Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

I wonder if the Sun that landed at LAX really doesn't know English? If so, that's a pretty key difference as well. Also loved how Mr. Federal Marshall gets his briefcase head wound anyway thanks to Kate. And Sawyer warning Hurley about possibly being conned.

oh right, that too -- i felt like they were trying to say Sun doesn't speak English but I guess it's still ambiguous enough

the things that were different on the plane i think are pretty key and important -- i wonder if Charlie having a completely different haircut is meant to be one of the big differences or if they were just feeling lazy about continuity since they knew it didn't have to be a mirror image. also Hurley is lucky instead of unlucky, so at least some of their lives before getting on the plane are different here.

― PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! (some dude), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 9:31 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i thought they were hinting that locke would be able to walk, too, but clearly that didnt happen

oh and obviously shannon not being on the plane

Why was Jack's neck bleeding btw?

aids

Assuming it was Jughead that knocked the Island out of orbit & into the water, does that mean that everyone there in 1977 (Ben, Eloise, Widmore, Alpert, Dharma folk not on the sub) are dead and anyone who came to the Island post-77 (Rousseau, Kelvin, Juliet, most of the modern Others) are alive on the mainland?

Does Sun not speak English, or was she pretending to not speak English in hopes that Jin would get arrested, since she wants to get out of the relationship?

because the latter was my interpretation

Why was Jack's neck bleeding btw?

― JimD, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 9:39 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so they have something to connect the preceding events to when shown later on, a la the rip in Ben's coat

ooh good point n/a

I thought what n/a thought re: Sun and Jin

Does Sun not speak English, or was she pretending to not speak English in hopes that Jin would get arrested, since she wants to get out of the relationship?

wasn't Sun supposed to leave Jin in australia and then decided not to at the last minute and boarded the plane to america with him? I may be misremembering this.

well since it's an ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, who knows?

I'm mainly curious if they're going to keep these 2 parallel threads -- the group on the plane landing in LA, and the group still on the island -- going for most of the season until they merge and make some kind of sense, like the flash forwards in season 4, or if this will just be something they use to disorient people for the first few episodes.

I realized I had read way too many comic books when they went back to Kate on the island and my wife was all "whaaaaaaaaat I am so confused" and I was all "oh awesome, they created a parallel universe!!!!"

yeah I found myself having to explain the concept of parallel universes to my girlfriend

lol women don't understand alternate realities

Luckily my wife is a nerd like me, so we both got it pretty quickly.

they're like "ooooh i have to go shooooopping, i don't have tiiiiiime to learn about string theory"

so uh smoke monster is basically agent smith then?

"I just died ten minutes ago." "oh, bummer dude."

(this woman immediately understood the parallel timelines...)

congratulations on yr new penis

]any idea who the cab driver was that was driving Claire and who Kate held at gunpoint? looks familiar, but it's possible I've just seen him in some other tv show or movie rather than in Lost

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pretty sure he is the puppet-master guy on heroes

you guys caught a ton of stuff I totally missed :O

did they mention why boone's sis wasn't on the plane?

boone was like, "i went to australia to get her out of a bad relationship... but she didnt want to get out" or something

then why was she on it the first time?

because it's a PARALLEL UNIVERSE whoooooooooo

basically there's no point in wondering anything about the alternate timeline at this point because the fact that it's an alternate timeline means they can do whatever b.s. they want.

i.e. couldn't book actress

should've just had Desmond play her in a blonde wig

would have made sense to call boone "brother"

i'm assuming in this timeline charles widmore doesn't exist off-island. and so penny doesn't exist, so desmond never meets her, never goes on his boat race and for whatever reason is now on a flight from sydney to LA.

btw how did kate end up in a tree while everyone else was exactly where they were when the bomb went off?

But Widmore had a family off-island--one of the reasons he was banished. I have to figure Penny was born before 1977. If Des & Penny did meet in the alt-timeline, there'd be no a-hole father making him feel unworthy.

kate was hiding in a tree when the bomb went off

Yeah, I assumed that the split into parallel realities would occur at the moment of turbulence. But that appears not to be the case.

oh this is useful: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Differences_between_flashsideways_timeline_and_original_timeline

Flashsideways timeline: Charlie goes to the restroom apparently to kill himself by choking on a bag of heroin.

Why do they think this was a suicide attempt, instead of him just trying to bring the drugs in by swallowing them?

Because Charlie tells Jack "I was supposed to die."

I think something weird is going on with Desmond; not only did he sort of magically appear on the flight when he was nowhere near it the first time, but he didn't appear to be one of the passengers who disembarked; they gave some screen time to all of the other main characters when they got off the plane and he was nowhere to be seen.

Perhaps instead of just bouncing around in his own personal timeline, he is bouncing between the parallel universes, and not just mentally but physically?

Because Charlie tells Jack "I was supposed to die."

― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 10:51 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I just interpreted this as like a general fate statement, like "I deserve to die"

xpost there's always something weird going on with desmond. he could've been a figment of jack's imagination as well - memories leaking through time or something.

I think that statement was meant to be interpreted a lot of different ways since the viewer has no idea if Jack and Charlie are aware of what's going on or if there's a plan or fate or something that they're supposed to be following on the plane. (xpost)

man it is going to be a bitch for all these lostpedia contributors to start adding "flashsideways" entries to all the character pages.

Basically who kills themselves by trying to choke on a baggie of drugs in an airplane bathroom?

a junkie?

you'd sort of think that anyone with a bag of heroin who was trying to kill themselves would just open the bag of heroin and swallow it, ging out with an OD rather than by choking

Original timeline: In custody for the murder of her stepfather. Flashsideways timeline: In custody for the murder of her stepfather's apprentice.

what? I must have missed this seemingly important detail

huh I don't remember that either