The Lost/Alias timeline

[jetpack_monkey]

Okay, so at the end of Season 2 of Alias, the show jumps ahead two years. Now, this means Season 3 runs 2005-2006 (and, consequently, Season 4 runs 2006-2007), roughly. We can't retcon and say that Season 1 happened two years in the past because it references the Patriot Act, so it had to take place in 2001-2002 at the earliest.

Now, during an early ep of Alias this season, we heard "You All Everybody" playing in the background. "You All Everybody" is, of course, the hit song by the band Driveshaft, featuring Charlie from Lost. So this puts both series in the same universe (discounting a parallel universe theory that has two versions of Driveshaft and that song, one in a universe where the plane crashes and one where it doesn't).

My first impulse was that Lost also takes place in the future. However, in Outlaws, Jack refers to the Red Sox never having won a World Series. Therefore, the recent Series victory by the Sox had to happen after the crash, placing Lost squarely in our own time.

This means a fairly basic thing - Alias happens after Lost. If there's any information about the whereabouts of the castaways, if they were rescued, if there was some signal from them that was lost, if there was a second crash... It may have already happened in Alias-time.

One wonders if J.J. is going to take advantage of this. I sure hope so.

Now, this leaves the question of who the heck is that pilot guy and why does he look so much like Weiss? There's a fic by Yahtzee that I'm too lazy to locate the link for that suggests that Weiss has a brother, which is about the most reasonable explanation I can think of. You know, other than "J.J. had to get Grunberg in somewhere..."

And where does this leave Kendall and Locke?

Comments are welcome, but keep in mind that I'm unspoiled for future eps and wish to remain so.