Season 6 Episode 1- LA X (Review/Reaction)

“My condition is irreversible.”
“Nothing’s irreversible.”
-”LA X, Part 2”

PARALLEL TIMELINE:
I’m not even sure where to begin, so I’m going to just GO.

First thing we see, the Oceanic 815 flight in 2004. I was so confused, having read a fan’s theory a few hours before suggesting that since the sixth season was going to feel a lot like the first season*, they were going to say that the bomb had indeed reset time, and just replayed season 1 as season 6. I felt relieved when I noticed the subtle differences between this timeline and what we had seen before.

SUBTLE DIFFERENCES:
-Jack receives one bottle of vodka from the flight attendant, Cindy, instead of the two that we saw him receive the first time… we saw him receive… them.** >.>
-The turbulence passes, and Bernard returns to his seat. This was the point where I had figured out that the rumors of “flash-sideways storytelling” were true.
-Jack goes to potty instead of, well, crashing. He returns to find a familiar face in the aisle seat of his row, row 23.*** Desmond is somehow on the plane. This was the point at which my brain started to hurt.
-THE FRIKKIN’ ISLAND IS UNDERWATER. I mean, I was shocked, even though I probably shouldn’t have been. Did you catch the DHARMA logo on the shark? I didn’t until my, uh… 4th time through.**** It promptly cut to a commercial, as it was almost fully built-up to that scary Lost chord we all know and love.

The rest of the differences aren’t as subtle; though, arguably, the only real subtle difference was the change in dialogue/detail when Cindy gave Jack the bottle. Anyway, we get to see some of the other characters on the flight. Rose and Bernard, two of my absolute favorite characters, are sitting in their seats being adorable. Kate, in handcuffs, take a bathroom break under the watch of U.S. Marshall Edward Mars. Kate eats food without utensils, as Edward fears she’ll go stabby-rip-stab-stab on him, and then Sawyer steps in.

Sawyer brushes past the U.S. Marshall, which cause Kate to hide her handcuffs from him. Does Kate ever not try to get the man? Sawyer returns to his seat where to his right, the guy who exploded while transporting dynamite is pestering Hurley. ***** Sawyer tells Hurley that he should keep his lottery winnings a secret, and we learn that Hurley has good fortune. WHAT.

Sun admires Rose and Bernard, while Locke reads the safety manual. Boone ****** tries to call out Locke for reading it, but Locke was like KABAAM and told him off (but not really). He then lies and says he went on the ten day Walkabout that he had planned on, and Boone says that If the plain goes down, he’s sticking with Locke. This was way to, er… meta- for me. I mean, it was so cheesy. Really, Damon and Carlton?

Cindy interrupts with the call for a doctor, to which Jack answers. Charlie (!!!) is on drugs again. That really made me mad. If Hurley was the opposite of who he is in the original timeline, than why is he different and Charlie the same? Sayid helps Jack save his life, which is all good and junk.

Sun and Jin have crazy money issues and get taken into what I can only imagine is the
beginning of a large investigation on Paik industries. Sun decided against speaking English to buy their way out of the situation.

“Well uh/the plane landed and when I came out/There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out/I ain't trying to get arrested yet, I just got here/I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared”
-The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Kate is a badass, yadayadayada. Sawyer is totally on to her in the elevator, but doesn’t say anything. Kate jumps into a cab as a getaway vehicle, and as it turns out, Claire******* is already in the cab. I assume this is going to be the secondary focus of the next episode (with the primary being the goings-on of the island).

John Locke and Jack both lose cargo, and meet for the “first” time whilst trying to retrieve it. Jack inquires about John’s disability, which ultimately leads to a brilliant, yet meta-timeline quote from Jack, which can be read various times on this page.


1970s TIMELINE:
The first scene of this timeline opens up with a close-up on the eye of a main
character. Is it bad that someone had to point out to me that many of the previous season’s episodes started with a similar shot? Turns out, it was spider monkey-Kate. How did she get in the tree? Was it the explosion? Why have I asked so many questions in this paragraph, hmm?

