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I'm a bit confused - maybe someone here can help. Where was Desmond in the last season where everyone kept going through time. Did he leave the island and that is why he was kidnapped?

He left the island with Penny at the end of Season 4 (freighter blows-up)while the Oceanic 6 were 'found' in Thailand/SE Asia.

He lived with Penny, was married and had Charlie as they skipped around the world on a yacht...going from port to port avoiding Widmore for those 3 intervening years. We last saw him right before the O6 assembled to board the Anjira flight...getting into a fight with Ben and then showing up at the Watchtower/Eloise's church.

This season, it was a shock to most to see him on flight 815 in the alt-timeline.
 
He left the island with Penny at the end of Season 4 (freighter blows-up)while the Oceanic 6 were 'found' in Thailand/SE Asia.

He lived with Penny, was married and had Charlie as they skipped around the world on a yacht...going from port to port avoiding Widmore for those 3 intervening years. We last saw him right before the O6 assembled to board the Anjira flight...getting into a fight with Ben and then showing up at the Watchtower/Eloise's church.

This season, it was a shock to most to see him on flight 815 in the alt-timeline.

Very detailed - thanks! I really need to watch Lost from the beginning. I found it amazing that someone pointed out on here that in Season 1, in Locke's first flashback there is a noise similar to the smoke monster... it is nice to see little subtle things like that.
 
Very detailed - thanks! I really need to watch Lost from the beginning. I found it amazing that someone pointed out on here that in Season 1, in Locke's first flashback there is a noise similar to the smoke monster... it is nice to see little subtle things like that.

This is definitely the show for you if you like little subtle details and references. For me, this is what sets LOST apart from other shows. It's smart, like a good novel.
 
This is definitely the show for you if you like little subtle details and references. For me, this is what sets LOST apart from other shows. It's smart, like a good novel.

Indeed. And it will be a pleasure to go back and rewatch at some point, and be able to watch it all come together in a logical fashion.

It definitely won't be like in the Star Wars saga with Obi Wan telling Luke he can't seem to remember ever owning a droid and not knowing R2 and 3-PO despite having mucho interaction with them or saying that Darth Vader killed Anakin Skywalker and then having to try to cover that line in Return of the Jedi. LOL "What I said was true, from a certain point of view." PUH-lease!

This will be more of a "Sixth Sense" experience. Watching again...everything is likely to fall into place and produce many a-ha moments. :D
 
Desmond scripted Libby to check herself in(she did say she was there voluntarily), so when she went to the restraunt, and went up to Hurley and knew his name, it was because she was "crazy"?

This is just a wrong statement. Desmond isn't scripting anything. Libby checked herself into the mental hospital because she thinks that she is crazy- she doesn't understand why she is having memories from a different life with Hurley.

Now that Desmond thinks that there is a connection between Flight 815 and being able to see/remember this other life, he is tracking down all of the people who were on the flight (remember, he asked his chauffeur to get him the passenger list), and is trying to get them to see their other lives as well. I guess he has 100%, full belief in this new mission of his, otherwise he wouldn't have run Locke over with his car with such vigor (he clearly believed that Locke would not die from the hit and run).

I don't think that Desmond knows exactly why he needs everyone to see/remember, but I think he believes it's important.

Regarding Desmond and Locke's interaction on the Island: I believe that Desmond believes that FLocke is Locke- that's one of the reasons he seems to trust Locke and isn't afraid of him. He hasn't been brought up to speed yet that Locke is Smokie. I think that Desmond would be acting quite differently if he knew that it was Smokie....... I'm pretty sure that Desmond has seen Smokie in smoke form in the past.

It definitely won't be like in the Star Wars saga with Obi Wan telling Luke he can't seem to remember ever owning a droid and not knowing R2 and 3-PO despite having mucho interaction with them or saying that Darth Vader killed Anakin Skywalker and then having to try to cover that line in Return of the Jedi. LOL "What I said was true, from a certain point of view." PUH-lease!

.....and...... now you've gone and ruined Star Wars for me. Thanks ****************.;)
 
I'm starting to think that what Des is doing in the alt-timeline is the mission that Widmore had planned for him and is the weapon to defeat Flocke- i.e. that test blast of magnetic energy was not an experiment but instead served to open a link for Des btwn the two worlds; Widmore may even have intentionally set up things because he wanted Des to get "kidnapped".
All-in-all I have the sneaky suspicion that Widmore's plan against Flocke is already in motion..
 
I'm starting to think that what Des is doing in the alt-timeline is the mission that Widmore had planned for him and is the weapon to defeat Flocke- i.e. that test blast of magnetic energy was not an experiment but instead served to open a link for Des btwn the two worlds; Widmore may even have intentionally set up things because he wanted Des to get "kidnapped".
All-in-all I have the sneaky suspicion that Widmore's plan against Flocke is already in motion..

I was kind of thinking about this too. Good theory.
 
I'm a bit confused - maybe someone here can help. Where was Desmond in the last season where everyone kept going through time. Did he leave the island and that is why he was kidnapped?

