Lost Premiere: How's That Flash-Sideways Deal Working Out For Our Favorite Castaways?
Miles
2004: Probably consulting on an early season of The Ghost Whisperer, unless he died in the blast in 1977.
2007: Talking to dead Juliet, talking to semi-dead Sayid.
Advantage: 2007.
Charlie
2004: Wishes he had choked to death on a condom full of heroin in an airplane bathroom.
2007: Still dead, of drowning.
Advantage: 2007. He just seems so down in '04!
Rose and Bernard
2004: Rose is a much less anxious flier this time around, so that's nice. No word on the cancer, though.
2007: TBD.
Advantage: TBD.
Michael and Walt
2004: TBD
2007: Waaaaaaalt!
Advantage: 2004
Claire
2004: Shares a cab with Kate.
2007: Wandering the jungle? Living amongst the polar bears?
Advantage: 2004
Boone
2004: Returning to America after failing to extricate sister Shannon from a bad relationship. Locke's seat-buddy!
2007: So dead.
Advantage: 2004
Stewardess Cindy
2004: A nice stewardess!
2007: A wild-eyed Other
Advantage: 2004
Arzt
2004: Chatting it up with his fellow passengers on Oceanic 815.
2007: Still blowed-up real nice with dynamite. Messy!
Advantage: 2004
Frogurt
2004: Asleep near Locke and Boone on Flight 815, stops Kate from cutting the cab line at LAX.
2007: Still dead via flaming arrow to the chest. Less messy than death-by-dynamite, but far funnier.
Advantage: 2004
The Island
2004: Under water.
2007: Still lousy with castaways, Others, Smoke Monsters, suspiciously god-like beings locked in eternal battle with one another, and, presumably, the odd polar bear.
Advantage: 2007
The English Language
2004: Everyone seems pretty happy with it.
2007: Angry Temple Keeper "doesn't like the taste of it on his tongue."
Advantage: 2004!
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Fan-bloody-tastic.
This is awesome. And interestingly, "Agog Mob of Others" was the name of my band in college.* Great post.
* in one of my alternate realities
for the record (haven't you guys ever heard of Lostpedia.com) sun was pregs in 2004, had the baby and Ji Yeon is now 2 years old. which is why Sun commented on the potential playdate with Aaron.
Wait, was that a joke, about 2007 Sun and Jin? She had her baby on the mainland after she escaped, they haven't seen each other in three years? Guess some could consider that happily married?
Great comparisons. Looks like 2004 was better for most of them, especially the English language. 🙂
Yet, don't you remember 2-3 years passed between when pregnant Sun left the island and when she returned on flight 316? Her daughter was left in Korea (presumably).
I thought Sun had her baby off the island and is not pregnaut in 2007. Also, I think Jack's father's coffin was lost in transit by the Island, meaning Jack's Father's spirit is destined to become part of the island even submerged.
Loved this:
The English Language
2004: Everyone seems pretty happy with it.
2007: Angry Temple Keeper “doesn’t like the taste of it on his tongue.”
Advantage: 2004!
Is it to be assumed that the temple dwelling others consist, at least in part, of all of the survivors of the crash that were kidnapped in the very beginning? Was Walk kidnapped by a different group of others? Were Michael & Walt the only two original survivors not shown on the parallel 2004 plane?
I just answered, somewhat, my own question...Boone's sister was also not on the parallel plane.
I would say it was more of a "man in a Locke suit" rather than him actually being in Locke.
Also no Ana Lucia, Eko or Libby in the alterna-flashes. And I can't really imagine why Shannon wouldn't have come back with Boone b/c of the island bomb.
Who is the "Man in Black"?
Haha, nice kicker at the end.
No one seems to have pointed this out yet, but Sun and Jin seem to not only be unhappy, but unmarried in 2004. (No wedding rings, and the guard at security addresses her as "Miss Paik.")
If Jacob, Richard, and Ben all died in the 1977 blast, then they wouldn't have been around to manipulate everybody else's realities to get them to the island in no-crash 2004. Only the puppet strings Jacob pulled before 1977 would still be in effect - Sawyer's folks' murder-suicide; Kate smirkingly taught "not" to steal; Jack's illegitimate half-sister sleeping out her daddy issues Down Under; his drunk, hypercompetitive surgeon-dad raising him to follow in his footsteps before wandering off to die on a daughter-seeking bender; all the generational conflict among the powerful Widmore, Faraday, and Paak families. Maybe that explains why some of the crew ends up on the plane in alternate 2004 and some don't.