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Post subject: 2.23 Live Together, Die Alone
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Day 65
Desmond David Hume |
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 Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:02 am |
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As Jack, Sayid and Sawyer swim out to meet the sailboat bobbing just offshore, we almost feel relieved to discover that this is definitely NOT the way off the island. After coming this far, you knew it wasn't going to be that easy now, didn't you?
But in addition to returning Desmond to the island, that boat just may have just brought Sayid the advantage he needs to put his own plan into action. And as he and Jack form a very important secret, Michael leads his "team" into the jungle, towards a now very uncertain fate.
Speaking of Desmond, in FLASHBACKS we finally learn the answers to how he ended up in this spot in the first place. And they are more shocking and tragic than we could have ever imagined. Beginning with his exit from a British military stockade and dishonorable discharge from his regiment, and winding all the way to the day he first pressed the button himself, we see a much different Desmond. And the man we assumed held all the answers turns out to be as LOST as anyone else on this island.
But he still knows a trick or two, and as Jack follows a man he knows to be a traitor deeper and deeper into the unknown, it is Locke who forges an alliance with Desmond in the hopes of answering his own questions (and ours) once and for all. What's he willing to risk in order to find out? Just the future survival of the entire world, is all.
In the jungle, Jack is forced to expose Michael for what he is, and after a few horrible moments, even Michael is unable to continue his charade. As he breaks down and admits what he has done, Hurley realizes that he's looking at the man who killed the woman he loved -- perhaps the only one who would ever love him. And as he realizes that he is being led into a trap Hurley turns to leave -- preferring to go back and mourn rather than try to exact some futile attempt at revenge. But Jack has one more bomb to drop which stops Hurley in his tracks. Turns out Michael isn't the only one who can keep a secret…
As Sayid and his "crew" sail the ship around the point of the island, passing ever more mysterious landmarks on their way, we are left to worry about who is outsmarting whom? How many double crosses can there possibly be before you end on with the short side of the stick again?
We don't have to wait long to find out the answer. And, as usual, the answers hold no comfort. And we all learn a lesson about the depths of treachery. About the lengths to which someone will go to do what they think is right.
But that's the thing about committing. There's no going back. What if you're wrong? Where do you go from there? And what happens to the rest of us? As the season comes to close, we all get to find out. And THESE answers are more explosive and ever-changing than any we have seen before.
Because of Michael treachery, Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley are captured by "the Others". Michael gets Walt back and leaves an a boat, Hurley is sent back to the camp and Jack, Kate and Sawyer go with "the others"...
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My Barn Having Burned to the Ground, I Can Now See the Moon. |
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| Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:42 am |
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Part Two.....
As Jack, Sayid and Sawyer swim out to meet the sailboat bobbing just offshore, we almost feel relieved to discover that this is definitely NOT the way off the island. After coming this far, you knew it wasn't going to be that easy now, didn't you?
But in addition to returning Desmond to the island, that boat just may have just brought Sayid the advantage he needs to put his own plan into action. And as he and Jack form a very important secret, Michael leads his "team" into the jungle, towards a now very uncertain fate.
Speaking of Desmond, in FLASHBACKS we finally learn the answers to how he ended up in this spot in the first place. And they are more shocking and tragic than we could have ever imagined. Beginning with his exit from a British military stockade and dishonorable discharge from his regiment, and winding all the way to the day he first pressed the button himself, we see a much different Desmond. And the man we assumed held all the answers turns out to be as LOST as anyone else on this island.
But he still knows a trick or two, and as Jack follows a man he knows to be a traitor deeper and deeper into the unknown, it is Locke who forges an alliance with Desmond in the hopes of answering his own questions (and ours) once and for all. What's he willing to risk in order to find out? Just the future survival of the entire world, is all.
In the jungle, Jack is forced to expose Michael for what he is, and after a few horrible moments, even Michael is unable to continue his charade. As he breaks down and admits what he has done, Hurley realizes that he's looking at the man who killed the woman he loved -- perhaps the only one who would ever love him. And as he realizes that he is being led into a trap Hurley turns to leave -- preferring to go back and mourn rather than try to exact some futile attempt at revenge. But Jack has one more bomb to drop which stops Hurley in his tracks. Turns out Michael isn't the only one who can keep a secret…
As Sayid and his "crew" sail the ship around the point of the island, passing ever more mysterious landmarks on their way, we are left to worry about who is outsmarting whom? How many double crosses can there possibly be before you end on with the short side of the stick again? We don't have to wait long to find out the answer. And, as usual, the answers hold no comfort. And we all learn a lesson about the depths of treachery. About the lengths to which someone will go to do what they think is right.
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Beth
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| Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:43 am |
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There are some repearts in those last two....sorry...hope it all makes sense...........
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| Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:48 am |
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I laughed when a drunken Desmond said "We are stuck in a bloody snow globe." A reference to the ending of the hit TV show St. Elsewhere from many years ago.
In the FB,when Desmond gets out of prison he's carrying the Dickens book Our Mutual Friend he had been determined that this would be the last book he would ever read in his lifetime.There's probably some significance to that but although I've read some Dickens,I haven't read that one (and don't particularly wish to),so I don't get that reference.
Three years earlier Libby gave Desmond the boat in honor of her late husband David, who had recently died. Was this before or after she had been in the mental institution with Hurley?
When Mike and the 4 people on the list are hiking across the island to get Walt,there's a bird that flies at Hurley and screeches his name(it was even on the closed captioning!) now what's up with that ?
Desmond tells Claire he shot himself with that vaccine very nine days for 3 years, more of the magical numbers 9 and 3.
On the way to meet up with Michael's party, Sayid,Sun and Jin see the 4 toed statue,signs of an ancient civilization on the island ?
In the FB, when Kelvin finds Des he tells him about his partner Radzinsky and says that Radzinsky had made some edits in the Orientation film.Why would he do that and then put the film cuts in a Bible in another hatch?Kelvin also tells us that Radzinsky killed himself and that he Kelvin,joined Dharma after he left the army. We know he was with the U.S. Army in Iraq in the early '90s,so obviously Dharma was still around then.Kelvin also shows Des the fail-safe system and tells him that the "incident" caused a leak in the electromagnetic field and that's why they have to keep pushing the button, so it doesn't happen again.So, after the Hatch is destroyed, why doesn't this continue to happen every 108 minutes ? did the explosion "plug" the leak?
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