No wonder they are having headaches...

......all these mysteries are enough to give ANYBODY a headache!!! However, having a hydrogen bomb on the island could definitely cause people to be sick, don't you think? However, if you buried it underground, say in a Dharma Swan station, and surrounded it with concrete you might be safe. This episode had a lot of new twists and turns, which I loved. First off....

Ellie. She seemed to be a pretty important addition to the story...and it would only make sense that she is in fact....dun...dun...dun...Daniel's mom!! Mrs. Hawking's first name is Elloise as we learned from Desmond's flashback/forward episode. Daniel named his experimental rat Elloise. Daniel seems to recognize Ellie when he sees her, which makes me think that Ellie is Daniel's dear ole' mom....who happens to look younger than him in this epi. However, an even bigger reveal was that CHARLES WIDMORE was on the island at the same time!!! Wow!! That is awesome. I have a theory that Widmore and Ellie/Hawking might be brother and sister, thus making Daniel Widmore's nephew. I like this new story line a lot.

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Another edge of my seat moment from last night was when Locke told Alpert the day he was born and told him to go back and see for himself. This is so cool because we know that Alpert does in fact do this, which explains why he is standing at the window when Locke is born. Sawyer: "How old IS Richard anyway?" Juliette: "Really old." I think we will probably see Captain Alpert on the Black Rock when it crashes onto the island too. He seems timeless.

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Finally, my newest thoughts. LOST is inherently a story about the mysteries of an island and it's time-traveling capabilities, etc. However, LOST is also inherently about love stories (Penny and Desmond; Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Juliette; Sun/Jin; Charlie/Claire). The newest addition to this seems to be Daniel and Charlotte. I think Daniel is trying to "ride the time traveling waves" until he comes to the point in the past in which he can attempt to change something to help Charlotte (possibly save her life or something) because he is indescribably in love with her. Also, another possible theory is....what if there was another love triangle long before the Jack, Kate, Sawyer crew? What if the triangle was Richard, Ellie and Widmore. This could explain why Ellie and Widmore are no longer on the island. Of course, this makes the theory of Ellie and Widmore being brother and sister null and void, but it could make a case for Daniel being Widmore's son instead of being his nephew, thus making him Penny's half brother. WHEW!! Now I am getting a headache!!

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Okay, time for some spoilers. This is some info I got from an intervew with the producers of the show. They were asked questions about the show submitted by fans. Here are the Q/As.

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Lost executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse kindly agreed to a round of False; True; Hell No, We Won't Tell You, and they addressed all your burning Q's about season five. If you've never played this game with us before, the rules are these: We suggest a potential spoiler, and the show runners answer "False," "True" or "Hell no, we won't tell you."

• 1. We'll find out what Sawyer told Kate in the first half of the season.
• Carlton Cuse: True.
• 2. There's some kind of romantic tension between Sawyer and Juliet.
• Damon Lindelof: True.
• 3. Mrs. Hawking is related to someone we already know.
• D.L.: Hell no, we won't tell you!
• C.C.: True.
• D.L.: Carlton!
• 4. Christian took Claire into the cabin to protect her from the impact of the time-jumping Island.
• C.C.: Wow. I think that's a hell no.
• D.L.: That's a hell no.
• 5. Ben really cannot go back to Island.
• D.L.: Um, false.
• 6. Someone in the Oceanic Six will die.
• D.L.: Hell no, we cannot tell.
• 7. Locke can escape death somehow.
• D.L.: He looks pretty dead to me.