This “almost” makes up for the re-run this week.

Exclusive: ABC Re-Airing ‘Lost’ Pilot (updated)

By Josef Adalian
Published: April 22, 2010

EXCLUSIVE

ABC is planning a “Lost” weekend: The network has just scheduled a repeat showing of the show’s two-hour 2004 pilot for the night before its finale.

The J.J. Abrams-directed, $10 million-plus spectacular will air Saturday, May 22, from 8-10 p.m., ABC told affiliates today. (UPDATE 7:44 AM 4/23– ABC confirms that it’s airing the pop-up video, a k a “enhanced” version of the pilot.)

The two-hour finale will air the following evening from 9-11 p.m.

This brings the total number of “Lost” hours ABC is planning for the week of May 17 to 10  8. There’s the penultimate episode of May 18; the pilot encore on May 22; a two-hour pre-show/recap on May 23; the finale itself; and “Jimmy Kimmel: After the Final Rose” (also on May 23).

The last time ABC aired the “Lost” pilot, by the way, was back in February 2006. It also got repeated in 2004 and 2005.

Link to original story here

I’m super excited about the appearances but also surprised at some who won’t be there (esp Kate and Desmond).

*sniffle*

Looks like they’re trying to space out the epi’s so they can end on May 23rd (notice, Jack’s number?).  Still, ABC could have splurged for one more episode considering a normal season is 24 and we are already short of that.

Anyway.  My friend Joe gave me this link.  Some may consider it a spoiler, I think it’s more of a tease.  But don’t link and read if you don’t want to know ANYTHING about what is to come!

Click here at your own risk.

Who is the Last Recruit?  Who is the only person who hasn’t spoken to Flocke that can still kill him?  Will it be Locke himself who takes down MIB in a sweet ironic twist for a guy who has been labeled a “sucker” by the man who stole his body?  Let’s not forget that Locke was special enough to be recruited by the Dharma Initiative before the ill fated 815 crash.  Richard visited him when he was a young boy and his science teacher tried to steer him towards Dharma as a teen.  Locke was chosen for a reason and I think in an ironic twist he may be the Last Recruit that can take down the MIB.

1.  Desmond had to hit Locke in the FS (Flash Sideways) for two reasons.  One is to get him to the hospital as it seems that is where all of our Losties are going to converge and because Locke and Jack must meet.  The other is that Locke needs a near death experience to “open” his mind to the original time that is happening on the island.

2.  I loved that Jack went up to Hurley and asked if it was OK that he talked to Flocke alone.  Four seasons ago this would have made Jack laugh if Hurley tried to tell him what to do.
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3.  Jack asks Flocke why he chose to take Locke’s body.  Truthfully he could have taken other bodies so why did he chose Locke?  I’m wondering if Jacob somehow “tricked” Flocke into choosing Locke’s body.  Maybe Jacob did instruct them back home to kill Locke and bring back his body so that MIB could take over.  Perhaps Jacob knows that Locke “is” the only one that can stop MIB and that he needed to be in that body for whatever reason is to come that leads Locke to his true destiny which is to stop MIB.  Ilana did say that MIB is now “trapped” inside of this form.

4.  Was it MIB in Christian?  Some question that if he was in Christian’s body then how did he get across the ocean to talk to Jack back home?  He told us that he couldn’t do that (even to get to Hydra).   Why would Christian tell Locke “say hello to my son” if it was the MIB?  Where is the sense in that?  On the other hand, it was Christian that led Claire away from the Losties and her baby and was chatting her up in the cabin.  Which side are you on?

5.  I think that Jack is right that Flocke wants them all to leave.  They must all be together.  He wants them out of there so he can do whatever evil he is up to.  I’m hoping we will see in epi 15 why he wants to rule the island so badly.

6.  Convenient way to get Ben to the hospital. Would they really let a near stranger ride with him?  Well of course!  TPTB need them all to congregate in one place for whatever event is coming in the FS.
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7.  They must have been short on ideas for dialog this week.  Flocke tells Jack that they have some “catching up to do” and he also tells Claire that she and Jack have some catching up to do.  Do they?  Claire is half way through a box of Fruit Loops and Jack just found out Claire is his sister.  What kind of catching up can they do?  And, Flocke appears to just want to get Jack aside to tempt him into his ticket off the island (like speaking to the old Jack).
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8.  Sawyer offers Kate an apple back at the station.  I hope this isn’t a clue that these two will be our Adam and Eve.  I’m still rooting for a Juliet and Sawyer reunion.  Complete with a coffee, dutch.
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9.  Why would the bomb scare Flocke?  They can’t kill him with the bomb.  They seem to know a lot about this guy, why do they think a bomb will stop him?  Unless there is something that they will blow up rather than threatening to blow him up.
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10.  Des tries talking Claire out of going to the adoption agency and doing something “irreversible.”  I’m sure he wants her to keep this baby.  What else does this guy know about Claire raising Aaron?

