to get ourselves a treat.
Yes, Lost fans, it's intermission time, and now that we've all had a chance to rest and
replenish our bodies and minds, it's time to try and piece together the many clues we've been given in these first
8 episodes.We'll explore them all in the coming weeks, but I think a good starting point would be time travel.
This season we learned for a fact that time travel is part of the story, but from what we've
seen so far it hasn't been the kind of time travel I expected. No H.G. Wells time machine, no tricked out DeLorean, no
physical travel at all. Just the characters taking mental excursions into their past and future.
We see the present day Desmond's consciousness flip back into the bodies of his past
selves while his current form goes limp, then we see him jump back to the present and he awakens as if from a dream.
Freaky.
We also see how Faraday uses Desmond's mental flips to impart information to himself in
the past. From his reaction when he leafs through his notebook on the beach at the end of "The Constant" and finds the
notation "Desmond is my constant", it seems obvious that his meeting with Desmond was a new occurance, something that hadn't
happened in his original past and didn't form as a memory to him until just then. I'm having a difficult time with this as Damon
and Carlton have insisted that what we'll see will be time travel that won't cause any paradoxes. It would seem to me
that if you can change the past, the paradox door is wide open.
Speaking of the producers, now would be a good time to read this interview with them from UnderGroundOnline. They talk about the episodes we've seen so far and emphasize a couple of interesting points about time travel and how it
has been mapped into the story since season one. They say that the bodies of Adam and Eve, who were found in the caves, will
be the proof.
So, who were these two, and why was the only possession they had on them a bag containing
one white and one black gemstone? More importantly, are they evidence of a different type of time travel than we've seen to
date, physical time travel? It would appear that way, because if they died in the past how could they have been a part of
the future? One explanation would be that like Michael and Jack, they had tried to off themselves in the past and failed,
or were supposed to die of some disease like Rose. Perhaps the island wouldn't let them die until their buisness with
it was done, and when they completed their "mission", they flipped back to their past bodies and suddenly were able to die.
Yikes, that last thought warped my brain. Anyway, another interesting tidbit from this interview
is that they feel that although we may get lucky now and again with our theories, none of us currently has enough information
to solve the riddle that is Lost. Now there's an understatement.
And on that note I will bid you good evening for now. Check out the UGO article, then go
back and read Jeff Jensen's interview with them and let me know your thoughts. Interesting stuff. 
