OK, so (based on something I read today), maybe we aren't in a separate reality, per say. What if they are back on the plane and the island sinks and is nothing because Jacob really is dead. With no more Jacob, none of it happened. And they didn't fix or make anything happen with the bomb. What happened, happened because Ben killed Jacob. No Jacob, no island. The end. But, now that Jacob has a new form (Sayid), life (and life on the island) goes on. If Jacob lives, so does the island, and they remain there. This is the reason Whidmore tried so hard to get them back to the island, because he needed them to save Jacob so the island could go on. This is why Locke couldn't let them leave the island. This is why Locke and Ben had to get them back.
Furthermore, Juliette's "it worked" is really plaguing me. I think the "it" she may be referring to goes back to the last episode of last season, when Jacob tells Easu that there's only one ending and everything in between is progress. I think Rose and her hubby are that progress. They came, they found peace, they made a home and they are content. After all, Easu says that the outcome is always the same: they come, they fight, blah, blah, blah. Rose and her hubby defy that. Could they be the "it worked" that Juliette is referring to? Is it a bigger picture that she is talking about? I know the "it" can't be them setting off the bomb and preventing Dharma from making the Swan hatch, because after the explosion, they wake to find Juliette at the exploded Swan hatch. And it's complete with the exercise bike Desmond was riding in the first episode of season 2. So the hatch still gets built. And Desmond still makes it explode with Charlie. So that "it" didn't work. And they are still on the island, so that it (being back at LAX) didn't work yet either. So which "it" is it that she is referring to?
Anyone else notice how the stewardess from the plane, also a member of the Temple People, seemed really routed with the Temple People? Like she had been there before, long before the plane crashed? Was she planted on the plane? And she referred to the Lostees as the ones who came from the "first plane." I'm assuming that means the Agira Air flight still crashes, so if they made the bomb crash in 1977, wouldn't it have stopped the Agira Air flight from crash landing? I think what this episode boils down to is that our Lostees and their bomb changed nothing, even the Lostees being back on the plane and landing at LA X. I think their level of self-importance, has them thinking they can do so much more than they have any control over. I think the heart of this episode is Jacob's "death" and "rebirth" and that is what has the power to change and control everything, including the island, their pasts, presents and futures.
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With regard to the stewardess with the Temple People... the Temple People are part of the Others. I believe the stewardess was originally part of the people from the tail section? Regardless, I could swear she was taken by the Others early on in the series, along with the children. Didn't we later find her and the children at the compound where the Others were when Sawyer & Kate were in cages, etc.? I could swear that by then she was already adapted to their way of life. Sometime after that (and I'm going by memory here without looking anything up) a conflict arose where some of the Others stayed to fight/protect themselves and others were taken to safe refuge. If memory serves me correct, they were headed to The Temple. And thats where stewardess & company were taken. That probably explains why she seemed really routed with them?
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