I think we determined that Ben and Charles Widmore are each other's constants. Now we see that they likely  met on the island.

I still don't know why Richard doesn't age. But I think this is the first time Richard and Locke meet, although we know Richard goes back to Locke's youth. 

It does not seem likely that there are THREE Charlies (Our Charlie, Desmond's baby and Penny's father). 

I think Faraday does love Charlotte. I also think that when he says the other girl (who kept the gun on him) looks familiar, that she very much is familiar. We have yet to see how and who. I wonder if it is SHE that is his mother. 

We see that Ben and Faraday's mother are working together. We saw that last week. Now we see that Faraday was funded by Charles Widmore. Yet, Ben and Widmore are enemies. Where does this leave Faraday? 

Faraday told the group that what was happening was like a record skipping in time. 

Who do you think is trying to get Aaron, and why? 

Random Lost thoughts....

Daniel Faraday doesn't love the red head...he just knows she needs a constant in order to live.

The compass is Lock's constant.

The stick is Ben's.


Charlie could still be alive. Desmond kept trying to save Charlie. This means that everytime we saw Desmond when Charlie was alive...Desmond was from the future.



Possible Lost series finale ending:


The oceanic 6 try to go back and save the island. They all fail... except Jack. It is possible the other 5 will die before the show goes off. But Jack will survive. The show will end exactly as it began....with a closeup of Jack's eye and him laying on the ground....This will prove my earlier theory....the first time we see Jack is NOT the first time he has been on the island. He is there to save everyone.
If I am not mistaken, we have seen Jack in flash forwards with the same coat and clothes on that he wore on the plane....thus continuing a loop of the story.....

kinda like a record that keeps skipping to the same spot over and over and over.

hmmmmmmm

I'm just saying...

I say it is Farraday's mom! Something else I thought about: Is Charlie the baby the actual Charlie from the Island? I mean there is so much forward and backward that nothing is impossible on that Island. If Des and Penny move to England and have another boy....I'm just say.

Farraday's Family Tree

Mrs. Hawking's first name is Eloise.

The 1954-Other-with-the-gun is named Ellie and Farraday says she looks familiar.

If they are both, indeed, Farraday's mom -- and since Mrs. Hawking is no slouch and seems to know an awful lot about druid math, where do you think she learned all this -- and who is Farraday's father?

Ep 5.3 - Jughead

Best "Awwww" Moment: Baby Charlie
"... they are absolutely going to give me a heart attack waiting for something bad to happen to Desmond, or Penny, or both. It's amazing how this couple who've had a tiny sliver of the shared screen time compared to any combination of the Jack/Kate/Sawyer triangle, or of Jin/Sun, have become the romantic pairing I care most about. That's a testament to Henry Ian Cusick and Sonya Walger's performances, and to the brilliant heartstring-yanking climax of "The Constant," and to the way their story seems so integral to what the show is revealing itself to be about." ... "I misted up a bit when I found out they'd named their son after Charlie (whose life Desmond had worked so hard to save, and whose sacrifice helped Penny find Desmond). As I watched Desmond steer his yacht, little Charlie on his lap, content as any man has a right to be, I felt a joy for him that I rarely feel for fictional characters ..." (from http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/01/lost_jughead_how_to_dismantle.html)

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Best "WTF?" Moment: Charles Widmore on the island and working for Richard.

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Another miscellaneous reference to details from previous seasons:

"The janitor says, 'Can you blame them, after what he did to that poor girl?'

Des arrives at the house of said poor girl, named Theresa Spencer. Theresa's sister Abigail answers the door, and is surprised Desmond wants to speak with her. That cryptic comment makes sense when we go upstairs and see Theresa being spoon-fed her lunch..."
(from http://blog.zap2it.com/ithappenedlastnight/2009/01/lost-e-pluribus-awesome.html)

Does anyone remember Boone in John Locke's vision - just before he climbed up to the plane that dropped and caused his fatal injuries? Locke saw him covered in blood, talking in circles, something about a nanny he used to have named Theresa, and he said, "Theresa falls up the stairs, Theresa falls down the stairs." Probably not significant, but everything always seems to come full-circle on LOST, so who knows?

In Response To Susan's Questions

Q1: I don't understand how we now know 'why' Richard doesn't age. Why doesn't Richard age?

A1: They didn't really go into depth on this. I think we are just supposed to assume that he is travelling back and forth in time so frequently that everytime you see him, no real time has elapsed. It's a stretch, but I think that's what they're leaning toward. That does not explain why he is the same age when he sees Locke as a child as when he sees Locke as an adult -- unless he only goes back to Locke as a child AFTER he meets him as an adult. But that would mean changing the past, and we have been told that's a no-no. Too many scenarios for the mind to comprehend.

Q2: I still don't know if Ben is 'good' or 'evil'. Clearly Hurley and Sayid think he's evil, but Hawking and he are working together and believe everyone must go back. I remember also though once last season, Ben saying that the one who turns the wheel - can never go back.

A2: For my money, Ben has passed the point of no return on being evil. Can't trust him. He and Hawking seem to have their own best interests at heart in regards to wanting everyone to go back to the island. Here's my own twisted little imagining ... follow me on this if you can ... Richard changes the past, causing the "record to skip" as Farraday puts it ... Ben is now off the island and can't find it because it's moved (which is why anyone who moves the island can never get back) ... if Hawking is the woman who branded Juliet, she has aged considerably ... after Walt left the island, his aging process also accelerated ... maybe they need the Oceanic 6 to "find" the island again in order to stop their aging process and save themselves? ... or maybe they need to "find" the island in order to keep from creating another hiccup in time where Jacob is now trapped? These are just my theories.

Q3: Where is 'Jacob' in all this?

A3: See answer to Q2, above.

Cuse & Lindelof Talk Time Travel

Q: You guys have opened up the time element of the show in this really interesting way, but how do you stop it from becoming a giant story problem? You know, “If a train left Pittsburgh going 50 miles an hour, and another train left Dallas going 25 miles an hour...” How do you make that time element clean and clear for people who might have trouble with it?

A: Lindelof: Carlton and I spent five weeks last year just breaking “The Constant,” with the entire writing staff. The reason it was so tricky was all these things you’re talking about, in terms of, “If Faraday told Desmond in 1996 to tell Penny to call him in 2004, wouldn’t she say to him ...”

And then eventually, you get to a point of saying, “Are we breaking any rules, according to the rules we set, is it emotionally viable, and is it confusing?” So when we were sitting down to talk about Season 5, we were like, “We’re essentially breaking ‘The Constant’ every single week now.”

A: Cuse: The reason, as Damon said, it took us five weeks to break the story was because we were relentless with each other about making sure that the story -- we would not consider the story to be finished until it had emotional resonance.
We had to deal with all the consciousness-traveling craziness, but ultimately we felt the story would only be successful [under the following conditions:] Not only did the time-travel stuff have to make some sort of sense and follow its own logic, but there needed to be a really genuine emotional payoff.

To read the rest of the article, go here: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/01/lostabctv.html.
Thanks to Mark Cantrell for the link.

Call Me Crazy, But ...

Could Mrs. Hawking also be an older version of the Other from the island who branded that symbol into Juliet's back?

And there's no doubt in my mind that Pierre Chang's baby from the opening sequence of tonight's premier is Miles Straume.