This is a very good way of putting it.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Thanks! Loving the videos!

Really pleased you are enjoying them :)

I couldn't ask for anything more in terms of reaction. Cheers!

You said it brotha

Either that....or the writers and showrunners had no clue what their story was that they retconned any inconvenience along the way and figured people would explain everything that was wrong, odd or didn't make sense with any small thread that they could grasp lol...

Yes, they definitely retconned the Rousseau story in a big way between S1 and S5. It is hard to deny that fact. But I try and resolve any possible discrepancies using in-show information. It's a bit untidy but there are various explanations/interpretations available, depending on one views the sickness and its effects.

Thank you! :) Yes, I plan to keep making a new video every month.

I don't even think her mental state had anything to do with it, she simply didn't recognize him, especially since she had no reason to believe he was a time traveler. In 1988, she met him for the span of a few hours before he vanished. After 16 trauma-filled years, she probably just forgot his name and face.

Did she even see him after that? Pretty sure they didn't even interact.

She did remember meeting him. She just never met him again. They have no scenes together in the first 4 seasons.

Well, it's a logical deduction really. If destabilizing this specific pocket of energy is what created the problem then surely destroying that pocket entirely would resolve the problem. What I like about this is that we don't realise that the energy beneath the Swan was the cause of the fertility issues until the end of S5 but, once that becomes clear, we can retroactively understand that the problem must have been unintentionally fixed several seasons prior.

What about when Ethan was born?

@@Preston51310 Ethan was born before the incident took place, remember?

I explore that very time loop irony in my video on the pregnancy crisis: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aLJ5ar1_p8rbfIE.html

Well, I'd be pissed too if I was stuck on an island, manipulated by my mother (who killed my real mother), murdered by my brother, & then made into a monster without my consent.. lol

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Your analysis is correct! :) I am very happy with the voice. Some people don't like it at all, while others have actually thought it was really my voice. Most people seem to be in between. It just has an authoritative sound to it and has become synonymous with the videos now.

Yes, the implication is that Robert and/or Rousseau are "infected" like Sayid was. However, this infection is not a literal sickness because we see both Sayid and Claire overcome it. The Man in Black infects people by influencing, manipulating, lying and disorientating them. I don't think the Man in Black brought back Sayid from the dead. The Island did. If the Man in Black could resurrect the dead in this way then he could have done far more with that power, e.g. he could have built an army of loyal undead followers. Robert tried to kill Rousseau and his unborn child because he had been manipulated and driven to the brink of delirium, as had Rousseau. We don't know what transpired in the two months between their arrival and when Jin witnesses the shooting. All we know is that the monster could not kill them because they were candidates, so he manipulated them into killing each other somehow. Possibly by using Montand. It's open to speculation. Perhaps Robert thought Rousseau was an impostor too. She had literally just murdered the other team members seemingly in cold blood and was ready to shoot Robert. Anyway, I maintain that Sayid was brought back from death by The Island in order to save the other candidates on the submarine several days later. That was his destiny. Had Sayid died at the temple, all of our candidates would have perished on the submarine. The reason why he turns to darkness for a period in S6 is because the Man in Black promises him that he will be reunited with his lost love if he does as instructed. And this is a lie he uses to gain Sayid's loyalty with. The infection/sickness is the Man in Black's manipulations and deceptions, and how susceptible people are to believing him and committing evil acts on his behalf.

Robert did not ask Rousseau "what lies in the shadow of the statue?" You are thinking of the scenes in the present day where Ilana asks both Frank and Richard that question separately. Robert had nothing to do with Jacob's people nor did he know to ask that question. The only connection that he has to Jacob is that he was a candidate, like Rousseau. Therefore, he was protected from being killed by the Man in Black. Which means MiB had to think of a way to get this group to kill one another. The question of why Robert would be driven to kill the mother of his unborn baby is open to speculation. We don't really know exactly what went on during those two months between first arrival and the shooting. All we can be sure of is that the Man in Black manipulated and influenced the group somehow. They became paranoid, delusional and violent. My video suggests several possibilities as to what could have happened. You ask why Robert didn't wait until Rousseau gave birth before confronting her. Well, that is the logic of a sane mind. Robert was definitely not thinking logically from what we observe in that episode. Neither was Rousseau for that matter. She had just executed the rest of the team, for reasons that are never conclusively proven to be true. She appeared to be more of a deadly threat than Robert. We don't know what was going through his head when he raised his rifle to shoot her. Maybe he thought: "It's going to be me or her." Maybe he thought: "She's not really Rousseau, she's an imposter." They were both semi-delirious by this point. Either way, it was a confrontation they had been manipulated into by the Man in Black.

