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What Happened, Happened … Unless You Can Change the Past
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05/01/09
Only going to the island could set his mind right. He got three good years after ending up with Dharma in the 70s, and even traveled to Ann Arbor and conducted more research. A better spent three years of living then a lifetime of scrambled neurons.
My question is, when did he have his adult relationship with Charlotte? He fried his own brain with his experiments at Oxford, and then scrambled his GF Theresa's noggin. He didn't get unscrambled until he was back on the island, or at least close to it on the freighter. So when does this love affair with Charlotte take place? Before Oxford and Theresa?
04/30/09
Why would Faraday walk into the camp with a gun? He had already met Alpert. Alpert would have recognised him from 1955.
All Faraday had to do was walk into the Others camp with his arms in the air, peacefully and remind Alpert about Jughead.
Alpert has consistently proved reasonable when talked to, so all Faraday had to do was *talk* to him.
It was completely out of character for Faraday to walk into camp brandishing a gun.
This whole episode was only done to make it seem like they killed of an important character and give a "shocking twist".
Rubbish.
05/01/09
05/01/09
He's pushing everybody, right? He realizes he's the variable, but isn't sure to what end, so he's racing around turned to eleven, trying to catalyze everyone important into action.
That is, what you're decrying as an inconsistency is actually the whole freaken' point. Which you missed.
04/30/09
Faraday is playing them all.
My hate for Radzinsky continues to grow. No way Daniel is dead when Juliet is still alive there's no justice in that.
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04/30/09
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Is Faraday Widmore's son? Did everyone else pick up on this before me and hence why it was non-news?
05/01/09
No one seems to be talking about the implications of that parentage, however, and there have to be some.
04/30/09
04/30/09
I like your theory.
04/30/09
04/30/09
I think he expected to die, but not by Mom.
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05/01/09
04/30/09
The video shows Chang sending a message to "the future" and at one point he is cut off from someone behind the camera. It seems it's pretty well accepted that the man behind the camera is Faraday. So either the video is non-canon or Dan isn't dead. Let's just say I hope the video is canon.
I'm a little scared at how much I love this show.
05/01/09
04/30/09
Although if Little Ben can survive a point-blank pistol shot thanks to the temple, why wouldn't Ellie and Richard save Daniel the same way? So he doesn't "lose his innocence?" He's already an Other by birth...
I'm curious about Ellie's motivations. She did everything she could to make sure Daniel went to the island to meet his fate. But to what end? It's the same as when she steered Desmond back into leaving Penny. It doesn't seem to be because they have to be steered into doing something significant-- More like she has appointed herself a guardian of the status quo. But the status quo is, by her lights, inevitable. So why does it need guarding?
Lynn, I loved the rundown you gave of where the Losties would have been if not for the crash. You forgot to mention they're all fabulously wealthy now too. :) But also think of all the people who are dead now, who wouldn't have died. For instance, everyone else on the plane and the freighter!
It was creepy that Little Charlotte's first line to Daniel, "Mummy says I mustn't have chocolate before dinner" or whatever, was also Charlotte's last line to Daniel before her death.
My three favorite bits:
1. Sawyer's line, "What am I going to tell him, my fist slipped?"
2. Richard's line to Daniel, "Have we met?" He said the same thing to Sawyer when they first re-met in 1974.
3. Kate's facial expressions while Daniel is explaining time travel. I know she normally always has that "just about to cry" look, but she ran through a hilarious range of "What the fuck?" looks during Daniel's spiel.
04/30/09
04/30/09
I think that was intentional. Daniel may have known that his destiny was taking him to that point. That's why he gave that speech to Jack. I think the only thing he didn't know was that it would be his own mother who killed him.
No wonder poor Eloise was so distant with him. The writers are hitting home runs with just about every episode this season. Kudos!
05/01/09
It's like he realized he was The Variable, then decided to exponent it. He wasn't sure where he was going with it, but he knew he had to inject himself into things at this critical time and turn it up to eleven.
I wonder what kind of time-travel effects his experiments had on himself. He couldn't remember things past a day, he was worried he'd start internally time-jumping like Desmond and his mother was, up until this episode, able to know the future. I think that there's some more life in exploring these things, so hopefully we'll see more of Daniel in flashbacks.
04/30/09
Are there proton packs involved?
05/01/09
04/30/09
Still, to quote someone else with parental issues, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
04/30/09
Show is firing on all cylinders.