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May 16, 2008

Another boring Lost theory

Male Jim Treacher | Category: TV
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SPOILERY SPOILERS:

In one of last night's flashforwards, we see Jack delivering Christian's eulogy. He says he'd scribbled it on a cocktail napkin in the Sydney airport 10 months earlier.

Wait, what? Ten months? The plane crashed on Sept. 22, 2004. As of last night's episode, on the island it's right around New Year's. So that's a gap of 6-7 months between getting off the island -- or getting on the freighter, at least -- and getting back to civilization. Unless Jack waited 6 months to hold his father's funeral, which seems unlikely. (The reason he was on 815 in the first place was because he wanted to get the whole thing over with.)

My guess is that Season 5 will comprise that missing 6-month gap. Maybe Season 6 too.

Does that make any sense? It's giving me a headache. Throw in all this timewarp business, and Aaron the Magical Baby Whose Age Nobody Seems to Know, and who knows what the hell is going on. That's my guess, anyway.

P.S. I've been trying to place why "The Orchid" sounds so familiar, and it's the same place where this happened:

So whatever they're going to do there, it involves time travel. Right? Oh, and when Ben woke up in the desert, his parka(!) said "Halliwax" on it. So whatever he did, he did it at the Orchid, and somehow it involved extreme cold. I want to time-travel 2 weeks forward.

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I am soooo glad I don't watch LOST now that I see how much time you waste watching and obsessing over it. Time I productively spend drinking beer, eating Oreos, and playing World of Warcraft, I might add.

Comment by TRO on May 16, 2008 10:32 AM

There's no reason I can't do both.

Comment by Treach on May 16, 2008 11:22 AM

True . . . you have found the answer to true happiness :)

Comment by TRO on May 16, 2008 7:10 PM

That also (sorta) jibes with Kate's (fake) story about being six months pregnant during the crash, and claiming Aaron is 5 months old (meaning 8 months between A and B, which still gives 2 months before the funeral).

But Aaron would really be a couple of months older than that. He was born within a month of the crash, right?. Could a doctor determine the baby's true age? Or is Aaron really 5 months old because of some time travel BS? And why do I care about this insignificant plot point? Huh?

Comment by Joe R. on May 19, 2008 12:05 AM

Scratch that, she said 5 weeks, not 5 months. So it would appear that Jack did wait some time between the conference and the funeral.

Still, a 5 week old baby should be significantly different from a 3-4 month old baby. Wouldn't somebody notice that?

Comment by Joe R. on May 19, 2008 12:20 AM

Well, I guess time travel might explain why Walt was 25 years old when Locke saw him in his vision among the Dharma corpses.

Yeah, time travel. That's the ticket.

Comment by Sean M. on May 21, 2008 1:58 AM