Am I the only one that is having a very hard time with the ground rule that LOST put in place that “time is like a string, you can move forward and backwards but you can never make a new string�
Doc Brown taught me everything I know about time travel.
I attribute my frustration with this theory to Back to the Future, because sadly but realistically I learned the theory of time travel came from the teaching of Doc Brown. He continually instructed Marty to avoid interacting and stay out of sight, because even the slightest inadvertent action could change the course of history.
Doc Brown’s explanation of time travel was further supported by Bill and Ted’s Rufus, whale-loving Captain Kirk and finale episode Q and Picard. In all these cases, when you affect the past you change the future.
Having grown up with those beliefs, I am not yet able to shift my way of thinking to understand why Ethan and Locke wouldn’t have recognized each other when they met back in Season One, or why Desmond didn’t start to question whether the air was safe for the year or more after Faraday came a-knocking.
How are you doing with accepting the new ground rules?
I know you’ll have my head for this, but I am now more glad than ever that I never got into LOST.
This butchery of fictionally established scientific fact, I would not be able to handle : )
I think they’re doing a great job with it so far, actually. Especially with the “Jughead” episode, they’re starting to close some loops in ways that make sense to me. And i’ve learned that in watching LOST, if you don’t let it make your head explode – and just watch to see where they go next, without questioning – it usually pays off. So I avoided a lot of the blogs last week that were trying to extrapolate on all kinds of time travel theories, and was very pleased this week when they just gave some very easy answers that I’m fine with.
Why did Locke not recgonize Ethan in Season 1? Cuz he hadn’t met him yet. It’s season 5 Locke who goes back in time and sees Ethan. Why didn’t Ethan recognize him later? I’m not sure that he didn’t, but Ethan was also a manipulative jerk that was lying to everyone about who he was, so if he did recognize the crazy bald guy he shot once then disappeared, he kept it to himself. At laest, that’s what works for me, until D&C explain it otherwise.