Mirror on the wall...

Ok, so I think that I agree with Walead in that the parallel reality is what is going to happen, if and when the characters do something on the island.

I think that latest episode is really playing with the multi-verse theory... And suspect that if the characters on the island can find resolutions to their issues, their consciousness might be catapulted to the other reality. It's like all those theories that say that time isn't linear, that any possibility that could happen, may one day happen, or is happening all exist in one moment, and that what we focus on becomes our linear experience because our minds need to process things linearly.

So the characters are living one linear experience, BUT SOMEHOW are also tapped into a different universe or linear experience. Parallel Jack was once island jack and this is why he keeps seeing scars that seem unfamiliar. All he needs to do to become Parallel Jack is get over his daddy issues. Once he decides to get over it, he will be catapulted to a reality where his issues are resolved and his life if better. (HA! Talk of the the law of attraction. The lost writers ♥ the secret) Maybe it was Jacobs touch that allows his mind to straddle 2 universes at the same time. Which why the keep showing us mirrors, in the airplane bathroom, in Jack's apt and finally in the lighthouse... Hmm...

Jack has a son!!! I think he needed a son, in order to really get over his daddy issues, to truly understand that although his father inflicted damage on him, he came from a place of good intention. I think Jack doesn't really believe that his father loved him. Just think that when Jack finds out that his wife if cheating on him, his first suspect is his father. I don't think Jack put down his son, the way Christian Shepard did him (You don't have what it takes) but his convo with his son did illustrate something important for him about the father/son relationship. Jack was really into his son's music, and because of it his son hid it, because he didn't want to disappoint. Jack always felt like a disappointment to his father, and Christian's "you don't have what it takes", was less of a put down and more of him saying "don't try that, because I don't want you to get hurt". For the first time Jack got how a father could make his son feel like a disappointment (unintentionally) , but still have the up most love and respect for him. It's really another mirror image...
I think he never expressed anything about the son because island Jack doesn't have a son, only parallel Jack does... I wonder who the BM is! I think they purposely didn't show her, so it won't be as simple as the ex-wife. Things are really different in the parallel world, I mean Locke has a relationship with his Anthony Cooper, since Helen, mentioned inviting him to the wedding. I don't care how forgiving you are, someone throws you out a 20 story window, they don't get a wedding invite. Ain't enough I'm sorry in the world! Locke got paralyzed some other way.

They brought back the Adam and eve skeletons? I forgot about those... What are they about?

I have more to say but...

if guy that never ages seems horribly frightened, you too should be scared... More to come...

Flash Sideways... just a Flash Forward?

What do you guys think about the theory that whenever the Losties do whatever it is they're supposed to do, they're all just sent back to their plane in 2004, and where the "flash sideways" start is where they return to? In other words, they're on the island to do something (which apparently results in the island sinking), and that causes them to go back to 2004, like the last three years or whatever never happened (in "real time" anyway). Jacob brought them there to do what he needed them to do, and when they've done it, he just thanks them and puts them back?

Overall, I didn't love the second episode. The flash-sideways are consistently weak, I think, because we don't really understand their relevance or importance, and we feel like they may not be important at all.

As far "claiming" Sayid, it looks like Jacob and the Man in Black are claiming people for their sides in this epic war between them? Jacob seeks "good" people (i.e., the Others and the people he touches) and the MIB seeks not good people (i.e., as the smoke monster, he scans people to find out if they're good or bad, and if he thinks he can infect them, then he does, like Rousseau's "sick" people). This means, though, that ironically, Jack (the scientist) is good and Locke (the faithful) is bad. Jacob touched Jack, and the smoke monster tried to infect Locke way back when (when he tried to drag him into a hole). Locke, ultimately -- and sadly -- may just be a tool for evil, whether he knows it or not. He wanted so badly to be accepted and to be important, and it looks like he may only be important as a mechanism for the MIB.

Thoughts?

The Alternate 1985

Peoples! What did you guys think of the premiere of Lost? I'm tellin ya -- it all goes back to Back to the Future. We're just not thinking fourth dimensionally about it.

I liked the episode overall, but I'm not sure where they're going with the alt 2004 world. It sort of slowed down the narrative for me, although I liked some of it (was Desmond really there or was he a residual memory?; Jack and Locke's chat -- "nothing is irreversible" was great). The island stuff was a lot of fun. The temple people seem a little random for me, though, but I'm sure they're doing something interesting with them. Best part was Man in Black/Locke. That was some fine acting by Terry -- when he talks about the real Locke, it was really chilling!

As for what Jacob and the MIB are, I REALLY hope they're not going the BSG route (BSG SPOILER ALERT) and make them angels (one good, one bad, fighting over the future of humanity). I think they're clearly supernatural beings, but please let's not make it as simple as good and bad angels or god vs. satan!

What'd you all think?