Episode 2 “Flux Capacitor”

Before we get to the new episode, I wanted to mention a few things about Ep. 1:

What is Faraday’s instrument? (to determine their place in time) That thing looks awesome, but how does he read it? It's nice to see that the writers are making him a key element to the story.

The music when Hurley walked into the convenience store to buy the Shih Tsu shirt was “The Dream Police” by Cheap Trick. Hmmm, all this talk of time travel and memories vs. dreams makes me think this whole experience is in a collective unconscious.

Event Window = Island will be stable enough to find for 70 hours otherwise it’ll be gone forever?
(because someone in a coma will die in three days? more on that later)

Ep. 2 – Thoughts and theories

Penny has a boy (we find out later they named him Charlie, a very sweet moment)

Nice POV shot from the girl’s rifle. Who is that girl anyway?

To Faraday: “You just couldn’t stay away.” Faraday has been to island before. Methinks he’s been time traveling a while now. He was an original Other that learned of the Island’s special properties and was banished or got left behind when it moved previously?

The Others know Latin, as does Juliette. Secret languages are always an intriguing mystique.

1 soldier dead from radiation poisoning… can you say atomic testing?

We see early Other settlers …Hello Richard. Juliette tells us, “He’s always been here.”

I liked the music when Des was in the physics lab at Oxford

Faraday experimented on a student/his girlfriend with time travel (he tried it on rat’s brains too)… so he experimented on people, theorizing they could experience time travel without actually leaving the present? [that's what's happening ... they are all in a group experiment and when one leaves, it messes with the whole deal?]

Faraday is in love with Charlotte… who wouldn’t be? She gets my vote for prettiest Islander. (what you don't know about me is I have a thing for red heads)

Wow! What kind of man breaks his friend’s neck? (Oh, that man would be Charles Widmore.)

Locke is becoming an Other. Even though he didn’t know that was Widmore, he didn’t kill him. What would happen if you killed someone in the past after the future has already taken place? Man that would really F up the space time continuum. Yikes, where’s Doc Brown?

Widmore funded Faraday’s research to find a way back to the Island. But how did Widmore get the boot from the Island? Stay tuned, dear readers we will soon find out.

Faraday left the girl in a coma. Whoa, that’s not cool at all dude.

Best Shot: C.O. of Charlotte’s blue eyes

That little Other girl’s got moxie.

Bomb hanging called ‘Jughead’… a special meaning or just a reference to the comic book of the 50s?

The agro soldier turns out to be Charles Widmore… now there’s a surprise… NOT!
It’s nice that they’re tying shit up quicker these days. A few seasons ago, they would’ve dragged that out for weeks.

So it’s 1954, the U.S. army has been doing H Bomb testing on this remote island in the South Pacific. Faraday realizes that they need to bury the bomb in a lot of cement (which is what Sayid mentioned when they first went into the Hatch) However, is the bomb the source of the unlimited energy that “Candle/Wax” refers to in Ep. 1?

We see Locke tell Richard to come and visit him when he’s a little boy, thus affecting a future event after it has already taken place.

We realize that Others have been living on the Island for a long time… perhaps as far back as the Black Rock?

Charlotte collapses… oh no! If Charlotte is Faraday’s mother, “God help us all.”

I still think there is something going on here outside of all of them, like they are all books in a library or characters in some bigger story.

What cannot function without all it’s parts?

They need to get Locke back to the Island because he is a savior? But Claire said, “Don’t you dare bring him back.” I agree with others that she was referring to Locke and not Aaron. Ben and the mystery lady and the meat shop lady all have some sinister plan to convince the O6 that they need to get back to the Island, but perhaps it is all a ruse for some other plot of theirs.

Richard told Locke that he would need to die to get the O6 back. Presumably because his resurrection will convince everyone of the Island’s special properties… since no one knows he was a cripple before he got on the plane and I don’t think anyone knows that Rose had Cancer.

We will see.

Until next time…