Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-26500342-20151214232944/@comment-26500342-20151222025807

Okay, I know this is out of the blue, but I have a new theory. It's probably wrong but I want to get it out there before Season 3 so that I can at least say I called it in the rare case I'm actually right.

In the (presumed) flashback from A.L.I.E. we saw someone who looked a LOT like Pike. Now, this could have been separate scenes put together to mislead us (God knows trailers do that all the time) but if it is the same scene, that could lead to some interesting scenarios. First of all, if it's a flashback, it would have had to have happened a long time in the past. How would it be possible that Pike would look the same age if it had been years and years before (maybe before the apocalypse)?

The answer is simple: it isn't. That is, unless Pike isn't really human. What if he is an AI, just like A.L.I.E.? Maybe he is claiming to be from another Ark station (an assumption many people have made) but actually hadn't been on the Ark at all. It wouldn't be easy to pretend he had if he claimed he was from an unwealthy section of the Ark. So many of their citizens are dead that they wouldn't think twice about no one recognizing him (or even look into it, for that matter) if he was wearing clothes from the Ark and could show them the crash site of another part of the Ark. In that case, we could assume he would be the only "survivor". Also, they probably wouldn't bother searching up identification to prove he was a citizen because there's a huge likelihood the majority of that information would be lost in the crash.

This is merely a far-fetched theory I have, so don't take it too seriously. I thought I'd just put it out there.