Lost: Where/When Is Daniel Faraday?
Oh man, you guys. This season! As far as I'm concerned it goes Lost: Season 1, Lost: Season 2, Lost: Season 3, Lost: Season 4, Lost: Season Oh Man, You Guys!
So, when we left off last week, Sayid shot baby Ben in the baby belly and he was baby bleeding out all over the baby place. Now he might baby die unless someone will help him. But he can't die, right? Haven't the rules about how you can't change the past already been pretty well laid out? That is exactly what Miles and Hurley are arguing about. Miles is like "Shoot me," and I'm like "Yeah, shoot him." I don't understand Miles's character. Remember when he used to be the Ghost Whisperer? What happened to that? Did it fall down the well that either does or does not exist anymore depending on when the well is? Anyway, Jack is like "I'm not saving Ben," and Kate is like "I don't like the new Jack," and he's like "You didn't like the old Jack," and the truth is I'm with Kate on this one, I don't really like either Jacks. But I don't like either Kates either.
Flashback.
We finally learn what happened to Aaron, which is that the long con lady is back, and she keeps projecting her feelings about Sawyer onto Kate, being like "You stole a baby because he broke your heart," and it's like, "What? That's not how things work" But sure. So Kate is like, "oh my God, you are right." Also, is that really what Sawyer's last words to her on the helicopter? How romantic. "Take an envelope of cash to this lady who I totes screwed over's house." Kate's like "Why are you telling me this?" And he's like "PEACE!" It's just like I always imagined it. Cut to: creepy Claireppleganger tries to teal baby Aaron, and Kate is like "we have to seal off this whole store" because she is literally insane. She gives baby Aaron back to his grandma and the reason she is back on the island is to look for Claire? Huh. That is not why I thought she was back on the island (to make Sawyer and Jack wrestle in their underwear in a cage) but OK.
Back to: baby Ben is going to die because New Jack City won't save him. But it's wrong to let kids die, or something, so Kate and Sawyer take him out to the woods hoping that The Others can save him, and Richard Alpert is like "if I do this, his innocence will be gone." Um, gross, Richard Alpert. That is what he said. But also, what? Dude just got SHOT in the CHEST, I'm pretty sure his innocence just got SHOT out of HIM by that BULLET. Richard Alpert is like "he will always be one of us" and then takes him into the Indiana Jones Temple of Doom, and you don't get to see inside, but I'm pretty sure there's a banner that says "Welcome to the Eyeliner Club, Baby Ben."
And then of course the cliffhanger. Smart.
But let's get to the real question. WHERE IS DANIEL FARADAY? Everyone is accounted for except that guy. We know all about Ben's dad and what motel Claire's mom is staying in, but we don't know what happened to Daniel Faraday? What is he doing? Or should I say WHEN is he doing? We know he's in the '70s, and we know he was assigned to constructing the nuclear microwave time machine, or whatever, but ever since Charlotte died and Sawyer changed his name to LaFleur and realized that he still loved Kate, Daniel has been totally AWOL.
Probably at a key party.
Posted by Gabe at 12:00 PM in Love-Watching
Tags: Lost
As much as it's wrong of me to think of an actor as one role in particular, I love that Ben's dad is Uncle Rico. I don't like Napoleon Dynamite, but Uncle Rico's still one of the best names for a character ever.
Another sad fact to admit is that I don't think your "S" key's workin' too well. Could just be my imagination.
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Ben's dad will always be Lazlo Hollyfeld to me.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/
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And, he'll always be Broots from The Pretender for me.
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You're all wrong. He's wolfman from the Monster Squad. And he has nards.
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Good recap, Gabe, and you're exactly right: We know WHEN Faraday is, but not WHERE. It must be somewhere good, and they're saving that reveal for an even better episode (is that possible?).
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"WHERE IS DANIEL FARADAY? Everyone is accounted for except that guy."
Hey, we still don't know where the eff Claire is. At least Faraday's been around this season.
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we also have no idea where bernard, rose, and the rest of the nobody extras are.
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they are dead! remember sawyer said to meet at the creek then they got intercepted by the dharma people and they were like "how'd you know?" and dharma/ whidmore was like i heard you say it. THen they say everyone else that went to the creek is dead probabaly because of flaming arrows
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Does this mean that Sawyer is Matt Saracen's father also? I knew that guy in Iraq was a ruse.
