Complete Episode Guide: Flashes Before Your Eyes Guide
Flashes Before Your Eyes Theories
- I'm not sure I believe this theory too much, but based on the fact that Juliet and Desmond came to the island around the same time, it is possible that for every man on the island there needs to be a woman (and vice versa).
- I love this theory from John Fischer posted in the comments section of Flashes Before Your Eyes - First Impressions: We know that if you play the Clockwork Orange video backward you hear a woman saying over and over “Only fools are confined by time and space.”
What does this mean? Does that mean that the intelligent person can move around in time and in location?
That being said, what if all of the flashbacks in Lost were not flashbacks at all, but real time events? When we see Locke, for example, in a flashback, he has literally jumped back in time and space to the time and place of the “flashback.” Prior to last night all of the characters have merely relived their flashbacks as if they were memories and not real time events. What will happen when they all realize that they can do things differently?
Can each of the Losties figure out a way to fix the past, correct the things that they all regret, perhaps never get on the plane at all? Will we sometime soon see a character flashback where the character so changes the past that he or she literally disappears from the island forever? I bet we do.
Observations from Flashes Before Your Eyes
- We didn't get the usual "swosh" sound that traditionally comes with a flashback.
- Desmond attacks Charlie for calling him a coward because it reminded him of when Penny called him a coward.
- Desmond did set design for the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is how he got the experience to paint the mural in the hatch.
- When Desmond is acting crazy in the past, Charlie says, "This is why we don't do drugs." This was before Charlie's drug days. Too bad he didn't listen to his own advice.
- During the game on TV, ads can be seen for Mr. Clucks, Oceanic, Apollo Bar (candy bar which Hurley and Kate were seen eating from the hatch, and also a big player in The Lost Experience game), and Hanso.
- Penny talks about fate sparing Desmond from a miserable existence of working for Widmore Industries. Fate comes up a lot in Lost.
- According to the credits, the name of the lady in the pawn shop is Ms. Hawking.
- When Desmond goes into the pawn shop to get a ring for Penny, Ms. Hawking says, "Never done this before, have you?" Even though she knows he is doing this part of his life again.