11.  It’s ironic that Liz Lemon Zoe gives MIB a deadline of “Sundown” to give back Desmond.  It’s the same deadline MIB gave to the Temple people.

12.  Desmond down in a well, probably one of the electromagnetic spots.  We first met Desmond down a hole as well, the hatch.  What if Sayid didn’t kill Des but he did leave him down in that well?  What if they somehow do end up on the Ajira plane and take off?  Maybe Des will do something again with the energy that will once again crash the plane since the island isn’t done with them yet?  That would be some irony!
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13.  Flash to FS Sayid telling Nadia he can never see her again.  Our answer that the deal if off with MIB?

14.  How amateur of Sayid, leaving out the back door then tripping over a hose?  Score one for cop Saywer but seems like something I would do rather than a trained assassin. 
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15.  I love the slight smirk on Sayid’s face when he tells Flocke to go check his work if he doesn’t believe him.  Just a hint of the good guy poking through.
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16.  What happened to Ilana’s Russian accent?

17.  The FS and current time line are not running concurrently.  The FS is still in 2004. If things that happen in each time line can affect the other, what if by Jack “fixing” Locke so he can walk happens at the exact moment that Locke woke up on the beach in the current time line and could suddenly walk? 

18.  Jack having Locke on the operating table is very similar to when he had Ben on the table.  Either Jack is going to kill Locke as he has a flash of the island (which I don’t think will happen) or Jack and Locke are going to have their flashes of the island here.

19.  Flocke picks up Jack and saves him from the bomb thinking he’s still dealing with the old Jack “man of science.”  I dont’ think he’s expecting the Jack who now believes he’s there for a reason. 

20.  I think we were all expecting Sun and Jin to get zapped by the fence when they finally got their reunion.

21.  Remember a few seasons ago that Locke lost his voice and Boone told him that he would be able to talk again when he had something worth saying?  I guess the same thing happened to Sun.  Good thing because her paper probably got pretty soaked in that water.

22.  Well, we got a reflection this week but in a very interesting way.  Jack looking at Locke in the mirror as he’s ready to do surgery.
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23.  Remember, no new Lost next week.  Buggers!

24,  Thanks to Lost Media for the screen caps this week.  My computer took a total dump so I don’t have the software to do my own.

Didn’t see that one coming!  Maybe Flocke wants them off the island?  Brilliance!  Way to go Jack, you ARE still the leader.

1.  Who is the last recruit?  Jack?  Flocke wants him because Jack’s faith is in tact much like Locke’s was originally.  In the new time line the recruit looks like Desmond.  Flocke saves Jack in the end over all the others there on the beach.  I just can’t believe that Jack will agree, he knows too much now.  I don’t think Jacob would have picked Jack if he thought he couldn’t make the right choice.

2.  Man, I wanted Jack so badly to ask for his dad’s shoes back!

3.  I loved the little pow wow by the fire with Flocke and Jack.  All sorts of questions asked that they should have been asked a long time ago.  Why Locke, why his body, was he Christian?

4.  And if Flocke is taking on the dead forms that means that Michael was him too right?  That is why he didn’t want them to blow up the plane.  So Richard had it right!  Sure hope he makes it there alive.

5.  They are so conveniently bringing everyone together in the new time line.  Ben going to the hospital with Locke.  Sun and Jin are there.  Jack comes to work on Locke.  Claire may follow him there to talk.  Sawyer and Miles will probably show up to question Sun.  Kate was with Sawyer, who knows if she’ll stick around.  And Sayid is in the mix too now.

6.  How does Sun know that Locke is “him?”  Did she see him in a near death experience?

7.   Don’t forget that Jack still has the pill from Dogan for Sayid.  So yes, he might be able to pull an “Anakin.”

8.  And Saywer’s line “who the hell is Anakin?’  followed by Hurley telling Claire, “You look…… good.”  I’m so glad to have them all back together.

9.  It is pretty ironic that Kate hit Sawyer in LA.  I guess we can assume that they aren’t “soul/island” mates since they didn’t start having flashbacks when they saw each other.

10.  Dang, they have a lot of stuff on that sub.  Fences, Desmond, now bombs?  Impressive.  Can a bomb kill Flocke?

11.  Looks like Ilana is still working with Jacob in the new time line.  She’s working with Des to get the Losties together.  Her last name sounded like “Radzinsky?”  That was the crazy guy from 1977 who helped build the hatches, who blew his brains out in the Swan.

