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<\/a> <\/p>\nAs we\u2019ve witnessed Christian Shepherd take on some rather startling qualities on the island since then, and become somehow interconnected with the island, we must ask the question: was Christian Shepherd somehow involved with the island, whether the \u201cOthers\u201d or the Dharma<\/a> Initiative? Was he involved in time travel? When he spoke of fate, did he really mean a future that he knew about and thus considered inevitable?<\/p>\n What was his role in getting not only Claire but also Jack and his own corpse on the plane that was \u201cfated\u201d to crash on the island?<\/p>\n <\/a> There\u2019s a nice summary of the episode on the Houston Chronicle\u2019s Tubular blog<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a>What\u2019s most interesting is that Ben later shows Jack a video of the Red Sox<\/a> winning the World Series. The most recent Dharma Initiative film suggests that some think the future can be changed. Perhaps the universe does indeed have a way of \u201ccourse correcting\u201d, but if one makes a significant enough change at a significant enough juncture in history, then it produces an effect to large to be corrected for. Perhaps it is possible to change the past \u2013 and the future.<\/p>\n