#flash sideways

Obviously the flash sideways shows the idea of a version of the world where the plane never crashed because the island had been blown up, and because of that we got to see our characters alive and well, living much better lives than they had gotten and this is obviously devastating.

The most devastating ones to me that stick with me are these:

The Rousseau family (and Ben too). Danielle got the chance to raise her daughter and have a happy normal life. Alex got to know her mother and have a normal life, living to her academic potential. And Ben got to mentor Alex, his daughter in another life, and have a close relationship with her. When on the island Danielle and Alex were unceremoniously killed after barely having time together.

But even more than them I think about Daniel Faraday (Daniel Widmore in the flash sideways). Because the island ‘didn’t exist anymore’ in the flash sideways, Eloise never forced her son to give up piano to make him pursue academics so that he would eventually end up on the island in time to get shot by her younger self.

It’s so devastating that Eloise did that to her own son in the first place, raised him to be killed by her. And this version of him never had to suffer that, he just got to play the piano like he wanted to.

2x17: "He, he was helping me." 6x16: "I will not let you hurt Mr. Locke again!"

To the point where I’ve been going through all the Flash Sideways stories, working out where Desmond intervenes in them and trying to work out how they could have happened without his intervention. Or how they could have been different had Desmond not intervened. And trying to work out what would have happened for the stories to continue after the point where they remembered their past lives.