Wow! This one reminded me of Slaughterhouse Five, or the final episode of Star Trek, the Next Generation. I'm not sure how this fits in to my theory (see my post, Some notes from Season 3) that Desmond will change things in the Looking Glass, but I feel I am on the right track.
Note that the the pilot had to follow special a heading to get back to the ship. Ben also gave Michael a specific heading to get away from the island. Was the heading that he gave Michael the correct heading, or did he give him a false heading. I think he probably gave him a good heading, because if he didn't want Michael and Walt to get away from the island, he wouldn't have needed to give them directions at all. They would never have gotten away from the island on their own.
I like how Desmond finally talks with Penny. She is still searching for him. This is setting up some later developement in a future episode, when Pennys people will possibly show up on the island (maybe next season?).
I wonder about Daniels note in his notebook, "If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant."
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- Locke - Both Alpert and Abaddonhave been watching Locke for a long time, presumably because of the time traveling he was doing. Abaddon seems to be working for Widmore, as he is the one who hired Naomi, Faraday, Lapidus, Miles, and Charlotte. Abaddon convinced Locke to go to Australia on a walk-about, which ultimately got him on flight 815.
- Jack Sheppard - I have to wonder if Christian, Jacks father, already had some affiliation to the Island, seeing as he is standing in as proxy for Jacob lately. Part of Dharma involved medical advancements, and we have seen that some people on the Island seem to heal extremely fast. When the Sarah, woman who would become Jacks wife, was in an accident, Jack was able to miraculously heal her. I wonder if Christian, with the help of Island resources, played a hand in that.
- Claire Littleton - Claire is Christian Sheppard's daughter. Again, Christian seems to be important to the Island somehow. Her son, Aaron, may be important too, if the psychic is to be believed. One thought, though: Did the psychic get Claire on flight 815 so she would have to be the one to raise Aaron, or did he use the pregnance as an excuse to get Claire to the Island? In sort, who needed to be on the Island, Aaron or Claire?
- Hurley - When Hurley was in the hospital, there was another patient, Lenny, who kept repeating the numbers. Hurley picked up on those number, and won the lottery with them. That put him on someones radar. My theory is that when Lenny's obsession with the numbers is discovered, Libby is hired by Widmore to go undercover as a patient in the hospital (Widmore is desparetly trying to find the Island, and the numbers are his only lead). Then, perhaps as a separate initiative, Widmore somehow rigs the lottery to come up with the Islands number, to flush out some other lead. When Hurley wins with those numbers, Libby is then tasked with trailing Hurley....
- Kate - Kate's step-father is in the military. He served in Iraq with Inman (the man who taught Sayid to torture, and Desmond to push the button). Does this make her important, too, somehow?
- Jin and Sun - Jin was sent by his father-in-law on a mission to deliver a watch. Is Sun's father working with someone involved in the Island? Who was the watch to be delivered to? Widmore? Was the watch even significant, or was it just a ruse to get Jin and Sun on the flight?
- Sawyer - I'm grasping at straws here. Locke is important to the Island. Locke's father was a con man, and he destroyed Sawyers family. Sawyer eventually grows to emulate him. One of his marks, the one who has his baby, bumped into Kate once. Somehow this all puts him o the radar. They are not sure if he is important, but better safe than sorry, so they get him on Oceanic 815.
- Michael and Walt - Did someone from the Island cause Walt's mother to die, so that Michael would go to Australia to get Walt? And was Walt really more than the Others expected, or did they have other plans for him? Plans that he has yet to fulfill?
- Charley - Charley is an innocent bystander. He did meet Desmond in England, when Desmond first started time traveling. As a musician, he was able to figure out how to turn off the radio jammer, but he was supposed to be dead by then, so the Oceanic Six were not supposed to get off the Island. My guess is that the Island didn't want him there, but he worked in Widmores favor.
- Boone and Shannon - Shannon's father was killed in the same crash that injured Sarah, Jacks' future wife. Might Jack have been able to save him if he didn't concentrate on treating Sarah?
- Anna Lucia - Innocent bystander. She was with Christian in Australia.
6 comments:
Yeah, I agree, WOW! I was mostly delighted with the whole episode. Some of it was confusing, but all of it was entertaining.
I gotta wonder why Sayid would let Desmond go down to the doctor's alone, just because the captain said "Trust me".
Any significance to the year 1996? Did I miss something in understanding why Desmond is the person (along with the communications officer George) who is bouncing between two time frames?
Why is Andy emailing you directly instead of participating in this blog?
Sorry, I have nothing but questions.
Any significance to the year 1996? Probably just that it is 8 years earlier (8 being one of the special numbers). Apart from that, 96 = 15 + 16 + 23 + 42.
They did ask Desmond if he was subject to any strong magnetic fields. He didn't remember it, because he had the memory of his '96 self, but he was at ground zero when the hatch was distroyed.
Andy emailed me asking for instruction on login in to the blog. Hopefully we will be hearing from him soon.
I agree with Anne, but the WOW!! applies to the whole season so far. I hope they can keep the momentum going. It's unfortunate that the greedy writers had to go on strike and cost us three episodes (what do you expect from Liberals, right Anne?)
Desmond was at ground zero, but presumably George wasn't. So why are THEY who are time traveling?
What are the lottery numbers again? I can't believe you came up with their significance in adding up to 96!
Andy, what the hell do Liberals have to do with the writer's strike?! Glad you've finally joined the blog.
George, et al, were not at the meltdown of the hatch, but they may have been around other strong magnetic fields. There had to be some reason they asked Desmond that question, so I think it's a good guess.
The numbers are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42. So leave out the first two numbers, and they add up to 96. I'm not saying that that was intentional. Maybe just coincidence.
I was thinking this morning about the time difference on the island. When I first suggested time on the island may pass at a different rate than the rest of the world, I assumed it was at a slower rate: That a month would pass on the island, while a year passed in the US. That would explain Walt looking so much older and the Others not aging during the decades (although Ben did grow up). But it seems that the reverse is true. Sayid left in the helicopter. Jack and Juliet were frantic by the next day. But I got the impression Sayid called soon after landing on the ship. So (as usual) I'm confused. Looking forward to tonight's episode. Even staying up for it and watching it in real time!
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