We've had flashbacks and flashforwards on Lost, so I thought, when suddenly Desmond jumped to being in the army, that we were getting a flashsideways. You know, like he was suddenly in an alternate universe, a parallel reality, another world in which Desmond never went to the island but was doing something totally different with his life.

That would have been cool, and would have tied in with my wormholes theory of Lost, which I'm stickin' with until I have to completely repudiate it. And wormholes might still be the answer, because even if Desmond only simply traveled back to 1996, he actually traveled back to 1996. Or his consciousness did, at least. This wasn't a flashback. This was a you-are-there-back. Wormholes could do that, right?

It made me think of that great novel The Time Traveler's Wife (soon to be a movie) and Time and Again (another great novel), both great love stories unanchored in time. Like Desmond and Penny. So cute, the two of them. At least she finally realized she loves him, even if it did take her eight years. Is that why she was calling the boat constantly (as the communications guy Minkowski said she was doing)? Because she was trying to make that December 24, 2004, phone call he promised her? Why has she been looking for him for so long, anyway, I mean, besides the loving-him thing? Did she think he was in danger? How did she track him to the island?

Is it something to do with the Black Rock journal her father bought at auction... from previous owner Tovard Hanso? *boom* That's my head exploding again from this show. The Black Rock is the old ship the survivors found on the island, the Hanso Foundation is responsible for the Darma Initiative, and now Penny's father is somehow tied up in it. Well, actually, he's been tied up in it since 1996, but we only found out about it now.

"You can't change the future," Faraday tells Desmond in 1996. But can you? Hasn't Desmond already done that? Remember his little psychic flashes, when he saw things that were about to happen? Didn't he save Charlie's life a couple of times? Okay, Charlie was doomed to die soon anyway (if he is dead...). Maybe that's what Faraday meant?

Oh, and that Minkowski guy? He's named for physicist Hermann Minkowski, who came up with the idea of four-dimensional spacetime, that time is just another dimension like the three spatial ones.

Maybe somebody needs to get Doctor Who on the case?

Next on Lost: Kate Gets Knocked Out 

Next on Lost: Help Me 

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MaryAnn Johanson (email me)
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