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Post by KooL on Feb 25, 2008 14:51:17 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought about that ^^ too. For all we know, Claire's baby could've died so Kate named her baby Aaron as a way to honour his memory. It's very possible that she lied to Sawyer when she said she wasn't pregnant. Keep in mind how pissed off she was when she realized how relieved Sawyer was when she told him there was no baby.
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Post by chrisfan on Feb 25, 2008 15:08:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought about that ^^ too. For all we know, Claire's baby could've died so Kate named her baby Aaron as a way to honour his memory. It's very possible that she lied to Sawyer when she said she wasn't pregnant. Keep in mind how pissed off she was when she realized how relieved Sawyer was when she told him there was no baby. If the parallel universe theories floating around are true, that would mean that Kate never really met Claire, and the two boys having the same name would be coincedence. It would likely also mean she'd never met Sawyer. When you consider the way they led viewers down one track with the first flash forward for last season's finale, I don't think that anything on the show can be taken for face value. There will definitely be things that happen that they know we'll interpret one way, only to discover down the road with more information that it is something entirely different. |
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Post by KooL on Feb 25, 2008 15:19:26 GMT -5
If she never met Sawyer, who is the kid's father? Remember when she was telling Jack how he shouldn't feel uncomfortable about seeing the kid? An obvious reason as to why he'd feel that way would be if it were Sawyer's.
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Post by chrisfan on Feb 25, 2008 15:27:06 GMT -5
I agree that is definitely where the writers were leading us. I'm just overly cynical to automatically follow where the writers lead us all the time. Hells bells, the kid's father could be Jack's father somehow some way. It is Lost after all -- does conception have to be limited to those who are living? :-)
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Post by KooL on Feb 25, 2008 15:37:56 GMT -5
Yeah, that's true. It was a little too obvious so the writers could be leading us on... again. For all we know, it could be Locke's baby. Or Jacob's perhaps?  |
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Post by Matheus on Feb 25, 2008 17:21:51 GMT -5
from ew.com
DOC JENSEN: Another popular theory making the rounds is that we're dealing with alternate realities. For example, there are people who think the flash-forwards are merely possible future scenarios, not written in stone.
CARLTON CUSE: We want people to believe in the stakes of the show. The problem with alternative realities is that you never know when the rug is going to be pulled out from under you. We want the audience to believe that the jeopardy is real. Postulating alternative realities would be an escape valve that would be damaging that as a narrative value.
DAMON LINDELOF: You can get away with it in Heroes, where there is an apocalyptic future you want to avoid. But we're doing the opposite. We want to work toward a future where Jack is absolutely miserable and wants to go back to the Island. Everything we present to the audience has to be factual.
CUSE: We want the audience to believe that is THE future. We don't want people thinking, ''Well, since there are five iterations of this, I'm not going to invest in what's happening to the characters.''
LINDELOF: We're not going to tell you that we're against bending the time-space continuum. We are very for it. Carlton and I are PRO time-space continuum bending! But we're ANTI-paradox. Paradox creates issues. In Heroes, Masi Oka's character travels back from the future to say, ''You must prevent New York from being destroyed.'' But if they prevent New York from being destroyed, Masi Oka can never travel back from the future to warn you, because Future Hiro no longer exists. Right? So when we start having those conversations at Lost, we go, ''This show is already confusing enough as it is.'' To actually have characters traveling through time has to be handled very deftly.
CUSE: For example, the fifth episode of the season [airing next week] deals with time travel and operates in different time periods. It was a tough story to break. But we adhere to our rule: no paradox.
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Post by chrisfan on Feb 29, 2008 9:49:21 GMT -5
So here's the big question -- are all of the people on the island time travelling, and Desmond is the only one who is aware of it, or is he the only one of them who is time travelling?
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Post by Ayinger on Feb 29, 2008 10:24:12 GMT -5
I'll just say that last night's episode was about the most highly revealing one yet! What emotion too in the scene where he finally reconnects with Penny.
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Post by chrisfan on Feb 29, 2008 10:38:22 GMT -5
I totally agree! That scene made Lost go from some bizzaro tv show to a great love story. The emotion of that scene even carried over when it was revealed that Desmond is the weirdo scientist guy's constant.
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Post by shin on Feb 29, 2008 11:26:04 GMT -5
I don't think anyone is time traveling so much that the island itself is in something of a time rift. Once you're on the island, time continues as normal, but it's the getting to and from the island that the complications arise.
My understanding is that Walt and Michael are going to make appearances later in the season, with Walt being much older. Of course, in real life this is due to the show being 3+ years old and him being a teenager now, but that's how it's going to be worked into the show. It makes you wonder whether or not the writing staff has an actual plan for all this or if they're just riffing off whatever develops with the cast.
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Post by chrisfan on Feb 29, 2008 11:43:23 GMT -5
I think they definitely have a plan. My instinct is that the flashbacks / flashforwards all along have been time travel, and not just a literary device. I think that explains why Desmond was able to see the future -- he'd been there, he just didn't realize it. The big change in him last night was that he is now aware of what has been happening to him all along.
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Post by Ayinger on Feb 29, 2008 15:44:51 GMT -5
Once you're on the island, time continues as normal, , , ,
But does it? Or is it slowed down there? Remember the helicopter left and it was remarked about 20 minutes going by for them but yet time stretched into the next day for the islanders.
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Post by Galactus on Mar 13, 2008 0:31:35 GMT -5
Micheal and/or Walt are Ben's spies on the boat, I think.
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Post by chrisfan on Mar 13, 2008 7:49:39 GMT -5
I think you're right. We're running out of episodes for him to re-appear, and the tease at the end of last week's episode set it up perfectly.
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Post by shin on Mar 14, 2008 17:29:27 GMT -5
'Twas Michael.
I'm guessing the Jin's grave flashforward is a red herring for the "next episode...someone dies!" teaser. It won't be him...this time.
My money's on Claire *crosses fingers*
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