*ATTENTION! For viewers who take issue with the text-to-speech voice* All of these older videos have been entirely revoiced and remade in better quality (and feature A LOT more detail). They have been combined together as part of a six part video series called The Theory of Everything, which you can watch here: th-cam.com/play/PL5iTj9psbPrNovFOg4pJJIyxiLAv2WAKB.html Namaste! 🙏
the astro projection with the lighthouse as a means to travel makes so much sense, finally a logical reason to how jacob was able to go in/out of the island.
Dude, I love all of your content, but this one here is one of the most solid and easiest to understand! Thanks google for tracking down my life and find out that I was watching lost again and recommending me this channel, lol!
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.
Had she not kissed him, he wouldn't learn Sarah's infidelity, thus they would've stayed together & his father probably wouldn't have gotten drunk @@LOSTEXPLAINED108
I always had this idea in my head that the Island wanted Walt to get there so he could grow an attachment to it and then wanted him to leave to so he could wait out the events that were about to come and then later return safely to complete his purpose. Thus the Others were ordered to kidnap him and let him leave.
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.
Another awesome video. And yet again, you connect what seems to be very obvious two plot points or moments that I never really thought about, which is Walt being super scared when warning Locke about opening the Hatch, and what would later happen with Michael. This is another example where I always find myself in a sort of inner conflict with LOST. Sometimes I wish the series made things a bit more clearer when it comes to Walt. But at the same time what they showed fits perfectly with the mystery nature of the show and how the narrative of the story itself is told.
Loved how Walt was playing Connect 4 in the asylum. The whole of Lost is like a game of Connect 4. Also he'll be connecting people in larger destinies when he becomes Protector, so nice foreshadowing.
I like that you mentioned Achera. Make some much-maligned episode a little deeper than what is thought on on the surface. I always thought it was important that Jack was marked by her. So Jack was wearing some of the light upon his body.
WHAT!!! I could never figure out why the Others kept saying Walt was important and asking if he had been seen where he should not have been. Thank you for this video!
I watched the entire series for the first time, over the last week. You give an excellent summary for this awesome show! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I very much appreciate the hard work and detail you’ve put into articulating so many things I too had came to the same conclusion! I do wonder why Walt & Michael were not present in the last episode??
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 needed this video! Thank you, I find it very useful! I watched lost for the first time when it aired and I'm still here, after all this time, trying to solve the puzzle:)
This channel id absolutely amazing!I started watching lost again and this channel help me realize things I never thought I’d remember or know. More lost fans really need to watch this channel. Great channel with great info
This show is crazy I’m rewatching it just to understand all of this. I’m reminded of that one scene with Ben when he talks about reading a book another time cause u might pick up on things u didn’t get on the first read (Locke might’ve said this but I’m sure it’s Ben)
why would Hurley be asking Walt to replace him just a few years after he himself became the islands protector? Especially when the final episode gives the impression that Hurley lived a very long time before dying.
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: th-cam.com/video/pv7zoACjBZA/w-d-xo.html
شكرا جزيلا لك على هذا الشرح . وسأستمر في مشاهدة كل مقاطعك . ابق ضائعا . Thank you very much for this explanation. I will continue to watch all of your videos. stay lost. 🌼 At 3:15 & 5:23 you mentioned other episodes of the series and that they were shown on the net. Where can I find it, I haven't seen it?
So clearly, Isaac the healer saw a vision of Rose's future and realized he would not be "allowed" to help her. It might have just been the plane crash, which is why he looked horrified, or it could have been a flash of all the danger and tragedy she would be witness to, but he knew he had to step back and let her take her place in the causal web to play her part in the process. Same reason Richard Malkin made sure Claire got on the plane with the made up BS about the family in L.A. An actual psychic, despite what he said in a later episode with his daughter's return from the dead, he saw some of Claire's future and did what the Island was compelling him to do. Another great video.
I'm currently re-watching the series so I may be a bit fuzzy on some details but I do have 1 question about your explanation. You theorize that even Jacob's appearances were projections, bur would that be enough for him to give them his touch? I always thought that he had to physically be there to give them the blessing.
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 TH-cam if you type in the title. It's a great addendum to the series that answers some lingering questions. :)
Not sure if I could completely agree with an "astral" projection. I felt that it was more of a physical movement through space/time, like Ben did with the "donkey wheel". He ended up in a different place entirely. I think Jacob did this on many occassion as well. The lighthouse was like a map, but the mechanism to get there involved the source and the wheels helped control the direction of the time space movement.
