‘Lost’ Season Six Premiere Has ‘Rock Solid’ Science
Erin McCarthy writes on Popular Mechanics:
Last season, the castaways detonated a hydrogen bomb in an attempt to rewrite history. Popular Mechanics talks to Michio Kaku, host of the Science Channel’s Sci-Fi Science, to find out just how close the science in the season six premiere comes to fact. Beware! Spoilers ahead.
The opening moments of Lost’s season six premiere, “LA X,” look eerily familiar: We’re back on Oceanic Flight 815. But something is off. Yes, reluctant hero Jack Shephard is still flirting with an Australian flight attendant and talking an anxious Rose through a patch of turbulence while her husband is in the bathroom, just as we saw in season one. Suddenly, the turbulence gets worse, and then … it stops. Instead of breaking apart and crashing on a mysterious island, Oceanic Flight 815 stays intact. And that’s not all that’s different: Boone is on the plane, but Shannon isn’t. Instead of being branded unlucky by the numbers he used for his lottery win, Hurley is the luckiest man alive. And beneath the plane, the island where our favorite castaways have spent the last few seasons fighting Others and each other is now completely submerged.
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