***OFFICIAL*** LOST Season 3 Episode 17 Discussion -spoiler free-

[GrandmaStabone]

LOST Season 3, Episode 17 “Catch-22”
Episode blurb (in white)

<font color="white"> Charlie questions whether Desmond has had another "flash" foreshadowing his death when coaxed into joining a trek across the jungle, and jealousy motivates Kate to turn to an unsuspecting Sawyer. </font>




Previously, on LOST….

1.) As Locke, Kate and Sayid made their way to The Others’ settlement Locke destroyed The Flame (a valuable Dharma communication hub) and killed the prisoner they found there, Mikhael. When they reached the settlement he destroyed the submarine, supposedly the last link The Others have to the outside world. Ben encouraged Locke to do this because without the submarine he can deny anyone passage home and place the blame elsewhere. Subsequently Ben revealed to Locke that they had somehow brought his Father to the island – likely as an attempt to further manipulate him and gain information about his ‘connection’ to the island.

Afterwards, The Others left The Barracks (with Locke) Leaving behind Jack, Juliet, Kate and Sayid. These four returned to the main camp and as Juliet gained the trust of the survivors it was revealed that her loyalties are seemingly still with Ben and The Others.


3.) According to Desmond, the button was in place to periodically expel electromagnetic energy that builds up in the island. He also claimed that the plane crash was the result of him not pushing the button. When Locke refused to push it Desmond was forced to go under the hatch to flip a failsafe switch that would supposedly destroy the hatch (and everyone in it) as it expelled the energy.

After the hatch “imploded” Desmond awoke in his own past in the few years leading up to his crash on the island. When he tried to make decisions that would avert this, he was told that the universe is ‘self-correcting’ and that trying to avoid his fate on the island was futile. After being jolted back to the ‘current timeline’ Desmond can now see flashes of the future. As a result of this he saved Charlies’ life twice, but told him that because of the self-correcting nature of the universe that he could not save him from this fate. Also as a result of the hatch explosion, Desmonds ex (the daughter of Charles Windmere) has located the island via the electromagnetic pulse.


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[DemonDeac]

Big Lebowski

never thought I'd get one

[GrandmaStabone]

Apparently I got confused and posted this an hour early. Oops.

[KneeCo]

Consider this the official "saw it early cause I'm in Canada and thought it was good post" because I did, and I did.

[Ringo]

I can't wait. I really wanna see Juliettes gameplan, and find out what Ben meant when he said to her "See you in a week".

This had better not suck.

[TheBlueMonster]

[ QUOTE ]
This had better not suck.

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I somehow doubt it will

[TomCollins]

See ya Charlie.... PSYCHE!

[AJay2000]

Time for my usual:

Wow, Just Wow.

I've been DVRing the last few because I've been out before the show and didn't want to miss them. I'm taping this one anyway, and I'm very happy, because I think there may be a LOT we can miss upon first viewing tonight.

[daryn]

is the sound [censored] up for anyone else? wow this is annoying

[daryn]

it's cool now for some reason