[CaptainCrunch]

That episode answered a lot of questions due to Desmond's time jumping.

Possible spoilers


The flashbacks and flash forwards that we're seeing with all of the characters have been explained discreetly if you want to make that leap of imagination. All of the characters are hopping back and forth in time due to the effect of the Islands radiation or electromagnetic energy.

We now can theorize that the Island is emitting either a natural source of radiation, or electromagnetic energy, and the device that Desmond and Locke destroyed was some kind of containment device. And it causes the time shifts.

Desmond has an anchor so I'm willing to bet that we see no jumps from him.

However we've seen Hurley go crazy in the future, we've seen a far distant bearded crazy Jack. We know that one of the characters ends up in a casket.

Now here's where I think I'm wacky, but the time shifts explain the miracle of Locke walking. All of the events that we see that cause his paralysis happens after he leaves the Island, so when he actually arrives the first time he can still walk, and when he's trying to get on the adventure tour that we saw at the start of the series, its his attempt to get back to the Island. Its a little far fetched, but it would explain a lot.

Every character right now is jumping back and forth through time, none have anchors. I'm betting there only a set number of survivors who can withstand the jumps when they're rescued.

And its happened before, we know that now because of the 1st mates log that nobody knew the contents of that was purchased by Hanso in 1996.

One thing that we know is that the radiation causes babies to die, is that because they short circuit like the rat?

Anyways, you have just read the ramblings of an insane man.

Carry about your business you.