1. & 2. LA X, Parts 1 and 2
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Lost:
Season Six:
1. & 2. LA X, Parts 1 and 2
Aired February 2, 2010
Two hour season premiere
Writers: Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
Director: Jack Bender
Sam Anderson: Bernard Nadler
L. Scott Caldwell: Rose Nadler
Elizabeth Mitchell: Juliet Burke
Dominic Monaghan: Charlie Pace
Ian Somerhalder: Boone Carlyle
Kimberley Joseph: Cindy Chandler
Fredric Lehne: Edward Mars
Mark Pellegrino: Jacob
Daniel Roebuck: Leslie Arzt
Sean Whalen: Neil "Frogurt"
Hiroyuki Sanada: Dogen
John Hawkes: Lennon
Brad William Henke: Bram
Mark Ahsing: Customs officer
David Coennen: Agent Smalley
Kesha Diodato: Agent Anne
Mickey Graue: Zach
Greg Grunberg: Seth Norris
Kiersten Havelock: Emma
Kelly Kraynek: Woman in bathroom
Shawn Lathrop: Flight attendant
David H. Lawrence XVII: Cab driver
Percival Scott III: Security officer
Troy Vincent: Oceanic rep
The bomb's gone off and Jack awakes to find himself aboard Flight 815 flying from Sydney to L.A. circa 2004. The plane shakes but doesn't crash and lands in L.A. A new timeline is set and the crash averted.
Or is it?
Kate awakes on the island, circa 2007. There she finds everyone... including Jack.
Parallel timelines play out as those who once crashed now live out the lives they could have had, lives that weren't exactly perfect before that fateful crash. And on the island, three years after the original crash, the balance of power has shifted as a new evil reveals itself in the wake of Jacob's death.
Notes:
-As stated above, the detonation of the hydrogen bomb has apparently caused the multiple timelines result: the original continues with the Lostaways now thrust forward to the island in 2007 to join Sun, Ben, Lapidus, and the Ajira flight survivors.
Playing out parallel to that is the altered timeline, where the detonation of the H-bomb sank the island into the ocean, preventing Flight 815 from crashing and letting the non-Lostaways continue their not exactly trouble-free lives. The DHARMA shark lives on, too.
-Locke is still dead
-Jacob is dead, but manages one more dead person talk to Hurley before he goes
-Juliet dies
-Sayid dies but gets better
-Bram and a few of his crew are killed by the Monster
-Juliet's final message to Sawyer: "It worked." Possibly a reference to the fact that the bomb created a new, non-crashing timeline.
-The Temple itself is shown for the first time. It was previously mentioned in Meet Kevin Johnson and its outer walls were seen in Whatever Happened, Happened and Dead is Dead.
-The Temple has a spring in it that seems to have healing properties. However, the water is usually clear and the Others seem concerned when Dogen's wound is not immediately healed by it. This is presumably the place Richard took young Ben after Sayid had shot him in Whatever Happened, Happened.
-Cindy, along with Zach and Emma, are now members of the Others
-The Monster seems to be a larger, aggressive form of Jacob's nemesis, the man in black seen at the beginning of The Incident and now taking the form of John Locke
-The Monster can be stopped by circles of ash, as we see Bram attempt to use to protect himself as well as the Others at the Temple when they learn of Jacob's death. A similar circle was seen around Jacob's cabin in The Man Behind the Curtain
-Hurley is able to see Jacob after the latter has died, though Jacob claims only Hurley can see him. This may be related to the fact Hurley previously had visions of Charlie, Eko, and Ana Lucia.
-The guitar case Jacob gave Hurley in The Incident had a wooden ankh inside. Inside of that was a piece of paper, presumably with the names of Jack, Kate, Hurley, Jin, and Sayid, possibly another of Jacob's lists.
-Richard is not happy to see Jacob's enemy in Locke's form. "Locke" comments that it's good to see Richard not in chains, possibly alluding to a previous life as a slave on the Black Rock.
-Ilana, Bram, and their group were apparently summoned to protect Jacob.
-"Locke" wants to leave the island and "go home".
-Characters still alive thanks to the new timeline: Well, obviously all who died on the island but the ones we see are Locke, Boone, Charlie, Arzt, Neil "Frogurt", and the pilot, who was heard on the intercom.
Unanswered Questions:
How did Jack cut himself on the plane? How did Desmond end up on Flight 815 and to where did he disappear? What does Juliet mean by "it worked"? Why does Sayid need to survive? What did the paper say? How did Sayid come back to life? Where is the man in black's home? Why is he disappointed in the people at the statue? When did Richard have chains?
By Luigi Novi (Luigi_novi) on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 10:28 pm:When watching Part 1, when I saw the Asian guy in charge, I was certain I had seen him somewhere, but couldn't remember where. Just now, while watching an unrelated program, it flashed into my mind: He played Tom Cruise's sword-fighting teacher/rival in The Last Samurai.
I could be wrong, especially where Lost is concerned, but what I gather from this episode is that Lost's version of changing history by traveling back in time is the Alternate Timeline idea, which is the same one adopted by the stories in Marvel Comics. Namely, that you can't change history for your timeline, but that in doing so, you end up creating an alternate one. What they were showing us in this episode was both the original one and the alternte one.
By Kevin (Kevin) on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 2:30 am:There's a good interview at:
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/02/02/lo...damon-carlton/
There are no major spoilers (provided you've seen the two-part premiere!)
Basically, we've done the flash-back, the flash-forward, so now we're getting the flash-sideways.
What does Juliet mean by "it worked"?
The bomb resetting the timeline, surely. The interview hints that the two timelines may somehow connect.
By Josh M on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 5:38 pm:
quote:Kevin: What does Juliet mean by "it worked"?
The bomb resetting the timeline, surely. The interview hints that the two timelines may somehow connect.
Yeah, I think you're right to the extent that they're not going to make it blatant on the show. One of the summaries I read noted there were plane sound effects when Miles listened in to Juliet as well, giving another hint.
quote:Kevin: The interview hints that the two timelines may somehow connect.
My guess on that is that if they are somehow connected, Desmond will be a big part. Something tells me they wouldn't make a deal about Desmond disappearing from the plane if he simply moved from his seat. Unless it's all a red herring.
By ScottN on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 8:01 pm:What was Desmond doing on the plane?
Spoiler: highlight as usual:
Well, he obviously didn't get stranded on the island because it was underwater because of the nuke. My guess is that TPTB decided he would have been in Oz and taken 815 back. However, Jack should have recognized him -- they met in the stadium prior to Desmond's boat race.
End Spoiler.
Love the Arzt bit with Hurley.
By Kevin (Kevin) on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 10:45 pm:My guess on that is that if they are somehow connected, Desmond will be a big part.
Agree but I have to add Charlie in there. He said something like he was supposed to die then and Jack interfered.
Vague comment about the spoiler: I thought about that too, but presumably the new timeline split off in the 1973 (72? can't remember now), so they didn't necessarily meet in this timeline. On the other hand, there was a small degree of recognition.
By ScottN on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 11:19 pm:Kevin: 1977.
By Kevin (Kevin) on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - 2:41 am:Well I had the decade right. :-)
By Andrew Gilbertson (Zarm_rkeeg) on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - 11:14 am:Apparently there's something about the lack of the island that caused Shannon to decide not to come back? :-)
By Josh M on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - 7:10 pm:Ripples and squashed butterflies flapping their wings...