My Serious, Logical Thoughts on Happily Ever After

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Refers to Desmond living his happily ever after in the AT, but it is not so happily as it turns out.

The opening scene with the eye of Desmond opening up is classic LOST. How often have we seen eyes opening on LOST? Even the series started with the eye of Jack opening up. Also there is a song on the CD called the Eyeland.

QUIZ QUESTION. When Charlie is drinking in the bar with Desmond he is wearing a ring with the initials DS on it. What do these initials originally stand for before driveshaft?

The circular electromagnetic device looks surprisingly similar to the device used to travel between other dimensions in the TV show SLIDERS (1994 – 1999) I keep expecting Desmond to travel through that ring and into the AT. Now would that not be cool? He could meet himself in another dimension. The device in this episode is a solenoid which is a real electrical device. When you run AC current through it it creates a voltage of its own which opposes the applied voltage. A slinky is an example of a solenoid. It should be noted that DHARMA was very interested in experimenting with electromagnetism and in fact it was their drilling into a pocket of electromagnetic energy that caused “the incident” that was first described in the episode Orientation. We have also seen that compasses do not work correctly on the island showing that the island probably has its own magnetic field. The name of the rabbit in this episode is angstrom. An angstrom is a unit of measurement and equal to one tenth of a billionth of a meter. Though he was told he was next, angstrom never entered into the electromagnetic device room. Now the big question is when Desmond was exposed to the electromagnetic radiation was he able to see into the AT? I am hoping that the AT does not really exist but it just a vision that shows you what might have been. How does that grab you?

This episode more than any other AT episode shows how characters in the AT can recall people and events from the normal timeline. This makes me believe that there is something wrong with the AT. Otherwise why would people say that they feel like they don’t belong here? Is the AT then an unstable timeline or perhaps like a dream showing us what might have been? If the AT is unstable is there any way that it can be erased so that only one timeline exists? The encounter between Desmond and Eloise may hint at just such a possibility. Eloise states that Desmond is not ready and she wants to shut him down. But what is he not ready for? Look for Desmond to be the key in future episodes for erasing the AT and getting everything back to normal.
It was wild to see Faraday not a scientist but a musician. His physics equations carried over from the other timeline. Somehow people in the AT can sense that they do not belong there and can get information from the regular timeline. Charlie apparently has figured out a way to gain information from the other timeline by having near death experiences.
It was also wild to see Desmond apparently happily working for Widmore in the AT. They are not so friendly in the regular timeline. Keep in mind that Desmond was not on flight 815 in the regular timeline but was on the flight in the AT. He was doing business in Australia which is why he was on that plane. They have not mentioned yet if Hurley is having problems with the numbers in the AT. That is why he was in Australia. He was investigating Sam Toomey and the numbers. But was he doing that in the AT or did destroying the island also destroy the curse of the numbers? But I digress.
The limo driver used to star in a show called Early Edition about a guy who got the newspaper of tomorrow today.
Note the scene where Penny meets Desmond for the first time in the AT. In the AT it is Penny that is running the steps while in the regular timeline we see Desmond running the steps and Penny and Desmond did not meet at the stadium in LA but met in Europe.
When Desmond picks up Charlie from the police station his brother is not there even though we saw his brother at the police station in a previous episode trying to get Charlie out of jail. I guess he was not successful.

When Desmond returns from his dream state he is eager to do whatever Widmore wants. What is the sacrifice Widmore wants Desmond to make? Perhaps it is to stay on the island for the rest of his life? I think it has something to do with stopping the Locke-ness monster from leaving the island because Widmore is worried that his daughter and everyone else will be gone forever. This hints of what has been said on previous episodes that if Locke-ness gets off the island darkness will spread. We have seen that Sayid has been contaminated by this darkness somehow and now he feels nothing – no emotion like in the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers in which the pod people had no feelings after taking over the bodies of humans. Maybe it is like that. Wherever Locke-ness goes he contaminates people making them lose all emotion. We were warned by the Others that when the darkness penetrated the heart of Sayid that the man they knew before would cease to exist. That kind of thinking totally agrees with the statement of Widmore when he states that is daughter and everyone else would cease to exist.
When Sayid gets Desmond at the end Desmond is eager to go with Sayid. Was this part of the plan all along? Did Widmore know this would happen? Else why is Desmond so content about it? Also I thought Sayid was there to get Jin back. After all Locke-ness needs Jin to leave the island. He must have all the candidates in order to leave. Sayid will return to Locke-ness with Desmond so if Desmond wanted to get up with Locke-ness this was certainly a good move to allow himself to be taken.
We will see soon find out how important the role of Desmond is in saving the world.

THINGS TO WATCH FOR
In the office of Widmore look for the Black Rock replica in the background. Also look for a painting of scales on the wall of the office of Widmore. In the regular timeline he had a painting with the word Namaste on it.
The scotch that Desmond and Widmore drink may be the same kind of scotch that Desmond found on the island in the regular timeline.
The bar where Desmond and Charlie drink is called JAX and has a kangaroo showing in front. And where do we find kangaroos?

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Dexter Stratton

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