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| - Pierre Chang mentions that reconstituting the Dharma Iniative could help save him and his colleagues from The Purge. This statement, in conjunction with the flashbacks on the show point to the Island's ability to influence past events, not the future. Each character's flashback directly relates to the character's on-Island actions of that episode (ex. The Long Con, Walkabout, The 23rd Psalm, etc). This is a way of showing a character can correct mistakes or actions made in the past. In turn, the changing of past events could possibly change the Valenzetti Equation. Everything that has happened on the Island so far has happened because of past events, not to create future events. The best way to describe this is with Locke. Locke's whole life has been about coming to the Island. He was unsu
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| - Pierre Chang mentions that reconstituting the Dharma Iniative could help save him and his colleagues from The Purge. This statement, in conjunction with the flashbacks on the show point to the Island's ability to influence past events, not the future. Each character's flashback directly relates to the character's on-Island actions of that episode (ex. The Long Con, Walkabout, The 23rd Psalm, etc). This is a way of showing a character can correct mistakes or actions made in the past. In turn, the changing of past events could possibly change the Valenzetti Equation. Everything that has happened on the Island so far has happened because of past events, not to create future events. The best way to describe this is with Locke. Locke's whole life has been about coming to the Island. He was unsuccessfully recruited by Richard Alpert twice (as a child and teenager). He was supposed to be on the Island. When he finally crashed on the Island, some events of his past that would never have happened had he been on the Island (i.e. his broken back) were erased. Locke had relapses of paralysis until his father was killed, and the event was cleansed from his psyche.
* To add to this (and possibly related to the Monster - The Monster acts as a sort of "policeman" as well. If a person is in position to change an event that is not supposed to be changed, the Monster is there to stop this from happening.
* Desmond has (so far) been the only person who has had awareness of traveling to his own past, though when he tried to alter it (so as not to lose Penny), he was not successful then. Yet he has also been the only person to see future events (Charlie's death) and managed to stop it several times. Though one could argue that Charlie had to be kept alive so he could go to the Looking Glass, stop the jammer and make contact with Penny. So therefore, Desmond had to come to the Island and press the fail-safe button and save Charlie, therefore, he had to lose Penny in the past to commence his soul-searching and travels. So some events are important turning points that must not be changed. Desmond was actively stopped by Ms. Hawking in the shop. The producers have said she can time travel and is some kind of temporal policeman. Is she then Dharma, policing the important time nodal events?
* Ms Hawking is related to the Monster or is the Monster, the unexplainable entity or force that prevents alterations of the past that would allow violation of causality.
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