That's right, and he was even seen as a miracle worker surgeon by others, as evidenced in his flashbacks when the Italian woman - Gabriela - brought her ailing father to him for surgery based purely on the legend of that miracle case.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 the detail In this show is why I’m still here all this time later.

I certainly think there is an argument to be made about Jacob having some sense of this. In the 'Lost: Missing Pieces' mobisode 'Room 23' we even get confirmation from Ben that Jacob ordered Walt's abduction. Now, if Ben is to believed (and that's a BIG if) it would help to reinforce this theory. Jacob was intentionally creating a chain of events. Although part of me still believes Ben was behind this one. either way, it all plays into what The Island needs to happen.

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Also something that I didn't notice until recently that kinda blew my mind. Connect 4 has 42 holes in it.

One could also say the epilogue connects four past, present and future Island protectors: Mother, Jacob, Hugo and...Waaaaalt!

I realize Jack was protector between Jacob and Hugo, but whatever.

Lost is the show most full of plot holes. Hence the need for flashbacks to fill the gaps. Flashbacks were used properly up until the 3rd season.

Connect four million!

Have not seen the show in a decade 2012 show was entertaining

My pleasure! I'm so pleased fellow LOST fans are enjoying them. Means the world to me!

Without these videos it would take me 3 years to understand

I have switched to my own voice in later videos, so you will eventually hear a change 🙂

Glad you enjoy it!

The Epilogue implies that Walt came back to the Island and helped his father "let go" of his guilt. Michael moved into the sideways and Walt would have met him there in death, and they would have moved on together.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 But since there's no time in the Source they could have been there. I guess Michael wasn't really a part of the group after what he had done and he had his own flash-sideways reality.

@@MatiZ815 Honestly, I think Michael and Walt would and should have been there regardless of Michael's past actions but the problem the writers faced was that Wal would look too old and they didn't want less observant audience members asking: "Wait, who's that guy?" This would have been doable had they actually brought Walt back to the island for season six and resolved his arc with Michael, which is my biggest regret about the last season. As a result, the only was to explain their absence in the church is that they only needed each other to move on with (and Vincent!).

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 It was weird to me how they've never brought Walt back. I know he was written off because the actor was growing up but then they had that 3 year time jump and they could have easily reintroduced him. At least we have the epilogue that ties up his storyline.

Yes, agreed. They could have brought back Walt for the final season and had him interact with his father. Their reconciliation would have been so emotionally rewarding. We could have had a whole Walt-centric episode including a flashback of how he came to the island with Widmore and a definitive explanation regarding his powers. Would have felt right having him in the finale, staying on with Hurley and Ben. I’m glad we got the epilogue but it would have been better to have a small Walt arc in season six itself.

I appreciate you saying that, thank you :)

Well, first of all, Hurley implies that Walt will take over from him someday in the Epilogue. He literally says: "I want to talk to you about a job." There is only one job on the island that gets spoken about over and over and referred to as such in season six. Secondly, remember Ben's words to Hurley in 'The End': "That's how Jacob ran things. Maybe there's another way. A better way." In other words: Hurley is *not* Jacob, and everything we know about Hurley tells us he would have no interest in ruling for centuries. He wouldn't want to see his family and friends die around him whilst living forever. The point of making Hurley the protector at the end was to show that a new era was about to be heralded in on the island. One in which things were going to be done drastically different from Jacob, including the rules and tenure of protector. How long Hurley ruled for is open to debate, but there is no way he ruled for centuries. It doesn't fit the character or the reason why he was chosen to take over. The Epilogue suggests that he is recruiting Walt in order to surpass him someday when the boy is older and more in control of his abilities. It wouldn't be an immediate handover of power. I explore this in my video that theorises what happened after 'The End', which you can watch here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptxnrdJyqNCminU.html

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 seems reasonable

I use "astral projection" in a loose sense of the term because he is travelling across large distances presumably at the speed of light and manifesting at will, much like the Man in Black does. Perhaps teleportation would have been a better way of phrasing it. Jacob is always corporeal when he is visiting people off-island. That is made very clear by his tactility with chairs, books, candy bars, etc. He is really there. He is not a phantom or incorporeal in any way. But his method of appearing in different places around the world without the apparent need for transport is the result of this teleportation/projection process.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Ah, I see now. I do like that theory as I never got the sense that Jacob was traveling off the island like someone from the Dharma Initiative would. His appearances always seemed more mythical (not sure the exact word I'm looking for there but that sounds right lol).

