LOST: The Final Season (Spoilers)

[Asmo]

Interesting choice of words on the Yahoo television site -

Hmmm?

Asmo

 

[fba827]

Interesting choice of words on the Yahoo television site -

I've seen that term ("flash sideways") used a couple times in publicity this season. Based on context at that time, I presumed it was referring to the alt-timeline where the plane didn't crash and watching how the characters evolved in that timeline (i.e. not a flash-back or a flash-forward in time...)

 

[Asmo]

I've seen that term ("flash sideways") used a couple times in publicity this season. Based on context at that time, I presumed it was referring to the alt-timeline where the plane didn't crash and watching how the characters evolved in that timeline (i.e. not a flash-back or a flash-forward in time...)

A couple of times.. I thought it was common knowledge, more or less

Asmo

 

[Mark]

Allow me to flash sideways in this thread.

 

[David Howery]

ya know, I suspect that the Others aren't "protecting the island" from Smokey... I bet they were supposed to keep him entrapped there... I bet the island is a prison, and Jacob was his 'jailer', as it were...

 

[Jack7]

I really enjoyed last night's episode.

Now that I know where Kate is in geographical relationship to Ford/Sawyer, I suspect I'm right about who Jack's wife actually is. Now I just need to know exactly why Kate was running, and from whom, and to where.

I also thought it was a good way to go to make James a detective. He always struck me as having the makings of an excellent undercover vice Dick.

But one thing struck me as odd about where Widmore landed. I think I know why and it's only partially related to the pylons. I think he's looking for something Ben mentioned once, if I remember correctly.

I hope though that somebody goes back to the lighthouse. There's a lot more potentially there than we got to see earlier.

If the island is what I think it may be, then it will be really interesting to see the background on Richard/Ricardo. Because he's been off the island too, like Jacob.

 

[fba827]

this will spoil some of last night's episode so putting it in spoiler block just in case.

I fully admit that i missed some of the middle seasons, so this may already have been answered which is why I'm asking ...
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As far as I knew, Sawyer was always a con man on the bad side of the law. If, given this flash sideways, has him as a cop, does that mean the flashsideways is a reset of more than just _after_ the island and instead could have reset some situations prior to the plane as well (i.e. sawyer becoming a cop)... OR has it not been ruled out that Sawyer may have been a cop prior to going to australia ?

Because if the flashsideways is resetting stuff from before the flight as well, that might explain Jack's wife/child in an entirely different perspective.
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Anyway, just a random thought/question.

 

[RangerWickett]

I believe the prevailing theory is that the flash sidewayses are the result of the island being nuked in 1977. This would have been before Jacob had a chance to visit any of the candidates. Thus Sawyer would not have had a pen to write a vengeful letter to Mr. Sawyer, which could have been just enough to nudge him away from crime.

Now, Kate's still a criminal, so I don't know if anything changed there. And at the end of last season we saw Jacob touch Jack "around 2001" (according to Lostpedia), which would be too late to be directly responsible for him having a kid some time in the mid-90s. However, other island inhabitants might have left the island and settled in L.A. in the alternative timeline, so they could be responsible for some changes as well.

 

[Richards]

In the first episode of this season, in the "flash-sideways" universe, Kate escaped from her captor and was in an airport elevator, still in handcuffs. Sawyer/Ford was on the elevator, saw her in handcuffs, and helped her escape the notice of the airport security personnel, who were also on the same elevator. Kind of odd behavior for a detective - leading me to wonder whether the writers had decided yet that Sawyer/Ford was a detective in this reality.

Johnathan

 

[Banshee16]

Any summary is going to be laced with interpretations (no offense, fba827). The last five episodes are currently on hulu. You might want to watch and draw your own conclusions -

Lost - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free - Hulu

Which looks really cool....but is useless to me, since I live in Canada, and Hulu (and most American sites) block streaming of their TV shows etc. to Canada

Banshee