Quick Thoughts from a LOST-Occupied Mind

Yeah, good luck, students of room 219 - Mr. Husvar is not fully focused on you today!

Well, first of all, it looks like I can post again! It still says "scheduled outage at 4:00 PST" at the top of my page, but whatever.

I've had a number of thoughts (of course) all morning as my mind works slowly, and not at all surely, through last night's two episodes. Here is what I'm thinking about, and that I'd love to hear your thoughts about:

1. Desmond's "Dream": Was it, as Penny said, a dream of the island that Desmond had in "current time" (yeeeeah, I don't even pretend to know what that is anymore), or was it a memory? My opinion? It's a memory he never had - until Daniel Faraday forced him to open the back door of the Swan in the past and told him to find his mother (Whaaa???) at Oxford. Only then did Desmond wake up with this memory - a new memory, but of something that happened years before, that wasn't a memory until it suddenly happened in the past.

Faraday kept insisting that, no matter what, you couldn't change the past or future; what happens(ed) happens(ed). But if he never told Desmond to find his mother before, and only did it now, isn't he contradicting himself, and therefore time?

2. Speaking of Faraday's mother at Oxford, there are many people who are theorizing that his mother is none other than Mrs. Hawking, who we saw with Ben at the end of the show. I think I may be one of them...

3. Here's the big question I have, and I'm not sure if it makes sense, but here it is anyway: are they proposing that the Locke we have seen since Season 1 is the Locke we are seeing now? In other words, has he known all along, since the moment we saw him, what was going to happen because he had already gone through it once? Or has he been popping between the 2004 of the island and his future self who had already lived on the island, a la Desmond? I don't think this works because it would be a paradox - he would eventually run into his self that was on the plane, and that technically can't happen. So I don't know...

4. I love the idea of time travel, period, but I really love where the writers of LOST are taking it. I don't think I've seen it done in this way before. What they are doing is very bold and very risky - I'm wondering if they are going to be able to pull it off. They are opening up many cans of worms here, and they've said they will have no time paradoxes on the show, so I'm fascinated by how they are going to do this.

More to come...