Faraday Daniel's a musician - I assumed classical piano and he was bringing in Driveshaft for the classical/rock experiment Widmore was talking about. Wasn't there some stuff about him practicing the piano in an original timeline flashback? I only remember it vaguely.
But, yeah to the main details change point, is what I mostly wanted to say. And regardless of where the boat came from, if Desmond won Widmore's race with it (not crashing into the Island and all), I could see Widmore getting a model of it for his office.
I want to trace all these tiny differences back to the bomb going off somehow. Although Eloise now has me thinking that they reflect the character's desires in some way - Sun and Jin wanting to not have had their innocence and romance lost, Jack wanting a family, Locke wanting a relationship with his dad (and his woman, I forget her name). I can't figure Sawyer and Miles out. Or Kate.
But since Daniel died, his desires don't figure into it, he just reflects someone elses? Maybe? Ooh, so maybe that dissatisfaction, for Daniel and Charlie, is what drives/allows them to the more pronounced bleed-through?
Edited for context.
I think if all of Daniel's wishes were taken into account, he would have been in a relationship with Charlotte in the sideways timeline.
And it was seeing Charlotte that triggered the equation scribbling. Right?
I just watched the episode again because I missed the whole Eloise scene. She definitely knows what is going on.
And both Daniel and Charley are getting major bleed though. I think it's different with Desmond, but I'm not sure how. Eloise said he was not ready yet.
Didn't she appear in his time slipping episodes, telling him not to give the ring to Penny? What has she got against him?
Oh, Desmond, you're so dreamy.
It seems like this Eloise knows more than she should, just like the other Eloise.
I think it's the
same
Eloise in both universes!
I agree. She is/was the leader of the Others. That must afford her some benefit/special knowledge
I like it.
Eta: I was thinking Eloise was ambiguous when Desmond was slipping through time, but I might be remembering wrong.
odd that Daniel being Widmore's son was treated like some sort of revelation. I recall that being painfully obvious in the Faraday flashbacks when he was young, still playing piano, and Widmore came over to chat with Eloise about Daniel's future. However, i had the distinct impression that Daniel and Penny were full brother/sister, sister growing up with dad and brother growing up with mom after everyone left the island. In sideways world i guess Penny is Eloise's daughter but not Charles', what with the different last name? either that or she's married.
I couldn't place the alternate identity of the driver. he looks super familiar, but who was he???
