Comments on: Exploring an Epiphany: Faraday & Charlie, Through the Looking Glass

By: Windy

Windy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:55:12 +0000

I don’t know, Jo. You don’t have to be a classically trained musician to know Good Vibrations. Seems much more like Hurley’s kind of tune than Charlie’s.

By: FryingPan

FryingPan — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:37:16 +0000

Anyone else hope that if Daniel was the architect for the Looking Glass or simply at Dharma HQ for three years, that he installed a little cabinet that would light up when the room fills up with water saying “Charlie, open me” and out pops underwater breathing apparatus with instructions for him to find Jacob on the island..? Ok so I guess it’s just me (but it would be how I’d save Charlie if I were writing it. Of course this would mean that Hurley really is seeing hallucinations but I think I’d be OK with that to have Charlie back.

By: Mark E.

Mark E. — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:31:05 +0000

I’ve been thinking about Faraday’s meeting with Desmond a lot recently. There is something about that really bugs me and I can’t get rid of it. All I want to know is in what time period it takes place.

I imagine that it must take place after Des makes the plane crash but before they find him. However, I don’t get why he is wearing the full bio-hazard suit when he knows it’s not dangerous. It has just been really annoying me. Anyone else?

I like the theory that Charlie and Faraday are connected though.

By: docarzt

docarzt — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:03:15 +0000

Absolutely! Very nice.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:50:31 +0000

Don’t mistake coincidence for fate? I think you mean Don’t mistake fate for coincidence?

By: Charlie's ghost

Charlie's ghost — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:10:37 +0000

This is an amazing theory and makes great sense. Only thing is now I have a hate on for Daniel since this would mean he is the one responsible for my Charlie dying. Why can’t ghost Charlie be walking around instead of ghost Christian????

By: lostinnashville

lostinnashville — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:59:28 +0000

Love this and the crazy Charlie theory. Remember the psychic (Richard Malkin?) who warned Claire that Aaron should not be raised by another? An Other? If your theory about Charlie Hume is correct it looks like he is going to be raised by An Other himself. Like Ben, Daniel, Penny.

By: INawe

INawe — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:34:23 +0000

Start talking Rabbits people..

A Rabbit through the looking glass…
For me that makes for a character inside a different reality-time that can not
be seen or interact with the outside.. Sounds like Jacob ???
Maybe… (but any other character could fit)
Also the glass with the rabbit is Daniels.

Oh and poster Adam mentioned Claire…
The only reason i can think of Claire dissapearing, hanging out with Christian e.t.c and warning Kate not to ever bring Aaron back,
is that Claire has met (a) future Aaron on the island and she didnt like it !!! Jacob anyone? ..maybe again…

It all comes down to Following the Leader till the Incedent..
Who’s the leader? Locke from what i understand..But how will everyone follow him?
He is in a different time, after the Incident.
So they either reunite before the Incident, or the Leader they will follow is someone else.. Jack perhaps?… now that he got his free will back? Dont Know..

What does “The impossible gets Real” have to say to us here…

By: 'LOST' 5 - spoilers ahead, again - Page 19 - MiceChat

'LOST' 5 - spoilers ahead, again - Page 19 - MiceChat — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:41:38 +0000

[...] the piano. Why might this be significant? Because as Lost blogger JOpinionated reminds us over at docarzt.com, there’s a music-based mystery in the Lost matrix that has never been resolved. Recall, if you [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:14:05 +0000

Im just glad that someone mentioned Charlie. He died and his friends were’nt really rescued like Desmond said. Yeah Jack and the O6 got rescued but not really. Claire didnt get on a helicopter with Aaron. I just want them to justify his death a little more i guess. Yeah he enabled the freighter crew to find the island but to what end? Claire is MIA and Aaron is still on the mainland. I just don’t know. Good Post.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:49:20 +0000

actually, regarding the notebook, until he opened it up i half expected it to already be filled out with the equations and such. but that is just too far from the “rules” as they have laid them out so far.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:47:09 +0000

i do think (shooting down my own speculation here) that they would want to stress the importance and specialness of locke’s recovery, however, so we probably won’t be seeing lots of corpses popping back up. until the alleged 7th “zombie” season, that is.

also, it seems to me that for a season set into “answers mode”, we haven’t actually gotten a ton. it it probably just because i was so used to telling people who criticized earlier seasons “yes, they do give little answers practically every episode, just not always major significant ones”. quality vs. quantity i suppose.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:41:38 +0000

i know. it’s just this is the first crazy theory i’ve had this season. i had lots in previous seasons but this year’s episodes don’t allow so much leeway… the price of the show going into “answers mode” i guess.

By: sabrina

sabrina — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:12 +0000

I was half convinced that somehow through all the time travel weirdness that Charlie was the musician who had managed to program the code in the Looking Glass. Faraday being the one to do it makes much more sense. Whew. And the rabbit in the glass?? What the..? Great catch! Thanks.

By: k

Tue, 05 May 2009 21:11:25 +0000

yes but this is quite clearly not the case is it? locke…nuff said…

seriously lindoff and cruse are like hot women they tease you…take you in for the ride…and before you know it your left in amazement… then sheer disappointment & the downfall…

please do not let this happen cuse & lindeoff- be nice girlies with lost and the direction were heading- stop lying give us answers now you stinky buggers…:-)

By: Thor

Thor — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:07:25 +0000

“Maybe the notebook isn’t even in any kind of chronological order?”

