Could it be that Daniel Faraday was actually an original member of Dharma? The opening of the episode seems to suggest –- or, at least, I initially assumed — that Daniel is there after the big bright light when poof and the island disappeared. But what if he was a worker, a physicist with Dharma would maybe did one experiment too many on that wall (maybe he caused The Incident!) and has been unstuck in time ever since? There were strong suggestions last season that he was – the memory loss, the reference in his journal to Desmond being HIS constant.

So here it is 2009, and we here at America’s Fish have been so preoccupied with the potentially impending demise of a newspaper and the impending, potentially now-annual loss of a newspaper job that we have left the news of Mike Shanahan’s firing float atop our little pond like a dead fish for nearly three weeks.