im MUCH preferring the los angeles timeline
― V-E-R-Y (history mayne), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 09:59 (sixteen years ago)
WE SHALL SEE
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 12:28 (sixteen years ago)
please, everyone here is speculating there asses off
i think reconciliation of the timelines is the only way
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 12:29 (sixteen years ago)
They aren't going to reconcile the timelines, that would be ridiculous even by Lost standards. Think what they might end up doing is giving everyone a really shit ending in the alternate timeline (like, everyone dies or gets banged up or something) to show that the crash was the best thing to have happened to them. They've already hinted at this by having Man In Black say that Locke was the only one who realised how worthless his home life was.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:52 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
how is this less ridiculous than reconciliation? everyone has a shitty life in the alternate timeline, and... thats all folks?
― max, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 13:10 (sixteen years ago)
yeah that's like ending the show with a resounding sigh
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 13:15 (sixteen years ago)
or a fart from dead locke's corpse
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 13:16 (sixteen years ago)
..emitting a tiny cloud of black ectoplasm
― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 13:38 (sixteen years ago)
ya that would be... not only a bummer, but kinda amazingly smug on the writers' part too
― amuse-douche (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 14:39 (sixteen years ago)
some kind of timeline reconciliation involving desmond and daniel could be great. doing just this alt-timeline without some kind of convergence with 2007 just doesn't seem quite right. major credibility gamble (idk if that really matters anymore tho) either way really.
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 14:49 (sixteen years ago)
it would be a major narrative sin to introduce it and then not connect it to the rest of the series
― max, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 14:50 (sixteen years ago)
i think it would be pretty terrible, especially after there was a whole season about how their post-island lives sucked and they shoulda gone back to the island. not exactly the same thing but it would feel tired.
― amuse-douche (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 14:50 (sixteen years ago)
this dude's take on possibly converging timelines is the most convincing prediction I've encountered thusfar.
― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 14:54 (sixteen years ago)
Well the alternative timeline can't actually hold up for long because there's no Jack or Juliet to go back in time and blow up the atomic bomb that stops the plane from crashing and creates the alternate timeline. They'll have to address that in some way, the alternative reality could actually collapse if there isn't some Faraday/Alpert/Jacob/Desmond/Wizard of Oz figure to right it.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:05 (sixteen years ago)
I'm not sure it'll actually converge with the existing timeline we're seeing on the Island though.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:06 (sixteen years ago)
you already said that
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:09 (sixteen years ago)
say it again
i bet you six million dollars it will converge in some way
― max, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:09 (sixteen years ago)
one of the obstacles is the 3 year gap between the alt line and the island as we're now seeing it. they could go a weird route where everyone from 815 ends up dead anyway by 2007. this would be simpler than trying to merge the lines but maybe less satisfying.
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:09 (sixteen years ago)
giving them the benefit of the doubt like i did Ronald D Moore (yeah and look how that worked out ha ha).
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:11 (sixteen years ago)
There's been enough unsubtle hinting from Cuse and Lindelof that there be a merge of some kind - they said this off the bat so to assuage viewer fears that the sideways timeline wouldn't go anywhere or that the existing continuity would be overwritten or erased.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:12 (sixteen years ago)
honestly they can do what they want with the timelines just don't give us another episode as crappy as last week's
watched Tabula Rasa again last night and Kate is actually great in it
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:14 (sixteen years ago)
season 1 Kate was so awesome. I think her character started to suck around the time of the episode w/ the horse. always the goddamn horse.
― Roz, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:17 (sixteen years ago)
is that the toy plane episode?
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:18 (sixteen years ago)
You won't be saying that when the horse magically stops the bomb from ever blowing up.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:19 (sixteen years ago)
or when the horse singlehoofedly reconciles the timelines
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:19 (sixteen years ago)
not the toy plane one. its episode 3 where she's living on that farm in the outback.
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:20 (sixteen years ago)
The horse will save everyone by pushing the frozen donkey wheel.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:21 (sixteen years ago)
jacob will ride across the sky on the horse imo
― amuse-douche (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:22 (sixteen years ago)
was weird seeing the trailer for the The Forgotten last week which stars Bernard and Alex Linus/Rousseau
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:28 (sixteen years ago)
at the time, i thought the toy plane one was just a crappy episode but i still liked kate, but the horse episode had all the stuff with sawyer and jack, and kate crying for no reason, which was when i thought yeah fuck off.
― Roz, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:40 (sixteen years ago)
If the timelines do converge, Adam and Eve are going to be alternate timeline Jack and Kate, aren't they?
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:41 (sixteen years ago)
They aren't going to reconcile the timelines, that would be ridiculous even by Lost standards.
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:58 (sixteen years ago)
sup frackles
― tehresa, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 15:59 (sixteen years ago)
Sturridge has gone to Chelsea.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:00 (sixteen years ago)
cutty i just want to say i appreciate your zero-tolerance-for-shit-you-disagree-with attitude on this thread, there are things to fuck around about on the internet, and lost is not one of them
― max, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:02 (sixteen years ago)
no, i have zero tolerance for people showing zero tolerance for lost theories
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:02 (sixteen years ago)
i haven't pooped on anyone, just part of the dicussion. i speculated upthread and some dude and matt DC are like NO WAY MAN NEVER EVER WHAT
haha
srsly though the idea that they wouldn't resolve the new timeline w/ the others is batshit from a production cost-benefit analysis point of view imo.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:03 (sixteen years ago)
ya i mean, would everything just end badly followed by a title card saying 'SEE?'
― amuse-douche (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:06 (sixteen years ago)
i want lost to end like the clue movie
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:07 (sixteen years ago)
timelines bleeding into each other must involve smokemonster whizzing along the Sunset Strip or this show is for shit
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:07 (sixteen years ago)
Timelines bleeding into each other sounds more convincing than Faraday sending them all back to magically make everything how it was supposed to be. Might explain Hurley's conversations with dead people.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:09 (sixteen years ago)
I still want them to wrap up with a "th-th-th-that's all, folks!"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/ThatsAllFolks.jpg
― blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:13 (sixteen years ago)
i just want to see a sweaty faraday show up out of nowhere
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:14 (sixteen years ago)
unstuck in time
really not missing faraday's voice
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:22 (sixteen years ago)
Personally, I'd like to see C&L introduce new characters, pose more wtf questions & generally tighten the screws of obfuscation all the way up to the final episode, in which a Wizard of Oz/Architect of the Matrix figure will appear & call everyone to some mystical, hidden conference room for an hour-long Q&A session where all the secrets of the show will be dealt with in a series of raised hands, bullet points, and possibly even an PowerPoint presentation.
― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:58 (sixteen years ago)
i want it to end with a slowmo montage set to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8JGk6Y6N3Y
― amuse-douche (s1ocki), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 17:06 (sixteen years ago)
i long for the naive days when we thought the drum and bass room actually meant something
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 17:10 (sixteen years ago)
not so much that but Walt's powers definitely
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 17:11 (sixteen years ago)