Desmond

Oh, at long last an episode of Lost I really enjoyed for once. It pushed the Island mystery nicely along and actually even started to explain a few things - it even had a nice love story at the core of it that I found quite genuinely touching (I've long since come to generally despise most of the other characters in this show now - with the exception of maybe Hugo/Hurley (what are we supposed to be calling him now?)). Not that we didn't know from the previous big Desmond-centric story that time traveling wasn't going a big part of things somehow or other... but anyhooo

So Desmond's last name is Hume hey. Another important name in philosophy - something to do with cause and effect and perception and things like that.

(digression: I was going through a few piles of my books trying to find my copy of "A Brief Experiment With Time" by John Dunne - but that was because I had mis-remembered his name thinking it was possibly by Hume. Couldn't find it - but it's full of stuff about dreams and remembering the future and ...stuff. But I'm guessing now that it's such an obscure book that the writers won't have ever heard of it anyway.)

Lapidus is another interesting choice for a character's name: He wrote a book with the interesting title - "In Search of the Riemann Zeros: Strings, Fractal Membranes and Noncommutative Spacetimes" (I'll bet the Butler did it.)

Things I wondered: - with Minkowski becoming ill and getting nosebleeds and terribly incoherent before finally keeling over and dying - could this be what Rosseau thought of as the 'illness'? [I haven't forgotten you know - Lost writers - I and many others are keeping track] Maybe the injections - the vaccine Desmond spiked himself with daily for 5 years have been anti-radiation sickness medicine?

Penny said she knew about the Island. Oh yeeeeas. Has been looking for Desmond only in the past 2 years or so (what brought that on? Why leave it so late.) Oh and by the by - he's not going to be one of the Oceanic 6 - the creators might even kill him off just for the sheer spite of it....

Oh, and is Widmore being played by the same actor who recently was playing a naughty evil scientist type in Torchwood recently and who used to be in one of the Aussie soaps - Neighbours or Home and Away or something? Which is all - cool.