My manager and I had a chat about Jack/Aaron/Kate. We agree that the reason Jack is a torn apart alcoholic in the future is because he is torn with guilt over leaving Claire (and the others) behind. This is why he refuses to see Kate on her terms... seeing Aaron would remind him of how he's 'betrayed' everyone else. The Oceanic 6 have obviously LIED to the media about what happened. That's straight up betrayal, no matter how many scary black guys named after the Demon Abbadon have intimidated you.

The problem with that theory is that it takes approximately nine months to have a baby. It's already been about three months or more (I don't exactly remember) that they've been on The Island, so Aaron would be at least one-years old in the time that Kate could even plausibly be able to give birth. She would have to pass Aaron as being ridiculously premature and/or having a very overactive pituitary gland. Plus--if we are to assume that she has adapted Claire's story of giving birth on The Island--she'd have to somehow fake giving childbirth in order to convince Jack that it's her child. o_0


Does it? Everything I've seen (so far) greatly implies that they're on a fixed timeline that cannot be changed ("Destiny has a way of course-correcting things"). The only proven exceptions (that I've noticed) is in Desmond delaying of Charlie's death, but ultimately, Charlie still dies as he is destined to be. So anything that a traveler does in the past is already destined to happen (see The Novikov self-consistency principal). In other words, John Calvin was right.

All I meant was that TIME PASSES DIFFERENTLY TO PEOPLE ON THE ISLAND. The sun still rises and sets with noon in the middle, but Faraday explains that the passage of time is not the same on this island. If Desmond is popping into the past to effect his present (or is it the future?) then this tends to open a lot of opportunistic creativity to the writers now. Face it, Faraday is obviously doing this time travel stuff too...in the last segment of the episode we see his journal reads "Desmond will be my constant". 

So... I still see anything possible as far as the whole 9month scenario/Kate's fake pregnancy. Also, why are you already assuming they get off the island together? We don't even know if they are rescued by these 'freighter people'. Perhaps Desmond or Faraday or ? changes something in the past to affect their rescue or ability to get off. That's what I'm talking about 'creative freedom' resulting from this latest episode.

It's alright for us to have differing theories/opinions. I wasn't trying to disprove you, I was just expressing my doubts based on opposing evidence. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough.

With that being said, Is Desmond actually altering the Timeline? Like I wrote in my previous post, the previous episodes seem to imply that he is not and that anything that he does--even if it is partially caused by events from the future (a Causality Loop)--still results in the same outcome (ie. Charlie's Death).

This is confirmed by the Production Notes for last weeks episode.

Here's an except _{(emphasis added by me)}:

Yes, I noticed that too. I wonder if he has and if it relates to how much more calm & composed he is in the past; Naomi's referring to him as a "Headcase" in the Second episode "Confirmed Dead"; or the cardgame he was playing with Charlotte.

Check out the previews and read the synopses to this weeks episode:

Preview 1
Preview 2


Perhaps the note in Daniel's journal is in case "Anything goes wrong" with his upcoming mission with Charlotte.


I hope your not offended but I hope that you're wrong about the so-called "creative freedom." That's a cheap trick that writers use when they're lazy and have run out of ideas. It's akin to when Soap-Opera's "resolve" a plot by stating that "It was all a dream."
More recently, this trick has been applied to the comic-book "Amazing Spider-man" where Peter Parker/Spider-man's ENTIRE relationship with Mary Jane has been erased by the use of "Magic" via a deal they made with the Devil Mephistos in order to save Aunt May who has been near-death for the approximately 50th time. 

I think that last week's episode showed that time on the island and away from the island passes the same. So, Carey's donut theory of a time-space distortion surrounding the island would seem to have some merit.

Sayid isn't surprised to find out that it's Christmas Eve of 2004 when he sees the calendar on the freighter. At first, I thought that perhaps the crew had put that up for Sayid and Desmond's benefit--to keep them from finding out that it's really 2008 in the rest of the world. However, that can't be because Desmond told Penny that he'll call her on December 24, 2004. Unless he just happened to be calling around Christmas time of a later year and Penny just didn't say "I thought you were going to call me X years ago", it seems that it is in fact Dec 24, 2004 in Penny's part of the world too.

I don't find the Amazing Spidergirl to be all that good though.

Ultimate is very very good.  You might be able to check it out in trade paperback from your local library.  It's available at mine.

Back to Lost...

Great observation on 2004 GLM!

I think there are still a lot of questions to be answered on the time distortion, we will see.

I wonder if it's always been there, or just since the Electromagnetic explosion?

Also, this is only one of the island's secrets, there are so many!

We'll have to teach you how to use italics.

Tastyfresh Lessons in "Netiquette."


It's interesting that you point that out since most of the episodes contain Flashforwards instead of Flashbacks.
What the characters do in the "future" dictates what they will do in the "present." That's a good observation.


She does call him Aaron at the very end of that episode. Though in the few times that I watched it, it sounded like she was saying Eric, but I think there was something wrong with the sound on my computer is why. :/

But I think know where you're getting at: She could have given him another name to be used in public.


Jin might be a likely choice.


Wow. I never even thought of The Mole possibly being Michael. I did figured it was someone Locke knows (or knew); Michael fits that category. One thing to keep in mind though, is that Michael's name would be on the flight-manifest along with everyone else's, so they might see him coming. And if Michael is the one on the boat, would Walt be on with him?

Since we know that it is someone Locke (in particular) knows, I wonder, could it be his Ex-Wife?


Wow! The connections just grow deeper and deeper in this series.
So according to Ben, Charles Widmore is after The Island so that he can exploit it. I was just a little disappointed by this because I was hoping that it was DHARMA trying to reclaim it's Island, but Widmore fits well into this.
This explains why The Maxwell Group--a subsidiary of Widmore Corp., as seen in the Find815 game--was looking for The Black Rock; and possibly how Penelope knows of The Island.

I know everyone's been focused on the Mythology of LOST, and as much as that interest me, I'm equally intrigued by the drama and character-pieces that are produced in this series. I'm very glad that Juliet finally expressed her feeling towards Jack--even though, if the Flashforwards are any indication, there relationship may not last long--I think he should be with her and her, him. They're a better match, in my opinion.

This was a great Flashback Episode. I never realized Ben could be so obsessive.

That's all I'll say for now.

This is still the first of three more seasons, so DHARMA could still show up later. In the meantime, I'm enjoying the new balance between the Mythology and Character-Pieces. And I look forward to the "War between Benjamin Linus and Widmore."