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Date Posted: Friday, March 07, 01:34:53pm
Author: Chani
Author Host/IP: m220.net81-65-189.noos.fr / 81.65.189.220
Subject: Here is what I wrote about the episode on LJ
In reply to: veggie 's message, "Brotherhood of the Spoiler Free New Mascots" on Thursday, March 06, 05:21:58pm

First off, I must say that short hair really suits Desmond. He looked hot, especially when wearing his military b�ret! Yummy.

"At least it was a bloody military dream" cracked me up!

It's funny how a classic Desmond-centric episode actually helped knowing more about Daniel Faraday. Shall call it the D. constant ?

Damn it poured when poor Desmond was in the army yard...but hey it's Scotland!

So our Desmond/Odysseus is again on a boat. It's a long way home though. The way he kept mentally jumping from 2004 to 1996 and vice versa was nicely done.

I loved how the writers keep playing with names and situation: Minkowski (wasn't he in The Lord of the rings too?) died because he didn't have a constant !!! Yet the Minkowski's constant is a well known theorem in Maths that deals with networks of numbers. Networks and numbers, it's all about Lost and let's not forget that Desmond was stuck on the island because he had to enter numbers (Hurley's cursed nimbers) and push the button !

And of course the episode was filled with recurring numbers, the numbers Daniel gave to Desmond as a code to convince himself, the time difference, Penny's address, the phone number. Geometry of numbers and connections are what Lost is based on.

I already mentioned the nice hint at another literary couple that was kept separated(Heloise and Abelard*) through the mouse but there's also the maze that Daniel made...it fits in the chaotic situation Desmond was experiencing. Labyrinth represents Chaos, produces chaos. It's Greek again! And it's perfect for Desmond/Odysseus who's meant to follow a chaotic journey before he can go back to his home-island UK/Ithaca and his beloved Penelope. It has been 8 years (even though he saw her again before when he was training in the US for the ship racing )so logically, if they follow Homer, Desmond has still 2 years to pass without Penny. 2 years is what 's left for the show !

The being stuck on an island (both Circe's and Calypso's island?) phase seems over but I bet he still has obstacles to face ahead. Will he visit the underworld? In a way he has been Tiresias himself when he was able to foresee things. Will the freighter lead him to a tempest? Will he meet a Nausicaa?

By the way I've just realised something about Penny's last name...Widmore...sounds almost like Wind More, more wind is what sailors used to ask the gods for in ancient Greek times.

And the auction, as I said in my previous post I loved the scene. The ship on the painting, the Black Rock , recalled the area on the island, the first mate's diary echoed Daniel's journal in the episode, and the artefact was sold by a mister Hanso which makes a new connection to Dharma.

Desmond and Sayid are the perfect buddy couple. Both military men. One represents the romantic side of Odysseus, his journey and trial, the other represents the warrior and his tricky side, what Greeks called m�tis. I believe I already said it a long time ago but Sayid is wise and cunning, like Ulyss was in The Iliad and The Odyssey! They totally complete each other.

As usual there were cinema references as well. Daniel telling Desmond to find his former-self in Oxford was a wink to many time-travel films/novels like Back to the Future. Also when Desmond was talking to Daniel on the phone and suddenly found himself in the public phone box, it calls The Matrix to mind. And Daniel leaving a message to his future self! Hee!

Now I wonder, for whom were all the Christmas presents behind Penny? And those decorations and drawings on the fireplace? Didn't they imply the presence of a kid? Could Penelope have had a son?

Anyway she won't give up and he's got an anchor. Constant love is the key.

*ETA: And the reference works even more given that Desmond almost became a monk like Ab�lard, before he met Penny.

Also someone pointed that the death of the mouse screwed off any logic (since Eloise died she couldn't have been trained to go through the labyrinth) to which I replied:

There's a paradox issue there indeed and I am not sure the writers thought about it.
But it doesn't really bother me because I don't see it as a "true time travel". For me everything on Lost is a mental construct and I'm not sure there was a rat to begin with...

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[> Thank you, thank you, Chani ! It's wonderful to read a full-blown review! -- veggie, Friday, March 07, 05:07:36pm [1] (s89641-2.savvis-internet.uslsan3-bsn.savvis.net/209.223.191.18)

I really enjoyed and appreciated that! You really picked up on a lot of the subtle things that make Lost fun, like the painting of the Black Rock and the numbers/math connections, etc.

I haven't seen the latest ep yet (will watch the tape tomorrow morning), but I'm hoping to see more connections unveiled. I said previously on the board here that I think this is the season we'll start getting some answers.

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