Harken Back to the Time of the Fonz

Lost’s 100th episode left my mind a bubbling pile of goo splattered all over my couch. I’ve always thought Daniel was pretty neat but last night’s episode upgraded him from neat to totally awesome.

- First off, we find out why Daniel was twitchy and strange when we first met him. His mind was slowly recovering from being completely fried by his experiments. As his genius was repaired he got more and more coherent and his weird speech patterns vanished. I didn’t really notice it until this episode but as the episodes went by Daniel was slowly getting better and better. Remember the memory experiments Charlotte was running with Daniel? It was Daniel testing to see if his memory was in fact getting better. Now he’s back to the Oxford genius level Desmond saw when he visited him thanks to a) the Island’s healing properties and b) his finding of a constant to ground him, my main man Desmond. Yes that note in his journal makes a lot more sense now!

- Speaking of his experiment we now know what happened to poor Teresa. Astute minds will remember Teresa as the chick that Desmond visited a couple episodes ago who’s memory was all sort of messed up and everyone blamed Daniel. Daniel tested his device (the one he used to send Eloise the Mouse through time) on himself first and then Teresa. Apparently the mind fracturing side effects take a little time to develop and both of them ended up unable to remember things any more, although Teresa seems to have taken the brunt of the mindf$%k.

- On a nice call back to season 3’s opener we see Daniel watching the Oceanic crash news and crying but not knowing why. Now we know, he’s crying because subconsciously he knows his connection to that crash and his involvement. Also in that scene we get Charles Widmore owning up to the fact that he faked the whole thing.

- Daniel was Eloise and Widmore’s son. Didn’t I call that like seven episodes ago. Go ahead read through the forum posts, you’ll see it 

- Speaking of Eloise and Charles’s love – obviously there was a falling out between the two of them. Possibly because of Charles knocking up some off Island chick and having Penny? Or did it happen before then?

- On the subject of Eloise – she knew everything Daniel would end up doing that’s why she constantly drove him into academia (side note, I had total déjà vu while writing that sentence, weird). That also means that she knew that if Daniel did everything she drove him to it’d mean that eventually she’d shoot him. Her sacrifice for the Island, just like Widmore’s sacrifice of his relationship with Penny for the Island. Hell, I think Widmore actually likes Desmond but he’s been forced to push him away for the Island.

- Will Daniel die? I can’t say many people die on the Island as a result of a gunshot. Maybe the Others will take Danny Boy to the Temple for its magical healing properties? I’m thinking/hoping they do something so he doesn’t die, he’s such an interesting character.

- Daniel’s big point of this episode – things CAN change. But is he right though? It’s looking to me that everything he’s doing is actually CAUSING the Incident to happen. In the end maybe he’ll realize that his attempts to change things turn out to be the original things that cause things to happen. Just like Sayid though he’d change things by shoting Ben and Jack thought he’d take out Ben by not helping him after being shot. Turns out those are the things that exactly had to happen for Ben to become Ben. Even Daniel’s warning to Lil’ Charlotte – he’s just saying exactly what needed to be said to make sure Charlotte DOES come back to the Island (PS – “I’m not supposed to have chocolate before dinner” was exactly what Charlotte said before she died in Daniel’s arms). And do some of the Losties even want to prevent their crash? Kate for sure is better off after the Island since she was in federal custody during the flight. Sawyer certainly has changed for the better thanks to the crash as well.

Now on to non Daniel type stuff:
- Have you noticed that every time Kate is put in a position to pick between what Jack wants and what Sawyer wants Juliet pushes her into Jack? Seems like somebody’s a little insecure…

- Fonzi Times, enough said.

- How are Sawyer and crew going to get out of their jam with Radinsky now? We know Radinsky won’t be killed because he has to eventually go into the Swan and push the button with Kelvin and paint the map on the blast door. Will Jack and Kate return to save the day? Maybe Sayid will show back up with some Others backup? Perhaps Henry Gale will drop out of the sky in his hot air balloon float them all to safety?