'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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For the first time (probably since the last Desmond time-jumping episode), I actually enjoyed the whole episode. Apparently I'm a time-jumping junkie.
Now I'm wondering, did future-prior-to-copter-ride Desmond remember the last conversation past Desmond had with Penny (and considering its import how could he not), and if so, why didn't he know that he was going to start time-jumping once he got into the helicopter?
Maybe the Desmond who got onto the helicopter was an AU Desmond who didn't have that conversation with Penny.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Time Paradox.
Now I'm wondering, did future-prior-to-copter-ride Desmond remember the last conversation past Desmond had with Penny (and considering its import how could he not), and if so, why didn't he know that he was going to start time-jumping once he got into the helicopter?
Don't make me bust out the Terminator 2 paradox.
What was odd was that even after all the time-travel hooey, the outside world still appears to be on the same timeline as the Island. December 24, 2004, no further or before.
(And I thought at first that the Boaties could have faked the calendar, but even Penny was in Christmas Eve.)
I think the problem is that the Island isn't necessarily on the timeline they think they're on? Maybe?
Good points.
Don't make me bust out the Terminator 2 paradox.
Ha. I give the time travel aspect of Terminator about the same amount of respect as the phone booth in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Except in Terminator they're always naked.
Penny sure let it ring enough times, and for a woman who has a bajillion dollars and an auto-dialer device that runs constantly for 3 years, you'd think she'd have a voice mail system.
I think the problem is that the Island isn't necessarily on the timeline they think they're on? Maybe?
But Sayid didn't seem surprised that it was Christmas Eve, meaning it matched up with his estimate of approximately what day it should be.
WAIT A BLOOMIN' SECOND.
I think I might know why Daniel was randomly crying in the premiere! What if he became unstuck in time before and thus knew the plane would crash? And, seeing the footage, he knows what's in store for him?
Or did they have to have been through a particular event - the radiation or the other thing that I can't recall in order to time travel?
Daniel specifically mentioned a high dose of radiation as being a possible cause of Desmond's unstuckness.
WAIT A BLOOMIN' SECOND.
Good theory!