I know this is a contentious topic but I don't subscribe to the sickness being supernatural in nature. If it was then why could Sayid and Claire overcome it simply by making better moral choices? Nothing they do feels like they are being influenced by evil, or that their actions are beyond their own control. They are making bad choices based on the Man in Black's lies and manipulations. Claire literally kills The Others because MiB claimed they had taken Aaron. He promises Sayid that he will bring back the woman he loves (could be Nadia or Shannon). I did a deep dive into this in my chapter on "Good vs. Evil" to elaborate on portrayals of good and evil in the show, using Sayid specifically as an example of what the writers were trying to communicate about these concepts. Someone doesn't need to be near death or resurrected from death for the Man in Black to "claim" them. We see him do this with Rousseau's team, none of them were near death. But more specifically we see him do it with Benjamin Linus in the S5 finale in which he convinces him to kill Jacob. All he does is talk to them and push the right buttons, poisoning their minds. It's why Dogen says: "If you allow him to speak, it is already too late." MiB knows just what to say to you because he understands human behaviour and weakness better than any other person on earth. He's had centuries of negative human memories to feed off. As for Claire having died during 'The Shape of Things to Come', there is no real evidence to support that. She definitely has a concussion, which makes her amenable for coercion when she sees her "father", but the idea that she died is a reach.

Yes, it's much more believable

The shot being given on arrival appears to be an inoculation jab of some kind. The Island has high levels of electromagnetic radiation emanating from beneath, which DHARMA are determined to dig up and harness. It's possible that whatever serum is being used in 1974 forms the basis of what DHARMA develop later. What we see the hatch men using decades later could be a modified version of that original vaccine. There were most certainly variations of it developed over time, including Juliet's own variation on that same formula, which is the serum we see Ethan administering to Claire in 2004.

I shall be answering this in my next chapter on the flash-sideways, due to be released next week. We will explore all the ciphers and symbols and meanings in the sideways, including who or what David Shepherd really was. Keep an eye out for it when it arrives. :)

I’ll take a stab at it. In order for Jack to forgive his father and “let go” in order to move on, he had to be a father to be able to relate with Christian. These are great videos by the way thank you very much for putting in the time and effort.

David when Jack and Juliet move on: Guess I'll die then

The kid can very easily be someone else in purgatory who needs some experience with Jack as a parent before he can move on. The characters weren't only interacting with each other, they had different partners, bosses, friends and other relationships in the flash sideways with people who did not join them in the church. Heck, Ben didn't join them in the church. He's not part of their little group, but he's still a soul waiting to move on.

As long as Jacob and the candidates were alive, it didn't matter what people or vehicles the Man in Black had access to. He was physically trapped on the island. Until Jacob was dead, MiB could not implement any kind of escape plan.

Even if he could leave I don't hink MiB needs a pilot for that.

I explain it in this video. The DHARMA vaccine at 7:12.

I’ve never played the video game before so I only know some of the details of the narrative.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Its not the best Videogame. Its in firts line a fanservice. But have all the nice Details we know in Lost . Locations like the Hatch . The smoke monster. Many of the Stations like the pearle or the Flame are in the game. I recommended for you to play it . Or to watch a walktrough. Nice Videos to explain the TV show after all what we needed . Thanks for your work. You explain it very detailed.

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It's not my real voice, it's a text-to-speech generated voice. Some people can't get along with it at all, which is a shame.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 what do you think about the island being the garden of Eden? I haven't watched all your videos yet to see if you addressed that theory or not

We know that the fallout from The Incident caused the issue with pregnancies on the Island. Once the fail-safe was turned, the anomaly effecting this particular pocket was destroyed completely. Which means that the threat to pregnant women was also solved. It's just that no one knew it yet. The likelihood is that Sun would have been able to deliver to term on the island had she remained. But that wasn't what fate had planned.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 is there any chance you can try to explain the island and how it "moves" like I never understood why they needed eloise to track the island constantly moving and why you need to be on certain flights to crash there. I also get confused about Daniel's payload experiments and timers being off and how all that works.

