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The other others...the ones that "know what lies at the feet of the statue"(the people on plane #2, and the ones that semi-kidnapped Miles)...anyone else think they might be a 3rd party set up by Faraday?I mean, they dont work for Witmore...and I am guessing they dont work for Ben, Faraday seems to have the time travel thing in the bag so could he be going back and forth setting up an army thats going to put an end to the madness?
Faraday believed that if he could essentially eliminate the need for the Hatch, Oceanic 815 wouldnt crash, the freighter wouldnt come to the Island, nobody would go quantum leaping because of erroneously turned donkey wheels — known history would be erased, to use a Kate term, and a new history would be take its place. This entire chain of events, its going to start happening this afternoon, he explained. But we can change it. Faradays logic would seem to be sound. Elementary cause and effect, right? Push this domino, the rest fall. Pull that thread, the whole fabric unravels. Fire these two photon torpedoes into this tiny shaft, the Death Star explodes. Right? Well, not quite, says quantum physics and Black Swan probability theory. Both schools of thought would say, quite basically, that the odds of successfully manufacturing a single, game-changing event of this magnitude are beyond microscopically small. Not impossible — just unlikely.Which makes me wonder if Faraday came to the Island with a back-up plan. And in fact, I think most of his Island adventure was about putting that back-up plan in motion. Call it Operation: Create Total Chaos. From the second he stepped off that sub, Faraday was kinetic energy incarnate, hellbent on colliding with his old friends and setting them in motion like a wild photon-firing electron or hyperactive cue ball. He threw cold water on Jack Shephards man of faith conversion by crapping on his mothers destiny talk. (And how did she convince you? Did she tell you it was your destiny? Well, I got some bad news for you, Jack. You dont belong here at all! For me, the line seemed less like it was about Faraday debunking his mother but more about blowing Jack out of his watch-and-wait inertia.) He staked out the Orchid, waited for Dr. Chang to arrive (Right on time, he said), then filled his ears with hysteria about evacuating the Island because of impending disaster and spilled the beans about Miles Straume actually being his son. (This sequence, an expanded version of the seasons opening scene, turned The Variable into an elaborate variant edition of the season premiere itself.) He got the whole castaway crew moving: Sawyer, Juliet, Hurley and Miles to the beach; Jack and Kate with him to the Others Tent City. And he all but baited Radzinsky and the Black Swan team into a firefight by flashing a gun and talking provocative. If Faraday is correct, and the time travelers are loose canon variables capable of changing history, then I think that we saw Faraday trying to light the fuse on each of them in hopes that one of them will somehow, someway fire that one shot, whatever it is, that will change everything. Faradays approach to heroism is a bit like my approach to Lost theorizing: throw a lot of stuff at the wall, hope something sticks.Faradays actions seemed to be guided by the contents of his notebook, as if it held a "This Day In Dharma History!" schedule of events. 10 AM: Dr. Chang will arrive at the Orchid. 10:10 AM Dr. Chang will leave the Orchid. 12:30 Mom will be hanging with the Hostiles; jungle location TBD. 4:00 PM: The Incident. Run/swim like hell. 9:00 PM: Smores. Faraday clearly returned to the Island with more information about it than when he left — including the 411 on his mothers membership in the Hostiles. Which made me even more curious about what exactly he was doing over there in Ann Arbor with Dharmas head honchos. Last summer at Comic-Con, the Lost producers showed attendees a teaser video of the season that strongly suggested that Dharma had the means to send messages to people in the future, à la the movie Frequency. One wonders if Faraday was working the quantum radio and getting info from someone in the present....Whether it was his primary plan or secondary plan or the only plan he had, Faradays gambit reached a temporary or permanent stall in The Others tent city. I watched the episode with about a dozen people, and more than half of us felt there was something a little contrived about the way Faraday bumbled into the Hostiles territory. Recklessly brandishing and then discharging his gun, near-raving as he demanded to see Ellie, and then forcing a crisis by petulantly giving Alpert to the count of three to give him instant satisfaction — I mean, Faraday was practically asking to get shot. What if he was? Was he genuinely gripped by sickening shock at the awareness that his mother had set him up to be shot (You knew...you always knew this was going to happen...and you sent me here anyway...) or was he just playing out the part? I dont think he had any fear of being killed. On the contrary, even though he told Jack that they could die in the past, it stands to reason that depending on the scope and reach of the negating paradox, a rebooted timeline would effectively bring select dead folks back to life. Perhaps Faradays plan to save the castaways and change history actually required that he follow through on getting shot — even killed. Because in Faradays plan, its what happens next thats most crucial.
How did he get on a sub from the 1970s? because that sub came from the 1970s he must have signed up to dharma and he knew miles and that dharma scientist were father and son
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Cant wait for season six!
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