Rewatching LOST: So What Happened?

This is the second of two posts dedicated to questions submitted by groovy LOST fan, Diane. [Thanks, Diane!]

Diane asks THE question: What's up with our losties? Why are they "here?"

So, if I'm reading your posts correctly, the Island is really some kind of a system to help people in some way, maybe to overcome trauma or problems or whatever, but it somehow has been broken (by Jacob?) The Losties have come to this system (the Island) to fix it, but something is amiss (MIB) .

Kinda. I've been thinking this one over a LOT lately. Here's what I've got so far:

[Watch this!]

• THINK OF THIS WORLD AS A STORAGE UNIT. [The BOTTLE is "HERE."]
• FILL THE STORAGE UNIT WITH INTACT MINDS/MEMORIES. [You are "here."]
• EACH MIND/MEMORY represents ONE PERSON.
• These MIND/MEMORIES are in STASIS. ["There is no NOW, HERE."]
• THEY CAN'T EVER LEAVE. [They're TRAPPED by the island -- the "cork."]
• SOME MINDS ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN OTHERS. ["You're special."]

What if:

• You were in charge of tending these stored minds? [i.e., a security system]
• You had to mentally connect with this world in order to do your job? ["As long as my body's alive, you're not going anywhere." Jacob to MIB in "Ab Aeterno."]
• You had the ability to take a few minds out of storage and play with them? [Jacob "brought them here" to "prove [MIB] wrong." -- Jacob to Ricardo in "Ab Aeterno."]
• You talked yourself into believing your "game" was "helping" them? [Jacob implies this to Ricardo in "Ab Aeterno" and to Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley and Ben in "What They Died For."]
• You conned someone into connecting into this world with you? [RICHARD, possibly BEN, too.]
• This person wanted to leave? ["Just let me leave." -- MIB to Jacob in "Ab Aeterno."]

HUGE WHAT IF:

• Your body, outside the system and supporting your mental connection to this world, was DYING? ["System failure."]
• Your mind, inside the system, was "disconnected" from "reality?" [Jacob in "Across the Sea."]
• You LOST CONTROL of the system and the stored minds got out on their own, ie, "escaped" your control? [Smokey escapes from Scooby Doo Cave.]
• These escaped minds banned together and set up two camps? [The Dharma Initiative and the OTHERS.]
• Your cohort, the guy you conned into helping you by promising him he would live forever, started fighting for control of the system?

And finally, What if:

• Someone broke into the system [bypassing your security measures], in order to "wake up" certain stored minds? [DESMOND]
• These minds are particularly resistant to your influence? [Everyone in the CHURCH.]
• These stored minds started interconnecting? [Flashbacks and flash forwards.]
• By interconnecting, these minds increased their ability to control their environment? ["It has to be ALL OF US." Mock Locke to Jack in "The Candidate."]
• Gradually, these interconnected minds take control of the storage unit? [Juliet TAPS the BOMB.]
• These interconnected minds pull a CON on you to get to you step aside? [MIB kills Jacob; Jacob hands over control to Jack.]
• These minds, and the intruder, execute a plan to get you to "move on?" [FlashSIDEWAYS]
• Once you're out of the way, these interconnected minds "leave?" ["The End"]

[Did you see it?]

The HUGE questions here are:

• Who created the system in the first place?
• Why was it created?
• How did it get "broken?"
• Who decided to "fix" it?
• How did it get fixed?

But for ME, the huge question is: Why does Christian leave the church separately in "The End?" I think if we can answer that ONE question, everything else will fall into place.

[Of COURSE I have an answer! We'll talk about that one NEXT TIME!]

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Rewatching!