Daniel's TV Blog

I'm breaking this weeks entry into two. This part will be all about the events off the island. Something seemed strange to me about this from the beginning. And even in the first scene I proposed that maybe this was in the future. Things just didn't fit the timeline. Jack's wife was long gone and pregnant. How could Jack go from being a bearded alcoholic pill swallower to the guy who had it together enough to eject his father from surgery? Then there was his phone. RAZR phone came out just before the events on the island so it is very unlikely he would have one. But by the end we discovered it was not a flashback but a future flash. This is something I was hoping they would do from the very beginning. I always thought the last season should have future flashes where we slowly see who made it off the island while the final events of the island unfold. Near the end of last season, Jack started being a dick. This episode brings him back as we see there were consequences for his arrogance.
Anyway, here's what we know:

• Jack, Kate, and at least one other person made it off the island
• The other person is dead and no one went to the funeral
• Jack's decision to leave the island destroyed him personally causing a spiral into drugs and alcohol
• Jack is looking for the island and wants to go back
• The newspaper Jack was reading was dated 4/5/7, over two years after the events on the island.

And here are the new questions:

• Why isn't Kate in jail?
• Who was the person in the coffin?
• Why was the funeral in a predominately black neighborhood?
• What's the the beard Jack.

The biggest question is this: Is this how the show is going to end or this getting off the island only part of the story? Will future Jack join up with some others trying to find the island? Will season 4 start in 2008 as people try to get back to the island and flashback to the events in the in between years? Or will there be three more seasons of more of the same until people go back to their terrible lives?

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