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Would you look at that? I'm finally posting about Lost! (The post brought to you by the fact that I should be sewing buttonholes at the moment, but -- have you ever tried sewing buttonholes by hand? Fact: IT IS A PAAAAIN IN THE ASS; in this case, a pain in the ass x8.) Also, I just listened to/watched the new podcasts (NEW PODCASTS NEW PODCASTS NEW
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I'm one of those "CHANGE ONE THING, CHANGE EVERYYYYYTHING!!" people, but then again you have to assume that a lot of things are still the same in order for these same people to be born/still alive/on the plane/etc., so I don't really know how much we can expect to be different in these characters' stories vs. how we saw them in the pilot. I feel like it might be more complex than it appears now -- sort of, oh, you think you know who these characters are and what you're watching, but then more changes become apparent later in the season. (So with Sun/Jin -- it could be intended to make us think that they're kind of cold/distant just because that's how their marriage stood in the pilot, but maybe here it's a totally different situation? And then apparently Hurley and Kate have different backstories based on the Comic-Con videos -- so even if their character archetypes of lotto winner, fugitive, whatever are still the same, there are different circumstances guiding them to that point.) I dunno, it's kind of like Star Trek Mirrorverse -- everything is SO BACKWARD CRAZY DIFFERENT and yet all of the characters still exist there and know each other, lol, so how different can it really be?
So, yeah, Star Trek connections -- DAMN TIME TRAVEL/PARADOX! Sad fact: it really does not make any more sense to me now than it did when we were discussing it with the new movie. Sigh. I think the whole point of creating a new timeline is to avoid paradox -- that is, it's non-paradox in the sense that you can't change a pre-existing timeline, whatever happened happened, etc. -- but if you do something drastic enough then a new timeline will be formed. It just gets complicated with the looping that then apparently has to take place for the new timeline to exist -- if this new 2004 timeline was created by the Incident, then do we take it that the timelines are identical up until 1977? So do Jack/Kate/Sawyer/et al exist on the island at that time, even though the plane never crashed? Could it be like a Trek situation where they might meet up with an older version of themselves from a different universe? And, hey, thought -- if we're not time traveling any more, than who the heck are Adam and Eve? (Did Rose & Bernard get stuck in '77, maybe?)
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