Lost season 6 with spoilers beware

[Jedi2016]

Original timeline: hurley bought John Locke's box company.

Alternate timeline: he bought the chicken franchise.

Gary

Actually, he bought it in the original timeline, too. Remember when he was being interviewed about it? "Why'd you buy it?" "Uh.. I like chicken." And then the place got hit by a meteor.

The alternate timeline definitely diverged much earlier than Flight 815.. Hurley claiming to be "lucky", Shannon's not on the plane, look closely and you'll see that Jin and Sun aren't even married! And, of course, the Island is at the bottom of the ocean, and presumably everyone on the Island is long dead, including Jacob, the Nemesis, and even long-lived Richard.

I did hear a rumor that the two timelines possibly converging later in the season.. should be interesting to see where they go with this. Otherwise I'm about ten shades of confused. Which is typical with this show, really.. I stopped trying to predict it about three years ago.

 

[Goosebot 5000]

Didn't Jack operate successfully on his wife, but then unsuccessfully on another woman?

he operated successfully on the lady that would become his wife, but unsuccessfully on the father of a woman he kissed.


and as far as the numbers go i think they have changed. the hanso foundation was working on a way to change the valenzeti equation, and i think that with the factors that the dharma initiative had already thrown in, plus the factors that the losties have thrown in, that it worked.

i also think that a lot of solid crazy info will come from Miles and Hurley. Since they both have the ability to talk with the dead. and now, a LOT of people are dead.

 

[DARTH SABER]

Man, Abram's and Co. really love using the "many worlds interpretation" (alternate timlines)-
so far it's been used as a major plot device in star trek, fringe, and now Lost.

DS

 

[CTF]

J.J. = Just Joking

Like, I'm just joking... it is totally an alternate timeline, so no harm done.

 

[lonepigeon]

Actually, he bought it in the original timeline, too. Remember when he was being interviewed about it? "Why'd you buy it?" "Uh.. I like chicken." And then the place got hit by a meteor.

Hurley originally only bought a single location (which was destroyed by a meteor).
In the new alternate timeline he owns the entire franchise.

The alternate timeline definitely diverged much earlier than Flight 815..

The timeline diverged at 1977 when the bomb went off. That's why there are changes before flight 815.

 

[Risu]

I seriously doubt Jin could treat his boss' daughter like that if they weren't married. If she wasn't wearing a ring or something it was either a mistake or the character took it off.

 

[Jedi2016]

I seriously doubt Jin could treat his boss' daughter like that if they weren't married. If she wasn't wearing a ring or something it was either a mistake or the character took it off.

Nope.. definitely intentional. Listen carefully to the lady at the customs desk.. she calls Sun "Ms. Paik" instead of "Mrs. Kwon". Paik is her maiden name. That's the first time I've ever heard the name "Paik" spoken aloud in English on the show, that's not the kind of mistake an actor would make that the producers wouldn't catch. That, combined with the fact that neither of them is wearing a wedding ring. Dating, perhaps, but not married.

There's also some carryover from their experiences on the Island, I think. Jack was expecting something to happen on the plane, even if he didn't know what it was. The unexplained wound on his neck, maybe a remnant from the fight at the Swan? Charlie somehow pushed toward death, even going so far as to berate Jack by saying he was "supposed to die", as if he could feel that things had gone off course (because, in that timeline, they're not where they're supposed to be).

I'm still trying to figure out the dual-reality thing, though.. they both succeeded and failed. Which still manages to leave the unanswered question of what happened at the Swan.. was the Incident prevented by the bomb, or caused by it? Or, perhaps, both?

 

[BIKERFETT]

what if now that JJ is the leader of all thing Trek it turns out this is all a trial run on the Holodeck

Biker

 

[Kevin/Collector]

Well, so much is unclear about where Lost is heading, but a few things are clear as to where it is:

1) the 1977 losties are now in 2007 and synchronized with the other losties from 2007 (Jacob saying to Hurley he died an hour ago);

2) the alternate losties are in 2004 - too many coincidences for it to be anything other than an alternate version of the day of the crash;

3) Jacob is really dead - likely in both timelines with the island underwater in the alternate.

