Constants and Inconsistencies.

Okay so first let's have a look at the progress we have with the factions from last time.

• The Maxwell Group is non-cannon. We don't know who was behind the exhibition of the Christian 1 or if it was indeed an accident they found the fake 815. However with Mr Widmore purchasing that journal it does look increasingly like that he was behind the search (although a far while after buying the journal it seems) and it is probably he was actually looking for the island itself. We have no reason to doubt Ben's word (aside from it being Ben's word) that Widmore is indeed behind the freighter. That would suggest he was probably not behind the "freckage" as it doesn't make a lot of sense unless that was what was required to flush out the specific people he needed for the expedition to the island. I find that kind of far fetched. On the other hand, it seems pretty obvious Michael is Ben's "man on the inside" so with him in contact with Widmore it doesn't make a lot of sense for either party to fake the wreckage.

• The Journal was the property of the Hanso family. It seems likely it was what led Alvar Hanso to the island in the first place and it is likely Mr. Widmore was aware of this. So what this tells us is that there is a good chance that those involved in the Hanso Foundation are not in cahoots with Widmore and whatever scheme he is involved in. If they were, I'm sure they wouldn't have taken the risk of not winning that auction. The purpose of the Hanso Foundation, even under the influence of Thomas Mittlewerk (from the Lost Experience) was always focused on the Valenzetti Equation and saving the world, I can't see Widmore sharing this agenda.

Okay now let's talk Time Travel.

This is now officially part of our mythos. Although Penny never actually acknowledged that she had specifically kept that number or was expecting Desmond's call, it seems the events during Desmond's travel did indeed happen as he ended up in Daniel's journal.

• The "Sickness" that Danielle talked about could well be this time jumping side effect. Perhaps when she says she killed them, she is confused or has been mislead (by Ben likely). Maybe that is how Ben got her to give up her daughter to him. Maybe she had been time jumping too but had an anchor, but it caused her a lot of confusion. Maybe she did kill them but it was while she was in a amnesiac state where she thought she was in her own past.

• The events in the Orchid orientation video seem to suggest that physical time travel is also possible, if highly unstable. This could be where Jacob comes in to it. Perhaps the whole purpose of the Orchid was to try and achieve this by experimenting with this effect.

• This brings me to Room 23. What if the purpose of Room 23 was to provide people with an anchor. There are a lot of images and some culty/religious stuff in there, could well be designed to cause an emotional reaction to various things that a time traveller may come across, this providing them a safe way back.

• Digging up an old theory of mine on Room 23. Perhaps the others were subjected to this as Dharma volunteers. Now the effects of the brainwashing along with repeated time jumps could have left them unstable and with a warped perception of reality maybe forgetting their lives before the island.

• Okay so what if this new form of time travel and physical time travel are not the only forms that people on the island are experiencing. I've theorised for a long time now that the flashbacks (and forwards) are not simply a plot device but that these are things that the Losties are actually experiencing at least sub-consciously.

• The difference for some perhaps is that they are conscious to some degree of what is happening, in Desmond's case (post key turning) he was not only conscious but able to change things.Question is did Desmond need an anchor for his previous time jumping? If so what was it? That's easy - Charlie. Which could explain why his future sight ended up focused on him.

• But then do other people have anchors? Well, yes in theory they could do. Kate has her horse, Locke and Sawyer had Sawyers father, Sayid had the cat of his torture victim, Jack has his father, Hurley had both the numbers and his imaginary friend, Shannon & Boone had each other, same for Rose and Bernard, Michael & Walt, Sun & Jin and Nikki & Paulo, Charlie had heroine, Ekko had Yemi, Claire had her child, Libby's would have been Hurley assuming she did have some kind of crush on him in Santa Rosa, Ana Lucia's constant may have been shooting someone, certainly emotional and something she'd care about. If true this certainly raises a lot of questions (great, more questions).

Anyway that is all for now. With this unfortunately short run of Lost soon to conclude I will try and get a weekly bullets up. They are certainly giving us a lot to talk about of late.