Well, Faraday has gone through some exposure anyway–in his head. It’s possible his experiments have kind of scrambled his brain a bit… which is why he needs his own center because if/when he leaves he could get screwed.
The compass did change a bit.
— Alan
Jazar
3402
This episode makes me rethink of the entire show in a new light. If you don’t enter the island in an exact heading to avoid past/present conscious, what does that say for the cast of flight 815 who crash landed? Almost every episode for 3 seasons have been flashbacks, maybe the characters are doing more then just remembering, and maybe everyone on the island has their own construct and they don’t even realize it? Trippy.
It’s a Rimaldi device hidden in one of the caves.
You and I are on the same hormones!
Scrax
3405
Yah, I just saw the episode. Their final exchange was just perfect.
Desmond and Penny are really the one love story on the show that has a chance.
Brinstil
3407
Sun and Jin have been on the mend for awhile now.
Maybe. But I think Jin’s past is going to catch up with him.
I was joking at the time, but somewhere in this thread I had that theory like two seasons ago. I forget what we were talking about, it might very well have been Desmond’s other time-travel episode, but I said something like “And next week we’ll find out that everything we thought was flashbacks was really happening in real time!”
I think that was one of the funniest bits, when desmond asks him about what does he put on his head. ;)
I think they were trying to testing this effect on him when he and Charlotte were working with the cards, and explains why he was crying when he thought everyone on the plane had died in the crash, perhaps.
I think one of the effects he was talking about for not following the course include the rapid aging of kids, such as Walt and Aaron.
I would bet money this happens and has been planned that way to a certain degree from the beginning. I seem to remember reading something about the flashbacks not being what they seemed, but I guess given the period of time we are talking about here I could just be conflating this with something regarding the switch to fast-forwarding at the end of last season.
nabeel
3412
Great episode, I really enjoyed this. Nice mindbending time travel stuff and a truly touching ending to boot.
Or that could just be a result of the time differences between the island and the outside world.
The time difference seems to be minor though, like a day and a half… unless it is variable depending upon heading or whatever.
They have a miracle conversation, the first time they’ve spoken in years, and they have nothing to say.
“WOOOooow. I can’t beLIEVE it! Ha! I love you! Static, gotta go!”
nabeel
3415
I think that’s pretty realistic, depending on the person.
Daagar
3416
You have <2min until the battery dies. What exactly are you going to say? Hard to give an 8 year summary of events in that space of time. Penny finding out that Des was still alive was all that was necessary from that conversation. “It was enough”.
The “time difference” from the island aside, this episode showed us that no more time has passed outside of the island than has passed on it.
And note that the helo ride didn’t take those on it longer than it should’ve.
Well, it took longer to everyone who wasn’t on the helicopter. Time on the island and time off the island seem to move at the same rate, but going through whatever weird anomaly exists around the island to get from one to the other is where you lose time. I think that’s what you’re saying, right?
And I still don’t think there’s supposed to be anything weird about Walt or Aaron’s age. The actor for Walt just hit a growth spurt, and they’re playing fast and loose with Aaron because it’s easier to handle whatever age kid that is than a month old baby. Surely Jack would’ve said something if we were supposed to believe Aaron was aging faster than he should.
Time may not be moving at the same rate on the island: there’s the question of the pregnancies not coming to term if you conceive on the island, which may be related to the time weirdness, and there was that odd comment Daniel made about how the “light refracts differently” there.
By the way, my wife and I were having our fifteenth or so conversation about this episode this morning, and she came up with an interesting idea: What if Jacob is the Other’s constant? What if his “power” comes from having to be the single constant for many different people?
Oh shit. You’re right, all the flashbacks and forwards were really happening. The reason they didn’t affect anyone negatively was because of all the coincidences in them, EVERYONE is EVERYONE’s constant.
Now, why that might be, I have no idea.
H.
