S6E11 RECAP

L: Lo! --- I guess the wow factor was supposed to be Desmond's survival of being microwaved in Widmore's hot box.

O: Obnoxious --- after Toasted Dez greets Widmore, instead of telling us what he has been "enlightened" by during the torture session, Desmond merely states he understands and is willing to do what Widmore asks of him. It is another prime example of NOT letting the viewer in on what is really going on . . . annoying, especially in the race to the show's finish.

S: Story line --- Most viewers and reviewers were extremely happy that the sideways world has bleed into the island story arc. Desmond, Charlie, and Hawking all know about the alternative universe, the island, which is apparently a "violation" of some more unknown rules. It is unknown whether this overlap of consciousness is real (see, Bleeding post below), or part of some mind control to test candidates.

T: Time line --- the potential merger of the sideways world and the island world creates intellectual issues. The sideways world did not split off at a certain time and run parallel; it went back further in time as shown by Jack's early age appendix operation, or Sawyer becoming a policeman and not a con artist. The two time lines cannot cohesively merge because of the significant differences in events and life choices. The other aspect would be that one time line would overwrite or destroy the other; except that should have occurred already if the island events are "leaking" into the sideways world, or vice versa. Time travel paradox theory gets multiplied by any crossover.