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chaniDoes anyone remember the last Desmond-centric episode from season 6? The one titled "Happily Ever After"?
I rewatched it tonight, this time on French cable, and it was very different because of the big flat screen but also because I already knew the finale...
And it changed the way I saw the episode. When I watched it the first time, I was like everybody else, thinking that Desmond was again experiencing some mind travel, this time between the islandverse and what looked like an altverse. But the finale told us that the altverse wasn't an altverse at all, but an afterlife place wherein they all gathered after they died. So how can we understand Desmond's shifting?
Suddenly it struck me. Desmond's weird experience was the product of a quantum mecanics experiment: Desmond was a paradox, he was Shrödinger's cat!
He was dead and alive at the same time, in a juxtaposed state, hence his experience of the afterlife.
Widmore locked him in a sealed box, just like in Shrödinger's thought experiment.
I still not like the finale though...
I rewatched it tonight, this time on French cable, and it was very different because of the big flat screen but also because I already knew the finale...
And it changed the way I saw the episode. When I watched it the first time, I was like everybody else, thinking that Desmond was again experiencing some mind travel, this time between the islandverse and what looked like an altverse. But the finale told us that the altverse wasn't an altverse at all, but an afterlife place wherein they all gathered after they died. So how can we understand Desmond's shifting?
Suddenly it struck me. Desmond's weird experience was the product of a quantum mecanics experiment: Desmond was a paradox, he was Shrödinger's cat!
He was dead and alive at the same time, in a juxtaposed state, hence his experience of the afterlife.
Widmore locked him in a sealed box, just like in Shrödinger's thought experiment.
I still not like the finale though...
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Date: 2010-12-02 08:58 pm (UTC)I have to admit I'm missing seeing new episodes of the show. and I most definitely miss Desmond.
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Date: 2010-12-02 09:32 pm (UTC)Obviously I love grey characters, who are complex, multi-layered, ambiguous, with big flaws or big weaknesses but also have something that makes them bigger than life as they go on a journey, like Spike or Gene Hunt or Daniel Graystone, anti-heroes who may behave like heroes. However I also love the "noble ones", but they are very difficult to do well because they don't seem as sexy and intriguing as the grey ones and can look unidimensional or not human enough. It takes very good acting and good writing to do them well, to make them endearing and special. Desmond is one example, Helo from BSG is another. I cherish those two characters.
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Date: 2010-12-03 01:37 pm (UTC)The more time passes, the more I dislike the finale. At first, I was a little disappointed, and then I became annoyed and this feeling is getting worse, not better.
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Date: 2010-12-03 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-07 06:08 am (UTC)BTW... did you notice LOST in FRINGE? When Peter looks at the table and sees that Bolivia has her gun, there are 3 quarters, 3 dimes, and 3 pennies on the table. That adds up to 108 cents or $1.08. 108 is what the numbers on LOST added to - 4+8+15+16+23+42.
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Date: 2010-12-07 11:00 am (UTC)No I didn't do the maths. It's either a coincidence or the FRINGE team is having fun with fans.
Lots of people seem to look for LOST in many shows these days. I've read several times that The Walking Dead is the new LOST for instance.