LOST---Catch-22
TELEVISION LOST---Catch-22 (aired 3/18/07)
Here is another episode with the ever-engaging Desmond as the focus of the back story and many more things to ponder. I have a feeling, when Season 3 is over, I’ll have to watch them all over again!
--Had we previously known Brother Desmond was in a monastery? I don’t recall if we did. Could this be why he calls everyone brother, or is it just a coincidence and he’s done this all his life? I’m just asking…
---Moriah Vineyards is the name of the wine the monastery produces. Moriah is also the name of the mountain where Abraham is asked by God to sacrifice his son Isaac, as a test, but does not. This is paralleled later when Desmond, who intends to sacrifice Charlie in order to rescue Penny, cannot let Charlie die. The details in Desmond’s flashes can’t change or the outcome will change. But he has a good heart and his instinct is to save Charlie’s life, again.
---Did this really change the outcome of his flash? Desmond thinks he’s going to save Penny. In the end of the episode, we see that it’s another woman who they pull out of the tree and calls his name. And in the season two finale there are two men in the helicopter who speak to Penny on the phone. Did some time-shifting actually happen or are Desmond’s visions off? And Desmond couldn’t affect his timeline before coming to the island?
---“Ardil-22” was the name of the book in the woman’s backpack, which is the Portuguese title of the Joseph Heller novel “Catch-22.” Not only is this the title of the episode, but this is Desmond’s conundrum. If he lets Charlie die, he thinks he can save Penny. But, again, it’s against his nature to let this happen, so he saves Charlie and we end up meeting a woman other than Penny at the end. Did things really change? A real catch-22…
---After a man out of nowhere punches Desmond in the nose, we learned that Desmond was supposed to marry Ruth but got cold feet, got totally blitzed, woke up in the road and saw the brother who Desmond took as a sign that he should be a brother too. When the brother “fires” him and says God has bigger plans for him, is it safe to say that all of this was his destiny in order to meet Penny?
--Had we previously known Brother Desmond was in a monastery? I don’t recall if we did. Could this be why he calls everyone brother, or is it just a coincidence and he’s done this all his life? I’m just asking…
---Moriah Vineyards is the name of the wine the monastery produces. Moriah is also the name of the mountain where Abraham is asked by God to sacrifice his son Isaac, as a test, but does not. This is paralleled later when Desmond, who intends to sacrifice Charlie in order to rescue Penny, cannot let Charlie die. The details in Desmond’s flashes can’t change or the outcome will change. But he has a good heart and his instinct is to save Charlie’s life, again.
---Did this really change the outcome of his flash? Desmond thinks he’s going to save Penny. In the end of the episode, we see that it’s another woman who they pull out of the tree and calls his name. And in the season two finale there are two men in the helicopter who speak to Penny on the phone. Did some time-shifting actually happen or are Desmond’s visions off? And Desmond couldn’t affect his timeline before coming to the island?
---“Ardil-22” was the name of the book in the woman’s backpack, which is the Portuguese title of the Joseph Heller novel “Catch-22.” Not only is this the title of the episode, but this is Desmond’s conundrum. If he lets Charlie die, he thinks he can save Penny. But, again, it’s against his nature to let this happen, so he saves Charlie and we end up meeting a woman other than Penny at the end. Did things really change? A real catch-22…
---After a man out of nowhere punches Desmond in the nose, we learned that Desmond was supposed to marry Ruth but got cold feet, got totally blitzed, woke up in the road and saw the brother who Desmond took as a sign that he should be a brother too. When the brother “fires” him and says God has bigger plans for him, is it safe to say that all of this was his destiny in order to meet Penny?
---Was is just the storm that made the helicopter crash? We can see from this that the island really is accessible from the outside.
---So, who is the woman pilot that is hanging from the tree?
---Kate gets jealous when Jack avoids her flirtations and she sees him eating with Juliet. She then goes and pounces on Sawyer. But then Sawyer, after he gives Kate a Phil Collins mix tape, gets his feelings hurt when he realizes Kate was using him?! Or was he just happy to have spent time with her? Kate always makes the wrong decisions. So choosing Sawyer as a runner-up was a wrong decision? And is Kate next in line to get pregnant?
---Sawyer says to Jack and Juliet: “You two arguing over who’s your favorite Other?”
---On the beach at night, Jin holds a flashlight under his chin and apparently is telling a ghost story and startles Hurley. I loved this!
---The brother told Desmond, who was drunk from drinking the wine, that they had only bottled 108 cases this year!
---There is a picture of Fionula Flannagan, who played the store clerk Ms. Hawking in the episode titled “Flashes Before Your Eyes,” with the Brother on the Brother’s desk. So, other than being Irish, what’s this connection?
---Supposedly Jack has a new tattoo on his arm:
http://lostpedia.com/images/a/a7/Jack%27s_Tattoo_Left_Arm.jpg---So, who is the woman pilot that is hanging from the tree?
---Kate gets jealous when Jack avoids her flirtations and she sees him eating with Juliet. She then goes and pounces on Sawyer. But then Sawyer, after he gives Kate a Phil Collins mix tape, gets his feelings hurt when he realizes Kate was using him?! Or was he just happy to have spent time with her? Kate always makes the wrong decisions. So choosing Sawyer as a runner-up was a wrong decision? And is Kate next in line to get pregnant?
---Sawyer says to Jack and Juliet: “You two arguing over who’s your favorite Other?”
---On the beach at night, Jin holds a flashlight under his chin and apparently is telling a ghost story and startles Hurley. I loved this!
---The brother told Desmond, who was drunk from drinking the wine, that they had only bottled 108 cases this year!
---There is a picture of Fionula Flannagan, who played the store clerk Ms. Hawking in the episode titled “Flashes Before Your Eyes,” with the Brother on the Brother’s desk. So, other than being Irish, what’s this connection?
---Supposedly Jack has a new tattoo on his arm:
---Here is a link to seeing some of those things, like the pic on the desk, which you may have missed: http://losteastereggs.blogspot.com/