I think it is. But my point is; Faraday lost his memory, even his short term memory! So when he landed on the island, that’s when he once again became ‘the smart guy’. Before that, he wasn’t. And as far as we have seen, this is more a guess, he probably didn’t go through the whole note book systematically after arriving at the island. But then he remembers Desmond, and he checks his notebook if it could be true, because it is pretty crazy..

And then whoop, he (probably) remembers..

By: INawe

INawe — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:17:28 +0000

Well…the whole speculation you are making sounds pretty good..

But there is only one problem..

Cuse & Lindelof made it clear in a recent interview that..
“Dead is Dead” regarding Faraday…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:06:16 +0000

Re-reposting this comment because of the Charlie connection – see second to last paragraph.

I had almost forgotten that “Desmond is my constant” could now not be addressed – unless that’s the point, and it will be.

Just wild speculation and no clear idea on how it could possibly make any difference, but who knows where in his notebook it said that? Maybe the notebook isn’t even in any kind of chronological order? Maybe it’s something like all that business with the compass?

My main point is it said “If anything goes wrong”. This could refer to the crazy experiments he was about to undertake, the poison gas shutoff mission, or the fact that he was coming to the island at all, but maybe it means that Daniel has a plan, and if whatever happens includes him dying, he has a way to make it unhappen. Or not happen. Or something.

I also think it’s possible that the Desmond/Penny/Hawking hospital side story was included may be significant. I get that Hawking was important to the episode, but why do we need to even see Desmond if he’s not doing anything but recovering from a gunshot wound?

And finally, I think it would bring a nice circularity to the storytelling that has been lacking a bit from this season. Desmond, though unable to save Charlie in season 3, gets a chance to save Daniel this season.

This may all just be wishful thinking, but maybe there’s something to it. Thoughts?

By: meems

meems — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:23:45 +0000

I hadn’t seen that rabbit in the glass. That’s really incredible.
I agree that it would be perfectly logical for Faraday to have programmed the code. Didn’t the dialogue say something like, “It was programmed by a musician.”? That would make sense.

By: INawe

INawe — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:57:47 +0000

I think its quite possible now that Daniel programmed the Looking Glass security..
Also that most likely the key to all this are Daniel Desmond and Charlie, because they are crucial to the events that are taking place…or “will” take place..

As for the Swan talk between Daniel and Desmond..well he was referring to the freighter helicopter the way i see it..
But maybe thats not important..
The swan talk scene with Des and Daniel is of most importance because its one of the events that Faraday has done and changed the past..(!)
He created a new memory in (future)Desmond…a memory that was not there because it didnt happen..Well Daniel made it happen.. and without paradox..

Another most important event was when Daniel send a message from the future to his past self also through Desmond…Solving his time-travelling maze experiment..
Changing the past for the second time..
Daniel gave his past self the correct “variables” for the maze experiment.

Something very interesting as well is when Desmond meets Faraday in 1996 and tells him he is from the future and that Daniel him self send him….
…Daniels reaction was that it was a prank from his colleagues.. and says exactly: “Time paradox… …soooooo uninspiring.”

Im awaiting for tomorrow’s broadcast.. INawe

By: bejaedblost

bejaedblost — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:36:45 +0000

Wow! I am seriously blown away! I’m speechless about the whole post…seriously. Great theories, epiphanies, revelations, findings, etc., etc. But I’ve gotta know, how did you catch that rabbit in the glass?

By: 316'er

316'er — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:35:00 +0000

yeah yeah… the easter egg is very impressive… nice one

By: Charlie's Ghost

Charlie's Ghost — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:23:30 +0000

so, INawe, are you on board with JOpiniated’s theory or not?

By: Thor

Thor — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:21:46 +0000

Right now I’m just going with the WHH, because that’s what they’ve been saying this whole season. And it would be cheesy to change that concept now..

Both Faraday and Jack is desperate these days, and so they think they can save the world, which they can’t. But sure, they shaped whatever happened, and whatever happened is now their present. So whatever they do, just whatever, things will go down..

By: INawe

INawe — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:02:29 +0000

Nice… i like all the connections you are making… (The rabbit rocks imho)

Still the major question remains if the Losties…can eventually change something
in their fate/destiny.

I know there are 2 major “camps” contradicting each other whether that can happen or not.. And they are not only the fans of Lost…
but the scientists-philosophers also!!!!

Its Time Travelling 101 …
after reading about it.. u get caught in a camp.. or not..

So in a way both can happen.. (Its up to the Creators to choose)
Either they cant change sh!t, (booooooring)
or they change their future.!..!(wow)..

So I think they change something and get out of that causal loop..
And i believe that the dogmatic “Whatever Happened, Happened”
has a meaning past through it that most fans dont notice.
WHH refers to our losties past AND FUTURE..
..since they are in the present for them now.

That said i cant imagine Faraday being wrong..and his death for nothing..
I suspect that Faraday “left” something (did something) before he dies that will
hopefully make him a fighter variable and not a doomed constant..

I mean, in the myth of Lost, if a scientist(son of two of the highest rank Others) who’s whole life has being dedicated into studying time-traveling and its properties..specially on the “Island”
If he cant change something…then bollox..

I am waiting and watching the show….Inawe

P.S.

This is the longer post i have ever posted on the net… Lost did that to me..
And has also fried my brain with time traveling theories..