Jack, not so much.
Gainey) and the Others.
And yet, one wonders if Desmond liked the tune for being an ironic comment on his own situation.

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Did they find a golden-oldies show (Chuck Cecil’sThe Swinging Years,perhaps?
), or were they receiving a transmission from across space and time?
Must be an inside jokeor aLostclue to be decoded!

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The faux British rocker performed this melancholy classic by real British rockersOasisduring his days as a London street musician.
It’s also linked to Desmond, who came upon Charlie playing the tune during his season 2 time-trip.
Could it be a metaphor for the redemptive force that is the Island, too?

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The beach montage set to the tune gets me kinda misty, too.
“Scentless Apprentice"in whichKurt Cobainbellows “Go away!”
(That rascally Ben!)

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The code for doing so turned out to be musicalthe refrain from this 1966Beach Boysclassic.
How totally coincidental and incredibly fortuitous that the person who undertook the deep-dive mission was a musician!
In season 5, we learned that Dr. Pierre Chang (Francois Chau)a.k.a.

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(Or so we ourselves have inferred from what little info we were given about the group.)
Is it possible that Geronimo Jackson’s Keith Strutter and other members joined the Dharma Initiative themselves?
That’s our theory.

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And there were hundreds of such scenes!
Actually, there were just two.

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