I’ve been going back and forth on this episode. Not on my feelings about the episode, but whether I should sugar coat those feelings in this post. And I decided that I just can’t. When I love an episode, I love it like a two week old puppy… and when I don’t, I just don’t.

I can’t get into the whole Eloise Hawking stuff. I don’t know, it’s just too much exposition. Too much standing around talking about why things are the way they are. And maybe it’s the cape, but don’t her scenes have a bit of a Dark Shadows feel to them?… which is cool I guess, but seems a little odd for this show. But maybe some of you feel the same about all the archaeological stuff. I have to admit, next week’s episode does look very Temple of Doom. Yikes.

I don’t know. Is it’s cause the storyline involves Faraday? His time-space stuff is so heady, maybe they’re afraid of losing people without lots of explanation. That look Kate gave him while he was explaining Variables vs Constants was priceless.

Anyway, the episode was very “blah” for me. Particularly the stuff with Des and Penny, which felt like scenes from a completely different episode. I love that storyline, but I just don’t think they earned the sentimentality of that last scene, do you?

  1. They weren’t in the episode much.
  2. We already saw him beat the hell out of Ben in a fairly “alive” state.
  3. It was a bullet wound to the shoulder… I mean, can you imagine a character on this show dying that soon from a bullet wound to the shoulder? Desmond??! I can’t. And I didn’t.

And of course the gunfight at the OK Corral. *sigh*

So does it mean the episode yielded nothing to me. Of course not. One thing’s for sure, my parallel universe theory is still firmly in tact… even if my “that’s not a fake plane on the ocean floor” theory is starting to get a little wobbly. Starting, though! There’s still plenty of lying holding that sucker up.

Did you guys see the issue of Wired Magazine on Faraday’s couch? If not, here’s a close up of it.

Wired Magazine Lost

As you can imagine, I’m a very loyal Wired subscriber, and that particular issue is familiar. It’s from August 2003. And the coolest thing about the issue, as it relates to this episode, is a rather fascinating article about Time Travel, and one particularly interesting part about something called a Gott Shell. I’m not gonna give you the full down and dirty, but I thought this little bit was a standout.

Having examined Einstein’s equations more closely, physicists now realize that the river of time may be diverted into a whirlpool – called a closed timelike curve – or even a fork leading to a parallel universe. In particular, the more mass you can concentrate at a single point, the more you can bend the flow.

And now we have Faraday rethinking his entire concept of time… wondering if maybe he can change things (sorry, recycling lines from older posts.) Of course, as he’s telling this to little Charlotte, I’m sure he realizes the conversation itself was already fore(or aft)told by older Charlotte. So what change does he think he can make?

Oh and Eloise cracks Widmore good when he refers to Daniel as his son. She had no problem calling Penny his daughter… so clearly different mothers. I have a feeling that Eloise is already pregnant in this episode. In fact, I think she and Charles are a couple at this point. My hunch is that Charles will send her away to raise Daniel off the Island. Probably part of a strategy to save the Island in the long run… she may even wind up on the submarine that’s leaving soon.

And, I don’t know why, maybe it’s just the similar looks of the actresses… but I have this feeling Charles will start to romance Juliette (The Outsider) and get her pregnant with Penny. Whoa, if I’m right, what if there’s an older Juliette running around?!

And after watching this episode, here are my burning questions:

  • I want to know what the experiment was that put Faraday’s girlfriend in the coma.
  • He says he tested it out on himself first. Is that what caused his deteriorating mental state… or is it something else?
  • I’m wondering if the reason Faraday finds the crash on TV so moving, is because he lived through something that he can no longer remember. Another time and space, maybe? Could Faraday be in some sort of time loop?

So hit me up. What did you all think? 100th episode grade? I know some of you already tweeted me that you liked it, so maybe it’s just me.

Oh, and Part 2 of my Deciphering Lost’s Hieroglyphs series is coming very soon.

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