{"id":2319,"date":"2009-06-10T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/lost-timelines\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T09:56:00","slug":"lost-timelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/lost-timelines.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST Timelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Matthew Fox (who plays Jack Shepherd on LOST \u2013 as if you didn\u2019t already know that) has <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5285457\/what-do-matthew-foxs-bizarre-lost-spoilers-mean\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared some \u201cspoilers\u201d about LOST season 6<\/a>. They aren\u2019t so much spoilers as tantalizing hints that could be understood in more than one way. So, if you don\u2019t want sort of spoilers, you should probably sort of stop reading now.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things Fox mentioned is that we\u2019ll see the timelines come together and so there won\u2019t be flashbacks and flashforwards, just \u201clinear time on the island\u201d. That they\u2019ll be on the island is significant, as it suggests that whatever the bomb did, it didn\u2019t just send them back to their everyday lives with the plane crash never having happened. I suspect that what he means is that the separated survivors will all be back in the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Fox also mentions Locke and Jack coming \u201chead to head\u201d, which could of course mean the original John Locke or Esau impersonating him (some fans have apparently taken to calling him Darth Locke, for some reason). And so there is no spoiler as to whether the actions of Daniel, Jack and perhaps most importantly Juliet managed to close the \u201cloophole\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The reference to \u201ctimelines\u201d could, of course, also mean different versions of human history that have been split or changed. I\u2019ve wondered for a while whether that sort of scenario might be involved. The whispers heard on the island have been analysed by fans, and were found to be composed by <a href=\"http:\/\/lostwhispering.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/thanks-to-jennylee-from-fuselage-for.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">overlaying slightly different sentences on one another<\/a>. Are they the sound of two timelines colliding?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3761804741286648022?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Fox (who plays Jack Shepherd on LOST \u2013 as if you didn\u2019t already know that) has shared some \u201cspoilers\u201d about LOST season 6. They aren\u2019t so much spoilers as tantalizing hints that could be understood in more than one way. 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