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Daniel Faraday loves Subaru!



Okay not really - but Jeremy Davies looks real young in that commercial - and apparently hasn't changed his mannerisms in years. Golden!

Alright, so first up, we have Desmond running around like a crazy person trying to find a doctor because PENNY'S HAVING A FUCKING BABY?! Whoa! I'm guessing that was around 2 years ago - cause when they show 'im he looks like an adorable two-year-old. And I know this doesn't happen until later but, shut the fuck up, they named him Charlie. The beauty about watching LOST at the Alamo is hearing crowd reactions. Sure, you watch it at home and gasp, yell, get teary-eyed whatever, but when there are 80 other people doing the same thing, it's spectacular! As soon as Desmond said "You and Charlie!" the entire audience made this fantastic sound that I can only describe as a combination of laughter, ahh-ing, ooh-ing and going "Yay!" - it was beautiful...

Back on the island, we find out how crazy unpredictable these flashes are. Also, we find out that Juliet speaks Latin, as do all the other Others. It's the language of enlightenment! This is totally going to come up later. I think it's going to involve the island having some serious old-school roots. Latin? Yeah dude, people have been on that island a long, long time. You also have the Brits calling it "our" island. Not "the" island. There's a sense of entitlement here for sure. Oh yeah, and by the way, there's a bomb. And it's big. And dangling by a rope.

Faraday is so smart! And something about him seems so trustworthy, clearly because Richard was all "oh hey buddy, whaddup? wanna fix this bomb problem? that'd be rad! kthx". Jump back to Desmond though - oh wait, Faraday who? No sorry, he never worked at Oxford. Bullshit, lady! I did think it was funny that Desmond couldn't remember what year he went to see Desmond at Oxford. He did after all tell Penny "I won't call yeh fer EIGHT YEARS!" Duh, Desmond, you saw Faraday in '96. Either way - he goes and finds Eloise's maze, a picture of Faraday and a ladyfriend, and then some dude busts in and says "After what he did to that poor woman..." WHAT DID HE DO?! I really didn't want it to be bad...

CHARLES WIDMORE! Man this dude is EVERYWHERE! Okay, so apparently, Widmore funded all of Faraday's research before sending him to the island to conduct similar experiments - interesting... how in the WORLD would Widmore know the properties of the island??? Hmmmmm... But before Faraday went to the island - some girl went crazy. My guess is, he upgraded his lab rats. I'm assuming he fell in love with this girl Theresa Spencer, told her about his research, she agreed to be a test subject, but apparently forgot to find a Constant in advance. PEOPLE, ALWAYS KNOW WHERE YOUR CONSTANT IS! So she seems permanently unstuck in time - and instead of sticking around, Faraday bailed. Bummer.

Back on the island, Faraday's chatting with Ellie, one of the British others. We also find out that the asshole that was giving Sawyer, Juliet and Locke shit is actually young Widmore! CRAZY! Again, something that was super fun to find out in an audience. Everyone got a huge kick out of that.

So Faraday says that Ellie looks familiar - she resembles Theresa sure, but I think that Ellie is actually Eloise... Faraday's mom. I'm pretty sure that he was definitely hanging out with his mom. After all, don't guys supposedly fall for people that are like their mothers?

Back to the future.. Desmond BUST IN on Old Widmore! (There was a general "NO!" from the crowd - and I was saying "Getthefuckouttathere! Getthefuckouttathere!"). He of course knows exactly where Faraday's mom is - my theory: because they're old friends. They were both Others. The difference here I think is that Widmore wants to find the island again to exploit it, while Hawking wants to save it. She also has an acute sense of the universes "course correcting" and knows that it is imperative that they all go back.

Okay. Mega theory time. Widmore and Ellie were on the island in 1954. This is fact. They eventually get off the island via the "very privileged information" that Alpert shares with them. He probably also tells them that they'll never come back. Ellie spends time researching the properties of the island, while Widmore builds up his monopoly and becomes more and more powerful. They both have kids, and they teach them their trade (Faraday learns crazy physics, Penny learns that with enough money, anything is possible). (SIDE THEORY! Random thought - Penny and Faraday might actually be siblings??? Probably not...) While Faraday's mom possibly encouraged Daniel to go to the island, Widmore seems hellbent on keeping Penny out of the loop, instead sending Desmond (sending, accidentally sending... either way, that shit ain't a coincidence).

The reason that Widmore gave Desmond that information instead of taking him down? Penny is Widmore's Achilles Heel - he knows that the only way to keep her safe (because Ben is totally going to kill her - he said so - Widmore "killed" Alex...) is if she knows where Desmond is. By telling Desmond to stay safe, he keeps Penny safe. Clearly Widmore doesn't know that Hawking has already met Desmond cause he says "She won't be happy to see you..." Hell yes she will! In fact, she'll be EXPECTING HIM! Also, Widmore's probably jealous that he didn't get magic powers from the island...

I don't know what's up with Charlotte. She's probably not dead, but I think she's definitely going to crazytown. And now Faraday's gonna freak out and try to find her a constant (probably himself - because apparently he's in love with her - WHY?! she's sucky!) So Charlotte's going to get worse and worse as the island keeps skipping, which is going to make it WAY more difficult for Faraday to figure out what's going on. The real question? Will Charlotte still be alive in three years when the O6 come back? I HOPE NOT!

Also - looking back on that Comic Con video, even though I said this before, Pierre Chang's baby is DEFINITELY not Charlotte. He tells the lady with the crying baby off screen to "Take him outside!" It could still be Miles I guess, but that would fuck up my theory about why Charlotte's brain is going all wonky...

Until next week!