Everything's Going to Change

"Everything's going to change. Have a cluckity-cluck-cluck day, Hugo."  
Jin, s02e04


PARADOX R/X, or 'HOW COURSE CORRECTION WORKS'

To be clear, Desmond's past was different before 'The Constant.' Before  
his time-travel adventure, Desmond never met Faraday at Oxford, never got 

Penelope's digits.

As a consequence of changing the past,

Desmond's personal history has been ''course corrected'' by The Powers  
That Be, beginning from the moment he walked away from Penny's apartment. 

Lindelof says this interpretation is also correct. But here's a Big  
Question: since scoring Penelope's phone number, has Course-Corrected  
Desmond lived his life knowing that on Christmas Eve 2004, he MUST be on a
 
freighter in the South Pacific in order to make a call to Penelope if he  
wants any chance of having a future with her? Lindelof says this is indeed
 
a matter we should be mulling.

Perhaps in the future, Lost will give us an episode that replays Desmond's
 
backstory (getting the boat from Libby; killing Kelvin; meeting the  
castaways) from the point of view of this knowingness.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20182393,00.html


So the past can be changed, and as a natural extension, so can the future.



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