I think when Shannon and John saw Michael, I now think that was the MiB. Walt spoke backwards to Shannon to not push the button, the button was bad. We all know if they didn’t push the button it would kill all the candidates and destroy the island. The second time she saw Walt he tricked her to run into the group with Anna and they were on edge after Cindy was taken. That led to her death and the elimination of another candidate. When John saw Walt to get him out of the gravel, that led to John killing Naomi who was also candidate brought to the island 🏝️.
When Michael left the island came back as Kevin Johnson... I not only resemble Michael my name is Kevin Johnson... I've been I resemble him from his other work... The irony..
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 TH-cam and you will find the whole series. :)
I love your channel but I think you are missing a piece to Walt's story. The island, Jacob, Richard, The leader of the Others, and the Other's themselves serve one goal ... protecting the time loop, correct? Walt's powers are chaotic and what he manifests goes against the time loop. So as to not endanger the time loop, Jacob, has the other's kidnap Walt. Yet he cannot be brainwashed and the stress of the kidnapping is multiplying his abilities. Jacob allows Michael and Walt to leave the island, as to not endanger the time loop any further. Once the time loop is over in 2007, Walt is welcomed back to the island by Hurley, because again there is no longer a time loop to protect and he is older and less chaotic with his powers.
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.
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: th-cam.com/video/lMjPzV2RvO8/w-d-xo.html
Why would Walt take over for Hurley? Wouldn't Hurley protect the island for thousands of years, like mother and then Jacob did? So wouldn’t the next protector be from that time period, thousands of years in the future?
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.
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 figured out why Walt says: "Don't push the button. The button is bad" while astral projecting. Walt has such a strong communion with The Island and in tune with the time loop that has to occur, that when he is in that state where he is unconsciously projecting himself, he knows that certain things need to happen. For e.g. he knows that one day the button needs to not be pushed and that the failsafe needs to be turned for everything to be set along a certain path, which is why he says don't push the button.
Your reasoning is flawless, you explained very clearly an element of the show that had always remained a little obscure to me, the nature of Walt's abilities. What you say about other "special" people also makes sense, but one thing is not clear to me. You also mention Richard Malkin, but I think that it was pretty clear that he was a fraud as a psychic, considering also that he admits it himself to Mr Eko
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!
@@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.
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.
If hector was protector why wouldnt he live as long as jacob did he just gives his powers to walt because " hes a nice guy" could of had another show explaining how walt becomes protector
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.
It's always surprised me that such creative writers on such a fantastic show could not think of a supernatural way to age walk up in the time they were on the island he could have went into some spooky cave or suckes into some electromagnetic atorm and got spit out years older. Jacob could have aged him up for any number of reasons and it wouldn't have been any dummer than what they did
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.
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.
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: th-cam.com/video/2LI7ZNBdwLM/w-d-xo.html
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.
Walt-it doesn’t make sense that Walt will take over the island. If Hurley stayed for half as long as mother he would be on the island for 1000 years and ready to die. But Walt would also be 1000 years old. He’d be ready to retire before he started. Doesn’t make sense. I think Walt’s purpose was explained. He is to help all of the whisperers pass on not just his father. That’s why he can see the dead to save those stuck on the island.
Thanks, but not really what I meant by "What's up with Walt"? "LOST" is so convoluted I may never get the answers I seek. Or maybe I think tge answers they gave in the end sucked and didn't live up to the set up of previous season.
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 TH-cam 🙂
Another awesome video. And yet again, you connect what seems to be very obvious two plot points or moments that I never really thought about, which is Walt being super scared when warning Locke about opening the Hatch, and what would later happen with Michael. This is another example where I always find myself in a sort of inner conflict with LOST. Sometimes I wish the series made things a bit more clearer when it comes to Walt. But at the same time what they showed fits perfectly with the mystery nature of the show and how the narrative of the story itself is told.
*ATTENTION! For viewers who take issue with the text-to-speech voice*
All of these older videos have been entirely revoiced and remade in better quality (and feature A LOT more detail). They have been combined together as part of a six part video series called The Theory of Everything, which you can watch here: th-cam.com/play/PL5iTj9psbPrNovFOg4pJJIyxiLAv2WAKB.html
Namaste! 🙏
the astro projection with the lighthouse as a means to travel makes so much sense, finally a logical reason to how jacob was able to go in/out of the island.
Astral* just so you know.
An astral projection that can physically touch someone?
@@JoeR203lol
Dude, I love all of your content, but this one here is one of the most solid and easiest to understand!
Thanks google for tracking down my life and find out that I was watching lost again and recommending me this channel, lol!
It was ur destiny 😂
Jack preformed a miracle too. He was able to fix his ex wife and help her walk again. No one else even thought it was possible.
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.
