Upon further review...more contemplation on LOST

Okay, first somebody please tell me that desmond just named his kid after Chrlie and he isn't really CHARLIE!!! Becuase that would just freak me out. Not that lots about last night's episode didn't freak me out, like the whole John inviting Richard to see him when he's born TWO YEARS LATER. But in Richard's weird world where he never gets older, a request like that is par for the course.

I can't believe Desmond talked Penny into naming their son Charlie, considering her relationship to to her father Charles. I mean of course he was named after rocker Charlie who we love but I do find it ironic.

Faraday professed his love for Charlotte, so I imagine SHE is the girl who's brain is trapped in the past, right? Did anyone get a good look at the girl in the hospital bed? By the way, speaking of Faraday's projects, I'm pretty sure most of the rats on Baltimore's east side are time travelling. I swear to God there's a rat in the alley in Canton by Claddagh that never gets old.

I know if I found a hydrogen bomb in my yard, I would NOT build a scaffolding for it and suspend it six feet off the ground! It's clear to me now that a majority of the "others" are just plain stupid. Who else would let a doofus like Ben seize control? It's not like his manipulations are original at all. Most of them are out of the Michael Mancini school of serial TV hijinks, as seen on the 90's series, Melrose Place.

Now that it has beenrevealed that Widmore is on the island with the Others, I imagine some sort of riff is going to develop to get him banned from the island. Like maybe he uses too much peanut butter, or won't take on extra duty like yard work. Or maybe he steals Ben's girlfriend, seeing how Ben routinely strikes out with the ladies. At any rate, I'm looking forward to those fireworks.

The H-bomb is named “Jughead” – as in Jughead Jones from the Archie comics?

Here’s an interesting link: There was a series called “Jughead’s Time Police,” in which Jughead is the hero and a member of the Time Police (remember when one of the creators called Eloise Hawking a “temporal policeman”?). Jughead’s infamous beanie (a gift from a “benefactor,” like Widmore is to Daniel) gives him the ability to time travel by thinking. (The Oxford custodian said Daniel sends the rats’ BRAINS back in time!) Jughead’s job: to ensure history remains the same for the future’s sake by repairing past disturbances.

Now that "Jughead" is on the island, I think we should refer to Juliet as Betty, Kate as Veronica, and Jack as Archie.

The smoke monster seems to be back in the hizzo, and it seems to me Miles is going to feel its wrath. Or maybe Miles is the smoke monster, with his death talking capabilities. You remember the smoke monster was comprised of little pieces of Eko's life when it killed don't you?

How are the "others" on the island defined? Juliet says all the "others" know Latin. So she considers herself one with the military dudes they're encountering now. And apparently, Locke does too.

And what's up with Latin anyway?Is it a pre-requisite to being an “other” or a product of becoming one? Is that how Juliet knows they are "others" like she was - that they all know Latin?

An interesting tidbit: in 1954 the US was testing hydrogen bombs in the Bikini Atoll (perhaps the source of the hydrogen bomb on the island & the 4 dead U.S. soldiers in the fresh grave?) and the Lord of the Flies was first published. Additionally, according to Wikipedia, the first kidney transplants were completed that year (hello, Locke!). Coincidence?

Here is one for everyone: The girl with the gun? Here goes-SHE IS MRS.HAWKING!!!!! Remember Daniel saying she looks "familiar"?? Sure she is his mom-50years ago! That is NOT a spoiler by the way-just a guess(a GREAT guess!)

Who else went to Oxford looking for Faraday and his research? Before Desmond? The work man said there had been others but they hadn't found his work. It wouldn't have been Widmore because he was funding Daniel's work and one could assume that he would have access to it. If Ms Hawkins is Daniel's mother chances are she would have access to his research. Who would be left? Ben?

In next weeks promo, Sawyer tells Juliet that he just saw Kate in the jungle...

Now the question is, did he see her in the present, or in the past during a time skip?

"sizzle, crackle" - the sound of my brain frying.

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