Lost: A Desmond Fact Check _________________ "I dust a bit...in addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."
Unlike Desmond's time-travel story, Minkowski's present day consciousness was making the trip. Lindelof says this difference was designed to make a very important point: ''As Faraday explains in the episode, the effect is random. Sometimes a person can be displaced by minutes, other times, years. And the direction of the effect is equally unpredictable. Our way of demonstrating this was to give Minkowski a wildly different experience than Desmond was having.'' Lindelof says none of this is arbitrary
Got it ... So when this "side-effect" occurs, One's consciousness from any point in time (past, present, or future) is transported to any other point in one's life.
Doc Jensen wrote:
To be clear, Desmond's past was different before ''The Constant.'' Before his time-travel adventure, Desmond never met Faraday at Oxford, never got Penelope's digits. As a consequence of changing the past, Desmond's personal history has been ''course corrected'' by The Powers That Be, beginning from the moment he walked away from Penny's apartment. Lindelof says this interpretation is also correct.
I really disagree with this point ... The past (1996) could not have been different before "The Constant" because, if Desmond does not go & meet Daniel at Oxford, TPTB would have just created a predestination paradox ... If Desmond doesn't meet Daniel in 1996 --> Daniel doesn't get right "settings" for his experiment --> Daniel does not get to Island --> "Desmond is not Daniel's Constant". Therefore, the 1996 past that we see in "The Constant", must be the one (and only) past to occur (in order to fit with the events we have seen thus far. DL has also stated that there is only a single time-line (I think of it like Terminator time-travel, not Back to the Future time-travel), rather than a "multiverse"-type concept.
Doc Jensen wrote:
Over the years, many connections have been made between Lost and Star Wars. But I got to thinking the other day: If Lost really did correlate to the original Star Wars trilogy, then season 4 — the middle of the Lost saga — would obviously correspond to The Empire Strikes Back.
Wouldn't that make S4 of LOST correlate to Star Wars (A New Hope) ...
Since we know there will be 6 seasons of LOST, wouldn't that map to the corresponding 6 Eps of the Star Wars franchise? _________________ "Destiny is a fickle bitch!" - Benjamin Linus
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