There are so many theories floating around the Internet about "Lost," it's hard to keep track. Here's a theory from Theorypedia community that says the show is an "Allegory of Purgatory"
Andrew Crago, at Xavier, says some of them are crackpot. I agree with him that some of them are pretty wild. Some get close but end up missing the mark, too.
For example, I think Ronald Peterson's theory explaining time loop doesn't do 'Lost' and Jason Hunter justice. (Get his 'Lost' Time Loop explanation here.)
Jason Hunter's illustrated time loop theory, remains the most thought-out explanation of 'Lost.' He maintains that "Lost" island is in a time loop, a sci-fi standby where time progresses normally, then at a certain point it resets. In "Lost" the reset period is 108 minutes.
But, to understand Jason Hunter's time loop theory you have to be familiar with his timeline -- visually. Words don't do it justice.
Hunter's time line starts in the 1800s with the slave ship Black Rock crossing the Pacific with a cargo of highly reactive metallic minerals.
The magnetic attraction of "Lost" island pulls the ship ashore and creates a hole in the invisible bubble surrounding the island.
The boat's occupants populate the island and become "the others."
His theory has one small weakness; he doesn't adequately explain how the island came into being. But, other than that, his time loop thesis is consistent with events in the show.
Some bloggers have supported Hunter's premise and posit that a failure to reset the timer in 2004 was what caused the Oceanic plane to crash. You can see even more support for the time loop theory of "Lost" here.
Not everyone is convinced that Jason Hunter is right. A blogger at this site questions the travel through time to a period before the 1960s since the time machine was not built until then. The writer needs to review Hunter's time line and note that the time travel properties of the island existed in the 1800s.
The weakest attempt to refute theory comes from this blogger, who writes that because the time loop is such a sci-fi clich, the writers just wouldn't use it. I would remind this writer that clichs become clichs because they work.
Events in "Lost" repeat, with minor variations, episode after episode. Accidents and the occasional failure to reset the timer explain the majority of these differences.
Until someone comes along with a better explanation, Hunter's time loop theory will continue to get my vote. But you have to see it to understand it.
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