I believe the journal will be revealed as a "work in progress" by Faraday. The first time out, Hawking likely gave Faraday an empty journal. Faraday makes his Island/DHARMA notes in it, goes to island and gets killed by mom.
Fast forward several years, and recent grad Faraday is given a journal with a few pages full of equasions and the like. He understands them (having at one point written them), and builds upon them, adding a few more pages of pivotal info. He dies.
Fast forward once more, and Faraday is given a journal with much more information than the first Faraday had.
The idea is that every subsequent Faraday has more info than the last, and thus there is always an improved chance that the next Faraday could conceivably solve the problem and get everyone home without 'the incident' ever happening.
If this is not the case, and "whatever happened, happened", then I would suggest Faraday's memory problems are the island's way of "course correction".
Faraday can't be allowed to use the journal to work out a solution. So he is given a dysfunction which affects his memory, effectively ending his ability to research or build on what is in that journal.
If this is the case, then whenever Faraday researches to the point where he puts girly in a comatose state, the island interjects and warps his mind. This stops him from figuring out a solution and ending the cycle.
Still, the way the series is going, I believe things must proceed "as close as possible" to the original unfoldings of events, and that even if Faraday does have enough research to stop the incident, he will ALWAYS be shot by Ellie.
Fast forward several years, and recent grad Faraday is given a journal with a few pages full of equasions and the like. He understands them (having at one point written them), and builds upon them, adding a few more pages of pivotal info. He dies.
Fast forward once more, and Faraday is given a journal with much more information than the first Faraday had.
The idea is that every subsequent Faraday has more info than the last, and thus there is always an improved chance that the next Faraday could conceivably solve the problem and get everyone home without 'the incident' ever happening.
If this is not the case, and "whatever happened, happened", then I would suggest Faraday's memory problems are the island's way of "course correction".
Faraday can't be allowed to use the journal to work out a solution. So he is given a dysfunction which affects his memory, effectively ending his ability to research or build on what is in that journal.
If this is the case, then whenever Faraday researches to the point where he puts girly in a comatose state, the island interjects and warps his mind. This stops him from figuring out a solution and ending the cycle.
Still, the way the series is going, I believe things must proceed "as close as possible" to the original unfoldings of events, and that even if Faraday does have enough research to stop the incident, he will ALWAYS be shot by Ellie.
