ok if anyone else has pointed this out already apologies but here goes.....................................................
thinking about what flocke said to sayiad and sawyer (think he said same to both roughly) about being able to give them anything they want if they do as he asks
Could the timeline we are seeing at Lax be what will happen if all the main players help either floke or jacob to reach their goal. I may be wrong and Im sure people will be glad to point it out to me if i am but so far here i think is what we have seen.
1.kate wanted arron returned to claire and claire to be able to raise arron............that seems to be happening
2.jack wants to be a better/more supportive father than he had growing up......that looks like its happening
3.sayiad wants nadia back alive........thats happened
4 locke wants to marry helen...thats happening
5 claire wants to raise her son....thats happening
6 Ben seems to have a normal life as a teacher... and I assume alex will be his daughter (ben and rousseu....eh)..... 6....hurley is lucky....lookslike thats happening
ok none of their lives are perfect, kates on the run, claire is broke, lockes in a wheelchair, nadias alive but married to sayiads brother and he is still a killer, jack seems to have a broken marriage and a relationship with his son that isnt fantastic...but theirs a glimmerof hope there there
I wonder if we will see other characters in the lax timeline having their dreams fulfilled but not exceeded.....................
so my idea is that by helping flocke out and ultimately freeing him from the island ( why hes trapped i dont know but i kinda like the cherubium idea) the losties will all be returned almost the point when they first went to the island........... this will be the first and only time they are in an alt timeline.....and it can only occur because some godlike being is making it happen....nothing to do with TT......so in other words they went through everything that happened in exactly the order that it happened............WHH...... up until the end of this season when flocke(because they have helped him achieve his goal) will say whoah.....time out....lets do a bit of a reset here................and will change things to what we are seeing now in Lax.................still doent know why there is a months difference in the original flight times or why flight number isnt mentioned....but maybe that doesnt matter, maybe thats just to let us see that things have changed