So close I can taste it...
Lost is back on Tuesday! I'm so excited! (If you're not excited and/or don't care, you should probably just scroll on by now because what follows is blatant crazed fan hijinks. Also there are spoilers for the first ep of the final season, so scroll by if you don't want those.)
So ABC had an online contest where you could take a quiz about Lost and the winners would receive a "message in a bottle" with a few minutes of footage from the season 6 premiere. Of course the winner posted said footage online, and here it is.
Would I be more excited if it weren't Jack? Obviously. Is that going to stop me from analyzing the shit out of this? Hell no!
Let's examine the original version of this scene and see how many differences we can spot (I'm calling them V1 for "version one" from the Pilot and V2 for "version 2" from the new clip):
• When we pan in on Jack in V2, he looks confused, as though he's not sure where he is.
• Cindy gives Jack two extra bottles of vodka in V1; she only gives him one in V2.
• Jack doesn't make his quip about the extra bottles violating FAA regulations in V2.
• In V2, Jack doesn't chug his drink like in V1 - instead he sips it.
• Charlie never runs by in V2; Jack does not get up to go to the bathroom.
• In V1, Jack is reassuring Rose that the turbulence is "natural" because she seems scared. In V2, Rose seems much more serene and reassures Jack instead. Maybe a hint that Jack knows what's supposed to be coming?
• Now the big one: in V1, after Jack tells Rose he'll keep her company, the plane crashes. In V2, the turbulence passes harmlessly and Rose says a probably symbolic line to Jack: "You can let go now."
• The lighting is also warmer in V2, but I doubt that actually matters.
V2 seems to suggest to me that Jack doesn't entirely know that he's apparently experiencing a new version of Oceanic 815, but some instinct tells him something is supposed to happen. I say this because he acts disoriented but doesn't seem to recognize Rose and doesn't call attention to the situation, which I don't think Jack could avoid doing otherwise. But the way he grips the armrest and the relief on his face when the turbulence passes tells me that the information is still in his subconscious somewhere. Which leads me to think that even if the 815ers are living in a rebooted timeline, the knowledge of what happened before may begin to slowly creep into their active memory.
So ABC had an online contest where you could take a quiz about Lost and the winners would receive a "message in a bottle" with a few minutes of footage from the season 6 premiere. Of course the winner posted said footage online, and here it is.
Would I be more excited if it weren't Jack? Obviously. Is that going to stop me from analyzing the shit out of this? Hell no!
Let's examine the original version of this scene and see how many differences we can spot (I'm calling them V1 for "version one" from the Pilot and V2 for "version 2" from the new clip):
• When we pan in on Jack in V2, he looks confused, as though he's not sure where he is.
• Cindy gives Jack two extra bottles of vodka in V1; she only gives him one in V2.
• Jack doesn't make his quip about the extra bottles violating FAA regulations in V2.
• In V2, Jack doesn't chug his drink like in V1 - instead he sips it.
• Charlie never runs by in V2; Jack does not get up to go to the bathroom.
• In V1, Jack is reassuring Rose that the turbulence is "natural" because she seems scared. In V2, Rose seems much more serene and reassures Jack instead. Maybe a hint that Jack knows what's supposed to be coming?
• Now the big one: in V1, after Jack tells Rose he'll keep her company, the plane crashes. In V2, the turbulence passes harmlessly and Rose says a probably symbolic line to Jack: "You can let go now."
• The lighting is also warmer in V2, but I doubt that actually matters.
V2 seems to suggest to me that Jack doesn't entirely know that he's apparently experiencing a new version of Oceanic 815, but some instinct tells him something is supposed to happen. I say this because he acts disoriented but doesn't seem to recognize Rose and doesn't call attention to the situation, which I don't think Jack could avoid doing otherwise. But the way he grips the armrest and the relief on his face when the turbulence passes tells me that the information is still in his subconscious somewhere. Which leads me to think that even if the 815ers are living in a rebooted timeline, the knowledge of what happened before may begin to slowly creep into their active memory.