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First installment(s) of the final season of LOST. Watch parts 1 & 2 here. Read more at Lostpedia »
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• Damon and Carlton promised that a new device would be introduced at Comic-Con. This appears to be the “flash sideways” (as Carlton Cuse calls them[1]) to a timeline where 815 never crashed introduced in this episode.
• Cindy, Zach and Emma appear for the first time since the Season 3 episode “The Brig”.
• Claire appears for the first time outside of stock footage since Season 4′s episode “There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3″, after a 17 episode absence.
• The flash sideways “whoosh” is different to the previous flashback sound. It bears a striking resemblance to the noise a plane makes.
• Unusually, there was no guest cast list given before the airing of the episode in the ABC press releases, to avoid spoiling the episode.
• As of this episode, Jack and Kate are the only characters to appear in every season premiere of the series.
• John Locke assuages Boone’s anxiety about a crash landing on water by telling him that with a good pilot and calm seas not only that they all can survive a ditching on water the plane could land intact and could float on the water with the fuel tanks providing buoyancy for sometime, enough for everyone on board to make it into life rafts. This may have been a inside reference to the controlled ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York City’s Hudson River on January 15, 2009 due to bird strikes and subsequent dual engine failure. The plane floated totally intact (but slowly sinking) and the passengers made it out onto the wings waiting to be picked up by the tourist and transport ferries converging on the site. There were no fatalities.
• Sayid’s passport, shown at LAX, is an Iranian passport instead of being Iraqi.
• Michael Dawson and Walt Lloyd are not shown–perhaps because they are not on Oceanic Flight 815 in this alternate timeline or are sitting in a different section of the plane. Walt is 10 in 2004 so the role would have to be played by someone else since he would be 16 in 2010.
• Shannon, Nikki, Paulo, Scott, Steve, Sullivan and other characters from previous seasons known to be on board Oceanic 815 were not seen, although Shannon was referenced by Boone.
• Desmond was seen by Jack to be on the flight, but he was not on it originally. In the original timeline he was on the island, working at the Swan Station. It’s not known whether Desmond was actually on the flight as he appears and disappears with only Jack actually noticing him.
• Ana-Lucia Cortez, Libby, and Eko, who were in the tail section, were not shown to be on the flight.
• The first episode of season 1 and 6 starts from Jack’s POV.
• This is the first season premiere since the Pilot where Jin actually appears with speaking lines. He did not appear in season 2, 3 and 5′s opening episodes, and had no lines in season 4′s opener, making him the original cast member credited in all seasons to appear the least in season premieres.
• When viewing the address shown on Jack’s business card (8444 Wilshire Blvd) on Google Map’s Street-View, you can see a film crew. It is not clear if this is a Lost-related shoot.
• This is the first and likely final time that Jack, Kate, Locke, Sawyer, Sayid, Hurley, Jin, Sun, Claire, Boone, Desmond, Charlie, Ben, Juliet and Arzt have appeared in the same episode since season 3′s “Exposé.”
• This is the first, last, and only 2 hour season premiere of Lost.
• One of the Ankhs the four toed statue was holding is now visible to its right, underwater.

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