12.  Sayid even talks differently now.  But I can tell you that he did not kill Desmond.  Even if Sayid tried if the island isn’t done with Desmond then it will not let Desmond be killed.  Sayid even has a little smirk on his face when he tells Flocke to go back and check to see if he killed Des.  A little bit of him left in there?

13.  I love Sawyer, “That pilot who looks like he stepped off the set of a Burt Reynold’s movie.”  “That’s before she started drinking Locke’s Kool-Aid.”  He’s back!  Just need some punchy one-liners in the new time line.

14. Come on, David’s mom HAS to be Juliet!  Show us already!

15.  I’m waiting for the “dural sac” to burst just like the woman from Jack’s season one story.  Then he’ll count to five, fix him up and Locke will walk again.  But, I can’t wait to see what Locke will figure out about this island other-life while he’s under!

16.  Will their guns even work after being in the water?

17.  Did Liz Lemon ask who else was there because they wanted Jack?  Why is it OK to bomb Flocke knowing Jack is there?

18.  Geez, finally Jin and Sun!  it’s interesting that Sun’s island person is like what the original time line person experiences.  She kisses her true love and gets her voice back much like the island life flash the others have gotten.

19.  They aren’t killing Sawyer and company.  They must want them safe as well.  We need to find out soon why they all need to be together.

20.  Next week looks to contain one ticked off Smokey.  Should be one crazy blood bath!

Does “everybody” love Hugo?  I don’t think that Hugo loves Hugo.  Seems that although he has a pretty good life his self esteem is seriously lacking.  This Hugo doesn’t seem all that different that the original timeline Hugo.  Outside of his *good* luck, he seems pretty much the same guy.  I don’t know if that is going to figure in to the future of our Losties, but interesting to note.

1.  In the “previously on Lost…” Desmond tells Widmore that he’s ready to start whatever important project he was brought to the island to do.  I do not believe for a second that by being in that well Desmond won’t go on to do whatever job he needs to do.  If the island has a job for him then it will be done and neither a well nor Flocke will stop him.

2.  Jorge’s dog Nunu! How cute!  I would totally bring my cat into work if I could too.
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3.  Wasn’t Pierre Chang’s left arm crippled?  If the time lines split in 1977 that would not have changed.  If memory serves the arm was injured during the “incident.”  But, at the Man of the Year Ceremony he’s holding on to the podium and clapping with his left hand.  Is this an oversight on the writer’s behalf?

4.  Hurley tells his mom they have “The Human Fund” next Saturday night.  Really?  Wasn’t that George Costanza’s fake charity?  Pretty funny!

5.  Was I the only one rolling during the dialog between Hurley and his mom about dating?  They have the best scenes together.  She wants some grandbabies!  I guess Starla isn’t around in this time line.
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6.  I’m disappointed because I wanted to hear the story of how Hurley got his nickname.  Everyone in the new time line was calling him Hugo so I assume whatever the reason that it didn’t happen in this time line.

7.  At first I thought that Flocke was carving a new Jesus Stick, similar to Eko’s.  But then I remembered in the Dark Tower series that Eddie had a piece of the wood that he was carving but he didn’t know what it was, that the wood would decide what it wanted to be.  Which it ended up being a key.  I’ll be curious if Flocke makes something similar and what the “key” will be used for.
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8.  Don’t worry Hugo, you aren’t the first one to drown your sorrows in food brother.  Mine may not have been in a family sized bucket of chicken, but I’ve done some serious damage to a pint of ice cream.
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9.  How will any show ever again have this kind of moment?  Flocke is talking to Desmond and asks if he knows who he is.  My breath was held as I was expecting Desmond to speak Flocke’s real name.  But he doesn’t he says “You’re John Locke.”  Yes, his body is John Locke’s.  Is there still an essence of Locke inside of him?  Some say that it IS really still John Locke in there.  How this simple moment can mean so many things to so many people speaks to the brilliance that is Lost.

10.  When Flocke offers his hand to Desmond, Desmond is the first we’ve seen who accepts his hand.

11.  Why are there always island scenes on chalkboards?  It could be an alligator but it also looks like a cloud of smoke over the island.
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12.  I didn’t spot Lenny in the institution.  He was pivotal in Hurley’s original time line because he chanted the numbers over and over thus giving Hurley the winning lotto numbers.  He still wins the lotto in the new time line so he must have met him somewhere else in his life.

13.  I like the little creepy ghost boy mostly because Flocke is annoyed by him.  I can’t wait to see what the kid finds so funny about annoying Flocke.  Maybe he’s smiling because he knows that Desmond is going to play a role in keeping him trapped on the ‘God Forsaken Rock’ as Flocke calls it.
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14.  If the Whispers are of those who can’t move on then where does Christian fit into that?  He appears but why would he be trapped?  He didn’t do anything to anyone on the island.  He didn’t die on the island either.

