The Best Lost Theory You Haven't Heard Yet

Well fans, summer is upon us. What does that mean? Baseball, cookouts, vacations, sunburns, hitchhiking across the country? For some of us it does. For us Lost-a-maniacs, it means 4 more months until the next episode of LOST. For the approximately 16,815,108 of us who watched the finale on May 24, we received some much needed new information to fuel the fireside discussions that we all do so well.

What did we learn from the finale and more importantly, what is my new theory? Patience my new friends, patience. Let's look at each question individually. First, what did we learn from the finale? We learned several important chunks of island mythology. We learned about the mysterious Kelvin that Desmond first mentioned back at the beginning of the season. As it so connect-the-dot-edly fits, Kelvin was somebody we saw before. He was the American military leader who persuaded Sayid to 'do whatever necessary' to ascertain information during the first Iraq war. Second, we now know that Kelvin was stationed, in Iraq, with Kate's dad. In the episode One Of Them, another soldier, in Kelvin's vehicle, has a photo of Kate as a child. He is inquiring whether Sayid has any children. (The photo is an actual photo of Evangeline Lilly, aka Kate, as a child.)

Through Desmond flashbacks, we learn that it was Kelvin who did some (all?) of the black light map drawing that Locke saw in Lockdown. We know that Kelvin knows that the island, or at least the section surrounding the Hatch, is not infected. The sole purpose of the suits and air tanks is to convince Desmond to stay put. Why? Loneliness? Doubtful. Necessity? Almost certainly, but necessary to who? That is the question. It is also one that we don't have an answer.