Change the picture in the box
By fred | April 21, 2007
Desmond is getting more & more of a central character of the story. He seems very important to make things happening, or not happening. And someone, or something, is helping him along the way. I have no idea what the fact that the old lady from Desmond’s flashback was on a picture in the monastery, not do I know if she’s actually someone or (a manifestation of) the Island itself.
But if the Island has a will of its own, and since obviously it’s the Island that gives Desmond his visions, maybe it is really testing him, as Desmond said. That was a test, but Desmond did not fail, as he thinks, he did not change what he saw. Well, not completely.
He saw Charlie die, yes, but that was his test. The Island was testing whether or not he would sacrifice Charlie’s life or not, and he did not. And that’s the good answer, as his final vision indicates.
Now what would they have found if Charlie did die? No pilot? Someone else? I have no idea. Maybe the exact same thing, but Desmond would have failed the Island’s test, and the Island can be pretty deadly.
And of course, then there’s the rain. Right before being tested, before they get to the trap, it starts pouring. Just like it started raining over Kate & Juliet just before the monster attacked them. Maybe the rain is a manifestation of the Island, something that occur before the monster manifests itself, before the Island changes something (like, let’s say, add a pilot hanging in the tree or not)
I also wonder how the Others stand with Desmond. I mean obviously they know about him as well, if only because we know they could watch whatever happened in the Hatch live, and Desmond lived there for a quite a while.
A few final words besides all this, back on the beach. I still believe Jack might be working with Ben, whether or not Juliet knows it. One thing for sure though, he’s not the Jack we used to know.
Because when Desmond & Hurley ask him for the first aid kit, he knows there’s something fishy, but he doesn’t care. Just like he doesn’t really care about Kate now, as he told Sawyer over their ping-pong match. He’s not involved in what goes on, he’s not being a leader anymore, he’s cooking for Juliet, waiting as she is for the week to go by.
And Kate still feels strongly for Jack, and was deeply hurt, but the way she went to Sawyer at that time proved two things: she’s hot, and whatever relationship she & Sawyer could have had, as we were tempted to think back when the two were behind bars, they won’t have.
You can’t go to Sawyer like that, and cry as you kiss him, one day; and the next one expect to share something with him. Good old cynical Sawyer might be back…
