Desmond is the meaning of life
desmond’s order number at the chicken place: 42 = answer to life, the universe and everything (goggle it people!)
the island = limbo/purgatory/whatever you wanna call the place you go to when you die where your fate is decided not necessarily in a religious sense. i know ive said this a thousand times, i know i keep repeating myself, i know the authors have said that’s not what it is. but common! Michael! the voices! “we’re the ones that didnt cross because of what we did”! duhhhhhhhhhh! cross into heaven/the universe of you-get-what-you-wantness (an explanation of the alternate perhaps?)??
the new little boy=little mib, so other little boy=little jacob. time loops my friends! time loops!
desmond running over locke = revenge for throwing him in the hole or a way of reminding locke of his past?
also makes you wonder if they volentarily “cross over” to the alternate. like if they’re ganna be given a chance to cross into this other universe where they can live their lives without any memory of the past and have whatever they wanted. or if the island just spits them out there if they pass whatever test it is that theyre supposed to pass.
ilana exploding = made my night! she was seriously getting on my nerves!
did you notice how the candidates separated from the none candidates? hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
and finally, if you look at my other post about daniel’s equation from last week’s episode, please take a look at it, it has awesome screenshots lol, you will see that my “answers” to everything are way different from the answers here. which basically means i am confused as hell! only 4 episodes!! epppppppp
Hehe I like your brain-dump of tonight’s episode, Ilana’s exploding made me gasp and then smile because her rambling on and on while handling the dynamite reminded me of Artz exploding scene, classic!
My interpretation of Desmond running over Locke was a little different though but I may be way off track – but I was thinking that Desmond “knows what to do now” ie. he’s on the Jacob path, and it was necessary for him to attempt to kill Locke (although it didn’t look successful) because MIB’s overall plan includes Locke existing in this imaginary alternate world place. If Desmond “wakes up” the 815ers and kills Locke in this universe – then MIB can’t escape the island. So this is like Jacob’s loop-loophole of sorts, if that makes any sense!
oh I just read your comment on the “Back to the Future” post – like that idea too. maybe Desmond ran him over just to get him into the hospital and be operated on by Jack for whatever reason, maybe simply pushing Locke to go to the hospital (like he pushed Hurley towards Libby) wouldn’t have been enough and the only way to get him there was to do something that drastic (comparing to Jacob’s explanation of getting people to do things in the Lighthouse ep). Either way, I think Desmond knows what he’s doing, he knows his purpose, and he knows that MIB was going to push him into that well as well. Can’t wait to find out what it’s all leading to!
was intersting to see the boy holding onto the stick which could have represented the stick MIB was holding backing the idea of a young MIB
I think that Desmond ran over Locke out of revenge and not some higher purpose. Desmond had no idea that Locke was MIB when he was thrown in the well. So this leads Desmond to thinking Locke is evil and the car accident. I also think that this accident will serve as a way for ALT Locke to recieve that scar across his eye and perhaps get rid of his paralysis (especially if Jack is his doctor, and I’m pretty sure he will). Everything will turn out the way it was supposed to, maybe not on the island necessarily, but faraday said whatever happened, happened. I don’t think the creation of an ALT timeline will change that.
Like your theory. Love the other one.
I thought it was to get someone to love him up – maybe his Mom, since Helen wasn’t doin’ the job.
The first two things I said after Ilana blew up:
1. You have some Ilana on you.
2. Didn’t see that coming.
The candidates didn’t entirely seperate from the non-candidates, after all, Frank went with Jack, Hugo, and Sun. Frank isn’t a candidate.
i’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that in hitting locke with his car, he was repeating the past, leaning on a familiar moment (the kiss, drowning) to wake up locke in the parallel universe. I think the idea was that desmond had pushed hurley to libby, and was now pushing ben to locke, and locke to jack, “waking 3 characters at once”
also something else confused me…
can someone explain the young children we’ve been seeing? we saw what looked like a young Jacob (as seen by MIB and Sawyer) and now a different chid (which i believe has a resemblance to Desmond maybe MIB) which was seen by MIB and Desmond. These children obviously carry vital information, as seen when the first boy spoke to MIB about not killing candidates/breaking rules but what exactly is their relevance?
also is it possible that Michael, with his eyes dead, “owes something to the island” and therefore MIB? He seemed to steer the candidates to MIB, so is it possible he works for him from beyond the grave?
After seeing Locke laying on the ground after Desmond hit him with the car I definitely thin his paralysis will now be cured by Jack. The camera shot they used the last time Locke is shown in the episode is exactly like the shot they used when Locke first wakes up after the plane crash and can then walk. A little bit of foreshadowing perhaps.
Spot on, Candidate361. No doubt Des knows what he’s doing and is trying to “wake up” Locke with a near-death experience…..maybe he thinks the Locke inside of Flocke can influence the outcome on the island somehow.
I also love how the pilot keeps tagging along, seemingly doing nothing and influencing nothing. Seems like we’re getting set up for an escape via the plane for some or most of our heroes in the finale…probably why Hurley is anti-dynamite.
Candidate361 – you say that the little boy from last night resembled Desmond, but wouldn’t Desmond recognize a younger version of himself? It’s more likely to be a younger version of MIB.
didnt anyone think that the the boy in the jungle kind of looked like a young John Locke, like that kid that played a young John Locke when he was shoved in the locker and getting recruited to go to that science camp?
ok DRMRWIZARD, i buy that, now why would MIB be unable/afraid to talk to the child version of himself?
on another note, are we to believe that Desmond is now an eternal, because locke pushed him down a hole instead of even bothering to try to kill him?
Kid in the jungle was same kid as Locke saw with blood on his hands a few weeks ago. Check it out on Lostpedia. Granted his hair is darker, so maybe this is meant to tell us he is moving to the dark side? Not sure whether it is MIB or Jacob or someone else entirely, but same kid in both episodes
thank god for CantonRainier sayoing it is the same kid as before. Dont know why noone has noticed that before. And ps that kid is so obviously jacob.