March 14, 2054

As the credits rolled at the end of the last episode of LOST, Jacob sat back in his chair and looked at Eelai, “Holy cow!”

Eelai’ face was a study in shocked disbelief, “I know, huh!?”

“Yeah!”

Eelai jumped up from the couch, “That was unbelievable!”

Jacob joined him, “I know! I would have never ended it that way. Too bad about Locke.”

Eelai smiled broadly, “What did I tell you?”

Jacob, waved a hand dismissively, “Lucky guess.”

“Lucky guess!? They set it up in the pilot! Lucky guess, hmph!”

Jacob changed the subject as he refreshed their drinks, “What about Salvador? I didn’t think he would go through with that, and the part with Richard? That was all kinds of awesome.”

Eelai cocked his head, “What part with Richard?”

Jacob brought the drinks back, “When he told Jack about the bridge, and how Jacob was waiting for him. I just thought it was poignant.”

“Yeah, if you’re a girl.”

Jacob laughed, “Whatever. What about Smokie’s fate, did you see that coming too?”

“Not the specifics, but I knew the Black Rock would play a part. They set that up nicely in Season 1. You have to admire that kind of forethought.”

Jacob gave Eelai a sidelong glance, “You guys didn’t have anything to do with that did you?”

Eelai laughed, “What, the Guild? No, we did not.”

“Just checking.”

“I don’t see how we could have improved on it if we did! The time travel aspects were handled much better than par for your century.”

“You got that right!”

May 14, 2007

Jacob paused before hitting “Submit”. Should he do this? It was kind of mean spirited, to say the least. Part of him felt he shouldn’t, but another part, a deeper, darker part couldn’t bring himself to care.

Ever since Lisa left him he could feel himself slipping away. He cared less and less about the people around him. Before his experiences with time travel, the present seemed real, he felt grounded in time. He shared a kinship with other people. It was unconscious, he was unaware that it was even there. Until he returned with Lisa to August of 2005, after being away in 2054 and then spending a year on Noah’s Ark. Then he noticed it. Because it was gone.

He had become detached, adrift in the time stream. For all his life, he felt pulled along by the current of time like everyone else. But not now. Now he had a boat, could come and go as he chose, and it made him disinterested in the goings on in the world around him.

For instance, he knew the world would be lauding the election of the first black American president at the end of next year, and yet most people he talked to don’t even know Barak Obama. It all served to distance him from his life here in 2007.

That was the crux of the problem he suddenly realized. Everyone carries with them the notion that the present is real. The past is a memory, and the future a dream. Without time travel, everyone shares the same perspective, the same present. But Jacob’s perspective had changed. He carried his own present around with him. As a result nothing felt real to him. The people he met were not real, they felt like characters in a play that Jacob had seen to often. He was no longer invested.

Which is why ultimately he had no problem hitting “Submit”. Besides, if anyone at AICN reads his post and ruins the finale, they had only themselves to blame.

Jacob scanned over his post entry, checking for errors. Seeing none, he concluded his synopsis of the Lost season 3 finale and signed his post, “You may call me lostfan108.”

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