Right?
There's no way Faraday is dead. They just...can't. He's too awesome. But if they do, they have to eventually show his time in Ann Arbor - I'm dying to see that. But let's remember that Daniel is in the perfect place for those with bullets in their chests... Will Richard carry him into the Temple as he did with Ben?
I was surprised to see two very disparate scenes - Daniel watching the discovery of the fake Oceanic 815 in the Sunda trench on TV and not knowing why it is making him upset (why was it? Maybe I missed it, but he didn't have any knowledge of the truth at that point, did he?), and his literal bumping into Dr. Chang in the Orchid tunnel - tied into the one episode tonight. It made sense, but I wasn't expecting to see them connected.
There's no way Faraday is dead. They just...can't. He's too awesome. But if they do, they have to eventually show his time in Ann Arbor - I'm dying to see that. But let's remember that Daniel is in the perfect place for those with bullets in their chests... Will Richard carry him into the Temple as he did with Ben?
I was surprised to see two very disparate scenes - Daniel watching the discovery of the fake Oceanic 815 in the Sunda trench on TV and not knowing why it is making him upset (why was it? Maybe I missed it, but he didn't have any knowledge of the truth at that point, did he?), and his literal bumping into Dr. Chang in the Orchid tunnel - tied into the one episode tonight. It made sense, but I wasn't expecting to see them connected.
Sawyer and Juliet are in BIG trouble. I really don't know what Sawyer was thinking. Maybe the point is that he wasn't thinking, he was reacting. Hmmm...why does that sound familiar...? And Juliet is throwing in the towel. Once the word "Freckles" was mentioned, it was all over. Well, maybe not all over, but her confidence in just about everything has taken a big hit.
They confirmed what we all pretty much knew: Daniel is the child of Ellie and Charles. And we saw him again in a kinder, gentler light when he visited Daniel in his "home."
Does Radzinsky make you want to reach through your television and choke him to death, too?
So, is Daniel the variable? Well, he himself can't be - his apparent death at the hands of his mother was fated. Eloise knew it was going to happen because she lived it in 1977. But are his words the variable? Will they resonate with Jack and Kate? Will they lead them to make a decision, even more than they already have, that will change things? But I don't think that's what the variable is. Think about it: what was the frame of this episode? Who's story was being told, almost as bookends, in this episode? While Daniel's story took center stage, there was someone else who we also focused on...
Desmond.
Daniel himself told Des, and us, that he was "special," that "the rules don't apply to him." So now we have to figure out how we get from Desmond in the hospital to Desmond in a position to change things - and apparently by detonating Jughead, which will destroy the electromagnetic energy that will be released 4 hours after Daniel's shooting, which will cause the Swan hatch to be built and the button to be pressed, which will lead to Desmond not pushing the button in 2004, which will lead to Oceanic 815 crashing. And so on, and so on.
"For the first time in a long time, I have no idea what's going to happen." A very telling quote. A quote that tells us LOST fans that all bets are off, I think. While Daniel has been espousing his mother's mantra of whatever happened, happened, he seems to have figured out the fallacy of this belief: free will.
Allow me take a stab at this... Jack, Kate, and the other Losties are themselves the variables because they actually know what will happen. Most of us don't - we are locked into fate. But maybe they aren't locked into fate because they know how things turned out. But "turned" is past tense. They are in the past, but it is present for them. So they can act in the present with the knowledge of the past, and this will guide their decisions.
Kate mentions to Jack that if they what Daniel says and destroy the Swan, everything that has happened to them will be erased. If free will trumps fate for our Losties, then she may be exactly right. So now the question becomes, is that something they want? Do they want to land in L.A. in 2004, never meeting, never going to the island, never becoming the people they are now? Here's where all of the relationship stories, the character stories, come into play - will they want to erase this entire chapter in their lives, lose all of the connections and relationships they have made with each other, and delete the developments they have made as people?
This could be where the beauty of LOST has been leading all along. If you aren't into the action, adventure, and science-fiction of the show, maybe you enjoy the character stories. Maybe now we're at a vital crossing point between these two threads: the character development that they have been experiencing for 4+ seasons will cause them to make a decision that will lead to consequences concerning time travel, the island, and every other mystery we've seen.
So, is Daniel the variable? Well, he himself can't be - his apparent death at the hands of his mother was fated. Eloise knew it was going to happen because she lived it in 1977. But are his words the variable? Will they resonate with Jack and Kate? Will they lead them to make a decision, even more than they already have, that will change things? But I don't think that's what the variable is. Think about it: what was the frame of this episode? Who's story was being told, almost as bookends, in this episode? While Daniel's story took center stage, there was someone else who we also focused on...
Desmond.
Daniel himself told Des, and us, that he was "special," that "the rules don't apply to him." So now we have to figure out how we get from Desmond in the hospital to Desmond in a position to change things - and apparently by detonating Jughead, which will destroy the electromagnetic energy that will be released 4 hours after Daniel's shooting, which will cause the Swan hatch to be built and the button to be pressed, which will lead to Desmond not pushing the button in 2004, which will lead to Oceanic 815 crashing. And so on, and so on.
"For the first time in a long time, I have no idea what's going to happen." A very telling quote. A quote that tells us LOST fans that all bets are off, I think. While Daniel has been espousing his mother's mantra of whatever happened, happened, he seems to have figured out the fallacy of this belief: free will.
Allow me take a stab at this... Jack, Kate, and the other Losties are themselves the variables because they actually know what will happen. Most of us don't - we are locked into fate. But maybe they aren't locked into fate because they know how things turned out. But "turned" is past tense. They are in the past, but it is present for them. So they can act in the present with the knowledge of the past, and this will guide their decisions.
Kate mentions to Jack that if they what Daniel says and destroy the Swan, everything that has happened to them will be erased. If free will trumps fate for our Losties, then she may be exactly right. So now the question becomes, is that something they want? Do they want to land in L.A. in 2004, never meeting, never going to the island, never becoming the people they are now? Here's where all of the relationship stories, the character stories, come into play - will they want to erase this entire chapter in their lives, lose all of the connections and relationships they have made with each other, and delete the developments they have made as people?
This could be where the beauty of LOST has been leading all along. If you aren't into the action, adventure, and science-fiction of the show, maybe you enjoy the character stories. Maybe now we're at a vital crossing point between these two threads: the character development that they have been experiencing for 4+ seasons will cause them to make a decision that will lead to consequences concerning time travel, the island, and every other mystery we've seen.
Alright, I'm posting from my parents' house this evening, and I need to get home, so I will leave it at that. A GREAT episode tonight! As I have a feeling these upcoming last two episodes of the season will be.
Until next time, Good Luck and Namaste!
I'm one of the fans that's more into the relationships on LOST than the time travel/sci-fi stuff. I definitely get the feeling that some of the castaways are rethinking whether or not they want to un-do all that's happened to them since the crash. They weren't all happy campers on that plane ride back to L.A. When it comes down to deciding whether or not to change fate I think they will opt not to. ELLEN
ReplyDeleteYes - and I keep forgetting about Kate's situation before the crash. Naturally, she wouldn't want to be landing in LA with the marshall on her way to a long prison term.
ReplyDeleteThe discussion about "should we or shouldn't we" is going to be a huge part of the remainder of the show, I think. Some of them have no one to go home to in 2004 (Kate, Jack, Sawyer) and some do (Sayid would still have Nadia in '04, Hurley has his family).