My brain still hurts, almost 12 hours after watching.
Quick bullets before I get to my theory on the alternate timeline stuff:
- Arzt! Frogurt! Cindy!!
- Clever sound effects when Kate woke up in the tree.
- That scene with Smokey’s wrath was pretty damn awesome and intense.
- LOVE vengeful Sawyer
- “I don’t understand.” Yes, that is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. Poor Locke.
- We actually got answers. The Man in Black is Smokey! Richard was a slave on the Black Rock! (MIB said that the last time he saw him, he was in chains, and the Black Rock was a slave ship.) We saw the frickin’ temple! We know how Young Ben was healed! (Interestingly, Young Ben was shot by Sayid, who was healed after being shot by Ben’s dad, who was ultimately killed by Ben.)
- Is Sayid now ‘possessed’ by Jacob or was he just healed like Young Ben?
- If MIB is Smokey, and Ben could presumably summon Smokey, could that mean that all his life, was Ben talking to MIB thinking he was Jacob? Was it all a setup to bring him to the point where he was ready to kill Jacob? Lost’s ultimate long con?
- All the stuff with Sawyer and Juliet was fantastic. I’m gonna miss Elizabeth Mitchell, but as I noted before vengeful Sawyer is potentially awesome, and it gives him an interesting arc this season.
So, onto my thoughts about the alternate/dual timeline…
I suppose the simplest explanation is that both exist to serve as a “what if?” for the cliffhanger of last season. I don’t really think it could be that simple though. It seems to me that the Island action is where they are supposed to end up, which makes me think a few things about the other time line.
I’m going to call the timeline where the plane lands “LA X” because that was the name of the episode and it will create less confusion.
So, could LA X be a way for certain characters to find closure – maybe with people that have died? Jack can officially make peace with Locke and Christian. Kate, teamed with Claire can come to peace with her. Sawyer can say goodbye to Juliet; maybe visit Clementine and right any wrongs. Sayid can be with Nadia again; Hurley could encounter Libby, Charlie, Michael. Maybe Sun & Jin need to come to peace with each other again; Locke – his father, Helen, maybe Boone.
Perhaps part or their consciousnesses split off into these two timelines and the reason that it only happened to these people is that they were the people that were touched by Jacob in last year’s finale. Maybe as this season progresses, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, Jin, Sun, Jack, Sayid and Hurley will come to realize that something is wrong.
As usual, this theory makes perfect sense in my head, yet I can’t really put it into words correctly.
Some more notes about the dual timelines:
- In LA X, after Jack saves his life, Charlie notes “I was supposed to die.” A clue that this timeline was not supposed to happen?
- What is Desmond’s role in all of this? Faraday made a big deal about how special he is and Eloise told him that the Island was not done with him yet. I gotta wonder what the status of his relationship with Penny is in LA X. And it worries me.
- The Locke in LA X is not the same Locke that boarded the plane in Australia in the original timeline. Further evidence (to me) that these characters are not the same as those from the original timeline and that they will eventually realize the truth.
- My guess is that, each week we will see the story from a different character’s perspective (like this week was mostly Jack) as they slowly realize something is wrong. A more interesting scenario than that though would be if it was only Jack that could reconcile both timelines, turning him back into the hero and leader he was in the first season.
- “It worked” – Juliet. Did she see LA X when she flashed through time? Did part of her consciousness move too, but she was more aware of it because she was near death?
- I wonder if the whispers on the Island are the echoes of alternate/dual timelines of Island inhabitants, like LA X.
I’m gonna post this now, think some more and maybe post some more coherent thoughts later. We’ll see.
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