Desmond never came back to the island a second time like the rest of the Losties. If you remember, Jack, Kate, Ben, Sun were all in the Lampost with Eloise. That is when she explained they need to recreate the initial flight and crash back on the island. Desmond showed up and refused to get on the plane to go back to the island. This is when we heard Eloise say "[Desmond] the island isn't finished with you yet."
 
I doubt that Desmond hit the bottom of the well.

I'll bet he fell into the electomagnetic field and came out somewhere else or somewhen else.

I can't tell whether Flocke expected as much, or instead thought he was getting rid of Desmond as he told Sayid.
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Desmond never came back to the island a second time like the rest of the Losties. If you remember, Jack, Kate, Ben, Sun were all in the Lampost with Eloise. That is when she explained they need to recreate the initial flight and crash back on the island. Desmond showed up and refused to get on the plane to go back to the island. This is when we heard Eloise say "[Desmond] the island isn't finished with you yet."

What is the Lampost again?
 
I doubt that Desmond hit the bottom of the well.

I'll bet he fell into the electomagnetic field and came out somewhere else or somewhen else.

I can't tell whether Flocke expected as much, or instead thought he was getting rid of Desmond as he told Sayid.
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During the previews for next week it showed a quick scene where Desmond was sitting at the bottom of the well with scratches and bruises on his face and Sayid looking down at him with a gun pointed at him.
 
During the previews for next week it showed a quick scene where Desmond was sitting at the bottom of the well with scratches and bruises on his face and Sayid looking down at him with a gun pointed at him.
I didn't notice that, but it proves I was right. He landed a week into the future! :rolleyes:
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The Lampost is the one and only (that we know of) Dharma station that is not located on the island. It's in the basement of the church.

Ah I remember now, it had a big pendulum inside it. Do you think the Dharma Initiative has any further importance for the rest of the show?

I'm finding it pretty confusing to keep track of LOST, despite seeing every episode. We have seen everyone's flashbacks in the early seasons of the show, and we are also seeing an alternative time-line where their lives are all different. What's confusing is that when the bomb went off, it was meant to undo everything - but it never, and instead we are seeing a time-line that never existed.

All evidence would seem to suggest they are in hell? But if they are, how are people able to arrive on the Island via boat when they approach the Island at a specific angle?

*head hurts*
 
Ah I remember now, it had a big pendulum inside it. Do you think the Dharma Initiative has any further importance for the rest of the show?

Probably, since the question of why they were there has not really been answered...other than they were studying electromagnetism. Although the connection(s) between Dharma and Widmore's group and the Others really hasn't been completely worked out to my satisfaction.

We did, of course, see Dr. Chang (Miles' daddy) in this episode, giving Hurley his 'dinosaur' award. Strangely enough, he did not appear 20-some years older...like he should have...like everyone else from Ben's father to Charles Widmore to Eliose. :eek:
 
We did, of course, see Dr. Chang (Miles' daddy) in this episode, giving Hurley his 'dinosaur' award. Strangely enough, he did not appear 20-some years older...like he should have...like everyone else from Ben's father to Charles Widmore to Eliose. :eek:

I was shocked by this as well. He looks the same as he did in 1977.
 
Something I just noticed while watching last nights episode. It's when the losties hear the whispers and Hurly says "Wait.I think I know what these are". Listening to the whispers one can easily hear a voice that says "Richard". Now why would the voices of the ones that can't leave the island and are dead call out Richards name? Unless Richard was actually dead or can talk to them also.
 
Something I just noticed while watching last nights episode. It's when the losties hear the whispers and Hurly says "Wait.I think I know what these are". Listening to the whispers one can easily hear a voice that says "Richard". Now why would the voices of the ones that can't leave the island and are dead call out Richards name? Unless Richard was actually dead or can talk to them also.

I didn't hear that, but if one of them said "Richard", then I would guess that it's probably his dead wife. We saw her ghost on the island a few episodes back....
 
Something I just noticed while watching last nights episode. It's when the losties hear the whispers and Hurly says "Wait.I think I know what these are". Listening to the whispers one can easily hear a voice that says "Richard". Now why would the voices of the ones that can't leave the island and are dead call out Richards name? Unless Richard was actually dead or can talk to them also.

They have always mentioned the names of the people who were in the group or at the very least, discussing amongst each other about what they were/are doing.

I think the biggest question was why did they always seem to be accompanied by the appearances of the Others? A warning?
 
It was a distinct male voice. I recorded it. Here it is.

Is it saying Richard? It's a little unclear.....

If it is, perhaps it's Jacob.....

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A theory:

I think that the elf kid that we keep seeing is Jacob. When we first saw him a few episodes ago, he was younger, and now he looks like a teenager. I think he's quickly aging until he looks the way Jacob looked when he "died".

Perhaps when the MiB had Jacob killed, he knew that Jacob was going to eventually return, and he was just buying time while Jacob was gone so that he could escape from the island.
 
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