Even after it's gone there's still thinking to be done

[chani]

Does 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...

Comments

[calturner.livejournal.com]

I've been rewatchimg Lost over the last few months. I'm up to S5 now, and it really does change how you view things when you know the entire story and how it ended. It's fascinating stuff!

I have to admit I'm missing seeing new episodes of the show. and I most definitely miss Desmond.

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

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.

[lijability.livejournal.com]

Well, I have to dissent. I like the finale.

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.