Monday, May 4, 2009

Putting together the pieces

OK, time to do a bit of housekeeping:
1. Looking back to the nosebleeding days, the order in which everyone bled now makes sense, for the most part. Over a couple of episodes, 5x03 - 5x05, we see Charlotte, Miles, Juliet, and Sawyer develop nosebleeds in that order after the time jumps. Charlotte should have been the first to develop a nosebleed because she grew up on the island. Miles is a reasonable second candidate because he was born on the island. We don't know how much time he spent there, though, which is why I only say it's reasonable. Then comes Juliet because she spent 3 years on the island prior to the Oceanic 815 flight. The last person to develop a nosebleed is Sawyer, and here's where things stop making sense. As far as we know, Sawyer, Jin, and Locke have all been on the island for equal durations of time. Jin and Locke should have then developed nosebleeds at the same time as Sawyer. As for Faraday, we don't know whether Faraday was conceived on or off the island. As long as he spent less than 2 months on the island prior to his arrival on Widmore's freighter, his lack of nosebleeds makes sense. It's only Jin, Locke, and Sawyer's experiences that don't add up.
2. Back in 5x04, "The Little Prince," Sawyer and the whole time-jumping gang return to their old camp on the beach to get in the Zodiac motorboat then ride around the island to the Orchid. The Zodiac is missing but they see two outriggers, one of which has an Ajira Airlines bottle in it. Given our current knowledge, it seems like they were in 2008 after the Ajira crash. They realized they were roughly in their own time seeing as though their camp was still intact, but they didn't know how precisely close to their own time.
3. Ellie in 1954 is Eloise in 1977. It makes sense now but who would have known sooner. Kudos to anyone who figured that one out.

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