present that seem to relate to this experience. its almost as if they just re-lived it.
and then when desmond was in the helicopter and it flicked to the past, im sure alot of people, as i did thought ‘here comes another flashback’. but then it wasn’t. it was what i belive to be the first character to travel through time while keeping his awareness. (be it the past desmond or the future desmond).
also, as we all know the characters are all extreemly well linked so they could all provide constants fo one another.
I’ve always assumed when you watch LOST the noise that means a start or end of a FB or FF is the viewer seeing the thoughts of that particular character, kinda like Family Guy.
So is it just a way for the writers to tell a story of the characters past
BUT the question is: a coincedence FB & FF show how characters are interconnected to past, present, and future or not?
Sorry, but this fundamentally makes no sense.
And, I disagree with Rimland as well. Those flashbacks are not memories of the characters; they are bits of information for us, the audience, to inform or to juxtapose a character’s present (or shall I say, “later”) actions.
My reasoning:
First,unlike the flashbacks we’ve seen on the ship, the other character’s flashbacks appear to be completely benign. No disorientation nor nosebleed.
Second, also unlike the time travel, the characters while in the flashback show no awareness of jumping through time.
Third, the flashbacks cannot be current memories of the characters simply because quite often the nexus, or connection, between the past and the future are not apparent until the end of the episode. This would require the character to be remembering an event from his or her past that won’t be relevant until the events of the episode unfold.
Ruggor: I don’t think that the losties can be eachother’s constants; although there are connections, they are (with the exception of Jack and Desmond) connections that they are unaware of. Given our information that the constant has to be something that meant something to them “then” and “now” your idea does not seem to fit.
as i stated earlier, the losties are not aware of thier time travel unless they have been subjected to radiation. so for example jack and kate are not aware but desmond and daniel are.
the nose bleeds and side effects occur(according to daniel faraday) because the concious mind is being split and it has no constant. if the losties time travel is happening on a subconcious level then this wont occur.
i do agree with the conections issue though. the losties cant be eachothers constants
I agree with Quarantine. The flashbacks often don’t relate to the storyline until the final events of the episode come about. I think a lot of times, when that event occurs, the character suddenly recalls that story, but at that point, it would be silly to show us a whole 20 minutes worth of flashbacks just before the end of the show. The way they show it, we reach the common point in past (or future) stories and the present events at the same time, so when the character would be remembering those events, we know just what they’re thinking. Sometimes a flashback is just a flashback - no time travel involved (Desmond excluded).