It certainly is funny to talk about showing you scenes of what’s GOING to happen in a show that can’t be considered “spoiling” the show. With the show LOST, there’s a story telling trick where instead of foreshadowing future events, they simply show you highly edited versions of what will eventually come to pass. Now called “flash forwards” these slices of what is to come started at the end of what, last season(?) and has gone on occasionally since then.
Problem is, these flash forwards don’t make any sense all by themselves. There’s more questions raised without much in the way of exposition about how the characters came to be where they are and how they came by their future motivations. The first flash forward was a drunken Jack who is desperate to “go back to the island” but the Jack we’re used to is desperate to get off of the island. So, why (and when!) did Jack change his mind? It turns out that particular flash forward, the first presented to the viewers, was the one that chronologically took place last.
Yes, as the episodes progressed, the flash forwards were presented in reverse chronological order for the most part. The movie MEMENTO was presented this way, but I loathe with a burning fire passion that movie. You see, when you put the movie MEMENTO in the proper order, it doesn’t really contain a watchable story. You may try to call it a story, but it’s certainly one I wouldn’t want to watch. All the tension was in the reversal. Not so with these reverse order flash forwards. True, the tension here is the action and motivation that we’re not seeing, but okay, is there still a story if you put all the flash forwards together in chronological order?
Well, here’s nearly nine minutes of LOST’s flash forwards, put together in the order generally agreed upon by the LOST fanatics. Watch it so you can judge for yourself.
Remember LOST viewers, you’ve seen all these scenes before in previous episodes, so in showing you what’s going to happen, it’s not a spoiler. 
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So long a clip, so many puns to make. However, instead, I will stick with this one observation. For a show that takes place on an uncharted Island, so much of that clip didn’t. Personally, I’ve watched shows on Telemundo that made more sense.
The Perfessor
Oh, sorry Perfessor. The goal of the characters is to get OFF the island, and apparently (as seen in these flash forwards) THEY DO. Some, anyway. And then some realize that the island wasn’t so bad after all. It’s irony.
As for making sense within the show itself, none of these flash forwards make sense. It’s like slices of a dream. I’ve often wondered if the backwards talking dwarf person from TWIN PEAKS would make an appearance. Oh, and the Hurley character finally comes to the decision (once he’s off the island) that he’s dead and all he’s experiencing (and what we’re watching) is some version of Hell.