Comments on: the grandfather paradox?

By: scarab

scarab — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:34:01 +0000

Hey everyone. First of all i wanted to thank all of you to give me a nice read every day on my way to work. I just wanted to give a small comment on the alt. Timelines.

I really hope they don’t do it. Somehow it seems a bit too cheap… eventhough as some of you said, that tgey would reset the last 5 seasons with introducing alternative timelines is not necessarily true. The whole show until now could have shown us alt. Timelines… and only at the end of season 6 we figure that out, what makes us rewatch the whole thingy again to find out which timeline is shown inwhich episode or flashback.

This, i think, is something the producers will go for… but please dont let it be different timelines… 26 days to go

By: LilBoyBlue42

LilBoyBlue42 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:44:28 +0000

hey guys, i’m back… sorry about that outburst yesterday, i had the king of jackasses as a client, but i couldn’t take it out on him without losign his business, so i released my stress here…
my bad…
nonetheless, i’m not going to continue the debate here, because i figure i’ll end up typing my whole theory here, and it will be disjointed and such… so i’d rather wait until this weekend and type my whole theory on this matter and post it in a nice, organized manner.
again, sorry for the outburst thingy, i was having a REALLY bad day. still, no excuse.
I’ll talk to you all about the alt timeline theory on my next theory.

By: Yojimbo

Yojimbo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:39:06 +0000

No, there isn’t.

By: ilieintheshadowofthestatue

ilieintheshadowofthestatue — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:37:40 +0000

Everyone, there is no reason to take offense over theories on Lost, is there?

By: ilieintheshadowofthestatue

ilieintheshadowofthestatue — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:36:13 +0000

LilBoyBlue42, ok, perhaps there are no unanswered questions that can be answered by time traveling and new timelines then.

But, damn it, I want to know what that orange in Locke’s mouth was all about.

By: Yojimbo

Yojimbo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:35:47 +0000

@ Roland – Absolutely. Based on their normal pattern, it wouldn’t surprise me if they don’t directly “answer” the end of S5 at all until at least an ep or 2 into S6.

Instead, we’ll get another WTF? moment, followed by a different perspective being introduced.

By: Yojimbo

Yojimbo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:32:53 +0000

@Stepstoenlightenment – I think the skeletons are simply Rose and Bernard.

@BanLinus – I agree. I think the first 6 or so eps will have the losties in a “Desmond-state” of alternate reality. They are able to see “options”

@LilBoyBlue – It was just a statement that most people that don’t think from a writer’s perspective because, well, why would they? But too often I see arguments without basis but plenty of forthrightness, which I have a problem with.

It’s ok for people to disagree. If you do have evidence against what I’m saying, then that’s a shame that you won’t post it and stand up for what you have to say.

But to respond to your point, there is a big difference between the writers “having to explain” these little things and them being indicative of a causality going on.

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:18:22 +0000

If the show does use an alternative timeline the seeds were planted in season five with the differences we see in the Dharma village and such, so we can say we already have had one season of alt time. But, the writers already changed how we view everything and write our theories in less than five minutes of film with the conversation between Jacob and MIB on the beach. There is no reason the show can’t take another radical shift.

By: LilBoyBlue42

LilBoyBlue42 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:49:12 +0000

1) Ban: you are right, i think that even if the writers do the alt timeline, i won’t necessarily be happy, but i’m sure they’ll do it well. as for the MIB and jacob thing, i just realized something and came up with a theory that i’ll post in the next few days that you may find interesting, it’s about Charlotte’s body.

2) ilieinthesahdow: we see the man that Sarah has been seeing. he is a co-corker of hers, jack spies on them at the school that they work at, and in jack’s flashforward Sarah’s new man drives her to the hospital to see Jack.

3) SawyerGirl45: everything you have posted on this thread… i couldn’t agree more.

4) Yojimbo: I simply think that the alt timeline is unnecessary for the writers to explain all of the evidence that you have brought forth. I still have evidence against everything you said, but I don’t want to continue this debate.

By: BanLinus

BanLinus — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:55:55 +0000

I do not personally like the idea of an alternate time line. Even though I”m sure the writers will make it compelling if that’s the way they go.
I also agree that some of the whispers seem to be very personal to those that hear them. But some of them seem as though it is real conversation between characters, some unfamiliar characters.
Interviews with Cuse and Lindeloff have them referring to a new storytelling device that will be used for about 1/3 of the season. I think that device will be an alternate time line.
I think somehow by about half way through the season we will be back to our same old characters.
There may actually be very little action after Jacob is killed. We may not get Jacob and MIB again till the season finale.