Has anyone looked at this reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure formed by conducting material, or by a mesh of such material. Such an enclosure blocks out external static electrical fields. Faraday cages are named after physicist Michael Faraday, who built one in 1836.

An external static electrical field will cause the electrical charges within the conducting material to redistribute themselves so as to cancel the field’s effects in the cage’s interior. This effect is used, for example, to protect electronic equipment from lightning strikes and other electrostatic discharges.

To a large degree, Faraday cages also shield the interior from external electromagnetic radiation if the conductor is thick enough and any holes are significantly smaller than the radiation’s wavelength. For example, certain test procedures of electronic components or systems that require an environment devoid of electromagnetic interference may be conducted within a so-called screen room. These screen rooms are essentially labs or work areas that are completely enclosed by one or more layers of fine metal mesh or perforated sheet metal. The metal layers are connected to earth ground to dissipate any electric currents generated from the external electromagnetic fields, and thus block a large amount of the electromagnetic interference. This application of Faraday cages is explained under electromagnetic shielding.

The EM stuff I consider more of a plot device, instead of an actual element of the plot. It is the how, not the why, and the why is all the marbles. The track record for this show so far suggests they would not leave such a large element of the story to such a flat explanation. It’ll be as some suchness: Desmond’s crazy, Billy Pilgrim adventures are caused by the EM field from the Hatch explosion, which was a result of the celestial seed gestating beneath the island. Or The Bruce Campbell’s chin gestating beneath the island.

I have no idea why, no can I even to begin to explain my suspicions, but after watching this episode I almost want to suspect that instead of Michael, the man on the boat is Walt. Although if Walt has returned to the island, that would provide impetus for Michael to return. But didn’t Walt’s not-father in Australia say Walt was sometimes places he shouldn’t have been, and the dead “Other” woman Cyclops shot said something to that effect as well no? We know Walt has already displaced spacially, so all of this Desmond business makes lots of gooeyness to ponder.

Kate raising the reincarnation of Jack’s dead father inhabiting his grandson’s body. Ew.

So Jack’s father’s body was on the plane, but his coffin was empty…Jack “hallucinated” seeing him step out of the bushes…and when Hurley peered into the Jacob’s cabin, the man in the chair was…Jack’s father. We saw Jack’s dad employ Anna Lucia in Australia, where he tried to visit Claire…Then there was Claire’s abduction by the Others and the mysterious things they did to Aaron in utero…and now we find out about this “transfer of consciousness” thing, after learning that there’s something about baby Aaron that Jack wants nothing to do with.
So all I can come up with is that Aaron must have Jack’s father’s consciousness, or is expected to receive it at some point just like we saw happen with Desmond, but permanently…Perhaps there’s been tinkering with Claire’s pregnancy all along on the part of Dharma people; Aaron may be something very close to a CLONE of Jack’s father (to make him a better host for Shepard’s consciousness) and so was brought to the island quite deliberately, along with many of the other 815 passengers. I mean we have both of Dr. Shephard’s adult children (jack and Claire) on that plane, as well as Dr. Shepard’s supposedly dead body…If the island’s “power” could restore Locke’s legs and “cure” Rose’s cancer, what effect would it have on the recently deceased?

All this has to fit together SOMEHOW.

Yes, Faraday is a great character. I hope he’s along for the rest of the run.

That’s like being annoyed that Star Trek stuck with the same cliché of faster-than-light travel employed by every other scifi story of space exploration .

Here’s one cool piece of trivia I learned from Lostpedia: “As the helicopter approached the freighter, a sign near the landing pad indicated the name of the ship: ‘Kahana’. Kahana means the drawing of a line, cutting or turning point in the Hawaiian language [source: Pukui & Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary.]”

I absolutely loved this episode.

At first I was a little miffed that they were just using Vonnegut’s time travel scenario from “Slaughterhouse Five,” but then Desmond identified his soldier friend as “Billy” (as in Billy Pilgrim), and then Faraday used the phrase “unstuck in time” (a reference to the first line of the book), so it’s a direct allusion! The radiation stuff is all secondary.

Ever since last week’s episode I’ve been thinking about this time situation. This year they’ve been sure to tell us how many days they’ve been on the island (I think they’re at 93 days now) and now we have this time difference, the 31 minutes from two weeks ago.

My question is , how do the Oceanic 6 explain baby Aaron? If they claim he’s Kate’s, do they say Kate was pregnant when arrested and when the plane crashed? If so then they must have been on the island longer than nine months to the outside world.

Seeing the age that Aaron was at the time of Kate’s trial and assuming she was placed under arrest fairly soon after the Oceanic 6 returned then to the outside world it’s possible that they’ve been on the island for years! If next season reveals their rescue then they may “catch up” to our time.

