I take it back - I think I might dig a season of alternate realities for all these characters. I have a feeling the various positive and negative outcomes could prove gutting on both sides of the equation though.

I'm wondering what the point of the AU is. I don't want them to waste half a season on a What If? universe if it's not going to really have a point. I wonder if the timelines are going to converge somehow in order to not break causality too much.

I'm hoping Juliet is alive and well in the AU, though. Maybe she didn't go to the Island...which is now underwater for some reason. I guess because she blew it up. Er.

Yeah, right before Sayid spoke I said: "huh, I wonder if Jacob is going to enter Sayid's body?"

Yep!!

That dude in glasses was from the Dharma Initiative, right? He looks familiar. He doesn't seem to have aged either. And oooh, Richard and Not!Locke appear to have some unfinished business. And chains.

Oh!! The dude in glasses is Sol Star!! That's why he looked familiar.

Just realized that it's actually Matt Grunberg's voice as the pilot. Nice little bit of continuity there!

I'm hoping Juliet is alive and well in the AU, though.

Her unspoken dying words were "it worked", so I'm thinking yeah.

I read in the paper this morning that the guy who blew himself up with the old dynamite way back when was on the plane, but I know I wouldn't recognize him now.

Artie? Was he the annoying guy chatting at Hurley on the plane?

yup, the overly chatty guy asking hurley inapropriate questions and then looking quizzically at kate near the baggage claim. So what i really don't get tonight is why desmond was on the plane for a bit (just during the ambiguous timeline, i suppose) but shannon wasn't.

like jacob taking over sayid's body. if i were a dude, that would be one of my top choices. I don't like going back into Jack/Kate/Sawyer land.

Artz.

I have no spoilers for this season of "Lost", but the actress who plays Juliet is most definitely not a regular on "Lost" this season since she is on "V." Maybe she'll show up in an episode or two, but I'm not holding my breath.

Maybe Juliet will be like Penny, glimpsed once in a while.

So, there's this supposed alternate reality where not only was the Swan Station never built, and there was no magnetic disturbance to control with button pushing, perhaps Desmond never got marooned on the island --or if he did, there was no months/years of button pushing, and instead he fixed up his sailboat and made it back to mainland/civilization and continued with his life (probably Penny-less, which makes me snigger and cry at the same time).

Well, I wonder if we're going to see any of the tailies.

Or Paolo and Nicki...

Or Paolo and Nicki...

shut yo mouth!

Hmm, there's Michele Rodriguez and Cindy Watros for tailies.

Oh noes, just realized that Rose is still dying of cancer now.