A compendium of "Lost" theories better than what we actually got...

Link.

Interesting...

Just a bunch of junk "theories" combined with the usual fanwhining because it didn't end how someone wanted it to.

Yeah, Doc Jensen's theories became more and more crazed as the season went on. And more nonsensical. But some of them were sorta true:

4. The show really did end up revolving around Des and Penny much more than you might think. After all, it was because of Des they crashed, and because of Penny's search for Des that they got rescued. And, of course, the epiphanies/salvations in the Sideways Universe were driven by Desmond after he reunited with Penny in that world.

5. The Island as a tuning fork actually was partially true, if you believe what Jacob and Mother said about the Heart of the Island and what it could do for and against humanity.

8. Through time travel, Sawyer and Locke were able to observe events that occurred during their original 108 days on the Island. Sawyer even stuck his head in between some bushes and saw Aaron being born.

9. The Ben and Locke dynamic certainly had a tinge of stolen/substitute destinies. Especially when it ended up that Flocke manipulated Ben into killing Jacob.

10. Kinda true with the Sideways Universe being created. Except the knowledge of what happened was momentarily hidden and it was not created by Jacob.

11. Can still be interpreted that way if you think of the show as centered on Jack, coupled with what we see in the Sideways universe.

12. Can be considered true by the fact that in the long list of names on the cave wall there were the names of some of the Dharma folk (Goodspeed, for example). And we know someone high up in The Others' chain ordered the Purge (I think it was MiB posing as Jacob. MiB felt an ideal candidate was rising in the Dharma ranks and wanted to kill him). Actually, in my Lost Dissertation (Season 3 will be psoted tomorrow!) I say that the Dharma Initiative was the scientific side to Jacob's spiritualistic side.

Point is, most of these "cool" theories actually have a basis in truth as far as the storytelling of Lost. And the fact is you can intepret parts of these theories as true. And guess what? That is the beauty of Lost. Instead of saying "Oh, this is so much better than what they actually said," the show allows itself space for the viewer to place their own theories and still have the show work.

Besides, some of the other cool theories Jensen has come off with would be nigh impossible to pull off, even if the show set them up as the payoffs, and would have been seen as even more insane and disappointing.

So are we using a very loose definition of the word "better?" Not one of those theories made any sense with regards to the show at the time they were thought up. They seem to have focused on one aspect of the show and ignored the rest of the continuity. That, or they came out of left field completely.

Me thinks ol Doc Jensen put a serious dent in the cannabis supply before pulling those "theories" out his rear end.

He was seeing patterns that just weren't there. I'm glad none of that stuff really happened.