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The Coffeepot Theory

All of the connections we've seen in flashbacks can be explained using The Coffeepot Theory, which says that the smoke monster is a scanner which takes memories from the survivors and mixes them around with memories of other survivors. For example, Sawyer didn't really meet Kate's mom in a diner. Kate remembered her mother working at a diner, and Sawyer remembered going to a diner, so when Sawyer thought back on the diner, the island made him remember Kate's mom as the waitress rather than the actual woman he met.

Fathers

The characters have killed each other's father figures:

  • Sawyer bought Jack's father's drinks, and thereby caused his heart attack. 
*Also Claire's father.
  • Jack chose not to operate on Shannon's father.
  • Sawyer killed Locke's father.
  • Kate's father (whom Kate killed) was actually somebody else's father as well.
  • Nearly all characters have a father-complex: Locke is betrayed by his father who left him when he was born, Jack suffers because of the domination of his father at the hospital, Jin is ashamed that his father is a fisherman, Sun knows that her father is a triad-boss, Sawyer's father killed his Mom right in front of him, Walt spends the first time in his life with his father Michael on the island, Kate kills her father by gas-explosion, Hurley's father left him behind when he was young,Aaron's father left the pregnant Claire, and Claire's father left her (her father is Christian Shephard), Ben seems to be not the best father and suffered himself because his father was ignorant and used to forget his birthday before Ben murdered him in cold blood.

General Theories

  • All characters seem to be kind of lonely, left behind or "on the run" in normal life. So the title of the series "Lost" could mean that they are "lost" in the "real life" and kind of "find" themselves on the island. This could be supported by the Season 3 cliffhanger; Jack crying out that they have "to go back" to the island.

See also Christian Shephard/Theories

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