Welcome back LOST aficionados! It’s been a long wait but finally, after months of waiting, we got our first new episode of Lost in what seemed like forever. Let’s not waste time on pleasantries there’s LOST to discuss!
The biggest revelation in this episode had to be that the bomb worked. Sort of. What it did was create a forking of the time line starting at the point of The Incident that yielded two distinct universes. Parallel timelines – one where all the previous events of LOST happened and everyone’s still stuck on the Island and another one where the Island was destroyed by the bomb and sank under the waves thus preventing Oceanic 815 from crashing allowing it to touch down safely at LAX. The implications and possibilities in the non-crash timeline are huge. Already we saw a couple: Charlie alive and well and Desmond enjoying a book next to Jack instead of being stuck in a hatch pushing a button every 108 minutes. Those are just little things imagine what else could have changed because the Island isn’t there: what is Ben doing in this timeline? Does he even exist? Is Charles Widmore still searching for the Island? Are Jacob and Black Shirt still alive and if so where are they? And how are the two timelines going to be joined together? I’ll get to that a little further down. For now let’s examine each timeline.
Island Time – Jack n’ Company
So the bomb didn’t work and they’re still stuck on the Island. But they aren’t stuck in 1977 anymore they’re back in the “present” Island time and synced up with everyone on the beach at the statue. Jack and crew wake up at the site of the imploded hatch but it seems a lot of steel debris from the ’77 construction project has followed them. That and the bitchin’ van. Sawyer’s pissed off at Jack, Kate’s in a tree, and Juliet is pinned under a metric f#%k ton of scrap metal. Everyone works to get her out yet she dies and her spirit passes forward into the body of a FBI agent on V. Before she leaves though she tells Miles via his spooktravision that the bomb worked. Contrary to what everything around them says. How’d she know it worked? Does death somehow get you in touch with your alternate dimension self?
While all that Juliet stuff is happening Sayid is dying and the ghost of Jacob is chatting with Hurley telling him that the only thing that will heal Sayid is to take him to the Temple. You may remember the Temple from such things as “the place where that French guy got dragged by the black smoke”, “where they took lil’ Ben to heal him from Sayid’s bullet wound”, or “the place all the Others are hiding out per Ben’s instructions prior to all the wheel turning business. They go to the Temple and meet Asianpants McGoo and his translator John Lennon. We also get to see Cindy the stewardess and the two kids from the tail section that were abducted by the Others way back in season 2. Asianpants breaks Hurley’s ankh and reads a list from Jacob. Man does that guy love lists! I’m betting it didn’t say “Sayid better live or everyone’s screwed” like John Lennon said.
They take Sayid to the spring and notice that the water has turned from clear to brownish. I’d assume that’s totally a bad sign but they drown Sayid in it anyways. Before drowning him John Lennon says there are risks. That’s the same thing Richard said back in ’77 when Kate took lil’ Ben to him for healing. With the brown water I’d imagine those risks are even greater. Low and behold the crap water doesn’t work and Sayid is brought out in a very Jesus Christ like fashion, with his arms spayed out as if on the cross. Hmmm…Jesus Christ…resurrection…who needs to be resurrected….Jacob! Did we just witness Jacob being reborn in Sayid’s body? I’m thinking we did thus the whole “we’re f#%ked if Sayid doesn’t live” cause if he didn’t then Jacob is really gone and they’re stuck with Black Shirt. The Others lose their sh!t when they hear Jacob’s dead and scramble to encircle the Temple in black ash, Black Shirt’s only weakness. Well that and the sonic barrier around Otherville and delicious apple pie.
Speaking of black ash you remember when we last saw it? Around Jacob’s cabin. But somebody had broken the circle thus allowing Black Shirt to get in. While one might ask “why’d he want to get in?” that person would be stupid. He wanted to get in so he could pose as Christian Sheppard and start telling folks to move the Island. The real question you need to ask is who was in cahoots with Black Shirt and broke the circle in the first place! Black Shirt is not without at least one follower on the Island I say!
At the very end Sayid comes alive again just before Jack gets the crap beaten out of him again for like the 5th time that week. Fade to black, LOST!
