The Variable

While this episode was great in the sense that it gave us a lot of answers as to where this show is headed... I felt a lot of things were really predictable..e.g. the notebook, details about eloise, and the ending scene.
1. They do a really good job finding appropriate looking kid actors here, Little Charlie looks like desmond and penny, little aaron looks like Claire, little Charlotte looks like a little Charlotte, and little Faraday looks like a little Faraday.
... they do a much worse job finding the appropriate wigs for younger versions of Ben, Widmore, John Locke etc.
2. Faraday lost his free will when he was 7. bummer.
3. I totally called it on Elloise being the woman from the 1954 sequence.
4. Sawyer and Julliet lose there chance at living a happy existance in the Dharma camp. Tragic.
4. Faraday loses some neck skin in the gun fight... (side note- a friend pointed out to me how comical all the gun scenes on LOST are because none of the characters are good marksmen...aside from Sayid... watch the next gun scene with this in mind.. its funny)
5. Blah Blah Blah Widmore is Faradays Father
6. Blah Blah Blah Faraday loses his life and got killed by his own Mother. That is f'ed up. She better have a real good reason for that.