Had she not kissed him, he wouldn't learn Sarah's infidelity, thus they would've stayed together & his father probably wouldn't have gotten drunk @@LOSTEXPLAINED108
I always had this idea in my head that the Island wanted Walt to get there so he could grow an attachment to it and then wanted him to leave to so he could wait out the events that were about to come and then later return safely to complete his purpose. Thus the Others were ordered to kidnap him and let him leave.
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.
Another awesome video. And yet again, you connect what seems to be very obvious two plot points or moments that I never really thought about, which is Walt being super scared when warning Locke about opening the Hatch, and what would later happen with Michael.
This is another example where I always find myself in a sort of inner conflict with LOST. Sometimes I wish the series made things a bit more clearer when it comes to Walt. But at the same time what they showed fits perfectly with the mystery nature of the show and how the narrative of the story itself is told.
Omg Achera seems so much more interesting now. I never thought that the island was the reason for her "gift".
Loved how Walt was playing Connect 4 in the asylum. The whole of Lost is like a game of Connect 4. Also he'll be connecting people in larger destinies when he becomes Protector, so nice foreshadowing.
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!
As someone who has seen the series a dozen times, thank you so much for these videos!
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 like that you mentioned Achera. Make some much-maligned episode a little deeper than what is thought on on the surface. I always thought it was important that Jack was marked by her. So Jack was wearing some of the light upon his body.
WHAT!!! I could never figure out why the Others kept saying Walt was important and asking if he had been seen where he should not have been. Thank you for this video!
I watched the entire series for the first time, over the last week.
You give an excellent summary for this awesome show! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I very much appreciate the hard work and detail you’ve put into articulating so many things I too had came to the same conclusion!
I do wonder why Walt & Michael were not present in the last episode??
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.
great videos. I've grown used to the tts in a way i never thought i could and its all because of your well articulated analysis
I have switched to my own voice in later videos, so you will eventually hear a change 🙂
Best explanation of Walt yet!
I needed this video! Thank you, I find it very useful! I watched lost for the first time when it aired and I'm still here, after all this time, trying to solve the puzzle:)
This channel id absolutely amazing!I started watching lost again and this channel help me realize things I never thought I’d remember or know. More lost fans really need to watch this channel. Great channel with great info
I appreciate you saying that, thank you :)
This show is crazy I’m rewatching it just to understand all of this. I’m reminded of that one scene with Ben when he talks about reading a book another time cause u might pick up on things u didn’t get on the first read (Locke might’ve said this but I’m sure it’s Ben)
I love this channel!!!! Thank you!!!
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I think it’s clear who the next protector of the island will be.
This makes sense finally!! 🙏
why would Hurley be asking Walt to replace him just a few years after he himself became the islands protector? Especially when the final episode gives the impression that Hurley lived a very long time before dying.
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: th-cam.com/video/pv7zoACjBZA/w-d-xo.html
@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 seems reasonable
شكرا جزيلا لك على هذا الشرح . وسأستمر في مشاهدة كل مقاطعك .
ابق ضائعا .
Thank you very much for this explanation. I will continue to watch all of your videos.
stay lost.
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At 3:15 & 5:23 you mentioned other episodes of the series and that they were shown on the net. Where can I find it, I haven't seen it?
So clearly, Isaac the healer saw a vision of Rose's future and realized he would not be "allowed" to help her.
It might have just been the plane crash, which is why he looked horrified, or it could have been a flash of all the danger and tragedy she would be witness to, but he knew he had to step back and let her take her place in the causal web to play her part in the process. Same reason Richard Malkin made sure Claire got on the plane with the made up BS about the family in L.A.
An actual psychic, despite what he said in a later episode with his daughter's return from the dead, he saw some of Claire's future and did what the Island was compelling him to do.
Another great video.
Brilliant. Loved the section on Isaac, such a powerful scene.
This is explained so clearly and thoroughly. Thanks a bunch!
I'm currently re-watching the series so I may be a bit fuzzy on some details but I do have 1 question about your explanation. You theorize that even Jacob's appearances were projections, bur would that be enough for him to give them his touch? I always thought that he had to physically be there to give them the blessing.
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).
I cant find this episode with Walt, Hugo and Ben. Was it a separate series?
It's the LOST Epilogue called "The New Man in Charge". It was released on the original DVD boxset. You can find it on TH-cam if you type in the title. It's a great addendum to the series that answers some lingering questions. :)
Not sure if I could completely agree with an "astral" projection. I felt that it was more of a physical movement through space/time, like Ben did with the "donkey wheel". He ended up in a different place entirely. I think Jacob did this on many occassion as well. The lighthouse was like a map, but the mechanism to get there involved the source and the wheels helped control the direction of the time space movement.
