The big question is... how far into the future was that flashforward?

Years would mean that all would've calmed on the island (through death or mutiny, or whatever), and would make sense for Jack and Kate to get a normal life back, but a couple of weeks/months wouldn't be enough time for Jack and Kate to set up a normal life again, and find their place. Their celebrity, however short lived, would not be that short lived.

I think its taken me since the season finale to make sense of all this in my head, and I think I'm now piecing together the questions that I want answered, and what is the deal with this grandest of mysteries, and why it perplexes me so. I think the above question would go a long way to satisfy my hunger for answers... I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

There is obviously some kind of middle ground, but right now I'm in a bizarre state of mind where I'm almost worried about how they'll get back to the island and get the main events back into the present! Flashbacks have always been major story events, but the flash forwards arguably mean a great deal more in terms of the action on the island... it generates a sense of futility to the action on the island, destiny.

But perhaps in that sense the futile nature of what we are going to see on the island in season 4, and knowing what we know about the 'Oceanic 6', further establishes the debate that has run through this series... Destiny vs Free Will. We now know certain characters are destined to leave, or to stay, and we know this will happen. The only thing that will reverse this destiny, the inevitability, is for free will to take hold.


I feel like I've been vomiting words for a while... me rest now.

What do you think....?