Talking about Lost S05 with a friend we ended up with a conclusion that makes some things about what is happening more clear. It is all about the showing up of the almost new character, Daniel Faraday. Everybody knows that he is named after the great physicist of the 19th century whose actual first name was Michael and not Daniel but there is a reason for that I guess. Michael Faraday is known about his research on electromagnetism and electrochemistry, he made up a theory about electromagnetic fields which proved right. Today the unit we use for measuring electromagnetic field is Faraday or Farad or simple F.
So Daniel Faraday comes up on season 4 as a scientist and gives us the impression that knows what is happening on the Island! He makes measurements by throwing rockets from the vessel to the island and tries to figure out the time gap during the passage from the vessel to the Island, he almost knows why everybody’s nose bleeds etc. On one of the last episodes he appears as a member of Dharma being at the worksite of the building of the Orchid station having a strange behavior like he tries to hide from other workers or maybe like he wants to sabotage the whole thing, at least that’s what I understood.
Here is that something is wrong! He is at the same age as we know him but the building of Orchid station took place at the late 70s! That’s not a great surprise since time traveling on the island became an everyday happening! The script writers give as a spoiler for the future of the plot! Daniel Faraday will try to destroy Orchid station! But why he will do that? He is the one who made it! Huh?! Strange? Not so!
When he was at his lab back at the university we had the sense that we were watching a real time or near past story but if you think of it a little more… Modern computer systems were absent, all the hardware he used was old fashioned and the better part: When Desmond went to the university to find Faraday’s mother and found the lab, it was like being locked for many years! The custodian told him that Faraday used to make experiments on a student and when Desmond found her, she was in comma and certainly had not the proper age for a student; she is about 40-50 years old! That proves the theory of Faraday having experiments in late 70s. Experiments all financed by Widmore!
Hm, Widmore. He is appeared being a Dharma member back in 50’s at a very young age. So he was at the Island and probably left. The only thing we know now is that he wants to take back the Island and that he does whatever possible to achieve that no matter the cost.
Let’s just not forget Charlotte. Before she died she confessed that Faraday was on the Island back at 70’s, being an old crazy man that she used to afraid of. We don’t know anything about her father, only that her mother took her away of the Island when she was very young. I assume that Faraday is Charlotte’s father considering the way he sympathizes her.
Something else that I’ve noticed is the – not so important, up to now – Miles Straume* that he doesn’t do something else more than just walking around the Island. He appeared with Faraday on the Island, a fact that makes me believe that he will become a very important character too! Something tells me that he is the Asian scientist guy on the instructional videos of Dharma, but he doesn’t know that yet. He must be the one that Faraday tries to avoid at the underground worksite. If he want to destroy that electromagnetic thing down there he just has to blow it up, he is from another time period, no one should know him, he doesn’t have to hide! But the Asian scientist is there with him.
Putting all these facts together we have Daniel Faraday experimenting on time travelling in his lab back in late 70’s and for some reason that we are going to know sooner or later he will travel back in time, at 50’s and he will try to destroy Orchid station. Probably he is going to achieve that because at late 70’s is an old crazy man on the Island as Charlotte said.
*Pronounced as maelstrom (maelstrom in Scandinavian languages). It is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex, it has considerable downdraft. Described as a gigantic circular vortex that reaches the bottom of the ocean. The word is used in diverse contexts metaphorically to make reference to different subjects or objects that suggest great chaotic or sinister forces
So Daniel Faraday comes up on season 4 as a scientist and gives us the impression that knows what is happening on the Island! He makes measurements by throwing rockets from the vessel to the island and tries to figure out the time gap during the passage from the vessel to the Island, he almost knows why everybody’s nose bleeds etc. On one of the last episodes he appears as a member of Dharma being at the worksite of the building of the Orchid station having a strange behavior like he tries to hide from other workers or maybe like he wants to sabotage the whole thing, at least that’s what I understood.
Here is that something is wrong! He is at the same age as we know him but the building of Orchid station took place at the late 70s! That’s not a great surprise since time traveling on the island became an everyday happening! The script writers give as a spoiler for the future of the plot! Daniel Faraday will try to destroy Orchid station! But why he will do that? He is the one who made it! Huh?! Strange? Not so!
When he was at his lab back at the university we had the sense that we were watching a real time or near past story but if you think of it a little more… Modern computer systems were absent, all the hardware he used was old fashioned and the better part: When Desmond went to the university to find Faraday’s mother and found the lab, it was like being locked for many years! The custodian told him that Faraday used to make experiments on a student and when Desmond found her, she was in comma and certainly had not the proper age for a student; she is about 40-50 years old! That proves the theory of Faraday having experiments in late 70s. Experiments all financed by Widmore!
Hm, Widmore. He is appeared being a Dharma member back in 50’s at a very young age. So he was at the Island and probably left. The only thing we know now is that he wants to take back the Island and that he does whatever possible to achieve that no matter the cost.
Let’s just not forget Charlotte. Before she died she confessed that Faraday was on the Island back at 70’s, being an old crazy man that she used to afraid of. We don’t know anything about her father, only that her mother took her away of the Island when she was very young. I assume that Faraday is Charlotte’s father considering the way he sympathizes her.
Something else that I’ve noticed is the – not so important, up to now – Miles Straume* that he doesn’t do something else more than just walking around the Island. He appeared with Faraday on the Island, a fact that makes me believe that he will become a very important character too! Something tells me that he is the Asian scientist guy on the instructional videos of Dharma, but he doesn’t know that yet. He must be the one that Faraday tries to avoid at the underground worksite. If he want to destroy that electromagnetic thing down there he just has to blow it up, he is from another time period, no one should know him, he doesn’t have to hide! But the Asian scientist is there with him.
Putting all these facts together we have Daniel Faraday experimenting on time travelling in his lab back in late 70’s and for some reason that we are going to know sooner or later he will travel back in time, at 50’s and he will try to destroy Orchid station. Probably he is going to achieve that because at late 70’s is an old crazy man on the Island as Charlotte said.
*Pronounced as maelstrom (maelstrom in Scandinavian languages). It is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex, it has considerable downdraft. Described as a gigantic circular vortex that reaches the bottom of the ocean. The word is used in diverse contexts metaphorically to make reference to different subjects or objects that suggest great chaotic or sinister forces