Island Time – Evil Locke
Hopefully by now it should be blatantly obvious that Evil Locke was the Black Smoke monster, the Black Smoke monster was responsible for almost all of “hallucinations” of people who couldn’t possibly be on the Island, and Black Smoke is in fact Black Shirt. And Black Shirt’s plan to kill Jacob worked now he wants to go “home”. Where is home? Why the Temple of course! That’s why the Others were totally freaking out cause daddy’s coming home and he’s been drinkin’. An interesting thought – Black Smoke dragged the frenchie scientists into the Temple back in the 60s so if I’m right and Black Shirt’s home is the Temple then at some point between the dragging/arm ripping off incident Black Shirt gets evicted cause present day Temple is Others territory.
Not much else happens on the beach. Lapedus and Sun just stand around with WTF looks on their faces and Richard yells at Ben and throws him into the sand at dead Locke’s feet. Evil Locke then tells Richard he looks good without the chains (PS - he was a slave on the Black Rock) and then beats the hell out of him. As he tosses him over his shoulder he reprimands everyone on the beach saying he’s very disappointed in them. Why!? Because they were following Jacob’s foolish ideals and disproving his believe that humans fight and destroy everything?
Non-Crash Time
It seems that even without the crash the Losties are being drawn together. Boone making small talk with Locke. Jack saving Charlie from choking to death. Sawyer helping Kate get away and then Kate hijacking the cab with Claire in it. Hell we even saw Arntz for a little bit talking to a now “most luckiest man in the world” Hurley. And in what I thought was the coolest interaction of the night – Jack talking to Locke and telling him nothing was irreparable. The past 5 seasons of LOST have been basically Jack versus Locke and now we have Jack offering Locke, a man he pretty much can’t stand on Island, a free surgery consult that could lead to him walking again! There’s also the subtle implication that “nothing was irreparable” meaning that perhaps this fractured parallel universe could be fixed. And who’s the man to fix it? Desmond!
Desmond has always been “uniquely different” due to him turning the implode key on the Swan. I think this is going to allow him to either travel between timelines or his Non-crash version of himself will have the knowledge his Crash self has. That’s the reason I think he was on the flight and then vanished so mysteriously. BTW the book he was reading on the plane? The internet tells me its Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Not entirely sure what to make of that yet but LOST writers to like to foreshadow with their book choices.
That’s about it for now. Why don’t we continue the discussion in the comments section?
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Why would Desmond have been on the plane next to Jack if they didn't originally crash onto the island? Didn't he end up on the island years earlier?
ReplyDeleteIf the Island was underwater since 1977 then Desmond would have no place to beach his sailboat in the 2000s now would he? Nor would the Island magnetic forces messed up his compass causing him to go off track towards the island in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThus he probably completed his race around the world without incident and was able to catch the flight.
Dig your Desmond theory.
ReplyDeleteI like to think that Desmond WON that race around the world, and is now best buds with Charles Widmore. Who would still be obsessed with the island, since he was there in the 50's
LOST went kind of cheeseball a couple of times which I wasn't too happy with.
ReplyDeleteExample 1: I have something, very, VERY important to tell you - dead. Oh come on. Also, we assumed she was dead at the end of last season, so bringing her back just long enough to die before saying something important is kind of lame.
Example 2: Asianpants McGoo trimming his bonzai trees. Seriously? Unless he is training the next karate kid, that was not necessary.
OK OK so some questions:
Why would a bomb sink an island? I can see blowing it up so it is below sea level, but the island sunk as-is. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
John was the only one who wanted to stay on the island - this parallel universe is obviously showing that none of these folks would have been happy with their lives had the plane landed. Are they ever going to learn about this or do you think they will continue wishing they could reset time so they never landed on the island?
RE: Island sink - all I can think is that the loss of the electromagnetic energy around the Island affected the tides causing an increase in overall ocean surface level?
ReplyDeleteRE: Non-crash Timeline - I think everyone is going to start having weird feelings that something just isn't right that will continue to culminate as more and more of them cross paths. Then Desmond will save them all!