Forgive me for pointing it out, but I can’t be the only person to have noticed that the Dharma Initiative’s light blue and the United Nations’ light blue are one and the same. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that Dharma is a secret branch of the UN, or meant somehow to represent the UN on the island.
There is a theory that Sun and Ben have been left behind in 2007 because the island doesn’t allow two versions of a person to occupy it at once – and, at least in Ben’s case, we know that there is a little 1977 version of him on the island. This theory, if it is true, means a few things. First, the idea that Rose and Bernard are “Adam and Eve,” the male and female corpses found at the caves in season one, can not be correct, because Rose and Bernard were also present in season one (well, at least Rose was). Second, it also could explain why we haven’t yet seen Rose and Bernard in season five: they are, in fact, members of the Dharma Initiative, and couldn’t travel back to 1977 because they are already present on the island in 1977. Perhaps, then, they were left in 1954 or some other time. Third, it also tells us why Charlotte seemed to disappear to Daniel: as he traveled to 1974, where little Charlotte was alive and frolicking around the barracks, her 2004 self could not have come along.
Speaking of alive-and-frolicking 1974 Charlotte, just about every LOST fan has observed that she is clearly far too old to be the actual Charlotte S. Lewis, because that Charlotte was born in 1979 and is obviously portrayed by an actress in her late 20s. I’m sad to report that the writers have acknowledged this as a mistake and clarified that the little red-haired girl in 1974 is Charlotte. Apparently, the actress unilaterally changed her character’s date of birth out of vanity, and the error wasn’t edited out in time.
Anyway, the hunt is on to find a 1977 Sun on the island. The obvious first choice is Pierre Chang’s baby, but everyone who’d previously assumed it was Miles will now have to be convinced otherwise. I still tend to think it was probably Miles, and guess the answer will have something to do with Sun’s mysterious father, Paik.
Something is strange about the island as Sun and Lapidus find it in 2007. The barracks have been deserted while still littered with Dharma logos and signage. It’s as if the hostile takeover of approximately 1988 had never occurred, which might indicate that they are in a weird alternate 2007. This fits with Back to the Future style time travel, but doesn’t work with Lost style time travel, where “whatever happened, happened” and the past can’t ever be changed … unless Desmond managed to change it somehow.
With Ethan’s birth, we’ve now seen a baby both conceived (presumably) and born on the island, previously considered impossible. Why is it sometimes possible and sometimes not? Perhaps women can’t have babies on the island because the adults into whom those babies will grow are already on the island somewhere, either members of the others/hostiles or ghosts whispering in the jungle. Ethan could be born in 1977 because that’s the island’s first iteration of Ethan.
Another hunch I have is that all the Egyptian symbolism thrown at us – hieroglyphics, the four-toed statue, the ankh, Richard Alpert / RA – is all a smokescreen for something else, possibly related only tangentially. It’s also worth noting that Egypt is only one of several ancient cultures represented on the island. The language that the others/hostiles use with one another is Latin; the portal is located near Carthage; etc. Maybe it’s all supposed to be Atlantis. Or something like that.
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