My take on this is that Desmond has made his peace with doing whatever he has to do in order to get back to Penny and little Charlie. He was freaking out at first, but after his "flashes" (memories?) of Penny and Charlie, he just goes all submissive and will do anything asked of him. I assumed that he just wants to survive and get back to Penny and their son, Charlie, so he's not putting up a fight anymore so nobody will hurt/kill him.

My guess is he will be asked to make a sacrifice and stay on the island for the rest of his life but never see Penny and his son again.

The interesting thing is that he is the first one to have a good knowledge of both worlds.

Maybe the skeletons they found in that hut were Penny and Desmond, and not Bernard and Rose.

So the bomb went off in the 70's and did what again?

I am confused, so Desmond saw his sideways future without Penny and so he will allow Smokey or Widmore to win over the other and how does that get him back to Penny?

All you need is LOVE!

But he met Penny in 'current' LA. He met her. He knows.

I wonder if Widmore is the Devil and Louise is God. Also, Jacob could be Jesus and the man in black is the Anti-Christ.

Seems death/near-death brings the Sideways and Island worlds together. Remember Juliet said "It worked" as/after she died?

Like when you have a near death experience, you see your life flash before your life - but in their case, it's a sideways flash?

Man, that would be so weird. Especially if you knew it was not your life. People would think you were crazy. Maybe that's why Hurley sees dead people all the time. He's constantly in his sideways life.

This is what I think too. I think Desmond knows that he and Penny were meant to be together - nothing can keep them apart, not even time travel and alternate realities. I think Daniel IS talking about Charlotte. The Hershey bar reference goes back to something they talked about, I think.

Interesting that Eloise straddles both (all) time continuums and realities. I hope they give us more of her history / backstory (not just her on the island, Daniel's mum thing, but WHY she is the way she is and how she can be above all of it), although with only 5 epsiodes left, I don't see it happening. I do feel like we are starting to get SOME answers though.

Any info on the last show? 1 hour? 2 hours? 3 hours?

I watched "Donnie Darko" last night (the first time I've seen it in a while...), and I'm scared that I may have figured out what's going on.

I'm not saying anything, because I don't want to spoil it in case I'm right.

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I have never seen Donie Darko but I have heard that it's actually pretty good. It has become quite the cult classic from what I understand as well.

Hmmm, i'll have to watch Donnie Darko too, that seems like a good comparison.

I just watched over the weekend. The Desmond episodes are always my favorite.

I certainly hope that LOST's writers are more creative than just to steal the idea from Donnie Darko... I will be bummed if that's what it is. Not because it's not a good plot, but because it's not a NEW plot. The beauty of LOST (for me) has been the "newness" of it - there hasn't been a show like it and likely there never will be another one like it. I don't want a recycled plot! LOL

Couldn't have said it better myself. I'll feel REALLY ripped off if they just pull a plot twist ending from some other source and end it like that. Yuck. Fortunately, I have more confidence in these writers than that! (optimist that I am today!)