I'm thinking it almost has to have been earlier. Though Sawyer's parents are still dead, so maybe not.
But if the whole sideways timeline is more of an illusion than an actual divergent might-have-been, which the wish-fulfillment aspect seems to support, then I just don't know.
Okay, I admit it: whether Michael is real or a ghost or a hallucination or the First Evil taking his form, I really REALLY want him to yell "Wallllllllllt!!!!" just once.
When Ilana brought the dynamite back, I was thinking, "Remember Artz? Isn't the dynamite unstable?"
OMGWTF! I can't believe they did that! What the hell was Ilana's purpose?
The bleedthrough between the plane crash-y timeline and the non-crashy timeline is weird. And also rather trite, if it's really all about Twoo Wuv.
OMGWTF! I can't believe they did that! What the hell was Ilana's purpose?
To blow up real good? Yeah, real good!
t /SCTV
OK, that Desmond appearance was completely confuzzling.
I really enjoyed the use of Gene Wilder's scary boat ride song/speech from Willy Wonka in the preview for next week.