No, that wasn't a flashback scene. That was what I considered a possible future if they get off the island.
I didn't mind that flash forward. (BTW, the name of the funeral home was a dead giveaway for that one:
Hoffs/Drawlar = Flash Forward.
Love that little bone they threw us.
I assumed for certain that his dad was (still) dead. Just because a drunk, high Jack says something doesn't make it literally true. Plus, if that bald guy was the new head of surgery -- well, wasn't that Christian's position? Didn't he replace the now-dead Christian, and he's only meeting Jack now because Jack has been away on an island for the past X months?
I saw that whole flash-forward bit as a possibility but not a certainty, much like Desmond's flashes, that can be 'righted' or changed in some basic form (although some parts remain intact).
I think now that it wasn't Sawyer's funeral. I think Kate ends up with Sawyer in the flash-forward (if she's already with someone, my guess is that it's Sawyer and not some totally new person so fast). I keep coming back to either Ben or Locke. Why would Jack go to Ben's funeral? Because he's regretting not listening to Ben and realizes now that he was right about the island? (A stretch, but possible.)
What I liked about the flash-forward was that it confirmed what I'm beginning to think for ALL the Losties: They are all better off staying on the island. Do any of them really have life any better back home? The only thing they're missing are creature comforts. Their relationships are purer and healthier on the island. They have true friends and loves there -- people they are willing to die for.
They have purpose. They have meaning there, as individuals and as a group. They are healthier -- both because of lifestyle changes and the fact that the island heals. The island is where they're working out their issues.
The flash-forward showed us just how shallow their lives back home will again become as soon as they're back. It may be familiar territory, but it's no longer home for most of them. I'd been thinking this for some time now, and I can't think of a single Lostie for whom it wouldn't hold true. To see the show's writers play it out for us in miniature just makes it all the more true.
Oh, one more thing about the emotional nature of the obit Jack read: Perhaps Ben's cancer came back, thus reminding Jack that he couldn't heal Ben like the island could. Or perhaps Locke (or someone else) committed suicide due to similar depression at being back. The death of just about any Lostie would probably hit most of them hard. It's the aloofness of Kate that is the key, and that narrows it down. Which is why it can't be Sawyer's funeral.
I didn't mind that flash forward. (BTW, the name of the funeral home was a dead giveaway for that one:
Hoffs/Drawlar = Flash Forward.
Love that little bone they threw us.
I assumed for certain that his dad was (still) dead. Just because a drunk, high Jack says something doesn't make it literally true. Plus, if that bald guy was the new head of surgery -- well, wasn't that Christian's position? Didn't he replace the now-dead Christian, and he's only meeting Jack now because Jack has been away on an island for the past X months?
I saw that whole flash-forward bit as a possibility but not a certainty, much like Desmond's flashes, that can be 'righted' or changed in some basic form (although some parts remain intact).
I think now that it wasn't Sawyer's funeral. I think Kate ends up with Sawyer in the flash-forward (if she's already with someone, my guess is that it's Sawyer and not some totally new person so fast). I keep coming back to either Ben or Locke. Why would Jack go to Ben's funeral? Because he's regretting not listening to Ben and realizes now that he was right about the island? (A stretch, but possible.)
What I liked about the flash-forward was that it confirmed what I'm beginning to think for ALL the Losties: They are all better off staying on the island. Do any of them really have life any better back home? The only thing they're missing are creature comforts. Their relationships are purer and healthier on the island. They have true friends and loves there -- people they are willing to die for.
They have purpose. They have meaning there, as individuals and as a group. They are healthier -- both because of lifestyle changes and the fact that the island heals. The island is where they're working out their issues.
The flash-forward showed us just how shallow their lives back home will again become as soon as they're back. It may be familiar territory, but it's no longer home for most of them. I'd been thinking this for some time now, and I can't think of a single Lostie for whom it wouldn't hold true. To see the show's writers play it out for us in miniature just makes it all the more true.
Oh, one more thing about the emotional nature of the obit Jack read: Perhaps Ben's cancer came back, thus reminding Jack that he couldn't heal Ben like the island could. Or perhaps Locke (or someone else) committed suicide due to similar depression at being back. The death of just about any Lostie would probably hit most of them hard. It's the aloofness of Kate that is the key, and that narrows it down. Which is why it can't be Sawyer's funeral.