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ORIGINAL: porntrooper

Spoilers below..... if you haven't watched the season premier, bugger off and come back when you have!

Well, still trying to get my head around what's actually happened! 

So an alterante timeline is created, where Oceanic lands in LAX and the Island is underwater, which echoes into the other timeline where the Oceanic flight did crash and the Losties adventures as we know them have continued and the Losties in 1977 have jumped forward to the same time as Dead Lock and Smokey Locke?!  Jacob is dead but he knows a way back? Is that way back through Sayid?  Is it now a fight over the Island between Jacob Sayid and Smokey Locke?  

How the fuck did Juliet know the reset worked?  How was Desmond on the plane? Where did he dissapear to?  Was the new timeline Charlie aware of his other timeline?  He seemed to understand he was supposed to die, or was it just a nice bit of mirroring between the two and it's just the depressed rants of a guy in handcuffs? We still dont know who Illana's group is, or what the ties are to Jacob.  So many new questions!

Overall they were two great episodes, some great reveals and some really nice dramatic scenes. Loved every Locke scene, both Smokey Locke and Real Locke.  What 'home' is Smokey Locke talking about?  Off the Island?  At first I thought it would simply be the temple, but he was already there when he ripped off some French dudes arm, so the implication is he goes in there...or maybe not? What did Smokey Locke mean by 'It's good to see you out those chains Richard'? Was he a slave to Jacob of some kind?  ARRRGH! Dammit, why isn't it next week already?! I need more Lost!

Now, anyone who's seen the Season 6 promo with new footage will notice there is footage beyond the opening two episodes, and it looks stunning!

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ORIGINAL: Souljahsstory

I was just wondering if the copy my aunty sent me is cut or not? its around 1hr 21ms and that includes both episodes? has she sent me a bodged copy?

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ORIGINAL: elab49 (via Gizoogle)

Gentleman, please - could our crazy-ass asses leave dis thread ta gangstas wantin ta say shit bout a funky-ass bad film?

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ORIGINAL: Jim

**Spoilers, obviously**

That wasn't Sayid's voice at the end, was it? Or perhaps he just sounded a bit off because he kinda died for a good while there.

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ORIGINAL: Scabby

Thought it was great. Didn't dig the temple and the new characters. At first I thought they were a new group of Others as they seemed so different to the group we have gotten to know - especially when they introduce another major player in the hieracy. Also, I thought the plane was very awesome and interesting. There were subtle differences and big ones; Desmond being on board, Jacks hair not being a buzz cut, Shannon apparently not joining Boone and the arrangement has all changed of where people were sitting before. Anyone else notice these extremely geeky things?

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ORIGINAL: Scabby

Thought it was great. Didn't dig the temple and the new characters. At first I thought they were a new group of Others as they seemed so different to the group we have gotten to know - especially when they introduce another major player in the hieracy. Also, I thought the plane was very awesome and interesting. There were subtle differences and big ones; Desmond being on board, Jacks hair not being a buzz cut, Shannon apparently not joining Boone and the arrangement has all changed of where people were sitting before. Anyone else notice these extremely geeky things?

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What we’re trying to do there is basically say to you, “God bless the survivors of Oceanic 815, because they’re so self-centered, they thought the only effect [of detonating the bomb] was going to be that their plane never crashes.” But they don’t stop to think, “If we do this in 1977, what else is going to affected by this?”

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This is the critical mystery of the season, which is, “What is the relationship between these two shows?” And we don’t use the phrase “alternate reality,” because to call one of them an “alternate reality” is to infer that one of them isn’t real, or one of them is real and the other is the alternate to being real.

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ORIGINAL: Castor Troy

My stream of thought;

Yeah great start to the season I thought. I knew they were gonna do something that wasn't the simple answer. Did the bomb reset everything? Did things stay they same? Fuck it, both happened. Gonna be really interesting to see how the two realities work side by side. And it's nice to see a kind of 'what if' scenario without it actually happening (assuming it's not really happening). The ending was fantastic - could almost have been the ending to the whole show. Real back to basics Lost. It's just great to be reminded of the first season with all the old characters and their fate and connections - something that inevitably got lost through all the seasons full of smoke monsters, time travel and egyptian shit.

Speaking of Egyptian stuff. I don't really like the temple story. I loved the whole Jacob and his Nemesis thing that they started at the end of the last season, and the fact that the Island's history goes further back than we ever imagined, but I'm never fond of a bunch of weedy extras in rags pretending to be some secret people. Loved it when Jack started fighting with them. Hope they get out of there soon though.

Sayid - WTF. I'm also not fond of when rules suddenly pop out of nowhere (like 'there are risks'). It's a lot more satisfying when they play on something (even if it's only a line) that's happened about half a season before. If that makes sense.
Sawyer back to being Sawyer - awesome.

Looking forward to seeing Richard's story developed more. He's been one of the most interesting characters of the whole show - I just hope they don't take too much of his mystery away like they have done with Ben. He's pretty much a bit part now. We know he's pretty low down on the food chain. It's just Richard, and then Jacob to be explored - it's kinda like a heirachy.

So overall I love the set up for the season (oh yeah, pretty handy they're suddenly back in 2007) with the two realities - like I read somewhere - a 'flash-sideways' and I really love how much emphasis they're putting on character so early on and the echoes of early Lost - really rewarding for the viewer.

Terrific.

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ORIGINAL: The Mighty

I think we're supposed to assume that Richard came to the Island on The Black Rock, based on the Jacob/Man In Black scene from the end of last season. That would explain the reference to him being in chains. In the end of Season 1, when Jack and co travel to The Black Rock to get the dynamite, the ship is full of skeletons shackled together.

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ORIGINAL: The Mighty

I think we're supposed to assume that Richard came to the Island on The Black Rock, based on the Jacob/Man In Black scene from the end of last season. That would explain the reference to him being in chains. In the end of Season 1, when Jack and co travel to The Black Rock to get the dynamite, the ship is full of skeletons shackled together.

That "chains" comment of Not-Locke's has been bugging me all day - the whole Black Rock thing never occurred to me. Good call, The Mighty.

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ORIGINAL: beebs_

I watched this with some friends and one of 'em said that maybe the alternate reality is just... the end. Them actually getting away as a result of something that they'll do near/at the end of this season. They'll be on a plane, things will be slightly different and they'll mix and mingle in they ways we're going to be shown. So maybe Jack will give Locke the ability to walk again? Maybe Juliet's "it worked" message was true. Maybe she was reciting something that she says to Sawyer in the alternate timeline ("We should get coffee sometime"). That would make sense right? Even though they totally aren't right for each other.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone! ::swoon::

Not!Locke == Badass!