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cindidindi76 wrote:

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I'm a little concerned about it too, TSO. I have faith that they'll handle it much better than Heroes, but I don't want it to turn into something completely different than the show I started watching. We'll see.

Oh and about Heroes...Lindelhof explicity stated that Lost doesnt deal with time travel in the way your average movie/tv show does..ie Heroes. And i think thats what he meant long ago when he said Lost doesnt deal with "time travel"

The way Lost's theory of time travel is different is that time is constant, it has no beginning/middle/end...its all there and already happened. It doesnt travel like an arrow. Our human perception just experiences it that way...as a slow track with a past, present, and future.

So, unlike Heroes where we see New York explode in the future...and then the characters go back in time and also try to change the present in order to change that future...that would never happen on Lost.

What you see is exactly what will happen, what does happen. If we see Jack die in a flash forward...nothing during the course of the remaining episodes will change that. You wont see Ben or Hurly jump back in time to change something so Jack never dies. The idea being, that everything that happens in the past/present has already affected the future. And Lost will only show us that result. It will never show us an untrue one.

So in this sense, Lost stays clear from the BS that Heroes has tried to pull, in that, it uses time travel as a cruch...its an easy way out to change a character or an event that doesnt work or they hit a brick wall. Just have Hiro travel in time and change it!

Lost cant play games like that, what we see is what we get. No fancy tricks or cheesy deux-ex-machina's here.

But that doesnt change the fact that the manipulation of time HAS affected all their lives. It definitely has. But its leading us to an inevitable conclusion that has already been written out. So i wouldnt worry about them "introducing" time travel as some sort of gimmicky shtick to explain away stuff they didnt know how to explain away otherwise.

Unlike Felicia, i truly believe time travel was in the DNA (as lindelof said) from the very beginning. They knew thats what the island was about. They called the show "Lost" with tongue firmly in cheek knowing it referred to time rather than geography (which is the obvious interpretation). You can see from season one how they purposefully were vague about times and dates. They played around with it constantly. Flashbacks werent just a gimmick to tell the story better...the idea of their past lives before the island, and how it directly related to their "present", was kind of THE POINT of Lost. It is part of its secret. From the very beginning.