{"id":1488,"date":"2010-03-16T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/how-john-locke-can-kill-the-smoke-monster\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:50:00","slug":"how-john-locke-can-kill-the-smoke-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/how-john-locke-can-kill-the-smoke-monster.html","title":{"rendered":"How John Locke Can Kill The Smoke Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ak2.static.dailymotion.com\/static\/video\/308\/044\/4440803:jpeg_preview_large.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ak2.static.dailymotion.com\/static\/video\/308\/044\/4440803:jpeg_preview_large.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I think I may have\u00a0an idea\u00a0about where LOST is going. In the orientation video for the Orchid Station, Dr. Pierre Chang demonstrated the possibility of bringing a white rabbit through time, with the result that there were two copies of the rabbit \u2013 the present one and one from the past or future \u2013 both now in the same time. He also seemed to consider it extremely important that they be kept separate. In the subsequent time-travelling of the characters, they never encountered themselves (perhaps Daniel Faraday came the closest, meeting his pregnant mother). Presumably doing so would be bad \u2013 in a more severe sense than in TimeCop.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of a parallel timeline creates\u00a0another possibility for the same person to intersect with themselves in a similar way. And so it may turn out that John Locke, who believed himself special, and was manipulated for selfish ends, may in fact show up from the parallel timeline somehow and manage to save the world, sacrificing himself to destroy the smoke monster \u2013 assuming there is enough of him left in the smoke monster for it to be \u201cJohn Locke meeting himself\u201d in any meaningful sense.<\/p>\n<p>What do others think? This theory may turn out to\u00a0be invalidated by tonight\u2019s episode, of course\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-936043497347204395?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I may have\u00a0an idea\u00a0about where LOST is going. 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