Without the island/swan station, Desmond's boat apparently never crashed there - did he make it back to Penny in this timeline?
What's odd about all of that is that Desmond shouldn't have been on the plane regardless. That's one heck of a coincidence that he never made it to the island and then ended up on the exact same flight as everyone else. I'd almost guess that he did his time travel trick to get on the flight, but it didn't seem like he was working towards any real purpose - at least not anyhting they let on to.
- people sitting in different spots on the plane
- Shannon staying in Australia instead of going on the plane
- where's Mr. Eko, Libby, AnnaLucia? Not on the plane anymore?
I didn't notice they were in different spots - good catch! Was it everyone or who did you notice specifically? I thought about the "Tailies" we didn't see as well, but figured they were in the aft section and that's why we missed 'em.
Oh, and I do have to say that the MIB/FakeLocke/Smokey was a bad-ass - killing Jacob's bodyguards and then punking Richard and dragging him off... not to mention the temple (finally the "taken" people plot point comes back) and all the stuff that happened with Sayd (dead/alive). I really can't wait to see what happens next when smokey comes calling.
Amen to that - O'quinn makes a pretty scary bad guy. Interesting to note that in the interview on Jimmy Kimmel last night, the writers said
something has possessed Sayid, but possibly not Jacob...