For the the Oceanic 6 it’s still end of 2005 beginning of 2005, but in “real life” it’s 2008. A three years difference? But if that’s so, how can Aaron be three years old? Do people who leave the island automatically catch up to their proper age? If so, that’s a way the writers can explain Walt’s growth the next time we see him.

“Eli Stone still blows.”

That’s why I always tape Lost and watch it later, so I can fast forward through those annoying commercials.

Ever since last week’s episode I’ve been thinking about this time situation. This year they’ve been sure to tell us how many days they’ve been on the island (I think they’re at 93 days now) and now we have this time difference, the 31 minutes from two weeks ago.

My question is , how do the Oceanic 6 explain baby Aaron? If they claim he’s Kate’s, do they say Kate was pregnant when arrested and when the plane crashed? If so then they must have been on the island longer than nine months to the outside world.

Seeing the age that Aaron was at the time of Kate’s trial and assuming she was placed under arrest fairly soon after the Oceanic 6 returned then to the outside world it’s possible that they’ve been on the island for years! If next season reveals their rescue then they may “catch up” to our time.

For the the Oceanic 6 it’s still end of 2005 beginning of 2005, but in “real life” it’s 2008. A three years difference? But if that’s so, how can Aaron be three years old? Do people who leave the island automatically catch up to their proper age? If so, that’s a way the writers can explain Walt’s growth the next time we see him.

“Eli Stone still blows.”

That’s why I always tape Lost and watch it later, so I can fast forward through those annoying commercials.

On December 26, 2004 — the Tsunami struck that area.

Just something to consider.

On December 26, 2004 — the Tsunami struck that area.

Just something to consider.

If being “unstuck in time” causes brain hemmorhages…

Does that have anything to do with the increased wave of infant-and-mother deaths on the island (which is itself “unstuck in time”)?

“Wasn’t it nice to have a breather from Jack/Kate/Sawyer/Ben/Locke-centered stories?”

Yes. Hell yes. And… hell yes.

Jason A Quest - “Just because you’re pissed off that some tourist trap uses the same technobabble doesn’t mean Lost shouldn’t borrow it.” I contend that is EXACTLY why Lost shouldn’t borrow it. Its unoriginal. That bothers me personally. I realize the science of the show doesn’t make sense, and I’m not wanting it to. I can suspend my disbelief that a “constant” is what gives an equation balance, that speaking to someone in two timelines secures your sanity and saves your life, and that the physics of all of this is simply fabricated. What I want is for the writers to come up with something original instead of taking the mechanism for all of this from another source. Naturally though, these are MY comments, and I realize that your mileage may vary.

And I agree, if I could only watch LOST without the Eli Stone commercials, I would be SO much happier.

I guess I mispoke in using the word “sympathetic”, as they’re all sympathetic to the viewer, even Sawyer and Kate and (occasionally) Jack. But in terms of the story, most of the main characters are too sullied by their various sins to be truly central protagonists. Only Desmond is still largely sinless, and seems to be turning into a pole the story is revolving around, rather than a pawn of the plot. Everyone has sins in their past (Sun as adulterer, Jin as jerky mob-heavy) except Desmond, whose main sin seems to be wishy-washiness with the ladies, and his weird cowardice thing.

But redemption is a great theme to wrap all this stuff around, and I’m starting to suspect it might go that way in the long run. I certainly hope so–I like that character a lot, and I’m the kind of viewer that really needs to identify with SOMEBODY in order to enjoy a story. After last season with people killing and betraying and cast members vanishing (Mr. Echo especially, after having such a central role) because of their real-world sins, it was getting hard to care about any of these people.

I still don’t want to accidentally offend someone who is not caught up on the show. So what is the rule? How many days(weeks?months?) have to pass before a plot detail moves from spoiler land into historical cannon?
Can I talk about last week’s episode? My sister has been on vacation in Chile and hasn’t seen it.

Also, Great headline Heidi, it took me at least 3 cups of coffee until I got the pun. So, I’m not the brightest tack in the box…..wait…..stupid mixed metaphors, were’d I leave that coffee……

I never caught the King Faraday reference til now — nice — yet another comic nod? I thought it was the physics nod, some of the other new visitors have physics last names, too..blanking….where am I?….I DON’ KNOW WHO YU AR!

It’s Aaron. Other folks heard “Eric” too, but it’s definitely “Aaron”–Clare’s kid. For one thing, I think the closed-captioning confirmed it, and for another, if the kid *wasn’t* Aaron, the episode wouldn’t have the same narrative kick, so you gotta believe that was the creators’ intent.