She was seen on the airport so yeah she was on the plane

Yes, she was on the plane. About being on the same hospital as Hurley: connection is a major theme of the show, and it really helps if you see the island as character itself. Considerably bigger than Jacob and MIB. There is plenty of other examples along the episodes, and if you think about it, it is not a bigger "coincidence" than Hurley owning the box company Locke works for, or Jack being in the hospital Shannon's dad is brought to. They've all been connected their whole lives.

She was in the tail section with Anna Lucia, Bernard, and Eko.

I'm pretty sure they were hinting at libby going to the mental hospital because she lost her husband who she clearly loved. It probably made her have a nervous breakdown trying to deal with it because she was devastated afterwards but wasnt considered mentally unstable once she was able to deal with her grief and her loss. I can't remember the time frame libby had between loosing her husband and giving Desmond the Elizabeth but it could go either way really... maybe the Elizabeth being given to Desmond was just before her breaking point???? Or maybe it was her being able to deal with her grief and try to move on so she could allow someone else to win back the love of their life? That idea is what kind of bugs me though about this series... libby was in the flash sideways with Hurley and sayid was in the flash sideways with shannon... they both had other loves that they married and truly cared about before they died so it seems weird that they would be with those people after like 2 to 4 months of knowing each other tops. Shannon should not have ended up with sayid. And libby should not have been triggered by Hurley considering they didnt even have a single real date but went to a mental hospital over her husband... doesn't seem right. My mom was with my dad for 25 years, they had 5 daughters together and when he died when she was 40 she met her new husband 8 years ago and is just as happy as she was with my dad even with her grief after he died. I cant imagine my mom being with her new husband in the after life over my father who she still talks about to this day every time I speak to her even in front of him. And I love my step dad, he loves talking about our father because he knows he was so great. But my mom may be the most important person to him outside of his kids but I know my dad is the most important man in her life even still.

I'm pretty sure they were hinting at libby going to the mental hospital because she lost her husband who she clearly loved. It probably made her have a nervous breakdown trying to deal with it because she was devastated afterwards but wasnt considered mentally unstable once she was able to deal with her grief and her loss. I can't remember the time frame libby had between loosing her husband and giving Desmond the Elizabeth but it could go either way really... maybe the Elizabeth being given to Desmond was just before her breaking point???? Or maybe it was her being able to deal with her grief and try to move on so she could allow someone else to win back the love of their life? That idea is what kind of bugs me though about this series... libby was in the flash sideways with Hurley and sayid was in the flash sideways with shannon... they both had other loves that they married and truly cared about before they died so it seems weird that they would be with those people after like 2 to 4 months of knowing each other tops. Shannon should not have ended up with sayid. And libby should not have been triggered by Hurley considering they didnt even have a single real date but went to a mental hospital over her husband... doesn't seem right. My mom was with my dad for 25 years, they had 5 daughters together and when he died when she was 40 she met her new husband 8 years ago and is just as happy as she was with my dad even with her grief after he died. I cant imagine my mom being with her new husband in the after life over my father who she still talks about to this day every time I speak to her even in front of him. And I love my step dad, he loves talking about our father because he knows he was so great. But my mom may be the most important person to him outside of his kids but I know my dad is the most important man in her life even still.

Charlotte dies because she has spent the longest time on the island out of the group of time travellers at that point. Basically, whoever has been exposed to the island's properties the longest suffers the worst effects from the time flashes. Because Charlotte was born on the island and grew up during the DHARMA occupation in the 1970s, therefore she is the first of the group to perish.

