In light of the Season 5 finale, let's take a moment to re-examine the Orchid insignia. There was some discussion of this when it first appeared, but quite a bit has happened since then....
Sure, it's sort of flowery; maybe it's just supposed to throw people off the scent (so to speak). But one can read a lot more into it, if one chooses to.
Essentially, the logo consists of concentric black and white circles--closed loops. But the central curve is open, and it branches at one end. Are we looking at the graph of a dynamical system? Beginning and end? But what's the beginning, and what's the end?
Is time cyclical? Does it inevitably converge on a single point (or attractor, Mr. MacDonald)? Does it diverge? Are there stable orbits and unstable orbits? It seems like it. And it seems like detonating Jughead destabilized the island's orbit.
Faraday tells us that the explosion stops the Swan from being built and 815 from ever crashing. But maybe it does more than that. Ms. Hawking tells us that the universe has a way of course-correcting. In Seasons 1-5, that has seemed to be true. But maybe she is referring less to fate, higher purpose, and seeming Acts of God than to the highly deterministic, disturbance-dampening nature of the universe in which Lost has been taking place. And maybe this new world they have created is not like that.
It makes you think.
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