It's the LOST Epilogue called "The New Man in Charge". It was released on the original DVD boxset. You can find it on KZfaq if you type in the title. It's a great addendum to the series that answers some lingering questions. :)

They are called "LOST: Missing Pieces" and they were short webisodes that were made and released exclusively online during S2 and S3. They are short scenes that explore extra details that never made it into the main series. Just type LOST Missing Pieces into KZfaq and you will find the whole series. :)

Here's a response from another thread on this same issue: I use "astral projection" in a loose sense of the term because he is travelling across large distances presumably at the speed of light and manifesting at will, much like the Man in Black does. Perhaps teleportation would have been a better way of phrasing it. Jacob is always corporeal when he is visiting people off-island. That is made very clear by his tactility with chairs, books, candy bars, etc. He is really there. He is not a phantom or incorporeal in any way. But his method of appearing in different places around the world without the apparent need for transport is the result of this teleportation/projection process.

You might be able to find it on KZfaq. It's called LOST Missing Pieces.

Just use google? Jesus some people...

It is from the series epilogue 'The New Man in Charge'. Have you never seen it before? You're in for a long overdue treat! Here's a link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orOag92Hl7jaf2w.html

Well, first of all, Hurley implies that Walt will take over from him someday in the Epilogue. "I want to talk to you about a job," he tells him. Secondly, remember Ben's words to Hurley in 'The End': "That's how Jacob ran things. Maybe there's another way. A better way." Hurley is not Jacob, and everything we know about Hurley tells us he would have no interest in ruling for centuries. He wouldn't want to see his family and friends die around him. The point of making Hurley the protector at the end was to show that a new era was about to be heralded in on the island. One in which things were going to be done drastically different from Jacob, including the tenure of protector. How long Hurley ruled for is open to debate, but there is no way he ruled for centuries. It doesn't fit the character or the reason why he was chosen to take over. The Epilogue suggests that he is recruiting Walt in order to surpass him someday when the boy is older and more in control of his abilities.

I didn't mind them writing Walt out of the show for a few seasons. For me, the perfect time to reintroduce the character was in Season Six because three years had passed and the show's time was closer to Malcolm David Kelly's real age. They could have had Widmore bring back both Desmond AND Walt on the submarine, and a teenage Walt could have interacted directly with his father Michael to help the man move on, as well as reunite with Vincent. They could have made a Walt-centric episode with flashbacks showing how his life had been and how Widmore recruited him (filling in some missing pieces about Walt's powers as he learns to use them). Then towards the end of the season Walt could have joined with Hurley and Ben at the end to become part of the new island paradigm. It was a perfect opportunity to bring him back and close out his storyline. There was definitely room for him in the final season.

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Interesting analysis! I don't think Richard and the Others were serving one goal to protect the time loop. Their only goal was to protect The Island. While Richard was aware of time travellers he wasn't actively preparing for the loop, as we see in 'Follow the Leader'. It was the Man in Black guiding Richard at the beechcraft. The only people actively working towards the time loop are Jacob, Charles Widmore and Eloise Hawking. Jacob on a macro level, and Widmore and Hawking on a micro level. I don't think the reason for taking Walt was about removing him from the equation of time. Ben says: "We got more than we bargained for when we took Walt." Which is to say his powers caused them all kinds of problems. As evidenced in mobisode 'Room 23'. If we are to believe Ben in that Jacob ordered Walt's abduction then my reading of Jacob's motives would be this: Jacob only ever gives orders for his people to do something when it is related to specific causal effects, i.e. building the runway so that Ajira may land three years in the future. Jacob needs to usher events along from time to time. We see him do this with Hurley in the cab and later with the lighthouse. Whether or not he knew Walt would become a future candidate/island protector is unknown. But what he did know was that by taking Walt it would set off a series of causal events that change the course of destinies for both the survivors and The Others. Walt's abduction leads to so many ripple effects. It's the only reason the raft crew ever come across the tail section, for example (which leads to Eko saving the world when John Locke won't, etc). So, I think it was more related to creating a cause so there would be an ongoing effect. That's just my interpretation of this though.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Thank you for your response ... the fact that it is open to interpretation to a point is why I love this show so much. I'm a member of quite a few lost groups and I've begun sending them your way.

