OK, so Juliet set off the bomb at the end of the Lost season finale. I guess we can assume that this means that Jack and Daniel's plan to blow up the Swan worked and that history (or the future) has been changed and Oceanic Flight 815 will arrive safely in Los Angeles. I mean, the only other thing that can happen is the island blows up and they all ... die? There's probably a third option, though I'm out of Advil right now and don't want to think of it. Maybe the bomb goes off and it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be?But back to Juliet. It was announced earlier today that Elizabeth Mitchell will be a full-time cast member of the ABC remake of V, so this probably means that she'll be gone from the show, even if her character is alive or they have flashbacks or whatever. Unless the island hides a race of alien lizard people, she's gone from the show. Or is she? Michael Ausiello is reporting she'll be in a "handful" of episodes next season.
If it's a flashback situation, that's fine. But if the bomb made everything change and all of the characters that were "dead" previously on the show are instead alive, I'll be kinda ticked at that. For all the talk of how Lost is creative and clever, wouldn't this plot twist just be Bobby Ewing coming out of the shower, only multiplied several times over? A rather big cheat?
I trust the Lost people, and I really do believe that they know how this all ends finally, but this plot could be rather troublesome.















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5-19-2009 @ 3:25PM
Captain Ruggerson said...
Juliet is the new Desmond. Between her and Des, there are now two characters that can change the course of history.
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5-19-2009 @ 3:40PM
scott said...
the variables
5-19-2009 @ 3:27PM
scott said...
No way does it reset them to LA like Jack was hoping.
Jacob said, "They're coming."
I think he meant the guys from 1977 - the blast is gonna land them there. The season will still open with jack's eye opening in the jungle, but when it pans up, hes gonna be wearing his dharma jumpsuit, not a suit. My guess, at least.
more thoughts over here...
http://foureightfifteensixteen2342.blogspot.com/
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5-19-2009 @ 3:33PM
Jimmy said...
Isn't Juliet technically still alive? Future Juliet died, but past Juliet hasn't even arrived on the island yet (at least in the time period Jack, Sawyer, and Kate are in). Granted, with Lost's convoluted timeline fiasco who know's what hell is really happening.
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5-19-2009 @ 3:45PM
al said...
I think she will still be alive, and that they will be on the plane again. I think the idea that i like the best is jacob, sent them all back to the past so he would change the present and not get killed.
Also the fact that all these people were linked already before they got on the island, maybe they will still be drawn back to it.
Though if that is true, how do they explain the grandfather paradox, if i go back in time and kill my grandfather, how will i be born to kill my grandfather
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5-19-2009 @ 3:57PM
Ryan said...
I don't care if she's dead or alive (okay I'd prefer it if she was alive) as long as Elizabeth Mitchell is in SOME episodes, then I'll be happy.
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5-19-2009 @ 4:07PM
fritz said...
I find it remarkable how quickly people got off the "whatever happend happened" ship and so quickly accepted "the variable" theory.
My best guess is that Miles was right, and the bomb was what had always happened, yet almost nowhere on th internet can I find people who agree
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5-19-2009 @ 6:13PM
Wayne said...
I agree. I think the bomb was always the incident. How else would DHARMA know to include a nuclear bomb as a failsafe in the Swan station?
5-19-2009 @ 9:34PM
LC said...
I disagree because in the original Swan accident, Miles dad survived and made videos for the people manning the Swan after the accident. This time around, he was at ground level of an underground nuclear detonation. I don't see him, or anyone up top, surviving that.
5-23-2009 @ 12:10PM
Wayne said...
LC, Miles told his dad to get as far away from the station as he could. This happened at least 5 to 10 minutes prior to the detonation. He easily could have survived the detonation.
5-19-2009 @ 4:09PM
ac said...
The preview right after the white out makes me think she is alive. The eyes opening at the last second looked liked Juliet's.
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5-19-2009 @ 5:06PM
Ryan said...
From TVGuide:
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Lost-Keeps-Elizabeth-1006191.aspx
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5-19-2009 @ 5:21PM
mj said...