I think when Shannon and John saw Michael, I now think that was the MiB. Walt spoke backwards to Shannon to not push the button, the button was bad. We all know if they didn’t push the button it would kill all the candidates and destroy the island. The second time she saw Walt he tricked her to run into the group with Anna and they were on edge after Cindy was taken. That led to her death and the elimination of another candidate. When John saw Walt to get him out of the gravel, that led to John killing Naomi who was also candidate brought to the island 🏝️.
yo where can we watch that web series he mentioned?
You might be able to find it on TH-cam. It's called LOST Missing Pieces.
Just use google? Jesus some people...
When Michael left the island came back as Kevin Johnson... I not only resemble Michael my name is Kevin Johnson... I've been I resemble him from his other work... The irony..
What are these mini web episodes you speak of??
I never knew anything about them.
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 TH-cam and you will find the whole series. :)
So is anyone up for a Walt lost sequel?
Yes?!! Okay then where is it?
I love your channel but I think you are missing a piece to Walt's story.
The island, Jacob, Richard, The leader of the Others, and the Other's themselves serve one goal ... protecting the time loop, correct?
Walt's powers are chaotic and what he manifests goes against the time loop.
So as to not endanger the time loop, Jacob, has the other's kidnap Walt.
Yet he cannot be brainwashed and the stress of the kidnapping is multiplying his abilities.
Jacob allows Michael and Walt to leave the island, as to not endanger the time loop any further.
Once the time loop is over in 2007, Walt is welcomed back to the island by Hurley, because again there is no longer a time loop to protect and he is older and less chaotic with his powers.
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.
from where is the last scene where ben goes to see the older walt
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: th-cam.com/video/lMjPzV2RvO8/w-d-xo.html
1:59 Mr Eko also has this ability
Why would Walt take over for Hurley? Wouldn't Hurley protect the island for thousands of years, like mother and then Jacob did? So wouldn’t the next protector be from that time period, thousands of years in the future?
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 disagree with the astral projection part. It's more physical than that. Jacob literally touched John Locke and Kate off the island.
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 figured out why Walt says:
"Don't push the button. The button is bad" while astral projecting.
Walt has such a strong communion with The Island and in tune with the time loop that has to occur, that when he is in that state where he is unconsciously projecting himself, he knows that certain things need to happen.
For e.g. he knows that one day the button needs to not be pushed and that the failsafe needs to be turned for everything to be set along a certain path, which is why he says don't push the button.
Your reasoning is flawless, you explained very clearly an element of the show that had always remained a little obscure to me, the nature of Walt's abilities. What you say about other "special" people also makes sense, but one thing is not clear to me. You also mention Richard Malkin, but I think that it was pretty clear that he was a fraud as a psychic, considering also that he admits it himself to Mr Eko
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.
If Walt did indeed want to leave the island with his father why did he burn the raft?
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 :)
He grew up to be such a fine man…
If hector was protector why wouldnt he live as long as jacob did he just gives his powers to walt because " hes a nice guy" could of had another show explaining how walt becomes protector
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.
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It's always surprised me that such creative writers on such a fantastic show could not think of a supernatural way to age walk up in the time they were on the island he could have went into some spooky cave or suckes into some electromagnetic atorm and got spit out years older. Jacob could have aged him up for any number of reasons and it wouldn't have been any dummer than what they did
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.
What was dogans abilities? I never thought he is special
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.
Really good fighter ig
I hope you redue these... The Robo voices are killing me😭
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: th-cam.com/video/2LI7ZNBdwLM/w-d-xo.html
If Jacob was just a reflection how could his touch affect the Candidates?
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.
Walt-it doesn’t make sense that Walt will take over the island. If Hurley stayed for half as long as mother he would be on the island for 1000 years and ready to die. But Walt would also be 1000 years old. He’d be ready to retire before he started. Doesn’t make sense. I think Walt’s purpose was explained. He is to help all of the whisperers pass on not just his father. That’s why he can see the dead to save those stuck on the island.
Of course they would make it a black kid/man
Thanks, but not really what I meant by "What's up with Walt"?
"LOST" is so convoluted I may never get the answers I seek. Or maybe I think tge answers they gave in the end sucked and didn't live up to the set up of previous season.
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.
i dont recall those scenes with hurly and an older walt. was that a deleted scene?
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 TH-cam 🙂
Another awesome video. And yet again, you connect what seems to be very obvious two plot points or moments that I never really thought about, which is Walt being super scared when warning Locke about opening the Hatch, and what would later happen with Michael.
This is another example where I always find myself in a sort of inner conflict with LOST. Sometimes I wish the series made things a bit more clearer when it comes to Walt. But at the same time what they showed fits perfectly with the mystery nature of the show and how the narrative of the story itself is told.