Fisher Stevens will always be the guy from that science movie with Dennis Hopper as the hippy teacher and the dinosaurs. My Science Project?
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For me, he will always be the guy from Short Circuit.
For me he will always be the baffling ex-husband of Michelle Pfieffer.
Everytime I see him I hear him singing the Mission: Impossible theme.
One thing I've always wondered is why Daniel's last name was Farraday, rather than his father's or what I'm assuming is his mother's maiden name?
Because he's a PHYSICIST! It's like his stage name.
Except, uh, in Sideways world, where he, I don't know, got really drunk one night and tried to change his name to Kerouac but the clerk misheard him.
Maybe he didn't want to be judged as his father's son in the sideways. I'm sure it's Eloise' last name in the other 'verse.
He introduced himself as Daniel Widmore in the sideways.
Lostpedia says Eloise's last name is Hawking. Hm.
Then, I'm gonna go with what Polter-Cow said.
There's a reference (also on Lostpedia) to Eloise being listed as the mother on Daniel Faraday's birth certificate, so I guess she picked it for him because of his destiny to be a physicist (not realizing that Hawking would be an excellent name for a physicist) or just because te guy she shot who was her son was named Faraday (time loops eschewing causality, whee!)
Reading the Lost thread has suddenly become like an in-depth XKCD topic.