I am uncertain if this has been sufficiently addressed already but was thinking recently why Sun did not travel back to 1977 with the other Losties. I mean, I get why Locke and Ben didn't.
Locke was dead and in a coffin. When he showed up alive, he wasn't Locke, he was Flocke. So, Flocke was never intended to travel back to 1977.
Ben was officially banished from the island, so, of course, he really shouldn't have been allowed back. No wonder, there, why he wasn't "invited" to time travel back to 1977.
But that got me wondering why Sun was different than Sayid, Hurley, Jack and Kate. Hmmmmm. What was different?!
Then it hit me.
All of them were pretty much the same as when they left, except Sun. Remember, when Sun left the island, she was pregnant with JiYeon.
Not to get into a whole "when does a person become a person" prolife/prochoice kind of discussion, but one could say that JiYeon was actually on the island as well (though in her mother's womb). I actually joke that my youngest has been to DisneyWorld too...because I was almost 7 months pregnant with her.
So, that got me to thinking...Sun perhaps couldn't travel back to 1977 because she was different. Not pregnant. Not with the other life that was attached to her at the time that she left the island.
I now believe that had Sun traveled on the flight to "Guam" with JiYeon, both would have traveled back to 1977 like the other Losties. (Though, as a mother, I too would not have had my child on that flight.)
Still, this is my reasoning and I'm sticking to it.
Locke was dead and in a coffin. When he showed up alive, he wasn't Locke, he was Flocke. So, Flocke was never intended to travel back to 1977.
Ben was officially banished from the island, so, of course, he really shouldn't have been allowed back. No wonder, there, why he wasn't "invited" to time travel back to 1977.
But that got me wondering why Sun was different than Sayid, Hurley, Jack and Kate. Hmmmmm. What was different?!
Then it hit me.
All of them were pretty much the same as when they left, except Sun. Remember, when Sun left the island, she was pregnant with JiYeon.
Not to get into a whole "when does a person become a person" prolife/prochoice kind of discussion, but one could say that JiYeon was actually on the island as well (though in her mother's womb). I actually joke that my youngest has been to DisneyWorld too...because I was almost 7 months pregnant with her.
So, that got me to thinking...Sun perhaps couldn't travel back to 1977 because she was different. Not pregnant. Not with the other life that was attached to her at the time that she left the island.
I now believe that had Sun traveled on the flight to "Guam" with JiYeon, both would have traveled back to 1977 like the other Losties. (Though, as a mother, I too would not have had my child on that flight.)
Still, this is my reasoning and I'm sticking to it.
