Now, the time travel thing. Yes, the island seems to be 31 minutes behind the rest of the world. But that 31 minutes wouldn't be fixed--it would be relative to the speed of the rocket, the distance from the ship to the impact point on the island, etc. As more time goes by, that 31 minutes will compound as the island slips further and further behind the rest of the world. We know the Losties have been on the island for about 100 days at this point. Well, all things being equal, if we assume that the rocket flight--which should have taken 3 minutes--actually took 31 minutes, then it's fair to say the island is moving forward in time at a rate of about 1/10 the rest of the world. So 100 days on the island is about 1000 days back in the world, or about 3 years. Did you notice Sayid's gray hairs in his flash-forward episodes? A few strands in his beard, a bit at the temples, nothing too dramatic but DEFINITELY intentional. You can really notice it at the golf course. My theory is that we're going to find that the Oceanic 6 have been back in the world for a while--several years, I would guess--and that will be used to justify little continuity issues like Walt having rather obviously aged quite a bit more than 100 days over the 4 years of the show--that when our heroes inevitably make their way back to the island to rescue the rest of the Losties, they'll find them unchanged, and that not much time has gone by, while they themselves have done quite a bit of living (and drunken pill-popping) since they left. That 31 minutes is pretty revealing...
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Date: 2008-02-21 02:54 am (UTC)for about 100 days at this point. Well, all things being equal, if we assume that the rocket flight--which should have taken 3 minutes--actually took 31 minutes, then it's fair to say the island is moving forward in time at a rate of about 1/10 the rest of the world. So 100 days on the island is about
1000 days back in the world, or about 3 years. Did you notice Sayid's gray hairs in his flash-forward episodes? A few strands in his beard, a bit at the temples, nothing too dramatic but DEFINITELY intentional. You can really notice it at the golf course. My theory is that we're going to find that
the Oceanic 6 have been back in the world for a while--several years, I would guess--and that will be used to justify little continuity issues like Walt having rather obviously aged quite a bit more than 100 days over the 4 years of the show--that when our heroes inevitably make their way back to the island to
rescue the rest of the Losties, they'll find them unchanged, and that not much time has gone by, while they themselves have done quite a bit of living (and drunken pill-popping) since they left. That 31 minutes is pretty revealing...