15.  How convenient that the three Losties Flocke needs to get off the island fall right into his lap along with a pilot!  Maybe they really do need to blow up that plane.  I’m not seeing yet how this is going to play out as they need all of the Losties on the plane to leave but how are the going to stop Flocke from boarding?  Could they be on board and Widmore stays behind to keep MIB there?  I can envision them taking off with Widmore standing on the ground waving to them, happy to be back where he thinks he belongs.  I doubt that scene will play out however.  Plus Desmond told Charlie that he saw Claire boarding a helicopter when she leaves the island.  Might have to be the creepy squirrel headed thing but no matter, she’s leaving.  Maybe.

16.  How ironic that Locke gets pushed to his death (well, near death since Jacob brings him back to life) and Flocke pushes Desmond to what he thinks will be his death.  But Flocke pushes Des because he may not know exactly what Widmore is going to use him for but he does know that Des is important as Widmore had him kidnapped and brought to the island including protecting him with armed guards.  Plus Desmond is not afraid of Flocke which makes him special just in that respect.  But Widmore is looking for these wells so I can’t imagine that this was a great idea and I think that Widmore will find and pull Des out of the well.

17.  Of course Flocke promises not to hurt Hugo and the others!  He needs them to escape!

18.  Jack was shocked to see Flocke because the last time he saw him he was putting his dead father’s shoes on Locke’s dead body.  This should reinforce Jack’s new found faith.  I’m also interested to see the interaction with Jack and Claire as he now knows that she is his sister.

19.  Another amazing moment that will not be matched in any other show.  Why does Desmond hit Locke in his wheel chair.  My initial theory is that the body is needed to recapture MIB in the new time line.  But in talking to some friends there are other very valid theories.  Injured Locke will need to go to the hospital which is Desmond’s intent because while there he will meet Jack.  No, it’s not a love connection but instead they need each other to find their dual time line reality.  I wonder if Des will then be arrested by Sawyer and Miles leading to him also meeting Kate while in jail.  With only 4 episodes left they need to get Desmond’s mission on high speed and they could get many of the Losties realizations going in just one episode.  Ben will also come and see Locke in the hospital so there is another person to bring in.

20.  Maybe now Jack will also get to do the spinal surgery on Locke as well.

21.  If Locke realizes he’s got this alternative life going what might he see through the eyes of Flocke?  Will Locke, being what we can assume is a good guy, try to stop his alternative self?  Will new time line Locke become a horrible person?

Some episodes I’m surprised, tonight I actually jumped when Ilana blew herself up.  My cat even jumped when it happened!  I kind of hoped from some smart remark from Hurley about having “Ilana” on his shirt, but that would be tasteless.  And a black and white (pun intended) answer regarding the whispers.  I am not a fan of the characters just telling us the answer, I like getting them through subtleties better.

1.  Instead of an eye opening there was a very long screen of black.

2.  I really want to know if the picture of Hurley and the dog was his real dog.  He always blogs about it and it sure did look like Nunu.

3.  I was hoping to get the story behind the nickname “Hurley” tonight.  Sigh.

4.  I can’t wait to screencap this week.  Why is Hurley giving money to an “experimental farm?”

5.  Pierre introducing the new Hugo Reyes paleontology wing of the Natural History Museum.  Very cute writers!

6.  I love Hurley’s mom.  She’s giving him a pep talk about finding someone to love him then proceeds to smack him.  Priceless!

7.  Nice red flower by Libby’s grave.  The red flowers return!

8.  So who is Michael?  Is Michael really an apparition or is there a third party embodying him?  How else would dead Michael know what Hurley is supposed to be doing unless it’s not really him?  We’ve seen other dead people wandering around talking and leading the Losties and it’s either ghosts or one “thing” that can embody them and talk to them.

9.  I think that anyone that goes to the plane to blow it up are going to be killed by Flocke and that is why Michael didn’t want Hurley to lead the Losties over to the plane.  Plus, they are going to need that plane to get off of the island themselves.

10.  Oh boy, I hope they don’t all board the plane with Flocke then send it crashing into ocean.  But if they find out they have a “better” life in the new time line and what Dan told them about what would happen if the bomb exploded was true, then I can easily see them all agreeing to let the plane crash.

11.  What happened to Hurley’s original date Rosalita?  Could Des have “shooed” her off so that Hurley would have to meet Libby?

12.  And Libby staring at Hurley across the restaurant.  Reminded me of her eerie stare way back when in the mental institution.  We have all been wondering why she was just staring and how she knew him.  Well, I think that original time line Libby also knew Hurley from both time lines.  I think that Libby was staring at him both times because she “mind traveled” even back then and knew that she and Hurley were meant to be together.  Plus she knew his name in the restaurant and that was not because she overheard anything, this girl knows stuff!

