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?
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
Wash ,'Serenity'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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Juliebird - Apr 08, 2010 1:46:04 pm PDT #5524 of 5968
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2010 2:00:02 pm PDT #5525 of 5968
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
quester - Apr 08, 2010 2:19:45 pm PDT #5526 of 5968
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
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.
-t - Apr 08, 2010 2:23:37 pm PDT #5527 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
He introduced himself as Daniel Widmore in the sideways.
Lostpedia says Eloise's last name is Hawking. Hm.
quester - Apr 08, 2010 2:35:18 pm PDT #5528 of 5968
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Then, I'm gonna go with what Polter-Cow said.
-t - Apr 08, 2010 2:43:50 pm PDT #5529 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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!)
DCJensen - Apr 08, 2010 8:20:49 pm PDT #5530 of 5968
All is well that ends in pizza.
Reading the Lost thread has suddenly become like an in-depth XKCD topic.
DCJensen - Apr 09, 2010 3:06:56 am PDT #5531 of 5968
All is well that ends in pizza.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Apr 09, 2010 6:53:39 am PDT #5532 of 5968
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
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.
Yep, I agree. We weren't surprised by this at all. Widmore said "My son" and I went "That's Faraday." I think they made this quite clear before. At the same time, maybe they expected the audience to assume that a lot would have changed in terms of who does and doesn't exist from that timeline.
It would be interesting to find out exactly when Eloise got off the island, and how, because it appeared she was *there* the day the bomb went off. Which makes me wonder more about who she is and what she's doing. Does all her reality-shifting make her someone Jacob-like, or at least Richard-like?
Back to Daniel stuff: is his name difference because Eliose married again? It's unlikely that Daniel was brought up by someone else, because he's clear about who his mother is.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Apr 09, 2010 10:02:58 am PDT #5533 of 5968
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Correction: no, she wasn't there when the bomb went off, was she - I had forgotten they shifted in time at least once between Faraday's shooting and setting it off. Still wondering exactly when she left, though.