Well this episode was both an anticlimax in some ways and a hell of a humdinger and shocker in other ways – but as I’d foolishly read the spoiler about Daniel getting shot by his own mother back in 1977, I of course lost the ‘shock factor’ there….

However, knowing that that was going to happen was in a way a good thing because it enabled me to know that for the entirety of Daniel’s life – from his piano playing savant childhood to the moment he went back to island for the final time – Eloise had known that she herself would end his life… so why did she send him back?

Why not just say ‘no’ when he was vegged out from his own temporal displacement experiments on himself and asked her if she’d be proud of him if he took up Charles Widmore’s ‘job opportunity’ to go on the Kahuna to the island? And why spend years raising him, making him focus solely on science and become this ‘prodigy’ when she knew she was going to be the one to kill him before he could actually do any good with everything he’d learned?? Read more & comment »