13.  Libby touches Hurley first but nothing happens.  I guess they need to have an open mind before they can “see” through the touch.

14.  I guess the island was done with Ilana, just as Ben said.

15.  I like how Flocke is now making his own “Jesus Stick.”  Wow, so many things coming back from the last seasons!  I’ll get a screen cap along with Eko’s stick.

16.  No one followed Sayid and Flocke into the jungle when they were talking?  Sawyer is a pretty curious fellow and I think he might know that Flocke pushes Des into the well. Looks like next week though they are going to try and find lots of ways to kill him down there.

17.  Hurley better hang on to those ashes that Ilana was carrying.  May come in handy with Old Smokey.

18.  Of course Desmond’s number was 42.

19.  Des has no where to run to, brotha.  Because maybe he knows that this “life” is limited on the island.  He’s not afraid because he knows that he can face Flocke (the elecro magnetism in Smokey) and not die.  He is meant to do something here.  I really expected when Flocke asked Des if he knew who he was that Des was going to say MIB’s name.  Dang them!

20.  Same picture in the psychiatrist’s office as was when we first saw him.  I remember it because we all talked about if it meant something.  I was also expecting Dave to show up.  Or Leonard chanting the numbers.

21. Maybe Creepy Eyed Man came to visit Hurley in the original time line at the Loony Bin because he was trying to get Hurley to remember something.  His job was to take people where they needed to go.  Did he need to take him somewhere so he could remember something too?

22.  Hurley’s momma isn’t going to be happy with his choice in dates.

23.  I think the little dirty boy out in the woods has it in for Flocke.  He seems pretty irritated by him and the boy has a very taunting smile on his face.  And how can Des see him if he’s dead?

24.  Richard is right, Jacob never tells them what to do.  Jacob wants them to find their own way.  That is why he doesn’t give them the keys to the handcuffs, they have to want the answer.

25.  Either Richard, Miles and Ben are going to die trying to blow up the plane or they are going to end up saving the others from Flocke’s group.

26.  I’m still loving Jack this season.  Mr Fix it is giving in to fate, who would have thought it!  But now that Jack “gets it” what happens to him?  Does he become the candidate or does he have to die for the island now?

27.  Flocke needs to trap Des because he needs to stop him.  He has to know that becoming the smoke won’t stop Des because he’s faced the electro magnetic energy and it doesn’t hurt him.  So perhaps something down in the well acts like kryptonite to Des?  Maybe whatever is down there will keep Des there.  And the other wells are probably in the same areas where there are “pockets” of energy that Widmore is looking for.  And if that is the case then his group has a chance of finding him there.

28.  Flocke has to be happy that the other Losties he needs came right to him!  However, he is still missing Jin so he can’t go anywhere yet.

29.  The scene of Flocke and Jack meeting, PRICELESS!!!!  The last time Jack saw Locke was when he was putting his dad’s shoes on his dead body.

30.  Here is my theory on why Des tries to kill Locke in the new time line.  Locke needs to die because his body is needed to get MIB back into it.  Right now MIB is wandering the earth in the new time line.  The way to catch him is to put him back in the body of Locke and then either send him back to the island or destroy him forever.

31.  Creepy Willy Wonka music in the scenes for next week!

32.  The note Sun is showing says “You did this to me!”

33.  Sayid is pointing the gun down the well at Des and he’s just sitting there smiling and the light goes dim.  Looks like the same effect as when Locke fell down the hole and the time changed.  Maybe Des “mind travels” out of there and can’t be killed at that moment?

34.  So if it’s your true love that will lead you to discover your alternate life then who will Sawyer and Jack see?  I’m voting and hoping for Juliet and Sawyer, Jack and Kate.  Truthfully I’m not very excited about this direction in the story but at least we’ll see Juliet and Sawyer back together.

I think the title this week is ironic.  I don’t know based on our known history of these characters that any one of them will have a happily ever after – except maybe Rose and Bernard.  Things look good as of the end of this week for Desmond and Penny but I’m very skeptical if it’s going to turn out where they can sail off into the sunset.

1. Typical opening scene with Desmond’s eye.  I can’t help but think back to Jacob’s cabin a few seasons ago when the eye appeared and freaked out Hurley.  Whose eye was that?  I’m not saying it’s Desmond’s eye but knowing that he can manipulate time and space then why couldn’t it be?  It could also be that at the time 4 X 01 was filmed they didn’t have Jacob and MIB cast so they just used “someone” but it’s far more fun to speculate.
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2.  If the generator hasn’t run for 20 years then does that mean they’ve been preparing all these years for this moment? What else could they have needed this large of a generator for?

