Another tidbit from the Lost panel at last month’s Comic-Con to chew over this morning:
-Will Rousseau get a flashback? CC: “You will learn some more about Rousseau’s story. To use the word flashback might be disingenuous. Instead of flashbacks and flash forwards, we’re gonna do something different.” (This was the first of a few references CC and DL made to a new way of handling the passage of time that will be employed in season five).
“We’re gonna do something different.” I don’t take that to mean that the flashbacks or flash-forwards will be gone altogether. (Although if the action jumps to the “present” in which Jack is trying to get back to the Island, then there may be no flash-forwards, or any flash-forwards [to periods between the Oceanic 6 rescue and the “present”] will now technically be flashbacks, or… my brain hurts.) When the flash-forwards were introduced, they were interspersed with flashbacks, so it may just be that a third option will be introduced to the mix.
So: How do you think they change up the structure of the show? My first guess is that at least some episodes will involve an A plot involving the effort to return to the Island, and a B plot set on the Island after it moved (or vice versa). Along with this, I could still see some flashbacks, for those characters—I’m thinking the Freighties in particular—who still have history worth exploring.
But that’s a little obvious and boring. Do you have a better idea?