This may be to point out how different he still is from Locke. John told a story early in the season how everything that happened led him to where he is today and he wouldnt change any of it.

Jack may not appreciate the whole janitor thing.

I HOPE he doesn’t stop the flight from crashing, cuz it renders, most of what we’ve been watching for the last 5 years, obsolete. That being said, I can see his argument for doing so. Dozens and dozens of people have died since the crash. Yeah Charlie might still be a junkie… but he might be alive too. And Claire? Who knows where she is, alive or dead.

For just as many negative effects that it might have on the survivors, there’s PLENTY of positives it would have on the dead. Being alive for starters.

He’s the only one who would really benefit at all from preventing 815 from crashing. Locke would still be paralyzed, Rose would die of cancer, Bernard would lose the woman he loved, Charlie and Claire would never have met and he’d still be a junkie and she would have given up her son, Kate would go to prison (no Aaron or Jack or repentant mother this time), Sawyer would still be conning women and ruining lives, Desmond would still be stuck in the hatch, Ji-Yeon would never have been born, Sun would still be stuck in a miserable marriage, Jin would never have become a better man, the list goes on and on.

All Jack cares about is getting back to being a successful spinal surgeon.

circa 1977
Charles
Ellie
Jack
Candle
Horace
Sawyer

circa 2007
Ben
John

hmm… without knowing for sure or not with Candle… Richard is the common thread with them all.

Or maybe I went back and changed the election. Ford was re-elected.

so either locke traveled into the future during the flashes which is possible and he tells richard about it and be ready or he traveled back in time and he has to tell richard eathens going to shoot me, bring a fist aid kit and a watch.

aslo another point. topic up the page can people come on and of ‘the list’ by list as i understand it, it’s people who are fit to join the others. MR Echo was getting kidnapped his first night on the island, i thaught he was on the list and he killed the two people who came for him. then the smoke monster judged him and he died so of the list then? maybe. loche wasn’t on the list, now he’s the leader, so presume things can change. so just because jack wasn’t on the list maybe it doesn’t mean that he will never be on the list.