Ooh. I loved that. It took us three hours to watch the two episodes, because we kept pausing to discuss. I thought I'd hate a reset - and I was desperately hoping my 'the bomb caused it all, in a timey-wimey-never-ending-loop-y way' theory was right. But since it wasn't, I like seeing the mythic scale of things nearly as much.
My speculation is that all of the dead characters on the island have always been animated by Jacob's nemesis.
Not even just on the island. I've been saying to The Girl for at least a season that Hurley's dead people are just The First aka Jacob. Could have been Jacob's Nemesis, instead, though I'm not sure it wasn't Jacob. We know he visited a lot of the 815ers at one time or another. At this point, it's hard to say who's good and who's bad. The island: nothing if not ambiguous. "We're the good guys."
Juliet said "It worked," via Miles. Does this cast doubt on the 'other reality' take on things? Are we seeing flash-forwards, for example? (There's also the question of how she knew it worked.)
To make me happy now, everyone needs to find their way back to the same situations as they were in on the island. Final Destination style. Charlie believing he's meant to die and Jack suggesting he can fix Locke both had a cheerful effect there.
(There's also the question of how she knew it worked.)
Current spec is that as she was dying, her consciousness was flashing between realities like Desmond's time-jumps, and her little "We should go for coffee sometime" was coming from AU Juliet.
Haaaaa. I love these Lost bingo cards.
Current spec is that as she was dying, her consciousness was flashing between realities like Desmond's time-jumps, and her little "We should go for coffee sometime" was coming from AU Juliet.
That's what I figured was happening.
Awesome. I wish I'd seen those before last night.
I think I'll make a prediction based on pure speculation.
Somewhere down the line, the line between the two sets of Losties starts braking down. The ones who are dead in the old time line may or may not be affected.
I guess it would be interesting to be new Jack merging minds with old Jack, ditto for Sawyer.
Will the ones who "remember" come back to the island, or just merge with them?
Will the dead losties remember their time on the island and their own deaths?
"These questions—and many others—will be answered in the next episode of Soap."
I think that Sayid may be a vehicle for Jacob, just as dead Locke is for Esau. When they were carrying him out of the water, he was very Christ-like. Plus, you know, Aslan and all that.
I suspect Desmond-on-the-plane was jumping through time, hence the disappearing after Jack saved Charlie. But I am not sure. And I am less sure about everything else.
I'm less sure about everything too. Heck, I'd say down right confused. The dual time lines really screwing with the noggin'. Although I do like the notion of "careful what you wish for, because the other way isn't so grand"
