The Lost Thread (Starts 2-2-10)

Ok if Canada can deliver all the Lost episodes to me this early I'll rescind all my previous feelings harbored against them.

Yea.

And yet again, Desmond episodes always seem to deliver.

This seasons really picking up, guess they have to when they've been going on for 10 episodes without answering a single thing.

So, what's up with Desmond? It really does appear that he is an individual to which the "rules don't apply" seeing as how his memories from the island and flash sideways seem to meld together. ...I just need to show them something.

It was also a little unnerving to see how willingly Desmond went off with Sayid. It seemed like he was pretty eager to start helping Widmore, is he planning something?

On a slightly unrelated note, this is following the same pattern as the Richard centric episode, where it is one giant uninterrupted flashback/sideways instead of the standard back and forth nature of episodes. Is there a deeper meaning behind that?

I was kinda disappointed by the Kwon episode, it didn't seem to progress much important, so Desmond's episode was pretty awesome. Any episode with Daniel or Desmond is awesome, nevermind the two together.

I'm not sure that Desmond actually is planning to help Sayid. He just doesn't have much of an option at that point in time, and might as well see what's going on. Sayid would kick his ass.

As far as the pattern, there's probably a deeper meaning, but it's probably ambiguous enough that we could come up with five explanations that all make sense, but none of them are actually the meaning intended. Of course, it might just be to jerk us around.

Obviously Desmond wanted to be taken to The Man in Black whether as part of Widmore's plan( likely) or his own remains to be seen.There was a brief glimpse in next week's where pseudo-Locke said to someone( Desmond?) "Why aren't you afraid?"

You know the title "Man in Black " is becoming increasingly apropos as there are certainly a lot of similarities between this season on Lost and Stephen King's The Stand.I wonder who ,if anyone, is going to turn out to be the Trashcan Man?

Anyway I thought it was a terrific episode too and we did learn( sort of ) what the alternate life thing was about.

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Originally Posted by Kholdstare

As far as the pattern, there's probably a deeper meaning, but it's probably ambiguous enough that we could come up with five explanations that all make sense, but none of them are actually the meaning intended.

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Probably.

Well said :lol:

Something I definitely did not notice my first time through and is very, very intriguing indeed:

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One of the big clues in "Happily Ever After" was the lack of a wedding ring on Desmond's finger. If you recall, he wore one in the Season 6 premiere when he was on Oceanic 815 with Jack. So either Desmond was keeping the cougars at bay on the long flight, or we're looking at two different Desmonds, and hence two different alternate realities.

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Desmond episodes (as a matter of device) change the game. They swerve on established thought and bus us somewhere altogether undiscovered.

Just as Alpert's (magnificent) flashback informed us of where we come from, Desmond's flash-sideways tells us where we're going to arrive.

There's very little left to answer as far as I'm concerned.

Ok I liked the return of Desmond also BUT,
The return of the hobbit was an unpleasant surprise. I think Eloise's haircut was a disaster. I like the way supporting characters are re-appearing but Faraday looks more like a scientist than a young rich rock fan. I'm looking forward for the return of Mr. Eco and Juliet

And a few questions
I'm not sure who is the other person involved in the deal Eloise was talking about.
Last time we've seen her, she was trying to bring all the main characters together to the island, now she is trying to do exactly the opposite why?
Who is Peny's mother?
Why Desmond isn't ready in the parallel side of life?
What is the meaning of the meeting with the 815 passengers he is preparing?
Are they heading to a third return to the island that will cause a third alternative time?
Or he just changed sides with the parallel Desmond and that's the reason he looks like a fool at the island and he knows what to do at the alternative time?

Am I the only one confused?

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Originally Posted by brightsid

Am I the only one confused?

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Is that a serious question? :mellow:

The creepy little kid is back :O. Am I the only one that thinks he bears a striking resemblance to Jacob? Could he be like Michael, one of the deceased left on the island and "unable to let go"?

And we finally know what the whispers are (kinda)! However, it still doesn't quite explain how the conveniently seem to coincide with/relate to the Others and their presence on the island.

And one other little quip - perhaps by the end of the season, we'll understand all this nonsense surrounding Jacob, MIB, the flashsideways, etc. etc. But will they, in any form, tie back to the first 5 seasons? What exactly, did the first 5 seasons of this show serve to demonstrate to us viewers that had to be conveyed before the conclusion (season 6) could be aired? Aside from the obvious character development of season 1, why did the writers feel the need to spend one season on the hatch, one on the others, one on the flashforwards/off-island, one with the flashes through the Dharma, etc.? What was the purpose of Ben, an extremely bad ass fucking antagonist that has turned into a mere shell of his former self? Why did we need to know these things before we were introduced to season 6? Will the show come full circle?

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Originally Posted by Rart

And one other little quip -... will they, in any form, tie back to the first 5 seasons? What exactly, did the first 5 seasons of this show serve to demonstrate to us viewers that had to be conveyed before the conclusion (season 6) could be aired? Aside from the obvious character development of season 1, why did the writers feel the need to spend one season on the hatch, one on the others, one on the flashforwards/off-island, one with the flashes through the Dharma, etc.? What was the purpose of Ben, an extremely bad ass fucking antagonist that has turned into a mere shell of his former self? Why did we need to know these things before we were introduced to season 6? Will the show come full circle?

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pretty sure a lot of that stuff is filler. if they had never decided to end the series with the 6th season, they could have gone on forever with fillers to stall the series

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and WTF, desmond better not be dead!

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Originally Posted by colt45joe

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and WTF, desmond better not be dead!

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Even if you missed the teaser for next week it should have been pretty apparent that if the writers wanted pseudo-Locke to kill Desmond they would have just had him knife or something equally brutal and final( same with alternate Locke btw and what the fuck would killing alternate Locke accomplish anyway since he isn't really connected to pseudo-Locke) .
Now the big question is whether Sayad does the deed .Even going by the preview highly unlikely ,but then again they( apparently) have to continue to whittle away at the main characters.

Btw I don't like the new "I'm in charge" Hurley at all.Plays against everything that made the character endearing in the first place.

Next Episode is Jackcentric

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The Last Recruit (Being Jack with an apparent change of team)