What Happened, Happened
I can’t wait to be proven wrong in 2 weeks!
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This is actually pretty cool. This was submitted to us with this note:
“Hey guys, I had a little theory about the “flashes” in Season 5, so I made a timeline to illustrate it. Maybe readers will be interested, or want to poke holes in it, or whatever. Ok bye.”
This is cool and most of it seems right to me. Things that come to mind:
1) What photo in the Lamp Post on 9/23?
2) The end of this timeline confuses me… Wouldn’t “we’re not going to Guam” happen before they land? Huh? They went back in time when they landed? I thought they stayed in present time…
Yay! Someone with questions! In answer to your first question, you can see that photo here.
Regarding your second, I tend to agree with you. There was for sure a jump from night to day in the flight of Ajira, but a similar thing happened (from clear skies to storm) when Lapidus’s chopper was on the way back to the freighter, and that was never considered a time jump. But, according to one of the recap episodes, and apparently a podcast, they did jump to 2007.
You’ll note, however, that I put the 2007 date in speculative, not canon, because I don’t consider podcasts or recaps to be “real” as in part of the story. As well, I like Eloise’s quote about not knowing what’s going to happen next as the actual last thing chronologically, so that Season 6 can pick up there, and tell us what happens next.
I completely forgot about that picture!
And I hadn’t heard that about them possibly jumping to 2007… I guess it’s possible that they went back a few weeks, I just don’t see why they’d do that. Of course, we don’t know why they do anything.
I think most of this is solid though, and I particularly like the ‘77 parallel.
