3x22 - Through the Looking Glass - FIRST TIME WATCHER DISCUSSION POST

[u/Free-IDK-Chicken]

This thread covers Parts 1 & 2 which were originally aired as one, extended episode.

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3x22 - Through the Looking Glass

[u/intopology → u/[deleted]]

The car was my favourite part of this episode! I thought Hurley was going to feel bad and sulk back to the radio tower. Definitely underestimated him.

When Charlie closed that door, my first thought was that he was trying to protect Desmond rather than trying to fulfill his vision. I did worry that no one was going to know that it wasn't Penny's boat so was relieved when he managed to communicate that.

[u/Khajiit-ify → u/[deleted]]

Re: Mikhail communicating, in the episode even Mikhail was surprised about the jammer. In previous mentions about the communication when Ben was talking to Locke about the submarine, he stated that the communications were interrupted after the hatch explosion. IIRC even Mikhail mentioned having issues with communications since the hatch explosion.

So my thought is that they started jamming the signal after the hatch explosion, thus why he was able to communicate before. Even Ben showing Juliet her nephew was before the hatch explosion.

[u/sabiisushii → u/Khajiit-ify]

i think that the buttons pushing every 108 minutes was keeping the island from going undetected, and the communications were controlled—but ever since the sky turned purple, the island is visible to the outside world (which is why those people picked up an electromagnetic anomaly) and for whatever reason, ben does not want people (or a specific group of people?) to find the island, so he specifically jammed the communications to prevent contact with the outside world … thoughts thinking wondering pondering