For me, Desmond's groan said it all. It came at the climax of last night's outing of
Lost, prior to the awful choice the episode had been building toward: Should the time-scrambled Scot sacrifice Charlie's life for a chance at being reunited with Penelope, or should he put the Hobbity rocker's life and well-being ahead of his own self-interest and once again save him from predestined death? It was a damnable dilemma, and it gave rise to an existential growl congested with resignation, fury, self-loathing, and more. It spoke of being stuck between courage and
cowardice, desire and duty, free will and fate — the clutch of tricky themes upon which
Catch-22 was built. It also spoke on behalf of an episode heavy-laden with deep thoughts and ominous subtext encoded in Biblical and literary citations, comic book references, and perhaps the most provocative hidden clue in the show's history. It's enough to make your brain explode....
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Did you see the picture on the Abbott's desk? Himself with the "time travelling" lady from the jewelry store!!!
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