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Well, that was about what I expected.
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Yeah, I was just thinking this episode kinda defied too much commentary for some reason.
Worth noting: Near as I can tell, nothing happened when Sawyer and Kate made contact in the sideways world, so I guess they’re not meant to be. Then again, nothing happened with Jin and Sun either.
Not sure what to make of that.
I really enjoyed the “Superman: For the Man Who Has Everything” vibe of the sideways world. Man in Black = Mongul?
It’s one of those ideas that’s been rolling around for a long time in various forms, like the 7 Samurai/Magnificent 7/Bug’s Life plot. It came up in an X-Men annual around 1990 and I think in a Doctor Who episode I saw as a child.
More food for thought: Is near-death + happily ever after the necessary equation to awareness of the “real” universe? If so, how did Faraday get it without the first part? And is Charlie special somehow in the same way Desmond is?
Lot of new questions raised here which are kinda delicious but at the same time feel like they shouldn’t be coming up for the first time with six eps left.
So, as has been speculated around these parts, the Sidewayses are part of a world where Smokey is unleashed, and they seem to be something to be avoided? Seems to be the implication.
My big question:
What did Desmond see in the sideways that made him understand so implicitly what Widmore wanted of him? Sure, he doesn’t have Charlie, and if you gave me a vision of a world where I can meet and romance my wife but we don’t have our kids (knowing the statistical impossibility of creating the exact kids again), I’d fight against it as well. But for the most part, the world seems all right. Certainly, Widmore runs down the list of sacrifices he’s made in Island world (son dead, daughter not speaking to him), and none of that seems to have happened in Sideways…why is he fighting it? What is going on in that world that we can’t see, and did Desmond see it? Or is it just a sense that this other world is not real?
I loved Charlie running through the hospital in his gown, shouting the sentiments of final season flash-sideways haters: “NONE OF THIS MATTERS!”
Is this going to set up a conflict where only EITHER Penny and Desmond OR Sawyer and Juliet can get a happy ending? Or are the two worlds somehow going to merge at the end? Because I’d hate to see either of those couples get fucked over.
And NO SPOILERS, but the previews last night gave way too much away. Wish I hadn’t watched ’em.
Sean, I’m curious which parts of the episode were what you expected. Expand, man! Also, I learned a lot and really like your unique writing style.