Lost: Finally, Some Answers (or More Questions?)
By stephanie - Thursday, February 15th, 2007
This second installment of season three has been absolutely fantastic so far (though we’ve only had two episodes). And overall, season three has been much better than season two. I am truly excited about Lost again!
Tonight’s episode was the kicker – we finally get a clue as to the underlying secret behind Lost. (SPOILERS AHEAD!)
We find out what happened to Desmond after he turned the fail-safe key when the hatch blew. Somehow, he got kicked back into the past and started having flashbacks to the future. Only, now that he’s back in the “present,” he’s still having future “flashbacks.”
And as much as the producers have claimed this is supposedly not a virtual reality trip like the Matrix, there were some very Matrix-like things going on in this episode. Most peculiarly, the woman at the jewelry store who knew Desmond’s future. (It might be tempting to discredit this woman as a figment of his mind…except…he now is predicting the future just like he did in the “past,” so it’s fair to say she’s not just his imagination.)
The producers have also discredited the idea of time travel going on. So what the heck is going on here then?
I’m still processing the episode, but my first guess is that our friends at the Hanso Foundation have mucked up the space-time continuum in an attempt to direct fate…or, perhaps, during their psychic experiments, certain folks were able to jump back and forth in their lifetimes and tried to change the future…only, as they say, “the universe always corrects itself.”
It’s possible, too, that everyone in the Island is part of some mini-universe, a snow globe of sorts.
Who knows. Makes my brain hurt to think about it. More answers next week, though!
March 1st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
I have a theory that Lost has something to do with the Philadelphia experiment. Strong electro magnets, time travel, if anyone starts passing through solid objects that pretty much wraps it up. Or maybe im just biased being from Philadelphia lol. Anyway I don’t think Desmond is having flashes but has become completely “untethered” from the normal time line. I think he is drifting through time with the currents of the space time continuum without an anchor to our linear time line, can’t wait to find out!