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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FoxWander" data-source="post: 5188355" data-attributes="member: 1356">This isn't a specific reply to you VB, you just happened to close with a bit about the alternate timeline and I've had something to post about that since about episode 3 this season. Excellent observations btw. Probably about as good an explanation as we're likely to get.About that alternate timeline- there's nothing "alternate" about it. It's what's going to happen whenever the losties on the island do whatever they do that sinks the island. Somehow that event will actually occur in the past (probably more flashes through time as whatever happens actually starts happening) and far enough back that Jacob never has a chance to interfere with the losties lives resulting in the "alternate" timeline we've been watching in the flash sideways.Essentially it's their way of showing us what happened to all the characters after the island gets destroyed rather than just running the whole season, culminating with destroying the island and ending it there with no follow on- which would outrage a lot of people. Or showing all the "flash sideways" stuff as the second half of the season  which would resolve everything but inevitably feel like it was dragging on too long. By showing the "ending" concurrent with the actions that cause it, they avoid both problems AND get everybody wondering "what the heck is going on" all over again.As for what Desmond is doing in the sideways-verse, his unique ability allows him to know/see the other timeline. He's acting as an agent of fate, or something, and giving everyone that final "course correction" so they end up where they should be. Kate will go to the concert and meet Jack (and somehow be proven innocent so she won't be a fugitive). Charlotte will be there also (according to Miles) so Faraday will probably wind up there as well and get to meet her. Hurley is taking Sayid to somewhere he'll be able to escape with Nadia. And somehow Sawyer will meet up with Juliet- probably because she's Jack's ex so she'll be at the concert and Sawyer will decide to accept Miles' invitation and go there too.And btw, if I'm right about this (and I think I am) the entire show will turn out to have never actually happened in the first place, leaving us with the ultimate "it was all a dream" ending! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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