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daniel faraday wasn't assigned to work on the orchid. he isn't part of dharma. the only scene we saw him in (in the 70s), when he was down there... he snuck in. that's why he was kind of hiding himself and all... so, he's most likely hiding out on the island, doing something.
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fuck claire and farrady. where the hell are rose and bernard?
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THIS. Have they just forgotten about all the other castaways during all of this?
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Other than R&B, ARE there any other castaways? A LOT of people got killed in the various skirmishes of third and fourth season?
I suspect Rose and Bernard are in a cave, awaiting death, where their corpses will someday mystify us (but it already...happened...).
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Could Rose and Bernard be the Adam and Eve skeletons they found in the first season?
Wow, I'm an effing nerd. In my defense, the first time I watched the first season was about 4 months ago.
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Don't get me started. . . SciFi played the episode earlier this week when Bernard meets Michael, Sawyer and Jin and asks them about Rose. It made me tear up (again - I am weak) and then it made me ask the heavens when the hell I'd see them again goddamnit.
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I don't even understand who I'm supposed to still care about, stupid rich (filthy rich) LOST writers. My innocence is being shot out by a metaphorical Lost bullet that I have to travel back to the 70s to get shot by. Thanks, Lost. Thanks a lot.
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Actually...they would totally seal off a store in the event of a missing child. Its called a "Code Adam". No one in or out until they are found.
Not that you're wrong or anything, she crazy! They should call it a CODE CRAZY when Kate's involved AMIRIGHT?!
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wrong
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lost sukes!!!1 LOL im not even playen! dey got dat number ting 144433322 it s dum!!! LOL
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Farraday is sitting around playing chess being useless in his marshmallow pants with his hand glued to the boo hoo button. One of the episodes about 3 back they show a chess board with a skinny arm moving a piece in the foreground while Sawyer picks a flower for Juliet. Or he took off and is a bunker somewhere drawing up plans for a time machine. . . with a boo hoo button.
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"My innocence is being shot out by a metaphorical Lost bullet that I have to travel back to the 70s to get shot by. Thanks, Lost. Thanks a lot.
L.M.F.A.O.
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Faraday is off dragging Desmond back into the story somehow. I hope. He is his constant after all. And Penelope is probably dead :(
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Faraday is off dragging Desmond back into the story somehow. I hope. He is his constant after all. And Penelope is probably dead :(
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Ben totally killed Penny, let's not forget he promised Widmore he'd "kill his daughter for killing (his)"...
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I hope the series finale is just JJ Abrams laughing and giving the middle finger for roughly an hour.
That's nothing against Lost fans. I'm just saying. It'd be nice.
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I could have done without the Kate flashbacks (I can always do without Kate flashbacks) but I am constantly amazed at how fantastic this season is.
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I'm guessing Faraday is either at the University of Michigan or Oxford.
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Sawyer told Kate he was helping her because Juliet wanted him to. Because regardless of who Ben grows up to be, it's wrong to let a child die. And he said it fairly convincingly, at least I bought it. Or was it just to be all nostalgic and be in the jungle again with Kate?
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I kinda figured that no matter what kind of douche Ben turned out to be, they'd resolve to save him because they didn't want things to get worse. He did sort of civilize The Others. Who knows if they would have made it a week on the island if the Dharma/Hostiles war was still going on in 2004. Also, it was fun to learn how Ben became cold-hearted enough to kill all the people he grew up around. OMG! Sayid made him what he is TODAY!
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I think we need another Miles episode and another Daniel Faraday episode.
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I hated the whole "if we fix him he will never remember this" crap. What a cop out by Lost writers. Also they should just have a where's waldo(faraday) episode where you have to find where Faraday is hiding in every scene.
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"unless someone wil babyl help him" there all fixed and hopefully we will also get some insight on where claire,rose benard etc. are also sometime this season
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what about all of the children that the others seem to like so much, what the hell ever happened to them? sure, they covered assimilating the "good" people they took from season 1, but other than glimpses of the kids' feet walking around the jungle in season 1, nada. did they cart them off the island? are they at a never ending birthday party at the temple nobody can go to?
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