As near as I can tell, anything else is up for grabs in the Lost writers' room. :wacko

 

[Clutch]

All this timeline talk is making me not want to see this at all. All the creepiness and mystery of the first season is what got me hooked. Now it sounds like a bloody mess.

 

[MaulWalker]

On Tuesday night, Nightline included a segment about Lost. Part of the segment included a visit to the prop room. After the last episode, the props will be auctioned off and the proceeds given to charity.

 

[Guri]

Didn't Hurley win the lottery because he played the numbers that he heard quoted by a guy in an asylum who had been on the island?

I'm guessing that all the things that didn't happen in the new timeline only happened originally because of influence by someone from the island who died in the explosion in 77.

For instance, wasn't Jacob at Jin and Sun's wedding? If he is killed in 77, he must not have been able to do whatever it was he did to get them married.

 

[Larry Young]

For instance, wasn't Jacob at Jin and Sun's wedding? If he is killed in 77, he must not have been able to do whatever it was he did to get them married.

Jacob didn't do anything to get them married; he just appeared at their wedding to wish them luck. Also, Ben killed him in 2007, not 1977.

 

[Guri]

Jacob didn't do anything to get them married; he just appeared at their wedding to wish them luck. Also, Ben killed him in 2007, not 1977.

If he was on the island when it exploded and went under water Jacob may have died in 77... Someone else above said as much.

And as for getting them together or being at the wedding, you totally missed the point.

He or the dharma initiative may have been doing things to make events unfold as they did and without them getting involved, things changed.

I should have known better than to get into a nit picky thread. :rolleyes

 

[Larry Young]

And as for getting them together or being at the wedding, you totally missed the point.

Sorry!

 

[SmilingOtter]

If Jacob was able to leave the island at will (without benefit of plane, boat, or hot air balloon) then unless he was very close to ground zero, he should have been able to escape in '77.

 

[Guri]

If Jacob was able to leave the island at will (without benefit of plane, boat, or hot air balloon) then unless he was very close to ground zero, he should have been able to escape in '77.

Could he have been using the same method John and Ben used and then that method was destroyed?

:cry I don't want to get into trying to figure it out again... it's impossible! :lol

 

[Larry Young]

If Jacob was able to leave the island at will (without benefit of plane, boat, or hot air balloon) then unless he was very close to ground zero, he should have been able to escape in '77.

I don't think a little thing like the core of an H-bomb is going to impact the day-to-day of a couple of immortal guys playing a good vs. evil game with human beings.

 

[Starkiller0613]

I'm thinking that with the 2 timelines meeting up later in the season, that it will somehow be a way to bring Locke and Jacob back to the island from the alternate timeline into the one they are in. That's just my initial thought. Or that the losties that time traveled will have a chance to course correct the previous timeline somehow.

I think that the blast at the swan site both was the incident and caused the incident. It's like Miles said to hurley earlier last season...you wouldn't remember being in the past because it's part of your future, so I guess what I'm trying to get at is that the time traveling losties were chosen because they were always supposed to do what they did last season and that there are things they still have to do this season. Thats why Jacob chose them. Let me know if I'm even making sense. Ha.

 

[wackychimp]

A few thoughts:

• I'm glad to see that others think of this season's flashes as "flash-sideways". That's how I took it. First flash backs, then flash forwards...
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• I didn't take it that the whole island was sumberged. As the camera is zooming down, you can still see trees above water. So to me the island wasn't completely destroyed.
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• My guess is that the flash-sideways will show that the characters are really better off for having crashed on the island. They will show that their lives turned out much worse. Those who died will still die but under much worse circumstances, etc. Those who lived will go back to meaningless or terrible existences.
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• Loving Locke as the smoke monster. My new name for him is "The Locke Dressed Monster". Use it. I'll pay you I hope that they are able to do some really cool stuff with him this season.

TOTAL SPECULATION: I think it will come down to "The Locke Dressed Monster" getting killed right before getting off the island. Somebody will sacrifice themselves to prevent it thereby bringing balance to the force, or whatver.