It threw me for a loop last night when we suddendly saw Locke start to descend down into the hatch. I said "Wait a minute...they just back-tracked!" Isn't this an episode first? I don't remember seeing a Lost episode go back and "clear" things up from a previous episode...and I'm not referring to flashbacks here. Does anyone know why they would have done this? Why last week didn't they just go "in order" and show Locke going down and then this week show Jack going down? It just doesn't seem to fit with the usual way the writers do the show.

And we know it's now the next day when Michael & Sawyer land back on the beach because it's daylight. So, does this mean we're going to go "back" again in next week's epidsode so we can finish up what happened the "night before" when Jack is holding the gun on Desmond & Locke??

Are they going to start to make the timeline confusing for us??

I think it's just a one time deal because everything was happening at once. Plus it's cool to see a scene one way then see it from another angle via a different character.

It did make a nice change to have a Rashomon style approach to the story. It would have been even nicer if they had played it up a bit, with Jack's viewpoint being all rational and scientific, and Locke's being more spiritual and seeing signs that he's been chosen by the island. If they did it with a bit of humour it would make a nice change as well (like and old X-Files episode where they go vampire hunting).

I suppose the show's too young too be taking the p*ss out of itself yet though...

I think it's just a one time deal because everything was happening at once. Plus it's cool to see a scene one way then see it from another angle via a different character.

Yeah, that and maybe they didn't have enough time to fit everything in one episode, so they had to split it into two epis.

The main reason they had to do it this way is to reveal that Jack already knew Desmond. If they showed Locke's point of view first, we would've met Desmond before we saw Jack's flashback, and the surprise reveal would've been ruined.

What bothers me is that fact that they only caught us up to the end to the premiere; they didn't advance the storyline any. I had more than enough of that last season. :P

Jeremy

did anyone ever watch Boomtown?? I liked that show :)