Spoiler alert (I guess, although the headline probably was a spoiler already…)
So, wow. The big question after the Season 5 premiere was: Did Jack and his friends reset history, or did they in fact cause the very thing they were trying to prevent. The answer: Yes. Instead of flashbacks or flash forwards, Lost is now going to be giving us flash sideways; glimpses at what happens when Jack’s plan didn’t work, and the group is still on the Island, only now in the present (2007), as well as views of a world where the plan did work, history was rebooted, and Oceanic Flight 815 lands safely in Los Angeles in 2004.
I could go on analyzing forever, but I think the biggest things to note from the season premiere is that in the 2004 timeline, a lot of things are different, besides the obvious (that the plane doesn’t crash.) This time, Jack is the nervous flier, not Rose. Now Cindy the flight attendant gives Jack one mini bottle of vodka, not two. Now Hurley claims to be a lucky lottery winner. Desmond is on the plane for some reason. And several people, like Shannon, Michael, Walt, Ana Lucia, and others, were apparently not on the flight this time around. Oh, and the Island is apparently underwater. (Was it just me, or was that effect really terribly done?)
Of course, some things are still the same; Jin and Sun have a rocky relationship. Charlie is on drugs. Locke is in a wheelchair. Kate is still under arrest.
I think going forward, we’re going to be seeing more about the lives of these characters, and how things would have played out for them had their flight landed, and how the bomb detonating on the Island led to all sorts of other changes in their pasts, a la the butterfly effect. It’s a safe bet that the lives of the characters will continue to intersect in L.A. as well.
As for what’s going down in 2007, I’m glad we finally saw Cindy and the kids that were taken from the tail section alive and well at the Temple, as promised. The reveal that Smokey is the Man in Black seemed somewhat obvious, but there are still many mysteries surrounding what (I’m sorry, WHO) he is, and where is “home” is. The consensus amongst my colleagues seems to be that Sayid is not himself. I am just itching to learn more about these Others, what they are doing on the Island, and what they will do now that Jacob is dead.
So many questions to go before May 23rd (the series finale will be on a Sunday, apparently), but the show has once again piqued my interest and curiosity. Is one of these time lines false? Will they converge somehow? Can they coexist?
Ah, Lost, I have missed you!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI’m thinking that Sayid is Jacob. Duh? Probably too obvious to be what really happens though.
Well, I thought it it was obvious that the Man in Black was also the smoke monster, and that turned out to be true, so you never know.
I have more questions about the monster/MIB than about Jacob right now:
We were told that the monster is a “security system” that protects the island. What is it protecting the Island from, and if the Temple inhabitants want to protect themselves from a protector, how exactly do you do that? Have any Slomin Shields ever turned on their owners?
And there are some times when he chooses to judge its victims and give them a chance at redemption – like Mr. Eko, and Bram and his buddies, who he told were free to leave, and he only turned on them when they started shooting. Then there are times he just kills – like Captain Norris, the girl in Rousseau’s team, and Keamy’s men after Ben “summoned” him. I’m not saying that these are inconsistencies per se, it just seems like sometimes he is more patient than others. But clearly Ben knows that the monster is there to judge, because he went to seek it out when he returned to the Island for judgment on being responsible for Alex’s death (or so he claimed.) Since Ben was part of the monster’s plan, did he set-up the chain of events that led to Alex’s murder? He (as Fake Locke) told Jacob that he had gone through a lot to get to that point. I wonder how long he has been pulling the strings…
Also, I at first thought it was obvious that the monster/MIB was Christian, and maybe he was sometimes, but Christian has appeared off the Island. Can the monster appear off the Island like Jacob can? Maybe his “home” that he longs for is neither off the Island or the Temple, but somewhere else, like another plane of existence, or another timeline perhaps?
I think time forked so there’s now two Jacks and they’re showing us both timelines. That’s why Juliet said “it worked”.
Agreed. But *how* did Juliet know it worked?
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