3.  Call me crazy but this sure does resemble the inside of Jacob’s cabin.  Insert a crazy dog painting and there you go.  Could Jacob’s cabin have been more than just a place for Jacob to sit and wait on Ben to come for orders?  Could it have been some kind of portal between time lines?
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4.  Maybe they should have drug the fried dead guy out of the cabin before bringing in Desmond.  Might have not been such a scene that way.

5.  How does Widmore know that Des survived an electromagnetic blast?  Technically a lot of people, including Charlie, survived when Des turned the key.  But someone from the island got word to Widmore about the blast.   Also, this “test” that Widmore does this week is not the blast that he needs Desmond to survive and is not what he needs Des for yet.  They still need to channel the energy from the pockets on the island.  Maybe Des is going to be the conductor to the MIB and that is why is so OK going with Sayid.

6.  I don’t think we’ve seen what Des is going to have to sacrifice but I’m guessing that it’s his life in one of the two time lines.  Widmore showed him that he will have Penny either way so he can die in one and still have her in the other.

7.  OK, so they are using electromagnetic energy on Des so he can mind travel.  But I still think he’s got more work to do with this energy and that this experiment was just to set events in motion.  I like the “flux” gauge the best.
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8.  This show has had some pretty weak special effects but I thought they did a good job with this one.  Des almost looked like he was in a “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” scene though.
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9.  Also, right after Des gets “lit up” the screen goes white then to the clouds.  This all reminded me of Juliet hitting the bomb, flash to white then start this season in the clouds.

10.  SKID, you are right.  Two Desmond reflections.  I would guess that yes, it’s of major significance.
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11.  So many things about the Losties lives are the same in both timelines and it brought them aboard flight 815 even down to the outfits that they have on.  Yes, there are some major differences in their lives (Saywer and his job, Jack having a son) but many things are the same.  In the original timeline Desmond was not on board the flight because he was already on the island.  There are many, many differences in Desmond’s life.  In science experiments you throw in variables to see what the difference in the outcome will be.  I would say that whether it be Jacob, MIB or Widmore playing this game, Desmond is for sure a variable on the board.  His choices, his fate affect the direction of all of their lives.

12.  Desmond reflecting on things that could have been, or were, or might still happen.
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13.  Widmore tells Desmond that unless he can get Drive Shaft to the charity even that his wife (Eloise) will “destroy” him.  Nice wording.  Probably literal.

14.  Desmond is finally worthy of Widmore’s MacCutcheon whiskey.  Widmore needs him now whereas before Desmond didn’t appear to be on the right path.  Maybe previously Widmore thought Des wasn’t “ready” and in this time line it’s Eloise that thinks he’s not ready/
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15.  I’m sure we will look back on this painting and it will mean more by The End.  For now I’m guessing it’s a wish for the scales to balance again.  I’m going to firmly take sides and speculate that MIB is free in the new timeline.  Widmore needs to use Desmond to balance the scales which does make him a good guy.  Maybe he was a good guy in the original too.  I still think that him wanting to kill Ben was to stop Ben from killing Jacob.

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16.  How cool was it to see Desmond and Charlie back together again?  They were having drinks again just like they did by the campfire.
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17.  There is something very surreal about Charlie in the new timeline.  When they go in the water while Desmond is struggling to get out Charlie just closes his eyes and succumbs to his fate.  When they are the in the hospital he runs to be free and tells Desmond that there is nothing that they can do for him there.  Why?  I don’t think the guy is suicidal and there is something very special about him here.

18.  Not Penny’s Boat.  How does Charlie know to lift up his hand?  But the doctor says Des bumped his head and it appears from Sun’s experience that you can cross over when you bump your head.
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19.  And why aren’t these people on shore helping?  Why not throw over a life preserver or something?
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20.  The guy with Des at the MRI tells him to try and not press the button because then he’ll have to start all over from the beginning.  Ironic, don’t you think?

21.  OK, there is no way that the MRI machine sounding like Smokey is just a coincidence.  And Smokey also “reads” people like the machine does (like when Smokey comes, Desmond is having flashes of his past/other life).  Not that Smokey is an MRI machine but it’s still pretty ironic.

