Lost: Concussed Perchance to Dream (Spoilers)
I usually wait two or three days before posting about TV shows to give the slow-movers time to catch up but since I seem to need to write today and I was supposed to be on a plane tonight instead of waiting for Grey's Anatomy to get sucked into the Tivo, I'm not waiting.
This week, Lost attempts to explain Desmond's premonitions without actually explaining it. I don't believe Desmond turned the key and went back in time. I believe he was concussed and had a seriously deep dream. The clues: we get the countdown beep from the microwave, the numbers are repeated, phrases are repeated, the song playing on the jukebox is the same song that was playing when we first met Desmond in the hatch, the jeweler's name is Ms. Hawking as in Stephen Hawking as in the author of "A Brief History of Time" (a book that was also featured in last week's episode), he's aware that things aren't quite right, the sequence is treated like our standard show flashbacks but it is the first flashback when elements of the Island are presented in "the real world".
And, it still doesn't explain why he woke wearing no clothes and well above ground of the exploded hatch or how and when he sees these flashes of the future.
Lost is currently exploring the concept of Time on the Island. The Lost Time anagram for Mittelos Science last week is an example as is the knowledge that Juliet and Desmond have been on the Island for approximately the same time, and so on and so forth. They just haven't gone at it head on. I still get the feeling that the show is too busy winking at the audience obsessives to actually move the plot along.
Also, does everyone have to have Daddy issues? Shannon and Boone had Mommy issues but they are both dead so what does that say? Fathers may piss you off but mothers kill you? Ugh.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Desmond episodes and anytime Charlie gets his ass kicked is a plus in my book but, sigh, give me something juicy or appropriately mysterious. Nothing in these first two episodes has been overly compelling.
At least those two new kids whose names I can't remember didn't show up to the drinking party.
Comments
I wouldn't see mothers and fathers as that binary; Sawyer's dad was out to kill, and Sun's father has plenty of blood on his hands.
But my question to you would be what about Des uncontrollably traversing time, or that odd overstimulation chamber with the backward-masked voice repeating "Only fools are enslaved by time and space" isn't mysterious? And that backward-masked voice raises an interesting question: It was obviously there for Carl. But he's not the only person experiencing it -- so is the audience. Those at home watching the episode were just as much subject to the backward-masking treatment as the character in the scene. That, at least to me, raises some interesting questions.