Lost: LA X, Part One
What’s with the episode title? Obviously it’s a play with the Los Angeles Airport abbreviation. But there is a space between the ‘A’ and ‘X’.
‘LA’ for the spanish feminine singular article ‘the’?
‘X’ for roman numeral ‘ten’?
The Ten? Who are the Ten? Am I even right?!
That white screen was a second to long if you ask me. Teasing us already!
Spoilers below:
First of all, the opening refresher brought something to my attention. Jacob said to Faux-Locke, “They’re coming.” I wonder if he meant the ragtag team of followers (lead by Ilana) or if he means the original Losties coming for vengeance.
So Jack is back on the plane. I couldn’t tell if he was aware of his “old timeline” or not. When he touches the blood on his neck, I figured, no. But he seems to be getting deja-vu-ish glimpses.
Didn’t Jack say, “it’s normal,” to Rose back in the first episode? Not the other way around? She was reading Weekly Woodsmen. Hahahaha.
Hmm… looking like a splice in reality. Two alternate realities branching because of the same nuclear explosion (yet beginning from Desmond’s electromagnetic explosion)?
Hey! That’s the guy who fucked up with the dynamite way back when.
Hugo? Lucky? I guess if the island isn’t above sea-level anymore, then those numbers aren’t getting broadcasted to Hurley anymore, and so he really isn’t paranoid/unlucky anymore.
Jacob has his own loophole now! With the Losties “success,” he’s actually back to being “alive”. Whatever “success” or “alive” might mean! Wrong! He’s dead!
Oh no! Sun & Jin suck again! And fuck, Locke can’t walk! Wait, can he? I think he was lying. Is there something from the past that would have never paralyzed him? Yup, he’s paralyzed!
Wow the Losties are working together like never before on this island. It’s like they’ve been friends for years. Hell, P-Jack and P-Sayid even work well together upon “first meeting” (P-Jack means Plane Jack). Charlie lives!
That nuclear bomb explosion sure does wonders for teeth whitening, doesn’t it?
Did anybody see the rocking chair in the foot statue room?
Hurray for answers! Faux-Locke, aka Black Shirt, is indeed Smokey. He found a quick loophole for that ring of ash rule too, didn’t he?
At first I thought, hey, Charlie died in the bathroom. I guess that’s a bit of the old course correction at play. But then he was saved. And then Charlie said, “I was supposed to die.” There’s that phrase again: “supposed to”. Wow, Charlie had such a better ending year’s ago.
And so… the epic black vs. white theme continues. We’ve seen dichotomies all over the place and now it has expanded to the very plot line itself. One branch has the Losties back on their Oceanic flight, and the other branch has them on the island. But I’m not quite sure which branch is supposed to be the bad one? Are either of them really bad? Are both bad?
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PLOT HOLE: without the numbers being broadcast, how did Hurley win the lottery?
I had thought all the island Losties were gonna die off until only the Plane Losties remained, but then Sayid came back to life. It seems Juliet maybe connected with her alternate-timeline-self for a second there. Hence the “it worked.”
But man. Sawyer was so fucking annoying.
John said:I had thought all the island Losties were gonna die off until only the Plane Losties remained, but then Sayid came back to life. It seems Juliet maybe connected with her alternate-timeline-self for a second there. Hence the “it worked.”
Right right, that’s what I was thinking.
Hurley-2 won the lottery because Hurley-2 has been lucky since birth, lucky enough to be born after a certain explosion in 1977 changed everything. None of that reticent, sweet shyness… he’s utterly arrogant about how well things are going for him. That doesn’t indicate someone who spent his life worrying over accidents and tilting through mental hospitals and scrambling about the globe to figure out the secret of the cursed Numbers.
I have a feeling that Sayid isn’t exactly Sayid, as we’ve already established that dead is dead. Whether that means his consciousness from Timeline B has been sucked into the Temple of Here & Now, I guess we’ll see.
I’ll be writing up my thoughts in a little while, but here’s two things I like:
1) The temple has fucking Ra’s a Ghul LAZARUS PITS.
2) Faraday was still sorta right on “what happens always happened”: the only way for Oceanic 815 to land without a paradox is for the timelines to split. The people who set off the bomb need to have existed and set off the bomb.