Lost

Jazar · 2010-02-24T05:39:51.000Z

The base rules for this new time line is a bit confusing (especially in this episode) but I would say due to the butterfly effect any event after the nuclear explosion in 1977 is open to alteration.

Brian_Seiler · 2010-02-24T05:40:04.000Z

jerri blank:

Okay, Jack’s kid. He didn’t have a kid originally, right? I was operating under the assumption that the sideways losties were just picking up where the island losties left off and that they had the same backgrounds as the ones on the island. But the reveal of the teenage kid seems to be throwing that off.

I’m confused. (What else is new?)

The whole “nuclear bomb on The Island” thing seems to have had impacts throughout the timestream. Among other things:

Locke is apparently totally cool with his dad, which means he got crippled some other way.
Hurley is rich because he’s lucky and not because of the numbers.
Jack knocked somebody up.
Jack had his appendix out in the real universe in this reality.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2010-02-24T05:57:24.000Z

Brian Seiler:

The whole “nuclear bomb on The Island” thing seems to have had impacts throughout the timestream. Among other things:

Locke is apparently totally cool with his dad, which means he got crippled some other way.

Hurley is rich because he’s lucky and not because of the numbers.

Jack knocked somebody up.

Jack had his appendix out in the real universe in this reality.

Also Ben is a high school history teacher, having never seemingly lived on the island (and lets not forget the island seems to be at the bottom of the ocean, as well).

Also, Claire’s doctor I’m almost positive was an Other originally, I guess with no island he’s a doctor now. And Rose runs a temp agency owned by Hurley. Etc.

Jazar · 2010-02-24T05:57:33.000Z

I really hate how fair Claire looked. They messed up her hair a bit and threw on a little dirt in her face but she still looked nothing like what you would expect after being crazy and alone in the jungle for 3 years.

Brian_Seiler · 2010-02-24T06:03:27.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

Also, Claire’s doctor I’m almost positive was an Other originally, I guess with no island he’s a doctor now.

Ethan. Despite the notable fact that he has been dead since halfway through the first season, the man refuses to leave the show with a sort of dogged determination. He was a doctor before, though.

Ender · 2010-02-24T06:12:57.000Z

Uhh, claire didn’t look very fair. She looks way less cute than earlier seasons.

DT1 · 2010-02-24T06:24:07.000Z

Ender:

Uhh, claire didn’t look very fair. She looks way less cute than earlier seasons.

Yeah, she had some cleanliness issues. She doesn’t have to worry about a dingo eating her pseudo baby. That thing looked nasty.

Jazar · 2010-02-24T06:27:03.000Z

Ender:

Uhh, claire didn’t look very fair. She looks way less cute than earlier seasons.

Really?

DT1 · 2010-02-24T06:31:37.000Z

Jazar:

Really?

C’mon now, that’s “TV ugly”. You want 'em to scar up that pretty face? :)

Lloyd_Heilbrunn · 2010-02-24T06:32:40.000Z

So who is coming to the island??

Desmond? Walt? Widmore?

Scotch_Lufkin · 2010-02-24T06:40:15.000Z

Lloyd Heilbrunn:

So who is coming to the island??

Desmond? Walt? Widmore?

Man, I’d forgotten that someone else was coming. It’s not a candidate, presumably, right? I hope it’s Walt - he seemed so important early in the show and then nothing. It would be good to have some closure on him.

And isn’t Aaron supposed to be a super evil being/person? Why am I remembering something like that?

Brian_Seiler · 2010-02-24T06:42:16.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

And isn’t Aaron supposed to be a super evil being/person? Why am I remembering something like that?

The fake psychic in Australia implied that it would be really, really, really, really, REALLY bad if anybody other than Claire raised Aaron.

Ender · 2010-02-24T06:49:22.000Z

I stand by my assessment. She really seems to have let herself go or something. Even in sideways world she isn’t very cute (granted she is playing a pregnant woman.)

mystery · 2010-02-24T06:52:59.000Z

Brian Seiler:

The fake psychic in Australia implied that it would be really, really, really, really, REALLY bad if anybody other than Claire raised Aaron.

And, I think, this is coming true. With Kate raising Aaron, Claire has gone to the dark side.

Anyone catch all the “French Woman” comparisons with Claire? She dresses like her, carries a rifle, similar paranoia, sets traps in the jungle…

If I remember correctly, the French woman had no friends, and was definitely not a friend to the smoke monster. Is there some other connection here that I’m not seeing?

Brian_Seiler · 2010-02-24T06:56:13.000Z

mystery:

If I remember correctly, the French woman had no friends, and was definitely not a friend to the smoke monster. Is there some other connection here that I’m not seeing?

Both of them thought that the Hostotherdharmiles stole their baby.

If Emile de Ravin does not shout something at least remotely related to a dingo, her baby, and theft before the end of this season I will feel cheated.

Lloyd_Heilbrunn · 2010-02-24T07:07:38.000Z

mystery:

And, I think, this is coming true. With Kate raising Aaron, Claire has gone to the dark side.

Anyone catch all the “French Woman” comparisons with Claire? She dresses like her, carries a rifle, similar paranoia, sets traps in the jungle…

If I remember correctly, the French woman had no friends, and was definitely not a friend to the smoke monster. Is there some other connection here that I’m not seeing?

Most signficantly, she also had her baby stolen…

Rightbug · 2010-02-24T07:08:32.000Z

Brian Seiler:

If Emile de Ravin does not shout something at least remotely related to a dingo, her baby, and theft before the end of this season I will feel cheated.

That should have named that black dude she axed Dingo.

red_guy · 2010-02-24T07:24:06.000Z

Ender:

I stand by my assessment. She really seems to have let herself go or something. Even in sideways world she isn’t very cute (granted she is playing a pregnant woman.)

Or something, alright: she’s aged five years since the show started. Women in their early 20s look younger than women approaching 30.
/obvious

(Based on a sample of 1, she’s still very cute to the average 40-year-old.)

Mark_Crump · 2010-02-24T08:51:27.000Z

Lloyd Heilbrunn:

So who is coming to the island??

Desmond? Walt? Widmore?

I took Jacob’s actions to mean “Jack needs to find the island”

SlainteMhath · 2010-02-24T09:10:53.000Z

Mark Crump:

I took Jacob’s actions to mean “Jack needs to find the island”

Me too. It seemed like Jacob was leading Hurley and Jack there for the express purpose of Jack seeing what he saw, then coming to his own conclusion to do whatever it is Jacob wants him to do. The rules with Jacob and Unlocke seem to imply they can’t just say “go do this” in most cases, but need to manipulate people into thinking the thing they want done was their own idea.

The mirror thing was cool. I Want to know more about it. Was it really just a window to allow you to see into each candidates world, or is it the method by which Jacob was able to actually travel to that point in time for each candidate (like how he seemingly meets them all in the outside world)?

Also, if Obi-Jacob is able to appear to Hurley, then I’m thinking it’s not Jacob in Sayid’s body as some folks have theorized. It’s obviously not Unlocke either. Is the “infection” simply something that makes the host more susceptible/controllable to the force that is Unlocke? I have a feeling we’ll find out next week when it appears Claire, Locke and Jin travel to the temple for some Other smackdown action.