Something that has bugged me for awhile is what she may have meant with that statement. What I’m proposing here is an interpretation of that statement and I’ll try to back it up with as much known information as possible.
It’s necessary to remember that by the time she sends her son back to the Island, she knows a helluva lot about the future. Eloise is first told about the future in 1954 (“Jughead”), by ironically her own son, that he is from the future (I don’t remember if he gives the exact date), and that in the future the island was still there. The second time she is told about the future is when Daniel stumbles into the camp and she shoots him. He has his journal with her own personal note to him from 20 years in the future in it.
She knows whatever was written in the journal up to the point where Daniel died. He was suffering from memory problems, therefore, you would think that he would be sure to detail the things that he learned (this was reinforced in “The Variable”).
So, how does she use this information?
Before I get into that, I think it’s necessary to lay a point to rest. Ben’s statement to John that whoever turns the wheel can’t come back has been totally debunked. I mean, really, Ben is the textbook definition of “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” But giving him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he just truly believed that you couldn’t come back, you then have to look at it realistically. The person that said that whoever turns the wheel can’t come back to the Island….. turned the wheel and came back to the Island. And in a roundabout way, Locke also turned the wheel and also came back. So, that lays that myth to rest.
So back to Eloise, she “knows” that if the Losties get on that certain plane, then they can get back to the Island. She’s hoping that all of them go back so that everything will go exactly as planned. Knowing this, why not hop on the plane herself and sit in coach? As a matter of fact, there really is no telling who was in coach. One can even point out that Charles Widmore was in town…… I mean, really, he has claimed to be trying to find the Island for so long, he knows where Eloise lives, he was keeping tabs on either Penny or Eloise enough that he caught Eloise outside of the hospital. Let’s be honest, if anybody has the resources to find out what flights our committed Losties had purchased and then put two and two together to see the Ajira Flight 316 connection, it would be Widmore.
We really have not seen who was in the back of that plane other than the quick peek when Hurley was being the good guy in “316”. We never saw Brahm on the plane.
When Ben talked to the woman at the butcher shop and asked if two guys had checked in, she stated (and I’m paraphrasing) that everything was moving along as planned. They could very well have been planning to get on that plane. It’s quite possible that the major players in this “war” were all on Flight 316.
So, my interpretation of her statement “then God help us all” isn’t talking about the world in general but that she could be personally be affected by all the Losties not showing up because she, and her participants in the war, will all be on that same flight.
It’s necessary to remember that by the time she sends her son back to the Island, she knows a helluva lot about the future. Eloise is first told about the future in 1954 (“Jughead”), by ironically her own son, that he is from the future (I don’t remember if he gives the exact date), and that in the future the island was still there. The second time she is told about the future is when Daniel stumbles into the camp and she shoots him. He has his journal with her own personal note to him from 20 years in the future in it.
She knows whatever was written in the journal up to the point where Daniel died. He was suffering from memory problems, therefore, you would think that he would be sure to detail the things that he learned (this was reinforced in “The Variable”).
So, how does she use this information?
Before I get into that, I think it’s necessary to lay a point to rest. Ben’s statement to John that whoever turns the wheel can’t come back has been totally debunked. I mean, really, Ben is the textbook definition of “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” But giving him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he just truly believed that you couldn’t come back, you then have to look at it realistically. The person that said that whoever turns the wheel can’t come back to the Island….. turned the wheel and came back to the Island. And in a roundabout way, Locke also turned the wheel and also came back. So, that lays that myth to rest.
So back to Eloise, she “knows” that if the Losties get on that certain plane, then they can get back to the Island. She’s hoping that all of them go back so that everything will go exactly as planned. Knowing this, why not hop on the plane herself and sit in coach? As a matter of fact, there really is no telling who was in coach. One can even point out that Charles Widmore was in town…… I mean, really, he has claimed to be trying to find the Island for so long, he knows where Eloise lives, he was keeping tabs on either Penny or Eloise enough that he caught Eloise outside of the hospital. Let’s be honest, if anybody has the resources to find out what flights our committed Losties had purchased and then put two and two together to see the Ajira Flight 316 connection, it would be Widmore.
We really have not seen who was in the back of that plane other than the quick peek when Hurley was being the good guy in “316”. We never saw Brahm on the plane.
When Ben talked to the woman at the butcher shop and asked if two guys had checked in, she stated (and I’m paraphrasing) that everything was moving along as planned. They could very well have been planning to get on that plane. It’s quite possible that the major players in this “war” were all on Flight 316.
So, my interpretation of her statement “then God help us all” isn’t talking about the world in general but that she could be personally be affected by all the Losties not showing up because she, and her participants in the war, will all be on that same flight.
