It was good. It was REAL good. Having Faraday be such a pivotal character was an amazing choice. I was all "HOLY FUCK" when they showed him with the original Dharma crew. And now we know that Desmond is somehow "special" and can exist outside "the rules"... fuck. And I seriously LOL'd at the bit near the end where Hurley summed up the entire show so far to his mom in about two minutes. And also I have a pretty good guess about Richard and his seeming agelessness now.
Also nice touch with Neil wearing a red shirt and getting killed, but Sawyer borrowed one of his shirts - which was also red - leading us to fear or suspect that Sawyer is marked for doom... which makes me sad.
As soon as I saw that beard with the obscured face, I knew it had to be Faraday and I started hopping up and down in excitement in front of Rachel and Jimmy. I fucking love Faraday.
I also loved the Hurley summary, but I think the absolute best line of the show was "Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?!"
My first observation of Frogurt was his red shirt. All through his constant whining all I was saying was "Thank fuck this annoying dipshit has a red shirt. He's dead by the end of the premiere, guaranteed.
Could Hawking be Faraday's mother? He told Desmond to go find his mother so she has to be someone important which probably means we've already encountered her. As we've seen, Hawking knows about weird anomalies and fate and so on and she's British and she was writing equations all over a black board and doing crazy experiments just like Daniel and...well yeah. Maybe that's reading too much into it but it seems possible, no?
That was my first thought, as well. They're both English and she's certainly old enough to fit the idea. I'd lay heavy odds on it. If not, we're certainly supposed to be guessing as much.
Who is the baby in Chang's (i.e. Candle's) house on the island? It has to be important in some way. Could it have been born on the island? My guess is no since babies and their mothers die during the birth. Who knows when this began but it's likely it was a still a problem when the DI was around.
I don't think it's all that relevant. Don't forget, it's conception on the island, not births. Claire gave birth to Aaron just fine because he was conceived before she ended up on the island, and there were questions about Ji Yeon's parentage because the D.O.C. would effect whether Sun would or would not die due to her pregnancy. Judging by the fact Dr. Chang was actually recording Dharma orientation videos and the construction of the stations was still in progress, it is likely that Chang has only been on the island for a month or two at most, meaning the baby wouldn't be effected, since it would've had to have been conceived at least ten months or so ago.
Desmond is only special because he is currently existing in both places at once. He is one of the people that got off the island that they can still talk to on the island. So when Faraday tells him something that is in the past, it will come into memory in their present. It is a really smart idea.
It's not because he exists in both places at once. That could, conceivably, occur with the survivors of 815. He's special because he was at the center of the anomaly when it exploded. This was covered way back in season 3.
Who wants to bet that Danielle's crew shows up this season?
