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A&E > "Lost" Season Recaps, Easter Eggs, Alternate Endings, &Theories

DarkUFO has season 4's alternate endings with different cast members in the coffin. As Count Floyd would say, "Ewww, skerry."

Jim Treacher has a roundup of roundups.

JOpinionated wraps up the season finale. I love his summary of all the games Hurley has played during the four seasons - has Hurley ever lost at anything?

JOpinionated links to this YouTube clip of edits of the "time-travelling bunnies" Orchid station orientation video that Locke watched:

He She also offers an interesting theory:

"3) Jeremy Bentham was not John Locke. He was a clone of Locke that was created in the Vault below the Orchid station (like the rabbits). Whether this happens as an accident or was purposeful remains to be seen."

Could be. When the Orchid was introduced we were told it was a cloning station, not a time travel station. In light of the Orchid orientation video above we now know it's both, after a fashion. The clones are created by time travel, rather than by genetic means. Having a bunny in different time lines means having two bunnies until the time lines converge.

I wonder what happens if they come in contact? The people in the video are panicked that that might happen. I wonder if anyone on the island (e.g., Jacob, whoever became the Smoke Monster, etc.) ever came into contact with his doppelganger?

In a related idea, Time Loop Theory uses time travel to explain the island's ghosts (such as Christian, Claire, and Jacob). According to his theory the ghosts are people who are alive in an unaltered timeline, but dead in the island's current timeline. The ghosts are just "fate course-correcting" as Desmond and the elderly psychic woman like to say:

Jacob is also a time traveler with Richard and Ben; however, we haven’t seen him in his “alive” state. At some point in time after Jacob goes back in time with Richard and Ben to start the time loop, Jacob dies. However, being that Jacob lived in a previous timeline on the island up to the year 2007, his “spirit” is able to stay alive in order communicate with Ben and Richard.

Time Loop Theory attempts to explain everything on Lost in terms of time travel. For instance, when the survivors crashed on the island they travelled back in time. Therefore Locke could walk again because they're at a point in time before his legs were paralyzed. Desmond was entering a code into the computer that reset island time every 108 minutes.

Another theory, this one mine: the Locke in the coffin is the normal-timeline Locke who is paralyzed, not the the island-time Locke whose legs are intact. In other words, the real Locke is dead and it's only his timeclone who is alive. Thoughts?

Finally, I've enjoyed Jorge Garcia's (Hurley's) blog in the days since the finale:
- Taller Ghost Walt
- Playing on a C-130
- Hurley in the vault