Aaaand we're back. Last week we saw the return of Jack, Sawyer, Locke (or did we?) and friends. There was a lot to mull over, so you'll have to forgive the lateness of this post.
My fellow writers and I have decided to split this week's 'turbulent' (sorry) double bill between us, but not by episode, but by reality, because this season the writers are not using flashbacks or flashforwards, but flashsideways (flashes sideways?).
The big question on everyone's lips regarding season five's 'explosive' finale was this: did it work? Did the bomb go off when Juliet started wailing on it? If so, did the resulting EMP blast negate the pocket of electromagnetic energy under the building site of what would become the Swan station? Did this prevent Oceanic 815 from ever crashing?
Well, yes. And no.
You see, we now have two alternative timelines. The first bit of new footage we saw in the very first episode was a mirror of the opening of season one. Only the plane doesn't crash: it merely hit a pocket of turbulence, before continuing safely on its way to land at LAX. Wait a minute, that didn't happen. So they managed to save themselves? Season over?
You bet your left testicle they didn't, and here's why. It all hinges on something she-wizard Eloise Hawking said to Desmond way back in season three. She told him that no matter what you try to do, you can't change the past. She is, of course, speaking from experience: she killed her son (as a grown man, but before she even had him).
Although the passengers of 815 seem to have escaped the island, they will not escape their fates. We've already started to see evidence of this. Edward Mars, the U.S. Marshall who had Kate in handcuffs, was originally bonked on the head by some unsecured overhead luggage and received a nasty cut above his left eyebrow. Although he escaped this on the plane itself, when Kate smacks his head into a sink in the airport bathrooms, his recieves a wound – you guessed it – above his left eyebrow. Coincidence? In Lost? Never.
In saving Charlie, too, we see a repeat: this was not the first time Jack has used his mad surgical skillz, utilising naught but a pen.
Character interactions in the airport have thrown up some more evidence to support this theory. John Locke was miraculously healed when he landed on the island. Ironically, one of his fellow passengers was the only man who could have helped him with his debilitating spinal injury – he just didn't need him way back in season one.. Isn't it convenient that now he is 'back' in his wheelchair he meets this same man again. Jack even gives John his business card. The two of them will meet again, and I would place money on it being on the operating table.
One other moment was only fleeting, but as Kate sought to escape Edward, she jumped into a cab with the heavily pregnant Clare. Clare is somewhat incidental, but I believe that Aaron is going to play an important role in this season of Lost, and this moment brought he and Kate together for the first time.
Somewhat interesting are the significant changes we saw. These include Hugo's run of luck (apparently nothing bad ever happens to him now), various changes in the seating plan and Desmond. What the hell was he doing there, brother?
My final bit of evidence is Charlie's gloomy line to Jack: “I was supposed to die”. Yes Charlie, yes you were. But not yet...
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