What an awesome episode!! There were many questions answered, but of course, even more were raised. Let's start with what we now know:Eloise is in fact Dan's mom, I know I was one of the doubters of that being true. She also is the young Ellie we met on the Island in 1954. What I never saw coming is that Widmore is his dad! That was a major surprise, but it makes me wonder where he got the name "Faraday" from...
Dan did some kind of experimentation on himself for his research before he tried anything on Theresa, which evidently caused him to have a memory disorder (think Momento but not as extreme). As Widmore promised, the Island seems to have cured him.
Widmore was the one who planted the fake Oceanic 815 plane at the bottom of the ocean. Do you think his reason for doing that was just so he could make sure Dan got to go to the Island?
Desmond is going to be ok, whew! :)
Dan's further research has led him to believe that you can, in fact, change the past, which could result in changing the present/future. Evidently "humans" are the variable he hadn't considered before, so he thinks that if he can detonate the buried hydrogen bomb (to destroy the immense magnetic energy of the Island), this will negate anything that happened from that point on, including the 815 crash. We haven't seen anything to prove he's right, though, and we know that Eloise knew she was going to shoot her son back in time from what she said to Widmore about sacrifice. She could have easily told Dan not to go to the Others w/ a gun, therefore her past self would have had no reason to shoot him, so why didn't she? And why did he insist on talking to Eloise in the first place?
So now what? Are Jack and Kate going to try and do what Dan wanted and blow up the bomb? Neither one of them looked that excited about the idea of erasing the past. What would happen to them and the other Losties if it worked?
Other random questions, how is it no one ever mentions anything about Richard never aging? You'd think the Others would have realized it, there must be something about him connected to the Island. Why does Dan think his mom was wrong about Jack and Kate and the rest going back to the Island?
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There is too much I want to say about this episode, but I'll start out with a couple things.
1) Did I just not notice before that Desmond & Penny's kid is named "Charlie"?
2) Maybe Eloise gave him the last name Faraday to continue to inspire him scientifically by naming him after the scientist Michael Faraday. And of course this could be related to what Dan is trying to do and a Faraday Cage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
Eloise/the writers maybe gave him the name due to the connection.
3) I still don't get why Dan was crying when seeing the plane? Was there an explanation of this from this episode that I missed?
4) How did Dan and Charlotte start to become so chummy on the ride over to the island if he was basically Memento-fied?
5) Why would Eloise bother to go check on Desmond? Why would she care really?
6) Let's start taking bets on who else is a child of Widmore. Kate? Charlotte (gross if she and Dan actually were a couple)? Juliet? Frank? Mr. Friendly?
I'm confused by your Memento reference. I don't know what that is. Is it a movie?
Anyway, it looks like Dan tried to put himself in the time-traveling state that worked so well with his rat, but the side effect was dain bramage, which was healed by the Island. What his mom was thinking when she sent him to the Island, I couldn't begin to guess.
I never would have supposed that Widmore and Eloise were an item out of which Dan was conceived. I'm guessing that Penny has a different mother, based on how she spoke with her.
There surely is a lot of familial connection on the Island. That has to be a clue regarding what the Island (or, Jacob) has been doing all this time.
Something tells me that Dan's plan will not ultimately be the way the story is resolved. I don't think the Island will allow it. We still don't even know if Dan was right, that they could undo it all.
Besides... doesn't the hatch have that key in the crawl-space that, once turned, eliminated the problem of an uncontained energy source? and in the Lostie's "present" it is no longer an issue? If they could build it to self-destruct and stop being a problem, why didn't they just flip the key back at the first sign of trouble? There's something else about it Dan isn't factoring into the equation, I think.
To David:
1.) Yes, you noticed that, but it isn't the first time we are told. They named him Charlie, presumably to honor his heroic act that brought them back together.
2.) Eloise clearly did not want Dan to know his father was Widmore, and she probably didn't want Widmore to find Dan as a child, so she nixed her own last name, or was, perhaps, remarried at a later date, allowing her son to take the step-father's name, but she returned to her own name when that marriage was over. there are plenty of scenarios why his name might be different. If it is significant to the story, they will tell us more later.
3.) Dan was weeping uncontrollably due to his depreciated mental state at the moment making his more visceral emotions empathicly sensitive. There is likely more to what made this particularly sad for him that was not able to recall it. I'm not recalling at the moment, but didn't Desmond explain where, when and why he needed to get back to his present time? Maybe Faraday managed to connect it all later, and that is where he was trying to go when he experimented on himself, defeating his hopes of saving the survivors of flight 815, which in turn, made him inexplicably sad when the plane was "found" under water.
4.) I don't know. Love has weird properties that infect people like a virus. The symptoms show up fast. Plus, he has known her since she was a little tiny girl, but only in his subconscious.
5.) Eloise explained, I thought acceptably, that she felt badly about Des getting caught up in something so terrible. Plus, Penny IS her son's sister, after all. It is not unnatural for a mother to want to know her son's half-sister.
6.) I do suspect that we'll find out Kate's dad has some military ties to Widmore, but you are being facetious.
Remember, things that may be curious might sometimes just be left to the imagination to fill in the blanks. If it can be plausibly explained, they do not necessarily have to address it unless it is a part of the broader story.
A friendly note: With all of the rental stores having every past season available, and with every episode this season available on-line through ABC's website, it's hard to find an excuse not to have seen every episode. Just run on up to the counter, and when they ask, "How may I help you," you just reply...
"I wanna get Lost."
:D
Holy crap Robetron, you haven't seen Momento?? It's a movie w/ Guy Pierce and is freakin' awesome (dealing w/ a memory condition), you must go rent it/add to your Netflix ASAP!!
I also agree that Penny's mom is someone we haven't met. When Widmore was banished from the Island Ben made a reference to him having a daughter via someone-not-from-the-Island (I forget the exact term...mainlander?)
David - yeah I remember a previous blog discussion about the name Charlie in the first episode where we saw Des and Pen had a baby. I automatically assumed Des named him after the ex-heroin addict rocker Charlie we all love (and miss), but forgot about Pen's dad's name of Charles.
I don't think Dan even knows why he was crying about the plane crash, his caretaker asked him why he was so upset and he said "I don't know..."
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