Last night’s LOST.

Wow.

If you aren’t watching this show, I’m sorry — you’re missing some really Grade A quality shit. I don’t care what anyone says, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have got this shit planned out to the smallest detail and it’s paying off big time.

As with any Desmond/Penny-centric episode, this one was among the best in the show’s run. I’m a sucker for time travel shit and last night’s episode had a wealth of twists and turns to try and wrap your brain around…

~ So Charles Widmore was on the island in the 1950s and met Daniel Faraday which introduced him to the concept of time travel and led him to find Faraday decades later and fund his research? Or is there something more involved going on here such as…

~ Daniel recognized Ellie the young woman holding a gun on him in the past. Ellie was British and about the same age as Charles Widmore so I’m guessing she is a young Eloise Hawking and that she  and Charles did a lil somethin-somethin resulting in Daniel (and possibly Penny). Of course, that would mean the children were born off the island and Charles and Eloise went their seperate ways with a child a piece…

~ On last season’s finale, Charlotte told Faraday that she wasn’t leaving the island because she was still looking for where she was born. I’m thinking the real question isn’t where she was born but when she was born.

~ Theresa’s sister tells Desmond that Faraday abandoned her sister when her brain started jumping through time and Widmore stepped in to take care of her. I’m guessing that Widmore actually stepped up to help his son and that Daniel didn’t disappear — he is travelling through time to help Theresa find her constant. (Could that constant be her grandmother Ellie?)

~ Speaking of Theresa, Charlotte has wavy hair much like Theresa and Daniel said he loves her (but that statement seemed devoid of any sexual connotation)  so I’m thinking that Charlotte is Daniel’s daughter. Charlotte is the feminine form of Charles so maybe Daniel named her after his own father…

~ Daniel’s rat was named Eloise — was that name chosen because his mother is a traitor (a rat?) and Widmore is actually the good guy?

~ When the LOST-ies first find the hatch in Season 1, Sayid says he’s never seen that much concrete poured except over a nuke. Maybe the real reason Desmond had to keep punching the button was to keep the nuke from going off and when he turned the failsafe key, he moved the island just in time to avoid the nuclear blast (hence the white light and purple sky)? And I’m guessing that the series finale is going to involve a very explosive endgame between Ben, Charles, and ol’ Jughead (and an unstable volcano which we got a hint of in the Ben-centric flashback last season).

~ The most potentially brain exploding theory I have though is about Desmond and Penny’s son Charlie. Anybody else thinking that the adorable tot is going to wind up on the island with his parents where he’ll be caught in the time leaps and actually grow up there to become Charles Widmore? As for Penny and Desmond, I’m guessing they will be revealed to be “Adam and Eve”, the two skeletons found in the cave in Season 1 (Richard Alpert kills them and takes their son who he thinks he is the chosen leader which would explain why Charles referred to the island as “his.”). Jack said the remains were over 50 years old, which would track about right.

 Opinions? Theories? I know you’ve got them…