Por (StephanieB) on February 03, 2010

Ok, we probably should have seen the alternate parallel universe thing coming since that was what JJ Abrams did with the Star Trek franchise, but clearly our “non-crash” characters have differences in their pasts as well as their futures.  I always felt that their pre-crash lives were being orchestrated somehow to lead them to island, so now not only did the crash not happen, but that mysterious pre-crash influence did not happen either.

Por (StephanieB) on February 03, 2010

My son and I had a good laugh when after shooting un-Locke, Bram was surrounding himself in a circle of ash.  We both screamed “anti-seabear circle”!  If you don’t know that’s from Spongebob the Camping Episode. Funniest Spongebob episode ever.

Did you also notice that Greg Gunberg was back as the voice of the pilot?

Por (StaceySS) on February 03, 2010

This passage from EW.com helped, I think. (http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/02/02/lost-premiere-damon-carlton/)

EW: Is there a relationship between Island reality and sideways reality? Will they run parallel for the remainder of the season? Will they fuse together? Might one fade away?
LINDELOF: This is the critical mystery of the season, which is, “What is the relationship between these two shows?” And we don’t use the phrase “alternate reality,” because to call one of them an “alternate reality” is to infer that one of them isn’t real, or one of them is real and the other is the alternate to being real.

I loved hearing Greg Grunberg.

I watched the “Nightline” spot. Nothing of interest, except they film in a big wood box.

Por (StephanieB) on February 03, 2010

Along the lines of my previous comment about their pasts being different… I read somewhere else that they think the characters are polar opposites of the previous selves (hurley lucky; Sawyer warning him about scam artists; Jack’s show of faith with his line “nothing is irreversible”; Arzst as an idiot, Jack being the nervous flyer, not Rose)  Someone else even noted that they thought their parts were on the opposite side. Interesting…There are probably many more examples.  Of course Kate doesn’t seem to have changed

Por (Chris Taylor) on February 03, 2010

Thanks for posting this.  My wife is a bigger Lostie than I am, but I though she had a good theory last night.  She wonders if fate is they key.  Will life evolve both as it would have as well as on the island, only to both end the same way? Meaning that the is no escaping the end of the story no matter what they do?  I like it.

Por (Courtney Cairns Pastor) on February 03, 2010

Chris, I was wondering the same thing as your wife. They’re definitely playing with fate vs. free will and you wonder if the two different paths ultimately will take them to the same ending.

If you watched the hourlong recap, the ending was really interesting. The narration said (I paraphrase), what’s done is done and if you challenge that, you’ll be met with disappointment. Fate has a way of charting its own course. But consider the power of the human spirit (cut to Juliet setting off the bomb) and the force that lies in one’s own free will.

Por (Courtney Cairns Pastor) on February 03, 2010

Stephanie, thinking about what you wrote about their pre-crash lives. I guess we can assume that when the bomb went off one of the realities (for lack of a better world) triggered a series of events that leads the island to be underwater and also prevents Shannon, Walt and Michael from getting on the plane. We can assume that Desmond completed his race because there was no island for him to crash into. And it somehow tripped up Hurley, who no longer is unlucky.

Por (StephanieB) on February 03, 2010

Do you think the bomb going off is what sunk the island in non-crash reality, or something we haven’t seen yet?