If the bomb 'resets' history, then Juliette will STILL be on the island, as part of the Others. Desmond will still be stuck in the hatch, pressing the button. Jin and Sun will not have a child, either. It makes no sense. I don't think this will be a Bobby Ewing season. Maybe Miles IS right. Personally, I think Jack is a total fool, and have thought this all along. As for Locke, I like the guy, but he was always so darn gullible.
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5-19-2009 @ 6:02PM
bruce said...
We know the bomb was leaking, so the "physics package" (as they call it) was already damaged. I don't care how smart Sayid is, he can't fix a broken nuclear warhead. So my bet is only the conventional explosives (which are used to detonate the nuclear warhead) went off, which resulted in an explosion but not a nuclear explosion.
Frankly, we already know the nuke didn't go off, because the island was not radioactive later on in the future (present, whatever). They blew up nukes in Bikini Atoll back in the 60's and it's still radioactive.
So my prediction is that the damaged Judghead warhead did not go critical; rather, only the conventional explosives detonated. The nuke itself, however, was a dud. But there's no realistic way that Juliet could have survived. And I'd been predicting they'd kill her off as she no longer serves a significant purpose on the show. She herself pointed out that Sawyer was still in love w/ Kate.
I really like Elizabeth Mitchell though, and I hope she finds a new role in a new show really quick.
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5-20-2009 @ 12:04AM
Tracey said...
She did, she's the lead in V next season like Bob said in the article.
5-19-2009 @ 7:56PM
Gord said...
I have a thought...just thinking out loud here.
What if the bomb didn't go off, but they drilled into the pocket of energy, which was the cause of the time shifting, and it flashed them just as she hit the bomb, then they reset into a different time.
Thoughts, discussions, points of views?
It's just my thought, what do you think.
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5-19-2009 @ 11:06PM
Christopher Swenson said...
They are going to jump in time again, just like what happened to Desmond when they blew up the hatch only this time they will reunite with the other losties in 2007. Jacob even said "They're coming". If they end up back on the plane or if they are dead I'll eat my hat.
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5-19-2009 @ 11:06PM
Jothie said...
Its all speculation at this point since there was no hint on if Jack's plan worked or not. I see 2 possibilities..
First, everything's been reset. The last 5 seasons haven't happened and Oceanic Flight 815 lands safe in L.A. There may be a chance that everyone from 1977 might remember everything as they fold into the timeline. In this case Juliet is still alive and on the Island under Ben's thumb and trying to find out why pregnant women have problems on the island. This all seems unlikely to me. There's usually a big fan backlash when you erase entire seasons of developments and say, "everything you've watched for the past 5 season never happened."
Second, what could have happened is that the bomb, like Miles suggested, was what caused the original incident and nothing has changed. Juliet's dead but rest aren't. First off the bomb was made smaller and more localized. So perhaps it wasnt strong enough to blow up Sawyer, Jack and everyone else with it 100 feet underground. Or(more likely) the explosion triggered another time jump and milliseconds before the nuclear explosion would have killed everyone they jumped in time to present time.
I'm convinced Juliet is gone for good. I don't think they'd erase everything for the last season and try to start over. I think "what's done is done" is true for this show and that they couldnt change anything. In fact they caused the reality they're in by their actions in the past.
The only thing that upsets me is that Locke, the real Locke, may be gone for good. I hope he's not, in fact I'll be very upset if they dont find a way to bring him back, not as a ghost or as a just using the actor to play anti-jacob, but as the real John Locke. Living, breathing, the works.
I liked Juliet but its not a deal breaker if she stays dead. In fact I think it makes Sawyers characters more interesting if she does(especially his relationship with Kate and Jack(whom I presume he'll hate with a passion now))
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5-20-2009 @ 12:11AM
AL said...
Personally, I would be glad to see her go. Looking at her creeps me out, in an evil clown face sort of way. And her character was never engaging. She was just sort of ethereally floating around Jack and then Sawyer. And while your at it, please take Kate to. She has become annoying, condescending, and delusional. Watching her is like the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.
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5-20-2009 @ 5:50AM
StillBash said...
Juliet will end up in Syria. The others on the Beach.
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