22.  Gratuitous Charlie screenshot.  I don’t know if we will get anymore for the remainder of the show so I just had to get one more in here.  I love his character and thought it was fabulous to see him again.
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23.  Eloise does not look very happy to see Desmond.  While everyone else is finding their happily ever after mates something tells me that Eloise and Widmore aren’t the happiest married couple.  Widmore has his agenda moving forward and she doesn’t seem to agree by trying to stop Des from finding out who Penny is.  And SKID you are right again, the same symbol that Juliet had branded on her.  I’m leaning towards Eloise being on the “black” side of the scale.
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24.  I think that Eloise wants to stop Desmond because she does not want him to interfere with this timeline.  My guess is that she probably made a deal with MIB to have her son back and doesn’t want Des to interfere with that.  Remember that MIB does try to deal to bring back dead people (Nadia, Richard’s wife).  She probably helped to free MIB in this time line in exchange for her son (Dan).  She reminds Desmond that he has the “perfect life” including the thing that he wanted the most, Widmore’s approval.  That was true for the old time line as well.

25.  Another list.  Eloise tells Des that he’s not ready to see the list.  Who knows how many Losties are on that list.  By the time he leaves the stadium, however, he is ready for the list and asks for a different one, the flight manifest.

26.  Two dead people from the island and both reflections are black.  Mankowski and Dan.
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27.  I’m thinking that the “museum” is special.  We know that Pierre Chang and Charlotte work there.  Eloise has a connection (the fundraiser is there) and Dan hangs out there.  I would guess we are going to see more Dharma connections come along at the museum this season.  Maybe the new lighthouse station is there.

28.  Why would Dan pull Des aside to talk about Charlotte and his crazy dream?  Could it be because Dan wrote more than just one page of crazy equations?  Maybe the page is in there where Dan wrote that Desmond Hume is his constant? Seems that Dan’s mind crossed over in his dream after being “sparked” by seeing Charlotte and that is how he remembered some of his physics.

29.  Yes, Dan is a musician but his book was left behind in 1977.  You can believe that Eloise and Dharma got their hands on that book and is probably how they know so much about time travel, Desmond, and the alternate time line.

30.  I also wanted to get a gratuitous shot of Dan in here.  He’s another one of my favorite characters and we might not see him again this season.   Oh and yes, of course he’s wearing the tie!  Now they need to bring in Juliet!
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31.  OK, did Dan tell us that this new timeline wasn’t supposed to be an that maybe the energy needs to be released to end it?  He speculates to Des that maybe “this” isn’t the life they were supposed to live.  He may very well have to kill off all of the Losties in one time line or another to set things straight and it sounds like from Dan’s speech that the new time line has to go.

32.   Anyone expecting Desmond to tell Penny, “See you in another life, brother sister” at the stadium?

33.  Des wakes up on the island and is ready to go with Widmore’s plan.  I think it’s part because he knows he will still be with Penny and part because he’s working for Widmore and gained what he wanted, his respect.  There is a remote possibility that Des’s consciousness switched places between the two timelines so that the Des that didn’t have Penny can continue without her (on the island) and the Des that loves her now has her again in the new time line.

34.  Did anyone else chuckle when Sayid just killed two people yet told Des that “these people are extremely dangerous?”

35.  The fact that Sayid doesn’t kill Liz Lemon Zoe shows that he still has a little humanity left in him. There is good and bad in everyone.

36.  What could Penny be training for when she’s running these stairs?  Could it be for a sailboat trip around the world?

37.  Is Des going to show the Losties through love that they have another life on the island?  What about those who didn’t have it?  Is he going to show him the way back to that love so that if he has to kill them all here they will understand or agree to go?  Locke had to find a way to convince them to all go back, maybe Des does too.

I knew it!

Read the whole story here.

Look past the details of a wonky discovery by a group of California scientists — that a quantum state is now observable with the human eye — and consider its implications: Time travel may be feasible. Doc Brown would be proud.

The strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe — a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that traveling through time may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers.

And it’s all because of a tiny bit of metal — a “paddle” about the width of a human hair, an item that is incredibly small but still something you can see with the naked eye.

UC Santa Barbara’s Andrew Cleland cooled that paddle in a refrigerator, dimmed the lights and, under a special bell jar, sucked out all the air to eliminate vibrations. He then plucked it like a tuning fork and noted that it moved and stood still at the same time.

That sounds contradictory, and it’s nearly impossible to understand if your last name isn’t Einstein. But it actually happened. It’s a freaky fact that’s at the heart of quantum mechanics.

All my favorites all rolled up in one episode.  Desmond centric (I knew right there it was going to be good).  Charlie, Charlie and more Charlie!  And Daniel!  So far all the Des centric episodes have ranked up as my favorite TV of all time and this week did not disappoint.

1.  We didn’t need a “previously on Lost” this week because Des hasn’t been around yet this season.  But we did get the eye opening.

2.  Isn’t Liz Lemmon Zoe a geophysicist?  Why is she in charge of the meds for Desmond?

3.  If Ben shot Desmond then could he be working with Flocke?  Was he trying to stop Desmond because he knew that Des would come back to help stop Flocke and be used by Widmore?  It would also explain why Ben killed Locke, because he knew MIB needed his body.

