Desmond on Jack's plane?
They really did seem to be pushing the idea that he disappeared. What that means, I don't know. I always thought Desmond was going to be some kind of huge player in the resolution.
We don't really know what happened to Desmond when the energy pocket imploded. He seems to be skipping through time in his own body and everything, but perhaps this only because of the limits of a linear narrative. Maybe Desmond actually experiences all the moments of his life simultaneously.
Maybe he lives in all nows. Maybe he got blown outside the time/space continuum, and now exists independent of both time and space (time and space are the same thing, according to Einstein, and may not be isolated from each other). I never read Dark Tower, but the writers of Lost did, and they say they were influenced by it when they were working on the arc for the show (not to mention that at least one of them was in on the new Star Trek). From what I understand, the protagonist in Dark Tower has the ability to travel between parallel universes or something -- an idea that Michael Moorcock damn near beat to death in his fiction. Desmond has reminded me of those Moorcock heroes ever since the Swan went Blooey.
I don't think Desmond is done messing with LAX Jack -- he might be the messenger between the two parallel universes. Have to wait and see.
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