The general consensus is that the final season is a disappointment and cannot disagree. Remember first watching it, found it remarkably easy to get into, was hooked from the start and was on Season 3 by the end of one week. When 'Lost' was in its prime, it was must-watch television. If I could keep only one LOST episode, this would be a serious consideration. But no review can really do enough justice to FBYE, you have to experience it for yourself. Henry Ian Cusick gives an incredible performance, pulling you along for the ride all the way. Desmond gets to relive his life and repeat his mistakes, even while he knows them and wants to avoid them. But this is not a dryly intellectual episode: it is also highly emotional, and sometimes moving to the point of tears. So when he turned that key, Desmond traveled back to the 1990s - or did he? Is it possible to live through something for the first AND the second time simultaneously? And if prediction of the future is really, as this episode suggests, a form of deja vu by someone who has already experienced the future, and Desmond can now see the future on the island, does that mean he has been there before?!?! The possibilities/theories are mind-blowing. It was a bold move to temporarily drop all the Others-related story lines and focus on Desmond (with the strongest supporting parts going to Charlie and, of course, Penny) and the aftermath of his turning of the fail-safe key, but it paid off in what is easily the best LOST episode since "Live Together, Die Alone" (not coincidentally, another Desmond-centric episode). Words fail to adequately describe the brilliance of "Flashes Before Your Eyes". Great direction for this episode, and a superb script by Damon Lindelof and Drew Goddard. This one is a superb episode, only flawed due to the lazy production design- London doesn't really look like London, 'honour' is spelt as 'honor' on a recruitment poster, the 'pub' looks like an American bar, and the football match on the television looks like a Spanish match from the late 80's, and barely anything like an English match from the 90's.
#LOST FLASHES BEFORE YOUR EYES CONNECTION TO ENDING SERIES#
The episode sees the introduction of Charles Widmore, it sets up Desmond's flashes which would continue having a significant impact on the series throughout season three and eventually sort of form the basis for the show's greatest episode: "The Constant". Again, the Penny/Desmond love story proves to be one of the rare romances on "Lost" which is actually striking and effective, and surprisingly believable as well. "Flashes Before Your Eyes" reveals some significant details of how time relates to "Lost", but it does so in scenes with ramifications and a significant effect on Desmond's character and his perception. In many ways Desmond is the perfect character to do this with. Much like the previous episode "Not in Portland" the episode effortlessly mixes character-based drama and mythology-based thrills without one element over-powering the other.
Well, the last one isn't exactly explained in detail. "Flashes Before Your Eyes" takes a break from the Jack-Kate-Sawyer-Ben-Juliet saga to reveal exactly what happened to Desmond after he turned the failsafe key, how he knew what Locke was going to say before he made his speech in "Further Instructions", and why he ended up naked. Almost as an apology for the massive failure that was the Hydra island pod of episodes, the season returned several months later with two consecutive masterpieces, both among the finest episodes of "Lost". and apparently so do great television shows that make a costly mistake like the six episode pod which opened season three ("The Cost of Living" is a major exception, though). The universe has a way of self-correcting.
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