Orderly
Years ago a friend of mine created a tape that put all the scenes of Memento in chronological order. A bit later I performed the easier task of doing the same for Pulp Fiction.
Pajama Guy reader Lawrence King has just done the hard work of putting together the last two seasons of Lost in order, as the story shuttles back and forth. He has a website that spells out how to watch it that way, if so desired. (It's funny, because I was recently thinking for all the action we've seen, we haven't really moved that far beyond the end of Season Three.)
You can check in on Thursdays for updates. Perhaps when the series is over, he can do it for all seasons.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:26 AM
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The Oceanic Six have moved quite a bit past the end of season three. The weird part is that they will be out of sync with each other.
When Kate meets Sawyer again, in his subjective time he will only have gone a few days without seeing her.
But she went three years without seeing him, during which time she had a serious relationship (for some amount of time) and bonded with her child in a way she had never done before.
Anyway, I felt that the chronological viewing was needed to see the story of the Oceanic Six. Watching it this way makes it clear what has been answered -- and what hasn't. (Ben seems to have at least a handful of people on the mainland who are loyal to him. He and Sayid were fighting a war... with whom? Widmore is the obvious answer, but then why was Sayid trying to find out who the German lady's boss is? Maybe the target was Alvar Hanso, not Widmore?)
They've got a LOT of holes to fill in. There's a gap in the stories of Sayid, of Kate, and of Hurley just before Flight 316. The story of Kate's mission on behalf of Sawyer is untold. We didn't actually see Sun do anything useful as head of Paik Industries. How will the show keep us interested in all this backstory now that we want to find out what happens on the island itself?
Anyway, I plan to update the site every week during this season. Beyond that, who knows....
I can guarantee we will see "the economist" again. And you didn't mention the most obvious gap--what was Ben doing before he got on the flight. The theory is he was trying to kill Penny, but even if it's true, we don't know how it turned out.
The 6 may have moved emotionally past the end of season three, but just how many days past Jack telling Kate "we've got to go back" have they gone? (As a side point, how many days after failing with Jack in the hospital did Locke try to hang himself?)
Some have pointed out the rest of this season will be a mini-repeat of season one, where we watch the action on the island accompanied by flashbacks of how the characters got there.
Also, on the island, we've got two time zones--the "present" and the late 70s, with different Losties in each. They both have missions, and I'm guessing they'll meet up before the season is over.
We know the island isn't done with Desmond, but I also bet it isn't done with Walt. I wonder if the show will find time to reunite Walt with Michael one more time.
I still suggest when the whole show is over for a huge listing of the entire show in chronological order. Right now, I guess the earliest they've shown was the episode where Locke goes to Alpert's camp and tells him when he'll be born. But it's certainly possible they'll go back further.
Ah, yes, you're right -- the real end of season three was Jack saying that to Kate. Which we didn't get past at all until the final episode of season four, and are now just a few days past.
There is a complete chronology at this Timeline page of Lostpedia (divided into several sub-pages). I certainly won't be able to improve on it. So my goal was a viewing order, which is more fun than just reading the timeline.
Even better would be for someone to invent a programmable DVD player that would play my viewing order automatically!
The question with regard to viewing order is whether to watch things literally chronologically, or chronologically by the characters. I chose the latter, so the 1954 sequence occurs with all the other time-flashes, since that's Locke's and Desmond's and Charlotte's point of view. In absolute time (which, interestingly, is also the point of view of Richard and his band) a different order would result. But most of the time flashes are in unidentified times anyway. And the story is more important than the chronology... so I prefer to follow the characters.
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