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05/07/09
So first one has to know how to arm it. Then one must know how to detonate it. And then all those mechanisms have to still be functioning properly after 20+ years of decay. I don't believe Farraday ever had a chance of successfully setting off a thermonuclear explosion with Jughead and I don't believe anyone else does either, journal or no journal.
Jack has a better chance of successfully piloting the Space Shuttle to the ISS than he does of getting Jughead to go nuclear.
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Loved the Hurley moment. Loved Juliet and Sawyer. Bummer that either Hurley or Juliet are going to die next week. Possibly both of them.
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Remember when Locke had a dream that Yemi's plane flew over him, but Locke actually experienced that in the past? And when Locke was climbing it in the "present", he suddenly fell off and couldn't walk. This was when in the past, Locke got shot by Ethan.
So yeah, there's definetly something odd going on with time travel. Maybe a detonation in 2007 could lead to some crazy stuff happening in 1977.
05/07/09
Daniel dying already happened to her, she has lived with the knowledge that her son goes back in time and she kills him, even before he was conceived. That's some sad, star-crossed shit right there.
But, my point, Daniel going back in time or trying to detonate the bomb doesn't change anything, because we know, at least up to his death, that this is what happened, because Eloise remembers it. But from this point forward, in the future/present timeline, it's all new to her, and us.
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Great review, one nag is that in the second paragraph you write Evan, but it's Ethan.
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He probably didn't need to bring everyone back, but he needed to have Alpert tell him he did, because that's what happened when he was on the other side of that scene.
05/07/09
Jack seemed to think that Daniel's notebook would give sufficient instructions for them to pull this off. But then, Jack is currently acting crazy enough for me to actually start rooting for Kate, so who knows.
05/07/09
I think that the bomb going off IS the Swan disaster...
05/08/09
No way. First, it's far too simple a solution for this show. Second, nearly all the evidence is to the contrary. There are only two things that support your theory that I can see. One is that whole "whatever happened happened" bit. The other is that Faraday always went to the Others camp or Ellie never would have known about him.
Now, the contrary evidence is that we know _something_ happened at the Orchid, and that it's tied to some sort of pocket of energy. There's a larger pocket of the same energy at the Swan, and that energy continues to build up such that it needs to be released every 108 minutes. The energy that Desmond released can't be leftover from the nuke, and there was a lot of it when he turned the key. So, the nuke may have sparked off the disaster, but something else had to have been the disaster.