EVIL PUPPET MASTERS

Okay, here are my notes from last night’s episode. I was burning up the Google and Wiki, I tell yah!

• I have never read the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, but I guess the time looping/deja vu/back to the future stuff is similar to what happens in that series.
• Numbers — 1:08 on Desmond’s clock. Delivery for 815. When the old lady is explaining to Desmond what his future has to be, she says it is 2 years before he joins the boat race and then he has 3 years on the island (23 is one of the numbers).
• Up close image of Desmond’s eye is a callback to many Lost episodes that started with just an eye, most notable one being the Pilot episode. Jack waking up in the jungle, we start with just a shot of his eye.
• Abstract painting in Charles Widmore’s office has “namaste” written backwards across the top and a polar bear, which Desmond notices.
• When Desmond sees Charlie in his alternate universe, he is singing Wonderwall by Oasis. Also, the sign says “Charlie Hieronymous Pace” — Hieronymous is the first name of Bosch, a 15th century painter whose most famous painting was “The Garden of Earthly Delights”
• Desmond’s professor friend is explaining to a student that you can run the same study 10 different times and get 10 different results. Is this a clue for theorists?
• At the bar, jukebox is playing Mama Cass’ “Make Your Own Kind of Music” which is what Desmond played on the turntable to open up the Season 2 premiere episode of Lost “Man of Science, Man of Faith”
• “The universe has a way of course correcting” is very much like the Final Destination movies.
• The only hit I got for Admiral McCutcheon was from a television miniseries adaptation of Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” — it was the name of a character whose ship, the Abraham Lincoln, came up against Captain Nemo. I wouldn’t even mention it, except for Charles Widmore’s “Admiral McCutcheon” story and that it involves ships and the sea…appropriate for Desmond.

That’s all I got for now. That whole episode was a mind-trip, in the literal sense of the word. Oh, and Hannah Tucker over at Entertainment Weekly posted a (lame) review, if you’re interested. All of the MEAT in that episode and she focuses on David Hume’s theory of combatibilism? *YAWN*

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