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Post by Cody on Apr 15, 2010 10:39:52 GMT -5
It's been a while since I've posted here... but I'm confused by last nights episode.
1. Why was Desmond on the flight? I don't understand this....
2. Libby should have been on the flight, but instead she was in a mental hospital?
the dual lives thing is starting to create a lot of holes...
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Post by spinaltumor on Apr 15, 2010 11:30:25 GMT -5
I don't see any holes....
Desmond was on the flight for business. He obviously wouldn't be on the Island now that it's underwater, not to mention he would never do a sailing race anyway because he has nothing to prove to Widmore in the sideways and hadn't met Penny until a couple episodes ago.
Libby wasn't on the plane because has lived a different life. We never found out her reason for being in Australia in the Island timeline, but clearly that reason wasn't necessary in the sideways. So...she never went.
Simple pimple.
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Post by Cody on Apr 15, 2010 11:42:54 GMT -5
This is where I'm getting "Lost".....
Why would the island existing or not change the fact that Desmond or Libby didn't live the same life? Why would Desmond not have met Penny? That has nothing to do with the island...
All of the other characters, Jack, Hurley, Locke, Sun, etc, were all on the same timeline. There lives only changed after the plane didn't crash. Why not Libby, Desmond.... pretty much all the non-candidate people. Why would there lives change but not the central characters?
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Post by spinaltumor on Apr 15, 2010 13:36:25 GMT -5
The central characters' lives did change before the crash.
Jack has a son in the sideways, for example. He didn't in the Island timeline. Hurley had bad luck, now he has good luck. Kate killed her father in the Island timeline, while according to the Most Wanted video from Comic-Con, in the sideways she killed someone else and she says she's innocent. Sawyer's a cop not a con artist. Sun and Jin never married. Locke has a good relationship with his father (possibly), and is still with Helen after being paralyzed.
Desmond meeting Penny does have to with Island. Widmore was a central figure on the Island. If the Island went underwater in the 1970's, Widmore's life would be very different from then on. Now in 2004 is the sideways, he's still with Eloise (which he wasn't in the Island timeline), and he's raised Daniel as his son, while Penny was apparently raised separately by her own mother. Penny being raised in a different way would effect where she was when she and Desmond would have met in the Island timeline. So...they didn't meet. Until now in a different way.
When the Island went under water (whenever that was...1977 is the most probable guess) it created a butterfly effect. Everyone's lives are similar, but they're all different too.
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Post by cindy on Apr 15, 2010 23:26:32 GMT -5
What I've thought was that the plane crash was the result of many, many other events, which all had to be changed in order to not produce the plane crash. I do remember hearing something about the producers talking about how self-centered the survivors must have been to think they would only affect themselves by setting off the bomb. I think the two resulting timelines are running simultaneously and the deja-vu like feelings that the characters are experiencing are the result of the universe "course-correcting", meaning that the bomb wasn't supposed to go off, the plane should have crashed, etc. Sooner rather than later the course-correction will happen (how should be interesting) and the simultaneous timelines will go away (or something). It's just a cosmic b!+(h slap waiting to happen.
I realize what I've said may have been said before, but I've been living under a rock lately and that's the idea that's been bouncing around in my head.
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