The guys who came up with this show are trekkie potheads obsessed with the time space continuum.
Maybe Jack is the church and Ben is temptation slash sin?
Ulysses >Odysseus >Jesus.
Jack’s dad and Locke switch places slash shoes on the way there and on the way back.
The survivors who end up back on the island are prophets?
The pockets of magnetic energy are like black holes in Star Trek. They can send you back in time but of you go in separately you arrive at different times.
It’s not where they cam back in the 5th season plane crash, but when.
Locke and Shepard senior aka Yahweh come on and off the island twice each into different times each time.
Ben is Judas and Whitmore is the devil?
Or maybe it’s the old testament? The Jewish bible? The Torah?
In the end they’re probably gonna make it seem like the survivors made it so that the crash didn’t happen, thus allowing tem to go back. You are then supposed to wonder if that’s possible and if it has already happened.
The black smoke brings back the dead and possesses their bodies.
When the island skips, only the people from 815 change time. Everyone else stays in their own times.
When they blew up the swan at the end of season 5, time moves forward, putting them back in the present.
That’s why Juliet says it worked.
