I don't think Lost is really telling us it has to be either WHH or ALT. The question here is how can you change something when you don't know what originally happened? If Jack knew that the incident never involved the bomb, he could think involving the bomb would change things. But if he knew the bomb was used, would he still try to use it? No. It's just what Miles said about the best thing could be just to do nothing. They don't know what happened. They are just reacting very emotionally by the way, desperately trying to change things. It's a guess on their part. (Unless there is more info in that journal they haven't shared with us. Even Daniel's research on the Dharma Initiative could possibly not be accurate. Any history he'd read of the incident could have covered up the fact that the "hostiles" were there at that time and had caused it.) The real question we have here is whether this particular piece of fic! tion is going to go with an alternate time line next season. Personally, I don't think they have enough time to tie all that together and with all the confusion for some with the time travel, I don't think they would make it that complex. But this doesn't mean it isn't POSSIBLE in the Lost world.
I believe the little changes we've seen here and there (items moving in a refrigerator, photos on the wall changing position) are signs that someone is messing with the time line. This is why Hawking and Widmore are so concerned. The Oceanic 6 returning home was also something that changed. But they course corrected it by sending them back. This was important because whatever they did HAD to occur or it would endanger us all.
Part of this game has just been that, tampering with time and course correcting as it goes. So I think the show does try to give us alternative realities, but the incident was so important it couldn't be allowed to go down any other way.
Hawking didn't sacrifice her son as much as she did her relationship with her son as she pushed him in his work. She was hoping he would find a way out. She was hoping to change things which again means they can be changed.
The real question again is-what caused the incident? Juliet hitting a piece of a hydrogen bomb or just Radzinsky being stupid? If we knew the answer to that, then it would be easier to speculate about season 6.
I believe the little changes we've seen here and there (items moving in a refrigerator, photos on the wall changing position) are signs that someone is messing with the time line. This is why Hawking and Widmore are so concerned. The Oceanic 6 returning home was also something that changed. But they course corrected it by sending them back. This was important because whatever they did HAD to occur or it would endanger us all.
Part of this game has just been that, tampering with time and course correcting as it goes. So I think the show does try to give us alternative realities, but the incident was so important it couldn't be allowed to go down any other way.
Hawking didn't sacrifice her son as much as she did her relationship with her son as she pushed him in his work. She was hoping he would find a way out. She was hoping to change things which again means they can be changed.
The real question again is-what caused the incident? Juliet hitting a piece of a hydrogen bomb or just Radzinsky being stupid? If we knew the answer to that, then it would be easier to speculate about season 6.
