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<\/a><\/div>\nAlthough I think LOST<\/a> did an amazing job considering the complexity of what its writers and producers tried to accomplish, perhaps, as they themselves advised us, it is time to let go<\/i>.<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to post what I think is an \u201cunsolvable LOST problem\u201d for fans to try to make sense of. If you can\u2019t, it may mean that you will have to admit that\u2026LOST was not inerrant<\/em>!<\/p>\n Here is the plot issue: At the end of season 4, when John Locke went down the well outside the Orchid station, there was a time flash that carried him and the other time-travellers back to a time before the well was built. We know this because we see the rope he had been lowered down was going into the ground, and the well was gone, after the flash occurred.<\/p>\n In the episode \u201cAcross the Sea\u201d in season 6, we learned that Jacob\u2019s brother was involved in the digging of that well, or that it had perhaps been dug by the people among whom he eventually lived. And he built the first attempt at a donkey wheel that would allow one to harness the island\u2019s power, and thereby leave the island.<\/p>\n Now when John Locke found himself in the underground cavern beneath the Orchid Station where the donkey wheel was located, Christian Shepard appeared to him, and presumably this was in fact the smoke monster, i.e. Jacob\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n And so an obvious question is how the smoke monster could have appeared to John Locke as Christian Shepard in the underground cavern where the donkey wheel was, at a time when the donkey wheel had not yet been constructed, at a time before Christian Shepard had been born, and before Jacob\u2019s brother had been turned into the smoke monster!<\/p>\n I suspect that, if one is willing to go to great enough lengths, one could probably find a way to make all the details seem to fit. But it would be much like the attempts at harmonizing everything that is found in the Bible. Just about anything<\/em> can be defended, if there are no limits to the lengths to which you are willing to go to do so. But at some point it becomes preferable to accept the incoherence of a story, rather than continually bring in ad hoc explanations, speculations, and additional storytelling to construct a sufficiently large support structure to make all the disparate details fit. <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/thebooksmugglers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/normal_5x05-death-444-300x165.jpg\")
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