Something that may help you out. The official ABC site has a Diary that gives a very good day to day accounting and may help you greatly with this project. --Circeus 11:09, 8 February 2006 (PST)
I have read all that and it conflicts with the actual events, especially after The Other 48 Days episode which gave actual days on screen. Thanks for the suggestion. --Surveyor 12:21, 8 February 2006 (PST)
It conflicts. Like when the tailenders tried the radio - it has to be the same day as the survivors found the drung runners plane, right? I recall, that they used the radio there and tried to talk to the tailies. Also Maternity leave is missing - should be partially at the end of the list and partially around day 20-27... --aurora glacialis 05:14, 18 March 2006 (PST)
Pre-crash Timeline?!?!?
Has anyone thought of starting a pre-crash timeline? It may be possible from info in the flashbacks, the known age of certain characters and statements made such as "I've lived with this condition for four years". --209.43.65.170 10:16, 28 February 2006 (PST)
I started to put one together but it got very complicated. If you wish I could upload it here and others could complete it. --Surveyor 10:55, 28 February 2006 (PST)
Does time pass?
I had wondered if time does pass on the island in the same way as in the normal world. We have no reference point to use between time passing on the island and whats happening in the wider world.
Michael does point out that now 'Time' has no meaning when he returns Jins watch.
Channel 4 in the UK has made some spoof news reports for their website to make the missing flight out to be a world wide news story but obiviously we cant trust that to be any indication of what the wider world knows of the missing plane.
The Oceanic Airlines sites do also make reference to the airline being shut down and a flight missing.. but can that be taken with a pinch of salt too.. as its meant for the viewer rather than to add to the reality of the show. --user:MRNasher
The classic time-dilation theory! The only theory to dismiss this theory is that if Adam & Eve were Earhart & Co, there is no time differential. Otherwise, nothing to suggest one way or the other. Possible. --skks 06:25, 18 March 2006 (PST)
I was about to dismiss this theory, but then... it is strange that the only way we know how long Rousseau has been on the island is by the iterations of the distress signal. She accepts that it's been 16 years but never says what year she crashed, which seems like a logical thing to do -- what if Sayid was just bad at math? "Sixteen years, you say? So it's 2004 then?" Of course, there's the convenient parallel between her hearing the numbers sixteen years ago and Sam Toomey hearing the numbers sixteen years ago, so maybe time is really what it seems. --Joezoo 06:15, 19 March 2006 (PST)
Recently I am a little in favour of that VR/dreamstate theory (see fan theories). Besides the time issue - doesn't it strike you as strange that a seemingly over 100 miles big island is uninhabited? And that strange animals like polar bears and horses appear out of nowhere just because someone thinks about them? And of course the whispers??? In a dreamstate or VR environment, time would of course have not really a meaning and not nececcarily a connection to the outside world.... --aurora glacialis 06:32, 19 March 2006 (PST)
It's a magical island in another dimension! 16 years ago was the last time one could pick up the numbers in a transmission as after that Rousseau changed the transmission into her SOS. I don't remember her saying anything about when she heard the numbers, or even mentioning anything about the time she has spent on the island. The only thing about this we know for sure, like I said somewhere else, is that the transmission is 16 years old, we don't know how long Rousseau was on the island before she made it. If I imagine being on an island where the only company is a banana and having to deal with constant fear of a disease or the attacks of the other crazies that live on the island after they've taken my child with no hope of actually leaving the island, the passage of time wouldn't be the first thing on my mind. One can't expect her to act 'normally' in her situation. --skks 07:16, 20 March 2006 (PST)
2009
On doing the usual delving I cant help but notice the re-occurence of the year 2009 on various documents and pictures, anyone got any theories about this. Is it 2009 to take us to the end of the show and the survivors time on the island, or is it to allude to an glitch in the timeline as some have theorised? Could it be that the numbers relate to the length of their duration on the island, 4 years, 8 months, 15 days, 16 hours and so on........ if they took off in sep 2004 will this explain the appearance of 2009? Just a thought!
- Or, since the show isn't expanded on in real-time (The show's been on since our 2004, and they've been on the island around 2 months of "Lost time"), the producers could have a future date as a fail-safe. It's surprisingly difficult to accurately predict technology a few years in advance - should the show have a non-island interaction in seasons ahead, and that interaction involves something invented in our 2008, its existence would be accurate to the Lost-year 2009. That way nitpickers such as us wouldn't complain about, say, hoverboards being in a 2004 universe. Bad example, I know, but it elaborates the point (I hope). --Jre 12:14, 12 April 2006 (PDT)
2004
What evidence do we have that confirms that date as the date of the crash? In fact, the producers have specifically pointed out that it was never confirmed. Please provide me with a source. -- Novajoe23 13:24, 9 April 2006 (PDT)
Episode links
Does anyone feel the article should be more organized? I'm thinking by season subheading ("Season One" covering Sept 22 to Nov 5, "Season Two" Nov 6 to whenever it ends) and with links to the appropriate episode in question. I'm willing to do this if no one objects. Thanks! -- Jre 12:24, 12 April 2006 (PDT)
- Well it could use a few subheadings atleast, now it's just a loooong list. Maybe split it into months? Wikilinking never hurt anyone. :) --skks 12:39, 12 April 2006 (PDT)
- Or maybe even both: Proper subheadings of season, further break-down with a simple bolding of month? I'm ready to go, unless anyone objects - I'm off work today but everyone I know isn't, so I have all the time in the world... at least until 8pm. :) -- Jre 12:42, 12 April 2006 (PDT)
- Fine by me! --skks 12:44, 12 April 2006 (PDT)
- Or maybe even both: Proper subheadings of season, further break-down with a simple bolding of month? I'm ready to go, unless anyone objects - I'm off work today but everyone I know isn't, so I have all the time in the world... at least until 8pm. :) -- Jre 12:42, 12 April 2006 (PDT)
The year... huge clue given in Season 2, Ep 16?
From Episode 16, when Rose and Bernard are squabbling over Bernard forgetting Rose's birthday, Bernard remarks "I don't even know what day of the week it is." Rose immediately retorts "It's Saturday, Bernard." Assuming both Rose and our Timeline is correct, The Whole Truth falls on either November 21st or 22nd. The three closest years that Nov 21st falls on a Saturday are 1998, 2009 and 2015; For Nov 22nd, 2003, 2008 and 2014. Either I'm on a wild goose chase by microanalysing potential continuity errors, or I found a huge piece of evidence. Thoughts? -- Jre 12:38, 12 April 2006 (PDT)
- I think you've found a big piece of evidence - at least pointing to the fact that they didn't crash in '04. I know that some people might say it can't be past 04 because the Red Sox DID win the World Series that year, but the show in which Christian Shephard said that was probably just taped before they won.
What happened to 31 October 2004?
Oooops! Note all of the days in Novemeber are off one day, because Halloween is missing.
Now that's just wrong, since every day on this island is Halloween--Tricksterson 14:37, 15 April 2006 (PDT)