Walt burned the raft before that conversation with John Locke. Walt burns the raft because he wants to stay. Locke works out that it was him and confronts the boy. Later, Michael is poisoned accidentally with the water bottle mix-up. Walt goes to Locke to tell him that he didn't poison his dad. Locke says that he never thought it was him. They share a moment. Locke touches Walt's arm in a gesture of comfort and that's when Walt has a psychic reaction. He sees/senses something and pulls away, yelling at Locke not to open "that thing". That night, Michael offers Walt the option to stay and let someone else lead the raft mission. But Walt has changed his mind since his moment with Locke and now insists that they *have* to go.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 THANK YOU, Yours is the most informative entertaining channel I’ve watched in many years!

@@DGE1138 Thank you for your kind words. I'm pleased you're enjoying the videos :)

Thank you :) I will be doing a video on Richard Malkin in the future. He is a case where there is supporting evidence either way, but logically it makes more sense for him to be a real psychic as his actions as a fraud make very little sense from a con man's perspective. But I shall dive into the details of it in the video.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 You're right, there is evidence that leads us to think of both solutions. Although I am for the "fraud" theory I will wait for your video to learn more about this, maybe you will change my mind. Thanks for the answer!

I think, he thought he was a con man but he himself was conned because he definitely had abilities.

@@majipoorcat I recently watched the episode again and now I think he had abilities too. Some of his behaviors don't make sense if he's just a con man. I think he had really seen something when Claire went to him

@@rachele2326 I suspect that Malkin's motivation in declaring himself a fraud to Eko was because he knew that he had to ensure that Eko terminated the investigation into his daughter Charlotte, so that Eko would leave and thus travel on Oceanic 815, just as Claire would. Malkin knew that portraying the "miracle" as a fake attempt by his wife to get back at him would be the easiest way to get Eko on the plane.

You mean Hurley? I talk about why he might pass the torch to Walt sooner rather than later in my video on ‘What Happened After The End?’. Basically, Hurley wasn’t going to run the island the way Jacob did and nothing about Hurley suggests that he would want to outlive all of his loved ones. The epilogue suggests that he will train up Walt to takeover.

Dogen didn't necessarily have powers, but he was an island mystic who Jacob trusted with certain knowledge. Walt will be a student of the island when he returns and he will eventually become a mystic himself, before taking over from Hurley in the future.

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Here's a response from another thread on this same issue: I use "astral projection" in a loose sense of the term because he is travelling across large distances presumably at the speed of light and manifesting at will, much like the Man in Black does. Perhaps teleportation would have been a better way of phrasing it. Jacob is always corporeal when he is visiting people off-island. That is made very clear by his tactility with chairs, books, candy bars, etc. He is really there. He is not a phantom or incorporeal in any way. But his method of appearing in different places around the world without the apparent need for transport is the result of this teleportation/projection process.

I am remaking them soon. I've started using my own voice already for new videos (the latest six on my channel are all narrated with my actual voice), which you can start with here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aLJ5ar1_p8rbfIE.html

What questions about Walt do you have exactly?

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Unless you are a show runner or writer I don't think you could give a true answer.

Whatever questions you have about Walt are sure to be similar to the ones others before you have already asked. You basically want to know why he was special and where his powers come from. This video explains why he was special (an explanation bolstered by the events of 'The New Man in Charge') and where his powers came from (thanks to 'Across the Sea' explaining where *all* the powers come from). The writers have gone on record multiple times as to why Walt was written out. His character never got to be explored fully, which is a shame, but this whole "Walt was never explained" criticism is a bit of a fallacy.

Those scenes are from the series epilogue called ‘The New Man in Charge’, which was included on the Season Six DVD boxset. It’s a great little coda to the show that many fans have missed. About 12 minutes long. Answers some lingering questions. And provides a bit of closure to Walt’s story. You can watch it on KZfaq 🙂