Lost episode 503 - Jughead

Jughead = the name of an H-bomb. That's just damn funny. Shades of the big season end reveal bring code-named "the frozen donkey wheel" and it actually being a frozen donkey wheel. Okay let's dive right in. My wife pointed out the Swan station had a section that was shielded in heavy concrete. Sayid found it and commented that it reminded him of Chernyobl (pardon the spelling). Maybe Dharma built the Swan where Jughead was buried. Electromagnetic field + Hydrogen Bomb = Implosion?

Eloise Hawkins is Daniel Faraday’s mother. Eloise Hawkins is the woman Desmond met in “Flashes Before Your Eyes.” She warned him that he couldn’t change the past. Eloise is also the name of Daniel’s lab rat. Naming your rat after your mom is a bit strange. Maybe they didn’t have a rosy relationship. AND Eloise Hawking, her name is likely a combination of George Ellis and Stephen Hawking, who together wrote The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime . Im no physicist, but it seems to me that the Power source near the Orchid could have been a Black hole. I go Wikipedia nuts sometimes and found some wacky stuff about Black holes and temporal radiation. Maybe the Swan had a small one, and Desmond imploded it. Phew! My head hurts, but wait there’s more!

We found out Daniel’s benefactor is Charles Widmore, once again confirming that everyone is connected. Oh yeah, and Charles Widmore was an Other, one that broke a cardinal rule. You don’t hurt your own people. He killed one, and was probably kicked off the island for it.

Now the paradox that is John Locke, being a fan of Dr Who, I just love this. Locke tells Richard to go and visit him when he’s born, and gives him the compass. Richard visits Locke because he told him to. Paradox. Just like the one Daniel was muttering about when Desmond came to see him in Oxford. Years later Richard sees Locke. He shows him several items and asks, “Which of these belongs to you?” One of the items is the compass which Locke gave to Richard, after Richard gave it to Locke. Paradox! Also,
John is their leader because Richard told him he was, because John told him he was. And so on and so on! Para-freakin-dox! So many shows that do time travel steer away from the, “I did it cause you told me to paradox,” but Lost embraces it.

And lastly, The revelation that Desmond and Penny named their child after Charlie, I’m sure brought many to tears.