What Happened to Desmond’s Vision of Claire on the Helicopter?
I’d forgotten about it, but flugelbinder on MyMedia didn’t. In one of his flashes, Desmond told Charlie that he saw Claire getting onto a helicopter. That was the whole reason Charlie signed on for the whole suicide mission where he swam down to the Looking Glass station. He was willing to die if it meant Claire got off the island.
What happened?
- The writers forgot about that when they decided that Claire would walk off with Christian, and they hoped that we would forget about it, too.
- Desmond lied.
- Something didn’t happen exactly the way Desmond saw it, so the outcome changed.
- Claire will get onto a helicopter at some point in the future.
I would like to throw away the first option right off. They have fact checkers for this sort of thing.
As for the last, that would be pretty tricky. Desmond’s vision was of Claire and Aaron getting onto a helicopter. Aaron’s already off the island, and I think that Desmond would’ve mention if Aaron was a five-year-old if it were to happen at some later point when Kate brings Aaron back to the island.
I waver between the middle options, leaning more toward something being different. It is possible for him to have lied about it; he very nearly let Charlie take one of Danielle’s traps to the throat because he thought he’d get to see Penny. But I don’t think he could do it twice.
I think that Desmond changed the outcome when he dove in after Charlie. I don’t think he saw that part. And that’s why Claire didn’t get on the helicopter.
