Thank goodness I was watching LOST tonight with my good friend Lynn. I needed to talk this episode out with someone.
Tonight's episode focused on Desmond and also on the subject of time travel. We have been treated to flash forwards and flashbacks but tonight Desmond was able to "jump" between two time periods. Once I was able to wrap my brain around it, it opened up some interesting doors.
It appears that once you leave the island, like the Oceanic Six are going to do, you could suffer some 'side effects' as Daniel Faraday calls them. For example, Jack could get off the island and then it could be 1996 but he has all the memories of what had happened up to 2004. So when we see drunken Jack with the crazy beard, I thought it was a flash forward but maybe it was a flashback. He does say in the hospital when he is drunk "Go get my father" and no one flinches (good point Lynn!!). Jack is haunted by what is to come.
Same with Hurley. Maybe he gets off the island and when we see in the mental institution and he says, "We need to go back and get them" he means go to the island in the first place. When we see Hurley at the mental institution and he sees Charlie...it is the past. Charlie is still alive.
I also think this works for Sayid. He gets off the island and goes back in time. He seeks out Ben and they are trying to prevent (?) the crash from happening by killing those involved.
Kate still confuses me. Does she get off the island and then name her baby after the memory of Aaron (that has yet to come). Not sure about this one...I need to hear what everyone else is thinking.
Some random (but related) thoughts:
A doctor comes in to sick bay to give the other 'patient' on the boat a shot. The patient screams about how all of them are going to get sick the closer they get to the island. Could this be the same "sickness" that Danielle always talked about back in the day? It looked like the same medicine they were trying to give Claire when she was kidnapped for a day.
At an auction in the past, Charles Widmore is participating in an auction to win the first mate of the Black Rock's journal. Hmmm, this is all connected. The Black Rock crashed on the island and no one has read the first mate's journal. Penny's dad is a key player.
Lastly, how cute are Penny and Desmond? Such a sweet love story! That is it for me. Anyone who does not watch this TV show will read this post and think the show is crazy...well it is but I am still addicted.
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Hey! Haven't been by your blog in a while, so I thought I'd stop by :)
I don't watch LOST, but our TV was on that channel for quite a while last night while it was on. My husband insisted there was nothing else on...but we had no idea what was going on LOL So I changed it to some documentary on the Science channel....man, my son was asleep in no time.
have a great day!
OK... but Sayid didn't have the time travel experience...yet? So does everyone have these side effects or just some people? It also seems if you don't find a "constant" you die pretty fast. I don't know how or if this will work into the rest of the story with the Ocenaic 6.
Just an ok episode I thought- the time travel stuff confuses me!
I think Sayid did have the side effects. When we saw him with Ben, I think he was in the past knowing info about the future?? Hmmm, does that even make sense?
It has been killing me all day that I hadn't watched the show last night- just finished.
Very interesting analysis.. I like it.
In many of the flashbacks we find out that the different characters are related.
Sawyer's baby's Mother helped Kate.
Jack and Clair are 1/2 siblings.
Charlie and Desmond saw each other on the Street in London.
Jin and Sun- that is an easy one.
Maybe that is them trying to find their constants?
I found Penny's comment about- I've been researching the island... I know about it. And that Daniel wrote.. Desmond is your constant- does that mean that he is involved with creating the island?
Good catch on the Black Rock.. I knew I knew the name, but couldn't place it.
Wouldn't you love to see the story board that they used to map this all out?
I would like to see the story board. At first, I thought they were flying by the seat of their pants...just making it up as they went along. Now, because they have an end date (2010), I think they have a clear direction. I (hope) it will all make sense to us in the end.
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