28 February 2008

Lost: Yeah, I Kind of Am

We gets a Desmond-centric episode which is good on one hand (because he's awesome), but confusing on the other (because he doesn't just flash-forward or flash-back, he actually time travels).

The helicopter hits a storm, either that or just bad special effects. Desmond travels back to 1996, and when he comes back to the helicopter he doesn't know who Sayid is or where he is.

Back on the island, Jeremy Davies says that the perception of time on the island is different from the rest of the world. So while Jack thinks the helicopter has been gone a day, it's actually just been 20 minutes or so for the helicopter crew. Sayid calls Jack and says Desmond's going wacky. Jeremy Davies knows what to do - he tells Desmond to go see Past Jeremy Davies in 1996 and give him some codes to enter into his machine. He does, and these codes are settings for a time machine he uses on a rat. The rat is transported to the future, where he learns a maze, then comes to in the "present" and completes the maze. Oh yeah and the rat dies later of a brain aneurysm. So time travel has some side effects Desmond might want to avoid.

Past Jeremy Davies tells Desmond that he has to find a "constant" - someone in 1996 and 2004 to make contact with and then presumably he's healed or something and won't time-jump anymore? So Past Desmond visits Penny, gets her phone number and says he'll call back on Christmas Eve 2004. Present Desmond calls Penny from the boat, they exchange promises to find each other, and now she knows he's on a boat in the South Pacific.

In the end, Present Jeremy Davies open his journal and finds a note he wrote to himself, that if something happens to him, Desmond is his constant.

This show should be about time travel S every week. It's a tad confusing and a bit of a mind-F, and maybe doesn't move the plot forward much, but it's also way cool.

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