Question re timeshifting
This is my first time posting so please forgive me if this topic has already been discussed. I have some questions regarding the timeshifting. When Ben turned the wheel at the end of season 4 we saw the island disappear. The helicopter and the freighter stayed in present time (late 2004). This would imply that the whole island is travelling through time. However, John Locke disappeared from Richard and the Others’ company. The Losties turned up at various points during the island’s history eg when the 4 toed statue was still whole, when Desmond was still in the hatch, in the 1950s with Jughead, and then finally 1974 with the DI. This would imply that the Losties (and only the Losties/Juliet/freighter team) were travelling through ti…