Timeline 1
In the future, John is actually "him", who I will be referring to as "El" unless he is named by the show otherwise. El is on a bloodthirsty hunt for a way off the island. He wants to go home. Isn't that special? He's also the "smoke monster". He kills a bunch of dudes and probably Richard.
Jacob is dead, but he still finds a way to speak to Hugo. He tells Hugo to take a dying Sayid to the temple, where they plan on saving him. Also, he asks Hugo to bring the guitar case holding a giant wooden symbol that contains a letter to the people running the temple - a VIP guest list of sorts. The water pool (an obvious homage to the healing pool of the gospels) is bubbling, which implies that hey, this might not work. Sayid drowns while they're trying to save him, and he dies.
Meanwhile, Sawyer and Miles are burying Juliette, whom they have just discovered in a rubble that used to be the hatch. She died after telling Sawyer that she had something very important to say. While she couldn't finish her thought, Miles (HE HEARS DEAD PEOPLE) informs Sawyer that she wanted to say, "IT WORKED". Whatever that means. Sawyer and Miles get ambushed by a group of the others and they're taken to the temple to meet up with everyone else.
Jack is about to get his beat down on, when suddenly, Sayid wakes up. He's back from the dead to say, "What happened?" That's what we all want to know, Sayid. That's what we're all asking.
A few things worth noting:
1. El tells Richard that it's nice to see him out of "those chains". What does that mean? Was he bound? Does Richard contain the spirit of some other kind of diety, like Jacob or El?
2. John Locke's body is still around, and Sayid was just raised from the dead. Will the real John Locke please stand up?
3. Jacob doesn't at all seem worried that he's dead when talking with Hugo. He makes it sound like he's been planning this all along. Ben also notices that Jacob didn't fight back against him. Christ allegories abound here, folks. Heck, allegories for all sides of the Bible abound.
4. The stewardess from the plane is one of the Others. So are the...kids? I don't know. Someone may have to explain that one to me.
Timeline 2
Jack wakes up from his forever nap to discover that he is floating above where the island used to be. It is, in fact, at the bottom of the ocean. The plane hits a very mild patch of turbulence, then proceeds to fly all the way to LAX. Everyone ever from the show is on board - Hugo is chit chatting with Sawyer, Boone is shootin' the breeze with Locke (who's still paralyzed), and Jin is a jerk again. While in the air, Jack is visited by Desmond, who he recognizes, but not really. He then gets called upon to rescue a dying Charlie, who's choking on a heroine bag in the airplane bathroom. Charlie didn't want to be saved, apparently (he's gonna die, brother), so he doesn't thank Jack for saving him. While he's gone, Desmond isn't sitting next to him anymore. WEIRD.
Doubly weird is the fact that when they do land, Jack's dad isn't there. I mean, his dead dad didn't make it on the plane. Oceanic doesn't know where he is. Kate asks Crazy Marshall to take her to the bathroom. Big mistake. Doesn't he know you never, ever let them go to the bathroom? ANYWAY, Kate makes yet another great escape (with the aid of Sawyer, I might add), in a taxi that an eight-month pregnant Claire is riding in. Jack bumps into Locke in lost baggage claim because long story short, Locke is missing his knives, and Jack is missing HIS FATHER. Jack tells Locke to call him sometime for a consult, and Locke is a little surprised that his last name is Shepherd. HMM.
A few things worth noting:
1. Where the heck is Shannon? Boone mentions that he didn't manage to bring her back with him. Maybe I missed something, but shouldn't she be on the plane too?
2. What's with Dez? He's reading Catch-22, he mysteriously is on the plane, and then just disappears again without any explanation. ALSO, they don't show his left hand. No way to know if he has ties to Penny now or not.
3. Kate's escaping again, Charlie is presumably going to jail for having heroine on board the plane, and Jin and Sun are being processed by airport security. Sawyer is doing whatever Sawyer does - ok, where the hell is everyone going? ISLAND? Hello? Round these people up, maybe? I mean, there is no Island anymore in this timeline, but from experience watching this show, I'd gather that everything is happening for a reason. There must be a reason for all of this.
4. Where are Locke's knives (that money can't buy)? And where's Jack's dad?
Bottom Line America:
John Locke sans Island is a miserable John Locke. Oh, and I said WTF at least a dozen times over the course of two hours.
'Til next week...
I think the chains on Richard are literal chains. I think perhaps he came on the Black Rock? It's said that he's really old... and no one else was on the island aside from Jacob and the other dude, prior to the Black Rock.
ReplyDeleteJust a thought there.
It also seems pretty clear that everyone on the plane seems to know that something is wrong, something different was supposed to happen.