Heh, reminds me of Hurley in 'Some Like it Hoth'
I actually like reading alternate 'what-if' scenarios like this. By all means, share away!
Hey it does!
Well, to shorten this up a bit, I'll just start at Season 6. The bomb is blown up so all the rules are off the table.
Start with LA X, but instead of having ANY on island stuff, have it just be a regular 1 hour episode...except Jack remembers everything pretty quickly (maybe when he speaks to Locke), but no one else does. He has a typical Jack meltdown in the airport when he realizes he made a mistake by destroying Jughead. End of episode 1.
Then the next few episodes deal with the history of the island, starting with Jacob and The Man in Black, and their fate is heavily tied into the numbers and the Egyptian mythology of the show. Then get to Ab Aeterno, and REALLY spend a few episodes getting the history and mysteries of the island resolved, like the Others, the random events, etc.
And if the flashes structure needs to be there, have Jack and maybe Desmond "waking" everyone up for the first half of the season, instead of waiting until the very end.
Eventually, history catches up to MiB getting Ben to kill Jacob. MiB leaves the island, but we aren't given a clear explanation as to what that means.
So we are at about halfway through the season, and Jack has everyone reunited in the church (I would do this scene pretty much like they did, except for the incredibly clunky dialogue from Christian Shepard). Then when they're all hugging and celebrating in the pews, and Christian heads to the back into the light...and is promptly stabbed by someone, Locke.
Locke is possessed by MiB, and yells at everyone, asking them why they'd want to leave, as he's given them everything they wanted. Somehow, him leaving the island actually did cause him to become one with the electromagnetic energy, or time or something, and he gained the ability to rewrite reality, so he used it to separate everyone who was affected by the island (and Jacob) by deleting the island. But now that they've broken the reality by remembering the old one, they have exposed a tear, which would destroy everything if they cross through (the light). Someone tries to fight back, but MiB kills them, and binds everyone to the pews, in seat belts.
Somehow, Jacob finds them, and MiB and Jacob fight again (maybe Jacob actually gives a good reason for letting Ben stab him). MiB tries to create another new reality, but Jacob intervenes at the last second, throwing them all into the one place he can think of (I'm not sure how Jacob has powers, maybe they remained from the old timeline), and the back of the church rips off, showing a blue sky. The pews become plane seats, and the church becomes a plane, same sound effects and everything, and it crashes.
Now that time is wrecked and displaced, it is revealed that some characters are lost across time, like Christian Shepard, Walt, and anyone who appeared on the island (the whispers)
Then the final episodes would be a war between the two quickly formed sides, with some characters agreeing with what MiB did, wanting a new life (Kate, Sun, Jin, Sayid, Charles Widmore, Eloise, most of the Others) and some of the formerly dead characters that now have a second chance (Ana Lucia, Michaelm. Go all out with the fanservice, like putting Nikki, Paulo, Anthony Cooper, Mikhail Baukunin, Phil, Keamy, Neil Frogurt, Tom, on team evil. Locke is still possessed by MiB. Time is broken so all bets are off as to who is currently on the island.
Team Jack is the good or fan favorite characters (Desmond, Ben, Jacob, Rose/Bernard, Charlie, Richard, Faraday, Juliet, Penny, Libby, Miles, Boone, Shannon Eko, hell, even ARZT. Some take a while to convert to good and stay gray for a while, but it's all preparation for a final battle between the two sides (if you hype up a war, you should have a war happen). Jack defeats MiB, but only because Locke's spirit is so strong he is able to regain his body. Lots of characters die again or for the first time (Personally, I would have Kate, Michael, Sayid, Nikki/Paulo, Miles, Eloise, Widmore, a few heroic sacrifices, most of the random goon survivors, and Jacob get killed off, and of course Arzt would blow up again). And find time to explain stuff about the shadow of the statue guys somewhere in there.
After the massive struggle, Locke, Faraday, and Ben stay on the island to try and fix the time and space anomalies, while most of the other characters get away.
I like the bookended stuff with Jack closing his eye with Vincent, but it might be cool if they ended with some kind of threat, like with Locke, Ben, Faraday and whoever else staying, they only have an hour before the "window" to escape closes, or a burst of energy or something will keep them all there. All the escaping characters get on the Ajira plane and take off (just like in The End, one of the best scenes in that episode), and escape just in time. End with hope for the survivors to finally be free of the island, and with hope that Locke, Ben and co. can fix the time tears and save the world.
Phew. I dunno if that makes any sense, but there ya go. (Please go easy on it haha)