You’re watching an old video, I haven’t gone back to the text to speech voice. Every video from “The Man Behind the Channel” onwards uses my actual vocals. And I have remade all the old content under the Theory of Everything videos. You don’t need to go back to these anymore 👍

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 oh cool, good to know. I started watching your videos and your voice is what I’ve been hearing until the algorithm threw this video at me. I love your content and you made me want to do a list re watch. I’ve only seen it once so it will be nice going back in with all this insight. It’s a great show and I love season 5. I love time travel plots and closes time loops and stuff

Jacob did say Kate becoming a mother was the reason her name got crossed off the list. However, it is not the real reason he crossed off her name because both Sun and Jin became parents to Ji Yeon in that same time and neither of their names were crossed off the wall. In fact, Sawyer was a dad too and his name also remained. Parenthood made no difference. The other interesting fact here is that crossing off a person's name from the wall does not invalidate them as a candidate because Jacob also says: "It's just a line of chalk on a wall. The job is yours if you want it, Kate." Which means she was still a candidate and still protected by his touch. So, what reason can we deduce as to why Jacob crossed off her name? Could it be to throw off the Man in Black from recognising Kate's importance? After all, she is the one to fire the killshot into MiB's back in the endgame. MiB had already dismissed her as unimportant by that point and never saw her coming. Rousseau stopped being a candidate after she was killed. Which, in my view, is the only way a person can stop being a candidate, or unless someone else takes the job.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 i didnt even think about sun and jin oops I just remembered that line while i was listening and driving to work

There are so many moving parts to LOST that it is easy to forget lines and details. And even then we have to make a lot of deductions of our own to fit the pieces together.

No, that is not what I am implying. I am saying that whatever Ethan was administering to Claire was a drug that was developed by DHARMA to counter electromagnetic sickness, then later re-engineered by Juliet and The Others for the purposes of solving the pregnancy crisis. It's not a real world drug. It's a fictional vaccine, which contains unknown properties. And it didn't work, at least not on early trimester pregnancies. All I'm saying is that the vaccine might share some overlap with real world drugs like Methotrexate. The point I was making is that the vaccine appears to perform a similar function.

Rousseau met Jin during a traumatic series of events that all happened in quick succession, including the murder of her team and the abduction of her baby. These events drove her to madness. 16 years on in 2004, she never officially meets Jin or shares any scenes with him onscreen. And by then she has long since muddied the past in her mind anyway, uncertain of what really happened. Meanwhile, Jin didn't recognise her in 2004 because he hadn't travelled back in time to meet Danielle's younger self yet. The experiences of time travelling characters are always linear, even though they are bouncing around through time. They experience events moment to moment just as we do.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 thx very much for the the answer, loud and clear ;)

If this is a reference to the theory that everyone on the island was dead from the start, that is not the case. I’ve made videos on this very subject. It’s a misconception that The Island itself was purgatory. Not only does the show make this clear in the finale but the showrunners have extensively debunked the idea in interviews. Pregnant women could conceive and give birth on the island up until 1977. Remember that Amy Goodspeed gives birth to Ethan. The reason why pregnancy becomes a problem after 1977 is because of the fallout from the incident, which affected pregnant women from conception. We see that both Claire and Rousseau give birth to their babies without issue because they conceived off island.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 The way the aircraft broke up in flight, no one would have survived.

The plane didn’t crash normally. It was being guided in by an electromagnetic force. It’s a sci-if show not a documentary. There are lots of impossible things that happen in LOST, but it has nothing to do with them all being dead. That theory completely undermines everything that happens in the show and also makes the purpose of the sideways pointless. It has been widely debunked by the creators as well yet people cling onto it for reasons I can’t fully understand. Watch my Theory of Everything series as I get into the details of everything and explain clearly what was going on. It’s a complex mythology full of moving parts and ideas that takes a bit of time and effort to explore and understand.

Rousseau met Jin during a traumatic series of events that all happened in quick succession -- the death of friends, seeing the smoke monster, Jin appearing and disappearing before her eyes, the psychological breakdown of her lover, killing her other teammates, the abduction of her baby, etc. 16 years on, she never officially meets Jin or shares any scenes with him. And by then she has long since muddied the past in her mind. As much as she was a great character, Danielle was indeed a little crazy.

Plus even under normal circumstances it's hard to remember what someone looks like when you met them twice for about 5 minutes 16 years ago.

Jin is SE Asian and Rousseau didn't want to seem racist by assuming that ALL Asians look alike to her. Rousseau being an international type gal...was more sensitized to this issue.