Faraday’s variable is OK
He’s OK after a temple visit. (Or another time loop that prevents this part.)
Think about it. All his life, Daniel’s been culled to do something great with his brain. When he fried his brain, he still hadn’t done anything. Why would Widmore & his mom send him ‘back’ if it was just to get shot and killed by his 1977 Mom? [And, I think he was sent ‘back’ in time by mommy, who know how Widmore’s boat should get there … you have to use the right coordinates, after all.]
The island may have enjoyed using irony while self-correcting, but then Ellie wouldn’t ‘have known all along’.
Option 2: When you skip through time, it’s only in your conscious. That’s how Dan explained the rat knowing the maze, similarly his girlfriend is skipping while in a ‘coma’ and Des went physically blank in the present while he skipped through time – and Faraday saw him as there. (This would mean everyone’s body is still in 2007 regardless where their conscious took them.) Anyway, maybe if you die in your mind your body’s just fine in the year your mind left it and you can go back again (e.g. Widmore & Hawking kinda’ hypnotized Dan in a direction that would solve how to fix everything.)
I’m only wonderin’ ‘cuz Scottie didn’t say, “It’s worse than that, he’s dead Jin.”
I believe alive or dead Faraday doesn’t add any new value. If he is correct and free will can change future events, than what ever choices other’s make will be made with him or without him. I think I’m probably the very few that is content that Faraday will no longer be alive (if thats what happens).
the mind travelling thing can only happen if the energy level is correct.i think that because the swan was destroyed the electro magnetism on the island is out of control.the swan was designed to control the levels of energy to make it safe.now theres no swan i think people really are literally dissapearing into another dimension/reality or something.the bit i dont get is how anyone used the donkey wheel when there was a cubicle built in the orchid to stop people using it.if the cubicle was used to “mind travel”then it was probably safe.but it aint now is it.
dont let emotions get in the way off your logic. they sent him back because that is how it always happened and must happen
yeah, I think I believe the writers angle is that he was sent back because thats what he was supposed to do. I still don’t understand why he has to be convinced. Why is it so important to make sure it happens the way it happens. I thought it would happen no matter what. Why is Ms. Hawking worrying about it happening when she already knows it happened that way. Is she unaware that whatever happens, happens. Does she think its possible that Daniel would not go back to the island? What did she think would happen if she didn’t convince him to go back? Paradox???
yeah maybe everyones trying to prevent a paradox, which could rip a hole in space time or something like that
But, what was the point of sending him ‘back’ to the island? He didn’t DO anything ‘cept die. So, either he didn’t die or he went back to mumble all about them being the variables, maybe do something using Jughead.
Another time question … Desmond is shot before Ben & O6 go back and didn’t take long to recover, but in the episode it seems kinda right after that. Yet Mrs. H woulda’ had to have sent him ‘back’ three years before. (I’m curious how quickly the island cured him, while we’re on this one. He always seemed ‘odd’ but not memory gone … )
And what the heck kind of research was he doing in Ann Arbor back when I was enjoying it as a pre&college kid? It’s like he figured it all out and then came back to fix it ‘cuz he remembered the variables. (Are other’s aware or did he do little quiet experiments that were so exact he knew what would happen in 6 hours?)
Why would they take him in Ann Arbor? He wouldn’t have any credentials. You can’t just walk in and say, “Hey, I’m a physicist. I went to Oxford.” and then get to do research. It’s not like Widmore Industries is funding the project (or is it … Widmore’s accent implies he’s from off the island. Maybe he got an inheritance or other payoff for leaving the island, like the O6ers did.)
And, why did Dr. C dis him if he remembered him as a researcher but believe Miles who just drives him around – and if everyone were to die in 6 hrs, why is Dr. C armlessly alive when he makes the video?
He can be dead. But even if he is I doubt his part on the story is done.
The problem now will be the conflict of interests between the losties. Jack just heard everything he wanted from Faraday “you make your own destiny” right after he was starting to accept the idea that he shouldn’t try to do that and should just follow the flow of things.
Now he will try to explode the H-bomb while many in there won’t want to do that for the simple reason that their lives would be worst or meaningless without the island.
In the end I guess that the jughead will either explode and fix nothing or remain buried as it’s been.
Having the bomb exploding and fixing everything at this point would force the show to end this season.
I’m starting to seriously think there is a good possibility that faraday is Jacob. He was given so much power b/c of his knowledge of the future. It actually makes lots of sense. He was given the name Jacob as a reference to the bible, and Issac willling to sacrifice his son, b/c his momma shot him. Makes lots of sense.
I agree Sinster, maybe Faraday is “brought back” by the temple and made into Jacob… and his knowledge of time travel seems to mostly come from his mother, who stole it from his Journal, so it didn’t come from anywhere (paradox).
waycurious, what he “had” to do was get shot in the back by his mother. She sent him back because she believes she has to to make events “right”. Also, it’s the only way she can get her hands on his Journal, which contains all the information she needs to turn herself into the award winning physicist she becomes.
micheal dub ya, i think the donkey wheel could be accessed beneath the cubicle via the underground tunnels
The “donkey-wheel” is in a cave-system and it is connected to the shaft of the well. The “booth” that Dharma is experimenting with lies just on the other side of a rock wall and possibly a “containment” wall like the one we see at The Swan. Remember, Ben put metal into the booth and blew a hole in it… not really sure how he knew to do that, but whatever.