Season 4 of Lost, ABC’s survive-on-an-island scifi drama is in full swing, and I’ll admit, this season does not disappoint. They’re practically giving away clues and revealing the nature of not only the island. Last night’s episode features Desmond, our favorite Scottish drunk/hero doing another dance through space and time. Personally, I believe Desmond is the key to numerous mysteries in Lost, for several reasons:
- Desmond has been the only character to demonstrate precognitive powers as we experienced in the famous season 3 line, “Charlie, you’re gonna die.” While his powers may have been limited to visions of Charlie, it does demonstrate that somehow Desmond has powers beyond most of the other characters. Even Locke has been hard pressed to keep on the island’s good side.
- Desmond experienced that flashback episode where he was actually transported back in time - this is the episode where him and Penny get their picture taken together. At the time, I thought it was a stand-alone episode - something along the line of Hurley seeing his made up friend in slippers or Jack seeing his dead father. But the elderly woman that was with him in that episode demonstrated forecasting and precognative capabilities - could Desmond really have been traveling in time? I think, thanks to Farraday’s comments (the physicist now on the island), it’s clear to understand that there’s a power in Lost that has to do with the time traveling and time dilation capabilities of the consciousness.
- And of course, last night’s episode provided us with a really amazing look at the powers of the island, and the complexities of traveling to and from there. If I had to guess - something about Desmond’s trip to see Penny has to do with him getting sent to military prison… We’ll see if that one plays out.
My biggest point in the importance of Desmond to the Lost story has to do with his relationship to Penny - and Penny’s father. Mr. Whidmore was seen last night purchasing the ship’s log for the Black Rock - the TNT-toting vessel trapped in the middle of our island. The seller? Hanso. I’m just saying - I think Whidmore set up the trip around the world and knew Desmond would go through with it just to prove his worth to him - and Whidmore used Desmond to (a) get out of his daughter’s life and (b) discover if the island really did exist.
Desmond is the key to this whole thing people. I’d say comment away and let me have it, but thanks to the spam army, comments are disabled. Drop me a note at dave | at | evokemg -dot- com if you’ve got some thoughts on this, or post up a response on your own blog and I’ll dialogue with you there.
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