3.08: "Flashes Before Your Eyes"
*SPOILERy* sifting thru the bits of tonight's new LOST...
I loved the hatch implosion episode in large part because it was the Desmond episode. When I watched that, I was just dazzled by how completely the show could be all about Desmondo, and how the writers could make it so by changing the point-of-view. They've done it to varying degrees with all the cool kids, but Desmond's just seemed so comprehensive, y'know? It was done so well that I was almost ready to chalk the show up to being a riff on IDENTITY, only with Desmond as the main/real personality, y'know?
Almost.
So, I'm very happy with another all-Desmond all the time episode, *and* a look at Desmond's hatch implosion-induced missing time, *with* time travel via projected consciousness! QUANTUM LEAPtacular bonus! =)
Only, y'know, without the ability to truly change or fix events.
Was very 12 MONKEYS and MATRIX in moments and rules/logic.
Also appreciated the romantic roller coaster storyline falling on Valentine's Day.
"The occasion is 'I love you.'"
"There's no such thing as time travel. From what I understand, true love can be just as unlikely..."
Damn rough ride for Desmondo, and in two days.
I guess Penny didn't have too many lines before this episode, but I didn't remember her accent being so strong. I didn't love that.
Hrmmm... Will there be an appearance by a girl with one leg and a heart of gold in the near LOST future?
Okay, in the bearded wonder's trip into his past...
When he goes in for his "interview," he's a bit entranced by the painting on Pops Widmore's office wall. Looked like it might've been the handiwork of Kelvin's old snowman partner, the guy who likely did the hatch murals, started the UV map, and ended up as a stain on the ceiling, remember? There was also a bit of grafitti over some posters on the wall before the army recruiting office that might've been in the same style. The appearance of this artwork fits conveniently with the notion of Desmondo suffering from a concussion from the hatch blast, grabbing elements of his island experience and superimposing them in his relived memories (Charlie, the numbers).
Of course, we all know that he *did* actually travel in time, right?
Right? =)
Pops Widmore happens to appreciate and collect the outsider art of one of his island hatch guinea pigs. And why shouldn't he?
Or... Did said guinea pig/snowman also do a bounce back in time and begin painting hatchy stuff before he was sent to the hatch...?
If pressed, could Charlie remember a very insistent Scotsman getting in his face during a busking session in London a half dozen years or so ago?
The white haired antique dealer who tells Desmond "Give me that sodding ring," she was very MATRIX Oracle for me. The segment where they go out for a walk, and she points out the red shoes, and take a bench, that felt a lot like Neo's talk with the Oracle, as well as the "Girl in the red dress" simulation from the MATRIX. I like the "course correction" explanation. Just enough to write fun stuff around, but not so detailed that it causes continuity problems, y'know? FINAL DESTINATION stuff.
I wonder if this Oracle/sensitive runs into Claire's Australian fortune teller and Rose and Bernard's healer at ESPer conventions or Team Dharma softball games.
So, did Desmond ever really live those moments in the past the way he thinks he remembers them? Did he ever NOT meet Charlie on the street corner after getting royally stomped by Widmore? Did his meeting Charlie, with knowledge of the future, somehow cause ripples, a la butterfly effect, that ultimately lead to Charlie having to die on the island?
Sad...
"You may not like your path, Desmond, but pushing that button is the only truly great thing you will ever do..."
Who's Donovan, hrm? Did anyone catch all of what he said before Desmond yelled up at him in the lobby there? He was discussing probability and causality, wasn't he? Something that hinted to me at alternate timelines, y'know? Was Desmond ever NOT at that bar that night with Donovan?
Man, that photo. The one he keeps... Does she also have a copy, framed by her bed? Did the photog sell her two prints? It seems unlikely that Desmond would have a copy made for her after the way that date went, eh? A fake backdrop. Kooky. That photo... It's taken the day that he wants to propose, but doesn't, and instead, driven by an imminent fate, breaks up with her. Not exactly the happiest photo to keep around, eh?
He's already lived his course correction. He's responsible for it, even. Self-fulfilling. Frack, I'm not awake enough to really go thru all the zany possibilities of details, and you probably wouldn't care to read them anyhow.
Penny tells him, "Don't you dare rewrite history! I left my expensive flat because you were too proud to live there, remember?" =)
And once he snaps back to the LOST island "present"...
He tells Charlie he's gonna die. That he's seen him die twice already. But when was the first time that death came for him? Why does he have to die? Death tried to get him and failed, somehow. The lightning strike, then the drowning. But when's the first time death came a-knockin, eh? Hatch explosion/implosion, anyone?
True, it turned out that everyone survived that, but I think it's fair to say that Charlie could have died then, but didn't. If he was *meant* to die then, but didn't, that means someone or something interfered and saved him. Perhaps some f'd up entity took up residence in his mind, Phoenix-style, and enabled him to unnaturally survive the ordeal. Maybe Desmond was given his "flash" in order to enable him to repeatedly save Charlie, at least long enough for Charlie to do something specific or important...?
Desmond David Hume.
Charlie Heironymus Pace.
Desmond vs. Charlie... Early in the episode, I got this sense that the implosion of the hatch remade them both as opposites, or complements, or gave them potentials that can be tapped, but also check one another.
Too late to peel any more LOST onion tonight...
Keep on keepin on~
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