SAYID: 'It's a loop. "Iteration"—it's repeating the same message. It's a counter. The next number will end … "533".
RADIO: 'Iteration 17294533'.
Was this a hint to solving one of Lost's biggest mysteries, Hurley's numbers?
Yes, the numbers are variables in the Valenzetti Equation, an equation that predicts the end of the world. Dharma was out to change just 1 of the variables, whether it was a polar bear in the tropics or experimenting with space-time. All of this is still the case, but I believe there is more to the numbers.
I think they are the count for the iteration of existence. Like the big bang retracting then big-banging again and so on and so on, they are a running total, a carry-over from the previous iteration, just like Rousseau's numbers are counting how many times her micro-loop had occurred.
This explains how Hurley could broadcast the Numbers(an act which most certainly would have to happen near the end of the series and the end of the character's story arc) without time-traveling back to say 1950 in time to broadcast the numbers for the military listening station. I've been pretty sure he broadcasts them but couldn't figure out how that would work...Hurley being in the 1950s, at the end of the season, seems a bit off. We know the conflict is in 2007.
Thus, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that one of Hurley's final acts will be to broadcast the numbers, +1:
4 8 15 16 23 43.
Might this be one of the final acts on the show, Hurley broadcasting the next iteration, which will exist as creation starts up again, floating through time and space until it's picked up yet again by the military listening post?
Could be very cool, and I'm rooting for it.
2 comments:
This is great.
Another piece to add to your idea: When Locke enters the numbers for the first time in season two, he has all the numbers correct, except for the last one. Instead of 42, he enters 32. Jack corrects him, and 42 is finally entered.
The focus is on the last number with a three being the mistaken number, but in the wrong decimal location.
If this plays out it would be wonderful foreshadowing.
- From Tim
This is a bit OT, but it's something that bugs me. You say the conflict is in 2007. That's understandable, since the title cards in several episodes in Season 5 say "1977" and then "30 Years Later." However... the Oceanic Six are rescued in early 2005. There is talk by them that they have been off the island for three years. If we take that in a very literal sense, they would be in 2008. However, both the "30 Years Later" and the "three years" could be approximate: it could be 30 years and a few months or two years and ten months, respectively.
The most important bit of information regarding the timeline, it seems, is when Charles Widmore gives John Locke the Jeremy Bentham passport. The date on that passport is December 12, 2007. So, when Locke gets it, it could be a few days after. Then he travels to Santo Domingo and New York and California to see his old friends before dying.
When Jack sees Ben at the funeral home, Jack says it's been about a month since he saw Jeremy Bentham. If that's true, we're already into 2008.
When Ajira 316 takes off, I'm sure it's early 2008.
This has been bugging me throughout Season 5 and it bugs me now. It's not a big deal, but given how obsessed people were in tracking the days of the original shipwreck, shouldn't we have figured out that when Nemesis takes Locke's shape, it's 2008? It could still be "30 years later," but with a few months added. After all, how often does someone say, "I'm 30 years and five months old"? Or, "That happened 30 years and seven months ago"?
Okay, that's my little rant regarding a Lost pet peeve of mine. What do you think?
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