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LOST Season 3 Episode 8 "Flashes Before Your Eyes"
Posted on 4/8/10 at 7:38 pm
Posted on 4/8/10 at 7:38 pm
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Posted on 4/8/10 at 7:39 pm to MSTiger33
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I suggest a rewatch. Stat!
i don't have time for games, how about you just explain why you feel its so important that we rewatch it
Posted on 4/8/10 at 7:40 pm to WikiTiger
It is the episode that shows what happens to Desmond after his first EMP blast. It is the Ring Lady episode.
Posted on 4/8/10 at 7:41 pm to WikiTiger
Because this week's episode was basically a sequel to it.
I remember it well enough, though.
I remember it well enough, though.
Posted on 4/8/10 at 7:47 pm to Muppet
It is my personal favorite episode of LOST. And yes I rewatched it after the episode 2 nights ago. It definitely requires a rewatch. The Constant gets all the love and is rated as one of the greatest episodes ever, but I find Flashes to be better and probably the most underrated episode of the series. This is the episode that really set the rules for time travel, since it establishes course correction, which should produce "whatever happened happened". Fantatic episode.
This post was edited on 4/8/10 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 4/8/10 at 7:51 pm to OMLandshark
It actually ranks behind both Catch-22 and The Constant for me as far as episodes about Desmond. I thought the juxtaposition of Desmond meeting Penny at the monastery with Desmond recovering whom he thought was Penny from the tree was well done, even if it turned out to be Naomi (Catch-22)
I also know it's kind of a LOST cliche to state The Constant as a favorite episode, but it really was wonderful.
I also know it's kind of a LOST cliche to state The Constant as a favorite episode, but it really was wonderful.
Posted on 4/8/10 at 8:02 pm to Muppet
quote:It's cliche for a reason! It's a great episode.
The Constant as a favorite episode, but it really was wonderful.
I have to give to LOST, they do a really good job in some of their episodes at evoking some very strong emotions.
Posted on 4/8/10 at 8:11 pm to tuck
The Constant was hyped for me by the person who encouraged me to watch LOST, and I was still impressed.
Posted on 4/8/10 at 8:20 pm to Muppet
Basically the same thing happened for me. Before I started watching the show, I read a "favorite episode" thread and The Constant was universally accepted as one of the best. The whole time I watched the first few seasons of it, I had this episode in the back of mind, even sort of looking forward to it. And after I watched it, I concluded all the love was justified.
Posted on 4/8/10 at 8:59 pm to tuck
I don't care if it sounds gay, but the telephone call in The Constant is probably the best scene in Lost
Posted on 4/9/10 at 10:36 am to MSTiger33
quote:
I suggest a rewatch.
thanks for posting this. definitely worth the rewatch. so many hints and clues about what we are finding out now
Posted on 4/9/10 at 11:26 am to batman
quote:
It is my personal favorite episode of LOST. And yes I rewatched it after the episode 2 nights ago. It definitely requires a rewatch. The Constant gets all the love and is rated as one of the greatest episodes ever, but I find Flashes to be better and probably the most underrated episode of the series. This is the episode that really set the rules for time travel, since it establishes course correction, which should produce "whatever happened happened". Fantatic episode.
i'm kinda with OML here. i loved the constant and flashes, there really is no right answer here, but i tend to favor "flashes" a little more. both are great epi's. and i rewatched the constant and flashes on wednesday for the first time since their air dates.
This post was edited on 4/9/10 at 11:27 am
Posted on 4/9/10 at 11:30 am to TDTGodfather
this just confused me more then I am right now its a good connection but the only difference between the two is that des isn't time travailing now he is reality switching so whats happening in both worlds hasn't happened yet so there is none of that what happened happened type stuff just a guess though
This post was edited on 4/9/10 at 11:54 am
Posted on 4/9/10 at 12:18 pm to catholictigerfan
quote:Well technically I think both are time switching, they are just two different time-lines (or as you say, "realities"). Picture the time-lines as a film strip. Each frame represents a moment of his life. Now picture two film strips unrolled, side-by-side. One film strip represents one time-line, the other film strip represents the other time-line. This is a good way to visualize what is happening. Another thing I think might help is to think of the frame illuminating when Desmond is "conscious" of the moment.
des isn't time travailing now he is reality switching
This is the way I always discussed time when arguing about the philosophical aspects of how time works and it's actually a pretty good analogy.
Posted on 4/9/10 at 1:20 pm to tuck
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Well technically I think both are time switching, they are just two different time-lines (or as you say, "realities"). Picture the time-lines as a film strip. Each frame represents a moment of his life. Now picture two film strips unrolled, side-by-side. One film strip represents one time-line, the other film strip represents the other time-line. This is a good way to visualize what is happening. Another thing I think might help is to think of the frame illuminating when Desmond is "conscious" of the moment.
This is the way I always discussed time when arguing about the philosophical aspects of how time works and it's actually a pretty good analogy.
thanks for clearing it up
but do you think witmore was correct in saying if you didn't go to the island we would all die or was this her way of lieing to him just to get him to do something could des and penny have married and the world not end. This may be a simple answer but i guess i don't know enough about lost even though ive seen all 6 seasons.
Posted on 4/9/10 at 1:22 pm to catholictigerfan
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whats happening in both worlds hasn't happened yet so there is none of that what happened happened type stuff just a guess though
i think "what happened happened" still remains true. you cant change the past timelines/realities, only the current timeline. desmonds consciousness has been activated by the electromagnetism and he is able to remember glimpses of events in past timelines, thus he is able to alter his current timeline/reality which is why he says "i think i've made this mistake before"
Posted on 4/9/10 at 1:33 pm to catholictigerfan
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but do you think witmore was correct in saying if you didn't go to the island we would all die or was this her way of lieing to him just to get him to do something could des and penny have married and the world not end.
This really is a tricky question and is pretty key to the whole thing. My belief at the moment is that you cannot come to ANY firm conclusion about her intentions. For the moment, I think you have to take her at her word simply because we don't know anything YET that would make us outright not believe her.
Stu thinks she's up to no good and I can see why someone would think that. But she hasn't done anything YET that would cause me to not trust what she says.
That could all change if it comes out she's in cahoots with MIB. The big thing you have to think about is that what MIB wants (getting off the island) would cause the end of the world. She seems to genuinely not want this to happen.
Posted on 4/9/10 at 1:52 pm to tuck
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The big thing you have to think about is that what MIB wants (getting off the island) would cause the end of the world.
I can't remember if it's been said whether ending the world in the original timeline also would end the world in the alt timeline.
Posted on 4/9/10 at 2:54 pm to Decatur
quote:I honestly don't know. All we know from the characters is that if MIB gets off the island...the world ends AND (from Eloise) if you do not fulfill your role (i.e. do what you are supposed to do) in the timeline, the world will end. I guess I've always assumed that since the outcome for both is the same that they must be related.
I can't remember if it's been said whether ending the world in the original timeline also would end the world in the alt timeline.
This post was edited on 4/9/10 at 2:55 pm
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