I was not thrilled with this episode. Their explanation of Desmond's hatch experience was less than satisfying. I don't like the length of time they are devoting to flashbacks. I like the flashbacks to be just that...flashes.

Less hope they move on and quickly.

The story does seem to be crawling along. From the preview of next week's episode it seems we are going back to Jack-Kate-Sawyer and The Others. Curious. The long Desmond flashback came after Locke tells Charlie and Hurley of Eko's death (which seems so long ago) and then Locke disappears from the episode. I realize there is a time discrepency between the two story lines but it seems the beach folk are just sitting around. Anyway, Desmond's experience may be important, especially that bit with the woman in the jewelry store and what happened after. The teaser in the preview of next week was answers to two (?) questions will be revealed. I hope so. I was hoping that the early mysteries of the show would be answered and lead to others, that the show would unfold into a larger mystery. So far this isn't happening, or is happening too slow.

Flash backs or no flashbacks...Desmond is one tortured man! I felt bad for him. And poor Charlie.....the fates are out to get him. :eek:

I was not thrilled with this episode. Their explanation of Desmond's hatch experience was less than satisfying. I don't like the length of time they are devoting to flashbacks. I like the flashbacks to be just that...flashes.

But really what was the flashback? The stuff in London or the stuff on the island? I think for Desmond the stuff on the island is the flashback.

I must be in the minority since I loved this episode.

I must be in the minority since I loved this episode.

I liked it, too. I was still LOST. Being lost isn't as bad as being DOOMED! We're DOOMED! Doomed, I tell you! Doomed!

That should be new series on ABC. "DOOMED!"

But really what was the flashback? The stuff in London or the stuff on the island? I think for Desmond the stuff on the island is the flashback.

I must be in the minority since I loved this episode.

I love your post, trying to figure out your post is like watching LOST and trying to make sense of what you've seen.

I think you're technically correct, and I didn't think of the episode that way. All the London stuff was Desmond's post-Hatch experience with his weird sense of deja-vu, thus making it NOT a flashback but a flash - what? flash forward? flash sideways? flash upside down and backwards?

I'll watch it again and see if I like it any better.

I can't help it, though, I want the old gang back on the Island trying to muddle through while we got glimpses of who they are and how they're related to one another, none of which they realize. I loved the first season.

That being said, I have the suspicion that the Others and the Islanders will eventually team up to fight Dharma. Dharma is the big brother of the Islands, the force that is keeping all of them stuck there. Or so it seems....

Before I even saw last night's episode, I figured the scene at the end of the episode before this one --- where they showed the guy in the dark room with all the images and the flashing lights and assuming he was on some mind-expanding drugs -- had something to do with why SOME people on the island are just messed up in the head. Like, Locke not being able to walk, then being able to walk. I mean, there is no RATIONAL explanation for that (and I don't believe in fantasy). Or even if I give you that one, Desmond's story is so weird that you have to come up with a rational explanation of some sort, so maybe he was once in the "mind experiment" room.

Anyway, there has to be some mind expanding experimentation going on with at least SOME of the islanders.

Or Pam is lying in bed dreaming, Bobby is in the shower, and it's really 1986 (or so).

I'm with Marc on this one. I enjoyed this episode. I like Desmond, plus I was just glad to see someone besides Jack/Kate/Sawyer. I used to love those characters but now they're really getting on my nerves.

Now if only we could have a SAYID episode, I might start loving the show again.

Lisa

I like Desmond...
Lisa

Nothing to do with the scottish accent, I'm sure

Dave

Nothing to do with the scottish accent, I'm sure

I assure you it's completely unrelated.

Lisa

Before I even saw last night's episode, I figured the scene at the end of the episode before this one --- where they showed the guy in the dark room with all the images and the flashing lights and assuming he was on some mind-expanding drugs -- had something to do with why SOME people on the island are just messed up in the head. Like, Locke not being able to walk, then being able to walk. I mean, there is no RATIONAL explanation for that (and I don't believe in fantasy). Or even if I give you that one, Desmond's story is so weird that you have to come up with a rational explanation of some sort, so maybe he was once in the "mind experiment" room.

Anyway, there has to be some mind expanding experimentation going on with at least SOME of the islanders.

Or Pam is lying in bed dreaming, Bobby is in the shower, and it's really 1986 (or so).

As I've mentioned before: for every one question that is answered, two new questions arise. Now we know who the others are. But what are they doing? And Desmond's "time travel"? Methinks time itself is being studied here. Young subjects are needed as guinea pigs, thus the taking of the children; Locke, without leaving the island, has travelled back in time when he could walk and maintains a timeline in the past and present (note that when he loses his link to the past, he begins to limp, to lose his walking); Desmond also travelled back in time, but also walked two timelines; the show's flashbacks are time travel; the lady that Desmond gets the ring from is a time traveller; and last but not least: Hurley maintains his pre-island weight, though he should have lost a ton by now.

Eliminate the time travel factor and we're back where we started--just like the islanders. Except for Henry, whom I can't figure out for frijoles.

AC