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Last season (well the last few seasons, really) I tried to do weekly updates on Lost and fell away after a few weeks.
This season, I’ve learned my lesson; I’m not even trying – well, not yet.
Even so, loved the first two hours of the season as the expected alt-universe Lost kicked off, with most of the cast looking different in the new 2004 than they did in the old 2004.
Some had different haircuts, some were older, greyer, heavier; one’s outlook on life had changed completely; at least one wasn’t even on the plane; another was on the plane who hadn’t been; others may just have been not seen as they were in the tail end of the plane.
It’s funny, but when I originally thought about the reset, I was thinking that everything right up to the point of the crash would be the same – not that everything from the point of the bomb exploding would change.
It made me think of the butterfly effect – never mind that everyone on the island died, which would have a great impact in the lives of anyone who left the island after that point (although I guess most Dharma folk would have been killed by the Others anyway) – what about the people that never went to the island, like Juliet?
Also, with Widmore and Mrs Hawkings on the island when it was destroyed, it looks like Penny and Faraday were never born.
And how did Hurley win the lottery? He can’t have heard his mental-hospital patient friend reciting the numbers, as that man couldn’t have heard them while out on the boat, as the numbers could never have been transmitted.
I do like the idea of Jack trying to repair Locke’s back though – for some reason, that never occurred to me before, and I’m sure it will have a large impact in the old faith/science debate.
There are some interesting possibilities here, though, and the fact that Christian’s body didn’t make the trip to LAX makes me think there’s more to this alternate time line than a simple ‘what if’ scenario. After all, if this doesn’t fold back into the main timeline somehow or other, what’s the point in exploring it?
As for the original timeline back on the island, I’m not really sure how I feel about the introduction of another group of Others. It looks like they’re actually part of the main Others group, as indicated by Richard Alpert’s recognition of the significance of the flare signal, but even so – a temple in the middle of the jungle that’s only a short walk from the hatch that nobody ever found?
Irritating…but I can let it go, I suppose. It would at least explain where the Others were living when they weren’t hanging around the Dharma village.
I’m also more than a little curious about what Jacob and not-Locke (Nocke?) were doing on the island. It seems that Jacob may have been Nocke’s guard for all these years, and has been helping the Others survive through the waters used on Sayid.
Anyway, I wasn’t going to write much on this and as usual, that seems to have gone by the wayside.
Ah, well, on to the next episode!