The Desmond Episodes NEVER Dissapoint!! "Happily Ever After"

In a move that paralleled season 2 – having Desmond in the season premiere and then a long break with a return in a character centric episode – “Happily Ever After” was all I hoped it would be and more! We have now, to a certain extent, reconciled the point of the sideways universe and its importance, and of course, it took the wild card Desmond to unravel this little [I use little facetiously] mystery.

In his off island world Desmond has finally gotten, what Mrs. Eloise Widmore states as, what he always wanted, appreciation from Charles, and is for all intents and purposes living a fruitful existence in his alternate timeline. Hinting at possible clairvoyance [see what I did there], he predicts Claire’s unborn child is a boy, and skips around between the two timelines in both a near death experience at the hands of a flustered Charlie who already knows that there is something amiss in his current world, and also while being scanned in the Electro Magnetic Pulse of a MRI scanner -- the same type of EMP that causes Desmond to slingshot into the alternate timeline from the island in an Experiemnt to verify Widmore's hopes for Desmond's abilities. To what end will these abilities affect the war waging on the island -- we will just have to see.'

In an episode that offered just as many questions as explanations about the ins and outs of exactly what is going here we are introduced to the alternate versions of Charles Widmore, Eloise [Hawking] Widmore, Daniel [Faraday] Widmore, and Penelope [Widmore] Milton, who is definitively recognized as Daniel Faraday’s half sister. It is also interesting to point out the confirmation that Eloise still posses the ability to know what is happening, in a unversally significant way, to the LOSTies paths in both timelines and the decisions utimately made by all important parties in both 'worlds'. She tells Desmond not to concern himself with Penny much the way she tells him he "[doesn't] buy the ring" in the episode 3 episode "Flashes Before Your Eyes". She seems to be able to exist with knowledge of both worlds, which raises the question, "How?" and "Why?" Is she some sort of referee in the off island world like the unexplained boy with the bloddy hands seems to know the rules on island between Jacob and the 'Man In Black' ["The Substitute" S06E04].

In a round about nod to yhe film 'Back To The Future' it would appear that the theme of tonight's episode seemed to be the 'power of love' – a "spectacular love" so grand that once ignited in our LOSTies in their alternate timelines, is apparently the trigger that snaps them into revelations about their ‘other’ selves. To quote Charlie when he describes his experience "I've seen something real. I've seen the truth."

The most significant part of the whole endeavor is that so far the only other two people who have experienced what Desmond [the revelation in the alternate timeline of what has happened in the original] are characters who are dead on the island. This little chestnut adds credence to Desmond’s abilities and as someone who the rules do not apply to, makes me even more excited to see how this whole thing is going to play out.

Mr. Desmond Hume.. the island is most definitley not done with you YET!

Only 5 episodes until the SERIES FINALE. See you all later.