This theory is being written before tonight's(2/18) episode, so it may very well be proved wrong within a few hours, but I thought I would give it a go anyways.
At some point, whether now or in coming episodes, we know the left-behinders spend considerable time in the Dharma days, as evidenced by Faraday being seen (with Pierre Chang, but before he knew him) in the Orchid BEFORE it had been fully excavated and made usable. We also know that, Faraday being from the future, he possesses some knowledge of how to space/time shift, as evidenced by the Eloise experiments he has already conducted in the 90's.
So, is it possible that Faraday is actually the person who, in working with Chang/Dharma in the 70/80's, contributes the know-how to harness the power of the island to travel thru space/time in the first place, thus setting into motion everything we've seen thus far in Lost? If you think about it, at some point, Faraday and Chang get together to make the video that appeared at Comic-con, which essentially was a warning "to the future"(Faraday was the one who knew Bush was president) - so they must have realized that at some point in the future things were going to go terribly wrong as a result of their work. Could this also be the reason he starts inexplicably crying, for reasons unknown even to him, when he first sees the news footage of 815 crashing? Maybe his/(and the O6/Ben/etc.) past intentions were to alter the timeline post-Dharma days to avoid whatever "disaster" Chang and he predicted, and when he saw that 815 crashed, he subconsciously knew that their efforts had f! ailed, and the loop they had tried to break was starting again?
This could also be why he feels so sad over Charlotte's death(if it's not just some sort of familial relationship) - because he knows that all of this, everything that has happened, is the result of him helping to build the "time machine" in the first place...(side note - maybe he told Ellie to bury Jughead in 1954 only because he knew he would need parts from it to build the time machine in the future?)
I know that this doesn't explain Jacob, smokey, richard, etc., but Faraday definitely seems to know WAY more than he lets on to anyone else, and in a way, he seems to carry a lot of guilt over everything that is happening - maybe his current efforts on the island are simply to try and fix what he has already done wrong in past iterations.
Anyways, tonight's episode may very well nullify this whole theory, but it would be interesting to see what anyone else thinks. Rip it to shreds!! Theory by MRH
At some point, whether now or in coming episodes, we know the left-behinders spend considerable time in the Dharma days, as evidenced by Faraday being seen (with Pierre Chang, but before he knew him) in the Orchid BEFORE it had been fully excavated and made usable. We also know that, Faraday being from the future, he possesses some knowledge of how to space/time shift, as evidenced by the Eloise experiments he has already conducted in the 90's.
So, is it possible that Faraday is actually the person who, in working with Chang/Dharma in the 70/80's, contributes the know-how to harness the power of the island to travel thru space/time in the first place, thus setting into motion everything we've seen thus far in Lost? If you think about it, at some point, Faraday and Chang get together to make the video that appeared at Comic-con, which essentially was a warning "to the future"(Faraday was the one who knew Bush was president) - so they must have realized that at some point in the future things were going to go terribly wrong as a result of their work. Could this also be the reason he starts inexplicably crying, for reasons unknown even to him, when he first sees the news footage of 815 crashing? Maybe his/(and the O6/Ben/etc.) past intentions were to alter the timeline post-Dharma days to avoid whatever "disaster" Chang and he predicted, and when he saw that 815 crashed, he subconsciously knew that their efforts had f! ailed, and the loop they had tried to break was starting again?
This could also be why he feels so sad over Charlotte's death(if it's not just some sort of familial relationship) - because he knows that all of this, everything that has happened, is the result of him helping to build the "time machine" in the first place...(side note - maybe he told Ellie to bury Jughead in 1954 only because he knew he would need parts from it to build the time machine in the future?)
I know that this doesn't explain Jacob, smokey, richard, etc., but Faraday definitely seems to know WAY more than he lets on to anyone else, and in a way, he seems to carry a lot of guilt over everything that is happening - maybe his current efforts on the island are simply to try and fix what he has already done wrong in past iterations.
Anyways, tonight's episode may very well nullify this whole theory, but it would be interesting to see what anyone else thinks. Rip it to shreds!! Theory by MRH