4.  We get to see behind the scenes on Hydra.  But they didn’t just build this generator/time machine overnight so they must have been preparing for a long time much like when they were building the airstrip.

5.  I loved the lip twitch when Widmore tells Desmond that he’s back on the island.  Now THAT is acting!

6.  What sacrifice did Desmond make?  Did he leave his consciousness back in the new timeline and that is why he’s so docile once he gets back?

7.  Desmond is touching or interacting with each of the Losties much like Jacob did with them.  But, if the candidates are different this time it could explain why the numbers are different in the new time line (as they correspond with the candidates for this time line).  You will see that Hurley’s lottery numbers are different and thus I think that we have different candidates here.

8.  Looks like Minkowski is playing the same role the Creepy Eyed Man played in the old time line.  He’s driving people where they need to go.

9.  Nice scales in Widmore’s painting.  White and Black rocks, just like in MIB’s cave.

10.  Is Des going to have to take another sail boat trip? He was admiring the sail boat in his office – red herring or things to come?

11.  I was confused.  Charlie is NOT Widmore’s son.  I watched the scene back and Widmore wants Charlie bailed out because, he says, he needs him to come and play with Daniel at the event.  I love that Dan is now a musician, instead of a physicist.  I LOVE that Widmore is sending him right to Charlie so that Charlie can help him “feel it” or see what he needs to do.

12.  MacCutcheon whiskey.  Now Des can finally drink it. AND toasting his “indespensibility.”

13.  Interesting that Charlie can just walk across the street without getting hit. Much like how Michael couldn’t kill himself either and Jack couldn’t get the dynamite to explode.

14.  Reflection, full body, in the courthouse door of Desmond.

15. Charlie says “Spectacular, conscious-altering love.”  How apropos for this episode.

16.  Charlie sees Claire when he’s dead?

17.  I guess if you are going to get Des to do what you want then love would be the card to play.  However Widmore set this up he was right to use love and Penny to get Des to see or “feel” whatever he needs him to do.

18.  Choices – Des tells Charlie that there is always a choice. Then Charlie has to nearly drown (again) for Desmond to see what he’s talking about.  I really didn’t need to see drowning Charlie again as that scene will haunt me forever.  But we got the point brother!

19.  So there were guys walking around the pier and none of them jumped in or ran over to help?

20.  I thought for sure Des was going to go back to the island during the MRI since they were asking him the same questions and it’s magnetic energy.   But he did take quite the crazy brain ride!  Let me just say that it’s crazy and insane how the writers come up with these scenes.  To think this stuff up is genius!

21.  Whatever Charlie knows Desmond figures out by the end.  None of “this” matters.  No one in the hospital can help him.

22.  Eloise is surprised to see Des.  Probably because they are running at least a day ahead (according to what Zoe said to Widmore about not having the generator ready).  Widmore probably sends Desmond to Eloise to let her know whatever plan is taking shape here is going forward.  She tries to give him a similar warning as she did in the past.  What violation is he committing?  It’s almost as if she’s working on MIB’s side by trying to stop him.

23.  Nice Dan reflection – his was the first one where we couldn’t actually see him but only a black shadow.

24.  What is up with all these guys in love?  Dan talks about Charlotte (and I love that she’s eating a chocolate bar).  Then Dan wakes up and draws his advanced equations.  What if Des has to set off a nuclear bomb in the new time line to stop MIB and put things back they way they should be in the original time line?  That’s why Dan is back as he is COURSE CORRECTING!  In the new time line the MIB is free and roaming the earth and Des has to set off the bomb to stop him and put things back the way they should be.

25.  I was expecting Des to meet Jack again in the stands.

26.  I can believe a lot of things on this island but if you are a woman in a huge stadium running and some guy comes up to you would you shake his hand?  Would you go to coffee with him right after meeting him?

27.  And he touches Penny.

28.  Widmore had to know that Des was going to be taken.  Why else would he send Des out where he could get nabbed? And Des must know it’s OK to go with Sayid.  Maybe because Des left behind his consciousness in the new time line.  He’s now started on his mission.  His sacrifice is to leave Penny and Charlie behind in the old time line but he can begin again in the new time line.  If that is true and new time line is a good place then Desmond can show the Losties that Dan’s plan and Juliet’s sacrifice were both worth it.  why else would he need the manifest?  Or maybe he needs the manifest to find the new “candidates.”

29.  Sayid must have some decency in him as he tells Zoe to run instead of just killing her.

30.  Just had another thought.  Regarding the title – des finds his happily ever after in the new time line?  charlie found his in the old time line?