I really enjoyed that one. I'm having trouble remembering the episode where Desmond started skipping in time on the boat and went to buy the ring and Faraday's mother first appeared (the woman Mist doesn't like from Brotherhood, for some reason), she told him he needed to go back to the island, right? Desmond, at that time, was skipping through times in his own life, a younger or older him, a la Billy Pilgrim, though the current batch are staying their current selves skipping through time. I would have thought that Richard would understand some of the paradoxes from time-travel, or at least that time-travel was something inherent in the experience of the island that the "others" would be familiar with. I very much enjoyed the young Widmore, the visit to Oxford (though I didn't understand at all who the woman was that Faraday somehow dumped. Am I forgetting something important from the past episodes?
Daniel is telling them to bury the bomb in '54. Does that play into the underground magnetic occurrences later, or is that always there? Does it end up interacting with it? Why does Widmore go rogue? I find it interesting and occasionally annoying, how groups of people are always factioned, or swinging wildly from one side to another, often with no real explanation than some loss of trust in the midst of a million arcane secrets floating around. It's like what bothers me about the oversimplification of character to drive the plot. Someone is always asking "where are we going? Why aren't you answering me?" with a reply like "we don't have time to talk about that". Those parts are particularly weak, though I understand they are functional, to a degree. Still, it's fun to see them drawing back in some of the loose ends, with still some new reveals that pique the interest as they answer questions. |
