Retraction!

So for the first time EVER, I am actually going to go back on what I wrote in my recap last night! After thinking about it more and more today, some of the stuff I wrote.... well, I just don't believe anymore. LOL. That's the thing with this show, you can have a million different "theories" and then think about something else and it all changes. It also doesn't help that when I wrote this recap, I was all drugged up on Vicodin after having surgery less than a week ago. So my thoughts were a little muddled. Anyway, here are my NEW theories.

*If you haven't yet read my recap from the season six premiere, scroll down to read it first, then read my "retraction" here*

Okay, so I had written how I thought that the hydrogen bomb experiment must have worked, as we saw them landing in L.A., but that since we see them in present time on the island they must have met all each other at some point in L.A., and then still made it to the island at a later point which is them being there now. Since Juliet said "IT WORKED" I kept thinking it had to have worked and sent them back, but then they must have still made it there anyway later on (their destiny). While I do think that their lives will intertwine for sure after the plane lands in L.A. (as we saw with Jack and Locke, Kate and Claire, etc.), I am going back on my statement that the experiment sent them back right then and then they later go to the island some other way. Here is why. If the experiment truly worked, that means they were NEVER on the island before. So the fact that we are seeing them in present time when they "wake up" after the bomb explodes, and they clearly have memories of being on the island, means it could NOT have worked because they WERE on the island before. And the weird thing is that when the bomb goes off it is 1977 but when they wake up it is present time (2009 presumably). The white light they saw was another time flash, jumping through time. However, Juliet wakes up just a few seconds later, yet roughly 30 years have passed and she still has her injuries from the explosion and then dies. Also, Sayid, who was shot in 1977, dies in 2009 from the same gunshot wound. Strange.

Anyway, here is my new thought. The time flash goes off in 1977, propelling them into present time. They will continue their lives on the island living in the Temple, but meanwhile still always wanting to go home. I believe the "alternate reality flashbacks" we saw of them all on the plane (when they do land in LA) could have actually been FLASH FORWARDS. We kept watching them thinking they were flashbacks, that the experiment must have worked. But the more and more I thought about it, I think that could be the flash of what is to come. So they are still on the island now, but they will figure out some way to send themselves back (again), and this scene we saw of them on the plane will be the finale of the whole show. So, I think they could live out this time on the island, in the Temple, something will happen with Jacob being able to send them back and "erase" the whole past, and the show will end with that scene we saw last night of them all on the plane, talking to each other but not even knowing each other, each then going on their way back home in Los Angeles. So the end result will be that it does work, their plane lands in LA, they were never on the island (which is underwater now), and they each go their own way in LA yet still coming into contact with each other. I think this is how the whole show is going to end (the flash forwards which we saw last night - this is the future for them). Their whole past is erased.