I think the key is that it isn't just sidestepping the crash - the Island and its influence (Jacob) are removed. Everyone was driven to the Island in different ways - Hurley's bad luck (LOL at the broken mirror comment tonight) for one. This would suggest that Jacob was in some way responsible for Anthony Cooper dogging Locke. So far the episodes are following the season 1 blueprint: Ep1/2: Multicentric Ep3: Kate Ep4: Locke Ep5: Jack ----------------- Ep6: Sun/Jin Ep7: (Charlie) Ep8: Sawyer Ep9: Sayid Another huge episode. They're really loading us up. NotLocke didn't take Sawyer to Jacob's cave in the cliffs. That was Smokey's cave. Cave = below ground, names were written all over in a chaotic manner. Jacob's lighthouse: above ground, names neatly in order. The Beethoven poster in a teen's room had me thinking Clockwork Orange. Since S1, the creators had been insisting that the show had major grounding in The Stand, which always struck me as odd, since it was one of the few King books that it didn't seem to have a major connection to. Now? For certain. Another Pianist: David, Jack, Benry, Sun, Charlie, Faraday. Not sure what it's pointing at. Name with 108 = not Austen. Wallace. Which I like. My buddy was all over Jacob giving Hurley the guitarcase as a reference to Pulp Fiction (soul in the briefcase). Marcellous Wallace. "Too young for this pressure"....a nod that the "next generation" (Walt, Aaron, Ji, David?) have a role to play before we're all done? I hope so. The Appendectomy scar - a second blending of the timelines for Jack (1st being the neck wound resurfacing). Looks like there will be a reconvergence, but that's going to be really weird to fold two realities into one another. Bad man coming - oh snap! Should be noted that Sawyer wasn't with NotLocke in the final sign...sent on an errand? Off to re-kill Sayid? I don't really see him off on a massacre errand, personally. But it looks like Sayid, Miles, Dogan, and others (Cindy and the kids! NO!) are in the crosshairs. Left up in the air who Jack's ex is. In fact, I would be surprised if it WAS Sarah.
I can see a Claire episode in the next couple. Showing what exactly happened to her after we last saw her with Jack's dad, and how she got all of her bruises. How she has completly mentally lost it. Another dumb question was Jack's dad smokey the whole time, and all of the potential flashbacks and run in's Smokey?
A little Easter Egg I noticed was that when Jack was with his mother in Christian's study looking for the will, when his mother offered him a drink, there was a bottle of MacCutcheon Whiskey. When Desmond went to see Widmore to ask for his blessing to marry Penny, Widmore went into a speech about Admiral MacCutcheon and how Desmond would never be a great man and how one glass of the whiskey costs more than what Desmond could make in a month. On the island, Charlie finds a bottle of MacCutcheon in Sawyer's stash and he and Desmond get drunk.
Eh, I dont know. Doing an episode about Claire at this stage would reveal ALOT of new stuff in one episode as shes been basically missing for what..a season and a half?, which is the exact opposite of how LOST operates. LOST likes to prolong, and stretch the smallest answers or information out for as long as they can which really agitates me, especially in the earlier seasons when you would wait a whole week for a new episode and you find it to be the SAME one from a week ago except from some random other persons point of view. Also, Lostpedia has noticed that this season is following season 1's order of character-centric episodes.
The name of the next episode is: Spoiler Sundown. So it would seem to be a Sun-centric episode I can guarantee it's not Sarah. The accident she was in where Jack saved her was in 2001. In the "sideways" timeline it's 2004. Jack's son is around 13 (age of the actor) which would have him born around 1991, a long time before Jack ever met Sarah. I suppose he could have met her another way but I doubt it.
