Lost: Jughead
By fred | January 29, 2009
(S05E03) What I’m feeling right now as to be pretty close to the way I felt last year, watching season 4 of Lost. It’s really the same, you feel like you’re watching what might simply be the best season of the show to date. Only difference is, this time we’re not coming after a disappointing season involving tattoos and whatnot, this time we’re following what is the best season to date, an amazing and mind-blowing piece of television like rarely seen before.
And for them to manage not only to keep up with that level of greatness, but to actual go and improve it, really shows how fantastic this show is turning out to be. And if for a while people were worried about whether or not there was a master plan, whether writers were coming up with things along the way or had it all planned from the start, I think that now we can be sure that there’s a master plan, and at least with everything that happened since last season, there will be tie in, clues and things that will start to make sense or find a second meaning as we go along.
This season is clearly all about time travel, and for the occasion you might have not really noticed it as first, but the survivor of Flight 815 are pretty much irrelevant. They’re only secondary players now,well they’ve always been, they are being played by others. Because we’ve always know there seemed to be a big game seeing one Benjamin Linus and one Charles Widmore fighting, and when time travel comes into play, the key elements are clearly Desmond, and the awesome Daniel Faraday.
As for the survivors of 815, we only saw Locke & Sawyer and really I didn’t miss any of the others, nor did I realized they were missing until after the episode was over. Because with all the time traveling going on, we do have a lot of things to process as we revisit the Island’s history. And before going any further, let’s talk about the rules.
There seem to be many rules with the Island, some that might be broken and others that can’t. We now Desmond is all kinds of special, and might break the rules, possibly change the past and save everyone — unless what Daniel did was just to send Desmond to his mother, who’s clearly Mrs Hawking I think, because he knew they had to come back to the Island, for some reason.
And by they, I don’t mean the O6, or, I don’t mean just them, but also our friend Desmond. Maybe Dan, who’s clearly always thinking way ahead of the rest of us and knows much more about what’s going on that, possibly, anyone else, maybe he was just tricking Desmond and making sure he would eventually find his way back to the Island? I’m assuming Dan knows how much his mother is involved in all of this, but that sounds quite possible. Only thing I don’t know if whether or not he knows about Ben’s involvement in all of it.
Anyways, I’m not sure about what all the rules are, but I think I know what’s going on regarding time travel and altering the past — except with Des. And that is: the past cannot be changed. Yeah, I bet you didn’t see that one coming!
No really, the past cannot be changed. But not because the universe won’t let you, not because it will course-correct itself, but because you just cannot do it, it already happened, exactly as it’s happening now. The impression I got watching Dan & Locke meeting with one ageless Richard this week, was that the rules of their jumps through time were pretty much the same as the ones that can be seen on the fantastic movie 12 Monkeys, highly recommended by the way if you never watched it.
