For those of you that can't wait until Tuesday, click here.

http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... z0eFC8QpF7

Edit: the video was taken down but it was pretty crappy anyway. There's supposedly a 2nd one there now but it's probably crappy too. Better to wait.

Less than 12 hours bitches!

i would like to say thanks to my friends for putting up with my every few minutes "what the fuck is happening" exclamations.

so glad lost is back. perfect anecdote escapism for a super long day.

so the scene where you see the island underwater was pretty LOL but for the most part i loved all 2 hours.

i'm not sure what to think about the alternate timeline, especially in the context of the juliet via miles, "it worked."

there was the bizarro Hurley, and the fact that Jack saved Charlie, with him proclaiming he was supposed to die.

but then there were also the similarities:
Christian still disappears, Locke and Boone strike up a (albeit short) kinship, U.S. Marshall guy still gets clocked on the head, and jack potentially helping Locke walk again?

overall it was a pretty WTF episode for me.

i forgot to mention another "similarity" in the off-island timeline (maybe because it's the biggest stretch):
Arzt giving Sayid the "terrorist-eye" as if he were going to get blowed-up.

flashbacks, flashforwards and now flash-sideways! loving it.

I'm guessing we'll be seeing two separate timelines through this season. In the first, the explosion at the swan site is "the incident". the swan is constructed, 815 crashes, etc. In the second, the explosion completely annihilates the island and sends it to the bottom of the ocean. Flight 815 flies right over and lands at LAX as planned. Will these two timelines converge somehow? What does that even mean? As long as hurley is around to explain it all to us, i think we'll be ok.

Where do you suppose everyone else who was on the island in 1977 went after the explosion? Are they all dead at the bottom of the ocean or did they get thrown into 2004 X with Jack and Co. or maybe thrown into a 1977 X?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=e ... OO8gaDVxbk



Speaking of 1977..

just read the doc jensen column and was reminded of the theory that the bomb was "the incident" and the alternate history/"sideways" flash was what would've happened if the Swan drilling hadn't been interrupted.

plus he mentioned another parallel of jack fixing the cut on his neck on the plane, and jack sewing up the gash on his side in season 1

here's how i see it. they hit the pocket, for sure, in the finale. but as you said not too seriously. But the Losties stopped that whole project. Whether the bomb went off or not, they definitely set back the drilling by a fair amount.

So who's to say that the bomb ever really went off? We definitely don't see it. None of the Losties are burnt to a crisp, not even juliet. And if it did go off, who knows what kind of effect it would have being so close to that pocket of magnetic energy (or whatever).

what we do see, in both scenarios, the island is very much intact. in the underwater cheese scene, the island is still in pretty good shape structurally, the buildings and the earth aren't scorched or disintegrated.

plus if the bomb didn't go off it would further the whole "chernobyl" metaphor they keep using.

plus, plus, if the oceanic flight lands as planned they never get to the island, then get off the island, then time travel back to 1977, and set off jughead, so it would have to be sunk by unimpeded drilling (sorry, i had to go there)

yeah they would've hit the pocket regardless, but what i thought was interesting was the idea that if our heroes wouldn't have been there, the drilling would've been more extensive (more than a minor scratch or "incident") which would've caused the island to sink somehow

all i know is that if jacob has a temple full of followers, a right hand man that refuses to speak english/speak directly to you, and a fucking lazarus pit* with which to bring sayid back from the dead, that pretty much means jacob is actually ra's al ghul, and following that logic, we MUST assume that esau, the mysterious, shadowy man dressed in black is actually the batman!

there's your giant reveal you've been waiting 5 seasons for . . .












*this joke is actually only funny to readers of comics, or at the very least, viewers of Batman, the Animated Series. people only familiar with ra's from batman begins will have NO fucking idea what i'm talking about . . .