LOST fans

Leave it to Desmond to provide the seasons game changer. This is why he is my favorite character. Every episode he is in is amazing. This wasn't quite as good as the Constant but it was very close. 

ok i looked into the orange lights and i really am losing my mind. this show has made me paranoid thinking everything matters. please ignore the orange light question

Just finished watching it.....I've not missed an episode but I always come here afterwards to see your take on it. When it's all over I hope it all makes sense cause it is very puzzling at times and hard to piece things together.     Next week should be good.

Desmond is probably my favourite character too. 

Coldsnap 

We all knew both timelines would connect somehow.  Now we see how the two are connected.  I was pumped to see Desmond decide he wants to prevent the flash sideways from coming true.  Now he will have to round up all the passengers and tell them what they could have had.  I do not know how he is going to do it seeing as there are some characters who seem to be better off in the flash sideways than they are in the original timeline.

it will be interesting to see if everybody is needed once again in order to be able to "switch" timelines. 

another great episode. i am really speechless when it comes to Illana. I was not expecting that at all but it was awesome at the same time.  She was becoming pretty annoying and she was played by jacob.  My most hated character made his return back to the show to provide us with an answer that most be people have wanted to know since day 1, the whispers.  I am actually a little disappointed because it felt pretty forced to me. 

I may be too confused at this point to understand anything but....Explain this to me if you can......

In the world of [ The plane NOT crashing ]  Didn't Hurley have nothing but bad luck before he got on the plane after he won the lottery?....Where is that now?....and where the heck is Cheech Marin?

Are you gonna watch Happy Town?  Hope so,that looks like it might be confusing too. 

Cold...

Well that helps me somewhat.....I thought their lives just continued the way it would be from the time of the plane NOT crashing.

I think one of my problems is I concentrated more on what was going on ON the island and didn't keep enough info stored in my head from what happened to all the passangers in flashbacks the first few seasons. 

So.....In the no-crash world..Can Sun speak english?

some thoughts.....

I too was shocked by llana....just when she was looking doable,  off she goes...yet it probably was time

Michael blows agreed, so glad no episode was focused on his boring ass.....

I too believe the kid is Jacob.....just seems to happy with his visits to MIB not to be.....and I am relatively certain we will get the who/what/when/where/why with him and MIB........

I now truly don't think Desmond can be killed,,,,,,,,I also think that him willingly going with Sayid, and then MIB to the well......is all part of Widmore's plan......Des actually had a huge smile on his face immediately before he gets shoved down.........

IMO Sayid will be the next to die.......they've pretty much killed his character already and almost no one at this point will be sad to see him go,,,,,,

As for running over lock........I saw this as foreshadowing.......Des and company will eventually take down Locke/MIB.......

and finally, the look on MIB's face.......I thought was analogous to the look he used to give the adult Jacob..........pretty much confirmed for me that Jack is supposed to be the replacement

I think the kid was Desmond.  Perhaps young Faraday. 

I think there's something very signiifficant about the fact that Desmond isn't "affraid."   This seemed to unsettle MIB.  He preys on fear.  The absence of fear is not good news for him.

I think they've used an audio trick several times this season, where a character says something, but it's not really a word.  Last night, when asked why he blew up the dynamite, Hurley said he was "protecting [non-word]"  I played it back several time and it can either be heard as "us" or "it," both of which make sense, but mean rather different things.  They've done that before this year.

I thought when Jack emerged from the woods, the voice that said "hello" was that of his father.  The cut to Floke's face looked like he hadn't just spoken, or had been listening to someone else speak.  I could be wrong.

I don't recall Hurley looking in a mirror in this episode, but he did get a (small) knock on the head (from mom).  Those seem to have some meaning, but I don't know what.

There are two babies kicking around here - the Kwon baby (probably the "Kwon" who's the candidate) and Aaron, born to a crazy mother, just like MIB.  If that really has any significance, I can only assume that the rest of the candidates will get wiped out - so it won't be Jack and Sawyer sitting on the beach chatting at the end of the show, it will be the Kwon Child and Aaron.  My head is starting to hurt.

As for running over lock........I saw this as foreshadowing.......Des and company will eventually take down Locke/MIB.......

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I think this is more of Desmond's quest to "connect" people with whatever he needs to connect them with.  I will agree that running him over seems like an extreme way to to do that, but I think that's the Demond we were dealing with in that time line.

More odd crap:

Flocke drank water last night.  I didn't think he needed to/could.

The fact that Kate's name is actually on the wall, but Flocke thinks she isn't, HAS to be a huge issue.  Flocke's going to let Clair kill her (or try), and that's going to be bad for business.

Great points Maine. The two most important things you mentioned i think are desmond not being afraid and kate being on the wall. That is why MIB throws him down the well because he knows Desmond can cause some serious problems for him. There is nothing he can promise Desmond at this point because Desmond has seen the light.

She was touched when she tried to steal in the little country general store.

thanks KQC. I thought she was but couldn't my finger on it

I too thought the whole whispers to be forced.  I assumed the whole time that is what the voices were but was expecting more of a curveball when the the answer was given to us.  I thought Flocke was trying to kill Desmond by throwing him down the the well but was unsuccessful in doing so but does not know this yet.  Then again Flocke seems to have more sense than to leave loose ends so maybe trapping Desmond is part of a bigger plan.  I do not think there is enough time left in the show to get both the Kwon baby and Aaron to the island and to build them into the storyline so I think we will still be left with Jack as the new Jacob and Sawyer as the new MIB.  The whole show all Sawyer has wanted to do was leave the island, similar to what the MIB always says, that is why I think Sawyer will take his place.  Also he and Jack have never seen eye to eye so it just makes more sense that those would be the two left.

I love reading everyone's theories.  However, I'm just throwing this out there:  When Flocke asks Desmond on the island "Do you know who I am?" and Desmond says "You're John Locke," I'm assuming that Des really DOESN'T know he's the MIB.

After that, Des gets thrown down the well by the man he THINKS is John Locke.  Therefore, in the "sideways" world, Des thinks he has to kill the real John Locke.  Is he making a mistake?

That's very interesting.  Could well be right

I thought maybe if he killed John Locke in the side world that maybe somehow the MIB could be forced from John Locke's body in the "real" world.

Just a thought. Probably silly.

I would like to know how they plan on wrapping all this up by May

Say it ain't so. Jack to the dark side? Darlton really wouldn't do that to us would they? Claire said exactly what Jacob said, once MIB says a word he already has you hooked. However, if anybody can withstand the dark side it is our resident savior Jack. I think it is pretty evident now that if they show ends with a new Jacob, Jack is number 1 on the list.  He is like the old John Locke, he believes he was indeed brought to the island for a reason and he has yet to fulfill that destiny.