In season 1, Shannon had an asthma attack and Boone couldn't find her inhaler. Everybody assumes Sawyer had it so Sayid ties him up and tortures him. Sawyer says he has it but he'll only give it to Kate. He tells Kate he'll give her the inhaler if she kisses him which she does. Turns out Sawyer never had the inhaler to begin with. Sayid stabbed Sawyer after that which required Jack to attend to him. Shannon's symptoms were eventually relieved by Sun who made her own Vick's Vaporub out of eucalyptus leaves. But the mystery of what happened to the inhaler remained . . . . . until tonight. During the Lost ComiCon panel last year, they did a bit where Jorge Garcia started asking Darlton if all the mysteries were going to be solved this season and he specifically asked if we were going to find out what happened to Shannon's inhaler. It was just so trivial and one unanswered question nobody cared about or even remembers. I find it hilarious that they actually answered that question. EDIT: Here's the video <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ylr3006tt5o&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ylr3006tt5o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>
Since Ben actually grew up on the island, the island sinking would have a much larger impact on his life than anyone elses. Also, I think in this alt time line, the island would have had to sink prior to 1977 when the Losties exploded the bomb. Young Ben was on the island with the others at the time. And he couldn't have left on the sub like baby Miles did. If the island sank at that time, I'm not sure how he lived. I think that in this "sideways" reality, the island must have sunk prior to the Linus' arriving in 1973, meaning Ben never came to the island. I'm trying to piece together when Jacob touched Jack. If the assumption is that the "sideways" time line is what would happen if Jacob had never become involved, then it would make sense that the lives of the losties would have been the same up until the point Jacob would have touched them and different after that point. So Jack's life should have been the same up until right after his first solo procedure which is when Jacob touched him in our normal time line. If this alternate reality is the result of Jacob's non-involvement, it would stand to reason that Jack would have his son after this point. But was that long enough ago for Jack to have a 13 year old son? I'm not convinced that what we're seeing is the result of the bomb being successful or Jacob not becoming involved. I'm not discounting it, but I'm kind of expecting a different explanation.
I think the explanation for this will coincide with the explanation of exactly "what" the importance of the island is. I agree that it may have nothing to do with the bomb exploding.
I wanted to update this with other times the whiskey has appeared that I found on Lostpedia. Locke's father drank a glass before pushing Locke out of the window. When Ben left the island and snuck into Widmore's penthouse, there was a bottle on the nightstand. Sayid was drinking a glass in the bar when Ilana picked him up and took him back to her hotel room. I like little easter eggs like this.
I dont know what to make of Jack all of a sudden having a son. I hope this gets explained because things seemed to take a pretty standard deviation between alternate and real reality for the 815ers...so why all of a sudden do they throw this huge curve in to it?
I think the assumption shouldn't be made that Jacob's influence began with the touch. It could be that the touch signified his anointing the character as a candidate. Hurley was touched the morning of the Guam flight, but clearly Hurley X has seen a radical change in his life, with his luck completely reversing. It could be the "we make our own luck" phrase will bear meaning on this. Locke's primary influences were his dad (apparently came to Jesus) and Abaddon (Widmore?) encouraging him to go on the walkabout. Desmond's course was manipulated heavily by Widmore and Hawking. Richard, Ethan, and Mr Friendly ran tons of recruiting runs. Ever since season 1, it's been suggested that Jack's dad was prepping him most of his life and seemed to have some connection to the island or understanding of Jack's fate. One thing that may be a clue to last night was his apparent interference with Sarah (in timeline A) and Dogan's talk about separating himself from those he leads. The "he walks among us but is not one of us" tattoo. Maybe one of Christian's intentions was to steer women away from Jack, knowing that he ultimately had to go it alone. No Island, Jack's dad doesn't keep Jack's ladies away (pre-dating Sarah).
That's a good point. The touch was an annointing. I think it's going to be revealed that Hurley's luck changed because he didn't play "the numbers" in the lottery. The island sank and the numbers don't get broadcast. Hurley's friend in the mental institution never hears them so Hurley never hears them or plays them in the lottery. So it can be argued that Hurley's change of luck is because the island sank and not because of a lack of direct influence from Jacob. Although, I guess Jacob could in some way be responsible for the island sinking or not sinking. And we did see last night that Jacob uses others to influence people. He directly told Hugo what to do. But he was using him to influence Jack. Who knows who else Jacob has used to influence the losties over the course of their lives.
It seems evident that Claire has taken on the roll of Rouseau. I'm not really sure what to make of this but it's disappointing that she isn't hot like she was in previous seasons!
