Have we met somewhere before?
It always takes time to form Lost thoughts that aren't just strings of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1) Juliet knows the plan worked because she saw Alt-Sawyer; I think she's drifting back and forth in time the same way Desmond was. She's going to see Sawyer in the new timeline and that's when the coffee conversation is going to happen.
2) I was so sure alt-Locke was going to get up and walk off that plane (which means he almost certainly lied to Boone.) But if he can't walk now, the implication that Jack can fix him is fascinating; how unstoppable would they be if Jack and Locke go to the Island as firm allies instead of at odds?
3) A very subtle change to the alt-timeline, in addition to Hurley being lucky and Shannon not making the trip while Desmond(!) does: that was not S1 Sawyer. S1 Sawyer would have taken Hurley for all he was worth, not given him friendly advice. Either he felt the same subconcious recognition as Jack, or his character growth somehow ricocheted across the timeline.
4) I laughed so loud when Oceanic lost Jack's dad. Interesting that the Island possibly kept Christian; he's always been the apparent speaker for the Island and/or Jacob. And that's assuming he hasn't been the smoke monster the whole time. Losing the body is what threw Jack and Locke together; if Christian was kept off that plane deliberately, that all but confirms that something wants Jack and Locke on the same side.
5) WTF is going on with Desmond. Why was he on the plane? Is there something to the fact that Jack is the only one who saw him? What happened to Penny?
6) Interesting that of all the people who died on the Island, Charlie was the only one on the alt-plane. No Shannon, no Michael, none of the Tailies. Charlie actually died twice there; the first time Jack found him hanging and revived him (virtually the same thing he did on the plane, saving him from suffocating). Which is more or less how he died the final time, too. Hmmm.
7) Of course Kate got into the cab with Claire.:) And you could see the hand of fate working with her being the one to steal Jack's pen and then meet Sawyer.
8) "I'm sorry you had to see me like that." Man, oh man.
9) Locke's last thought being "I don't understand" just about killed me. I hope alt-Locke gets to the Island just so he can punch not-Locke in the face.
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Thinking about alt-timelines has made me realize the one way DC could bring me all the way back: reveal that Superboy Prime punching the prison walls not only switched dead!Jason with alive-and-surly!Jason, but switched our Maxwell Lord with some other, more evil universe's (probably the Crime Syndicate's Earth, considering his feelings about meta-humans.) All would be forgiven if we found out our Max has been stranded there all this time, trying to survive and wondering why his friends haven't come to rescue him.
Yeah, I thought I'd come to grips with the Max-turns-to-the-Dark-Side thing, but clearly not.
1) Juliet knows the plan worked because she saw Alt-Sawyer; I think she's drifting back and forth in time the same way Desmond was. She's going to see Sawyer in the new timeline and that's when the coffee conversation is going to happen.
2) I was so sure alt-Locke was going to get up and walk off that plane (which means he almost certainly lied to Boone.) But if he can't walk now, the implication that Jack can fix him is fascinating; how unstoppable would they be if Jack and Locke go to the Island as firm allies instead of at odds?
3) A very subtle change to the alt-timeline, in addition to Hurley being lucky and Shannon not making the trip while Desmond(!) does: that was not S1 Sawyer. S1 Sawyer would have taken Hurley for all he was worth, not given him friendly advice. Either he felt the same subconcious recognition as Jack, or his character growth somehow ricocheted across the timeline.
4) I laughed so loud when Oceanic lost Jack's dad. Interesting that the Island possibly kept Christian; he's always been the apparent speaker for the Island and/or Jacob. And that's assuming he hasn't been the smoke monster the whole time. Losing the body is what threw Jack and Locke together; if Christian was kept off that plane deliberately, that all but confirms that something wants Jack and Locke on the same side.
5) WTF is going on with Desmond. Why was he on the plane? Is there something to the fact that Jack is the only one who saw him? What happened to Penny?
6) Interesting that of all the people who died on the Island, Charlie was the only one on the alt-plane. No Shannon, no Michael, none of the Tailies. Charlie actually died twice there; the first time Jack found him hanging and revived him (virtually the same thing he did on the plane, saving him from suffocating). Which is more or less how he died the final time, too. Hmmm.
7) Of course Kate got into the cab with Claire.:) And you could see the hand of fate working with her being the one to steal Jack's pen and then meet Sawyer.
8) "I'm sorry you had to see me like that." Man, oh man.
9) Locke's last thought being "I don't understand" just about killed me. I hope alt-Locke gets to the Island just so he can punch not-Locke in the face.
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Thinking about alt-timelines has made me realize the one way DC could bring me all the way back: reveal that Superboy Prime punching the prison walls not only switched dead!Jason with alive-and-surly!Jason, but switched our Maxwell Lord with some other, more evil universe's (probably the Crime Syndicate's Earth, considering his feelings about meta-humans.) All would be forgiven if we found out our Max has been stranded there all this time, trying to survive and wondering why his friends haven't come to rescue him.
Yeah, I thought I'd come to grips with the Max-turns-to-the-Dark-Side thing, but clearly not.