LOST : season 4 *spoilers*

[GameMaster]

Desmond rocks the casbah!

But um, I gotta take away a few points from this week's episode for having such a limited cast.

We saw hardly any Jack. And zero screen time for: Hurley, Kate, Sawyer, Jin, Sun, Ben, and Locke.

What is up with that?

[Professor S]

Last night's episode was one of the best stand alone episodes of any televised drama I've ever seen. Its up there with Battlestar and a select few Dr. Who episodes, IMO. I was beginning to tire of the show, but last night's show wasn't just about time travel, but it was the essence of great sci-fi: An allegory for human experience.

He was saved by the reconnecting withe the one he loved.

Best episode of any show I've seen this year, and one of the best of any show in YEARS.

Plus, you get some answers and new questions:

Answer: Now we know what time period everything is taking place.
Answer: Now we know how Desmond could predict the future

Question: Are the flash forwards not really flash forwards? What if they are the continuation of simulaneous time travel and experience, kind of like what Desmond experienced, but unconcious instead of conscious.

Question: When will Faraday (love the scientific reference, BTW) need his constant?

[Fox 6]

Question: Who opened the door on the boat to let them escape?


Swan and I think its Michael.

[Swan]

There is no saying that everyone needs a constant. As they said in the show only certain people are affected by it. Hmmm......I just contradicted myself there....He was exposed to radiation.



But there is no guarantee that will happen to him as well. It is just a little insurance.



Say Faraday did have that happen to him, there is no guarantee that he would go to the point where he knew Desmond. Say he went to before then. Was it not said that it must be someone from both the present and the past?


Great episode

[Bube]

We know it's 04 - when Jack was brought to the Hydra, and Ben showed him the Red Sox game, he mentions the date as well, if I'm not mistaken. If not, the plane took off in September 04, so it couldn't be much further than that.

Originally Posted by Professor S

Question: Are the flash forwards not really flash forwards? What if they are the continuation of simulaneous time travel and experience, kind of like what Desmond experienced, but unconcious instead of conscious.

The same thing crossed my mind as well, but I tried not to think too hard about it, because my hands were already full with all the things I had to follow in this episode. But think about it like this - Des came and went between 2 different time zones - current (island) and past (Scotland). If the things we thought to be flashbacks were time travels, then what would the flash forwards be? Can they travel both forward and back in time, if we take the island as "current" time?

So many new questions, so confusing.. Although this episode cleared a lot of things up - at least we can speculate better about the main storyline now.

Probably the best episode of Lost - which makes it the best episode ever of anything