From Incident To War
Last time I wrote about it, I figured blowing up that bomb during the Incident would reset the timeline in Lost. But now that I've thought about it, I've changed my mind.
Lost only has 17 more episodes. A reboot, where we start all over, even if the Oceanic 6 have their old memories, would practically be starting from square one.
What I think more likely is the bomb was part of the original Incident. The electromagnetic implosion sucked in the bomb so that it didn't kill anyone above ground (sorry, Juliet) and had to be put in concrete as part of the Swan Station, like it has been all along. I mean, there's no way Jack and the gang were killed, and I doubt Chang or Radzinky's gone either (that would mean a reboot), and the Others were left alone. (So were Rose and Bernard--Adam and Eve, anyone?)
What will happen, however, is the explosion, or whatever it was, will whoosh away the Losties hanging out in 1977 (including Miles, I'm guessing) and put them back in the present. They're the ones Jacob said was coming, and they're going to be involved in the War.Which leave the question, what about Locke? No reboot, no reborn Locke. He's still a corpse, with the zombie-Locke inhabited by Jacob's nemesis. This is too depressing an ending. After everyone treated him as special, and after he believed he had such a great destiny, it turned out he was just a chump.
But what could happen is the zombie-Locke still has Locke's memory. (I guessed originally, you may recall, that for Locke to still be alive on the Island, like any good magic trick, it means he never left the Island.) So Locke is still there, inside. Perhaps what's going to happen is he'll fight to get out, to take over his own body again. It's not the first time he's been through rehab. Don't tell him what he can't do.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:08 AM
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Another possibility: Locke's body is there. Even though Locke wasn't actually raised from the dead in season five, who says he can't be brought back to life in season six? Although Richard was amazed about the resurrection, he fairly quickly concluded that Jacob had done it. So if Jacob is somehow still alive, maybe he can resurrect Locke.
There's another unknown factor. The formula for Lost began as present-time stories plus flashbacks. They later offered some variations of this: flashforwards instead of flashbacks, or "filling in the missing story of the other people" instead of flashbacks (they did this with Michael's story twice, and sort of with Juliet). The only time they abandoned this was when they had to tell us the story of two separate parties, which was rare before season five but common in season five.
It seems hard to believe that they won't be doing this in season six. So what exactly will they use for "flashbacks" or their dramatic equivalent?
Much as I want them to not change the past, here is my guess (you heard it here first):
The New Incident did in fact change the past. Nonetheless, when Season Six opens, Jack's group and Richard's group and Evillocke's group and the Shadow of the Statue group are all on the island, in the same year as each other. For the rest of season six, the main story is their war. The "flashbacks" will show a new, retconned history, and explain why -- despite Oceanic 815 not crashing -- all these people ended up on the Island after all.
Mind, I don't want this at all. I just think that dramatically they promised the audience a retcon.
I hate to say it, but it makes sense.
They could also cut back and forth between the various groups in the way, but that's not really the Lost way.
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