Stray
04-10-2010, 09:02 AM
(Sorry for all the new threads; Dezzie's my favorite character and his episode really got me fired up.)
Desmond has to make "a sacrifice" in Charles Widmore's words (heh; this episode had three freaking Charles' -- Charlie Pace, Charlie Hume and Charles Widmore). I took this statement to mean that he'll have to give up something dear to him. What does Desmond want more than anything? To be with Penny. But from Charles' reassurance that she and Charlie Hume are safe, that seems like an unlikely sacrifice. What does Desmond want less than anything else? To be be on that bloody island.
What if Desmond's sacrifice is to live out the rest of his life on the Island? Desmond is now clearly the cosmic keystone of the series and the most mythologically important character (aside from MIB/Jacob, of course). D&C told us long, long ago that the Adam and Eve skeletons were put into the show so that when all's said and done, they could prove that they had the whole plot in mind from the beginning.
Well, the conclusion makes itself, doesn't it? If Dezzie's the most mythologically important character, not to mention the character most intimately associated with time travel, doesn't it make the most sense that the skeletons are he and Penny?
Think about this, too -- clearly, Desmond was spirited away in an unceremonious fashion by Widmore's thugs. Penny likely has no idea what the hell happened to him. But that gal's smart, and she knows how devious her father is. It won't take her long to put two and two together and start heading for the island again. Indeed, this time it will be Penny's boat (a sublime juxtaposition). When she arrives, she expects to rescue Desmond, but now he realizes that he has to stay on this island forevermore, so she decides to stay with him, and they live out the rest of their lives on the Island (not sure whether Charlie comes along with them and simply doesn't die and ended up one of the background others, or doesn't come with them and lives the rest of his life off-Island with his gramma and grampa (now that grampa Widmore, who specifically said he wants to know his grandson, has reconciled with Desmond), or maybe grows up to become Widmore, but that's another issue).
The reason their skeletons were found in 2004 and were wearing Dharma clothes should be self-explanitory; the Island jumps through time, Desmond is the time travel character, ergo he travels back in time before the end of the season and somehow or another ends up in a Dharma jumpsuit.
This is a bit more of a stretch than the suggestions of my other two topics, but I think it's more reasonable than a lot of the other theories flying around the internet.
(I'm almost tempted to speculate that MIB or Jacob is, in fact, Desmond, the one who has to stay on the island, but I somehow think D&C would find a "tomato in the mirror" ending too cliched, so I won't make that leap of logic.)
Desmond has to make "a sacrifice" in Charles Widmore's words (heh; this episode had three freaking Charles' -- Charlie Pace, Charlie Hume and Charles Widmore). I took this statement to mean that he'll have to give up something dear to him. What does Desmond want more than anything? To be with Penny. But from Charles' reassurance that she and Charlie Hume are safe, that seems like an unlikely sacrifice. What does Desmond want less than anything else? To be be on that bloody island.
What if Desmond's sacrifice is to live out the rest of his life on the Island? Desmond is now clearly the cosmic keystone of the series and the most mythologically important character (aside from MIB/Jacob, of course). D&C told us long, long ago that the Adam and Eve skeletons were put into the show so that when all's said and done, they could prove that they had the whole plot in mind from the beginning.
Well, the conclusion makes itself, doesn't it? If Dezzie's the most mythologically important character, not to mention the character most intimately associated with time travel, doesn't it make the most sense that the skeletons are he and Penny?
Think about this, too -- clearly, Desmond was spirited away in an unceremonious fashion by Widmore's thugs. Penny likely has no idea what the hell happened to him. But that gal's smart, and she knows how devious her father is. It won't take her long to put two and two together and start heading for the island again. Indeed, this time it will be Penny's boat (a sublime juxtaposition). When she arrives, she expects to rescue Desmond, but now he realizes that he has to stay on this island forevermore, so she decides to stay with him, and they live out the rest of their lives on the Island (not sure whether Charlie comes along with them and simply doesn't die and ended up one of the background others, or doesn't come with them and lives the rest of his life off-Island with his gramma and grampa (now that grampa Widmore, who specifically said he wants to know his grandson, has reconciled with Desmond), or maybe grows up to become Widmore, but that's another issue).
The reason their skeletons were found in 2004 and were wearing Dharma clothes should be self-explanitory; the Island jumps through time, Desmond is the time travel character, ergo he travels back in time before the end of the season and somehow or another ends up in a Dharma jumpsuit.
This is a bit more of a stretch than the suggestions of my other two topics, but I think it's more reasonable than a lot of the other theories flying around the internet.
(I'm almost tempted to speculate that MIB or Jacob is, in fact, Desmond, the one who has to stay on the island, but I somehow think D&C would find a "tomato in the mirror" ending too cliched, so I won't make that leap of logic.)