As she started speaking, the entire time-zone thought that something was wrong with the sound on their TVs, am I right or am I right? Kate climbs down and eventually regains her hearing and finds Miles. They were like, “Oh hai. Lol, I wuz sleep n. u?” They discover the hatch has been made and appears as it did whenever Desmond made it go boom. Kate decides to wake up Jack first, perhaps thinking that Sawyer would be disappointed that it didn’t work and Jack was wrong. After waking up Jack, Sawyer kicks him into the ditch, with his reasoning being that it didn’t work and Jack was wrong. There’s a shocker…

As Hurley and Jin wake up near the recently shot Sayid, they discover that they can’t hear, and appear to have shifted as well. Jin explains the dizziness and lack of hearing being associated to time travel to Hurley, who tells him to go find help for Sayid. As Jin leaves, Hurley hears something in the distance and fumbles to get a gun and protect himself. Jacob appears to hurley and tells him to take Sayid to the temple. The irony is brilliant: Sayid shoots Ben, Ben has to go to the temple, Ben's father shoots Sayid, Sayid has to go to the temple. He also confirms to Hurley that he has died. This basically confirms that all events on the island are occurring at once (in 2007).

Back at the Swan, everyone is shocked when they hear Juliet from beneath the rubble. It bugged me how drastically different the Swan remains looked. Sawyer attempts to dig her out while Miles and Jack tell Jin to get the van and some chains.

Jin returns to Hurley, and they take the van and Sayid to the Swan remains. They get some of the debris out of the way, and Sawyer climbs in to retrieve Juliet. In a heart-wrenching moment, Juliet dies before telling Sawyer something.******** Sawyer and Miles stay behind to bury her, while everyone else joins Hurley in delivering Sayid to the temple.

Upon arrival, the group is apprehended by a group full of native looking people, along with some familiar faces from the plane crash.********* They are about to be shot, when Hurley informs them that Jacob sent them there, and shows them the Ankh that was in the guitar case he had. As soon as I saw the man snap the ankh, I thought they were in serious trouble. Turns out, Jacob said that everyone is doomed should they not save Sayid.

Sawyer admits to Miles that the only reason why he brought him along was to have him ask Juliet what she wanted to tell him. She told him that the bomb worked, which leads us to believe that she somehow caught a glimpse into the other world. Isn't this almost exactly what Desmond used to do?

To make a long story short, Sayid drowns in the fountain********** and I went omgwtfbbqno. He woke up, though, in the madness of the news of Jacob's death.


INSIDE THE STATUE TIMELINE (which is also 2007, so next episode, I'll do them together):
Ben is talking to the Man in Black/Jacob's Nemesis. MIB wants Ben to bring Richard inside the statue, so Ben tries to. Ben explains to Richard that John Locke wants to speak to him. Richard pwns Ben. Ilana explains that they are Jacob's guards, and as he brought them to the island, he should allow them to go into the statue.

Despite Richard's disapproval, Ben returns with the gunmen who confront the MIB. He runs behind the corner and the smoke monster attacks and kills everyone except for Ben. Smoky goes awa and MIB returns, apologizing for Ben having to see him like that. *MIB=SMOKY THEORIST HAPPY DANCE*

The MIB says he wants to go home, and left us all wondering exactly where that home might be. This show is crazy, etc.

MIB and Ben go outside and MIB says somethign curious to Richard, which suggests that Richard was a prisoner of some sort. I'm guessing that he meant this metaphorically, as opposed to literally. Didn't Richard serve Jacob, basically? As did all of the Others?
Well, that's all from me today. See ya soon, Losties.






*Josh Holloway said it: http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/lost--the-final-season
**Awkward Phrasing FTW!
***Is it weird that I know the row he was sitting in? Methinks so.
****I'm proud to say that I've seen it 5 times already. Although, it would be terribly embarrassing if I missed something important.
*****Google his name: Leslie Arzt
******BOOOOOOOOOOONE!
*******I was so happy when I saw her. I had a big Claire-shaped hole in my heart.
********I cried. Literally. =(
*********Where have they been?
**********I have a theory about this. Look for it in the next post, which will happen before Tuesday.

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