Lost-vivor: “Flashes Before Your Eyes”
Posted on February 15, 2007 @ 9:18 am
Welcome to Week Eight of Lost-vivor — all the mystery and adventure of Lost with an added dash of Survivor-style competition. Here’s the deal: after each week’s Lost, I’ll arbitrarily award and deduct points from the characters based on their actions during the episode. I’ll tally up the Lost-vivor scores as the season progresses, and, at the end, we’ll declare a Lost Season Three champion! You can catch up on the action so far here.
Please note that the section ahead contains spoilers for last night’s episode of Lost. Proceed at your own risk.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say that “Flashes Before Your Eyes” is my favorite episode of Lost so far this season. If the past several episodes have taught me anything, it’s that I’m far more interested in what’s going on back at the beach than the happenings on DHARMA island. Heck, I was even happy to see Claire again (even if she was there only to establish, once and for all, that she exists solely to be the island’s unofficial damsel in distress).
Desmond’s flashback dominated the bulk of the episode, but the déjà vu aspect was an intriguing twist. Henry Ian Cusick is just outstanding in the role, and I felt he brought a lot of heart this week’s proceedings. It was fun seeing Penny again, too; she seemed quite a bit more charming this time around, making it easier to see why Desmond fell for her in the first place. Now I’m wondering if Desmond telling his friend at the pub all about the shipwreck and the island and the button might have something to do with how Penny knew to be looking for him after his disappearance in the first place (as shown in last season’s finale). I’m probably over-thinking this, though. My brain hurts.
Meanwhile, the jeweler lady definitely gave me a creepy last-episode-of-Quantum-Leap vibe. But, I’m apparently the geekiest person alive, so that’s to be expected. That being said, it should be interesting to see what direction the show takes with Charlie at this point. Will the universe eventually catch up with him, or can Desmond change his fate?
Now, let’s cut to the chase and take a look at the scores!
| Charlie:
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| Claire:
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| Locke:
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| Desmond:
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| Hurley:
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| Jack:
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As the only Lost-vivor who could successfully audition for the cast of Heroes, Desmond comes up big again this week. His 23 points were enough to move him past Locke and into the number two position. Desmond still trails Sawyer by a whopping 30 points, but I suspect we’ll see that gap begin to close once Kate and Sawyer start to share the spotlight in the coming weeks and rejoin the beach-dwellers. Meanwhile, Charlie — everyone’s favorite rock hobbit — didn’t fare so well this week. What did you expect, though? The universe is trying to kill the poor guy!
After eight scintillating weeks of Lost-vivor, here are your standings:
- Sawyer (172)
- Desmond (142) (+23)
- Locke (135) (-2)
- Kate (113)
- Sun (107)
- Hurley (105)
- Claire (104) (+3)
- Vincent (100)
- Paulo (99)
- Nikki (98)
- Charlie (88) (-11)
- Sayid (88)
- Jack (76) (+2)
That’s it for this week’s installment of Lost-vivor! Tune in next week for what looks like another Jack-centric episode. If the past eight weeks of Lost-vivor are any indication, that’s bad news for Jack.
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“Didn’t ask jeweler about the four C’s” LOVE IT!
Great recap. Still wondering how many times Desmond has gone back in time. He obviously has done it at least twice. He has had to see Charlie die once by the lightning - back in time to set lightning rod. Then has seen Charlie drown while rescuing Claire - back in time to save her first. This guy is freakin’ amazing. This put 24 and Heroes in the back seat and is what LOST needed.
“four c’s”? Am I an idiot? What does that mean?
Sherri: Nah, it was a foreign concept to me too before I bought my wife’s engagement ring. The four C’s are a series of measures that determine diamond quality: cut, color, clarity, and carat weight. Desmond neglected to find out if the ring was actually worth the price. But, considering I don’t recall him actually paying for it, I guess all’s well that ends well.
The only bad thing about Lost-vivor is that I now don’t feel a terrible need to pay close attention to the show because, well, you’ll catch me up! I barely managed to watch the show. I actually wondered several times why I even had the TV on. Bad.
Great recap and scoring! I loved how you felt bad about raking Jack over the coals last episode enough to give him 2 points for not even appearing this episode… I also like the fact that Claire decides to hand off Aaron to Sun so that she can go swimming in her clothes… poor writing!
Btw, do you guys believe that Desmond ACTUALLY time-travelled and re-lived those few years in the exact same fashion so that he could fulfill his destiny of turning the key? And since then, that he experienced Charlie’s death at least twice before and has willingly traveled back in time to correct it twice?
That’s not how I interpreted things last night - I consider the hatch accident to have granted Desmond powers to see visions of the future (flashes before his eyes) and that the flashback/experience we saw this episode was some sort of island-induced hallucination to teach him that the universe has a way of correcting itself. If he actually traveled back several years to the drunken-paint-spill incident how do you explain the jeweler’s reaction?
Addendum: Didn’t it seem like the vision ended when he got hit with the cricket bat (after which he woke up naked in the jungle)?
I gotta say, I think anyone who actually saves Charlie should lose points. Or was I the only one who cheered when Desmond proclaimed he was a marked man?
If Sawyer can get points for every nickname he gives someone, why can’t Hurley get some points for “Desmundo”?