I hate to regress the thread, but... Here's a season five spoiler that didn't happen, that may happen in season six. One of the easter eggs on the Lost season five blu-ray is Lindelof and Cuse talking with Michael Emerson in the production office. Behind Lindelof and Cuse is a board with an outline for the episode "The Incident." According to the outline, the original ending of the episode was going to be Juliet exploding the bomb, then a shot of 1977 Richard looking back at a bright light in the distance, hence his "I watched them all die," comment. Who knows if they even shot this, but maybe we'll see this sometime next year, perhaps during an Alpert flashback episode.
...and that's what the spoiler tag in a spoiler thread is for. eta: I added the other pic to my previous post.
Here is a link to the he first 4 minutes of the first episode: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/index.html Not much different then we were expecting, except I noticed how Cindy only gives Jack one mini bottle of vodka this time, rather then the two she gave him in the original timeline (one he drank then and there, the other he put in his pocket and used after the crash). Not sure why, or what that means, but it is a strange thing to change. Also strange is the turbulence still occurs, does that mean the numbers were still missed for a little bit (but not as long enough to bring the plane down like originally happened)? Or was it just regular turbulence that coincidentally happened at the same time as the original crash should have happened? And finally, is the plane still 2000 miles of course like it was originally? Changing the timeline shouldn't have affected things like the radio going out (unless the plane was brought to the island on purpose) of course it should also not have affected Cindy only giving Jack one bottle of vodka and not two. So who knows?
It's not really spoilery. the first two min of it are just the last two min of the end of last season (Juliet with the bomb). i mean, if you are already in the spoiler thread, then there is nothing new then hasn't been said on here before. In fact, much less.
According to many of the spoilers, the timeline wasn't changed by the bomb going off. The alternate timeline we see is different in many ways from the one we remember, not just that the plane never crashed, but events even from before that are different. And according to someone who's seen the premiere (see one of the last pages of this thread) there is not yet any indication of what this alternate timeline actually is.
I'm not going to watch it either. Two minutes of new footage will simply kill me without the whole episode.
^ Thanks for the warning. I think I'm going to not read them since we're so close. I send spoilers out to a few friends and coworkers. This year most have said they don't read them and will wait for the show. Last year they gobbled them up. Maybe because it's the final season?