This show keeps getting crazier, doesn’t it? We had four new characters introduced. Did anyone catch the reference to C.S. Lewis? I must give credit to my wife for this one! Charolotte is revealed by Ben as Charlotte Staples Lewis. Teasing out the reference some makes me wonder if she’s been to the island before…In C.S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian (coming to the big screen in May) the children return to Narnia via a mysterious island. Upon returning, they play in water just as Charlotte is found doing by Locke and those with him. Has she been to the island previously? Is this why she’s so surprised the Claire gave birth on the island? What’s the deal with the polar bear skeleton Charlotte discovers in a flashback in Tunisia? And why does it have a Hydra Station collar on it? At the end of the episode we find that Ben knows everything about her. We also learn that he has a man on her freighter. Who do you think it is? Could it be Michael? From what I read, we should expect more C.S. Lewis references in the future. And you thought I loved this show now?

The other three newly introduced characters raise all kinds of questions as well. Why is Daniel Faraday, the physicist, crying at the beginning of the episdoe when he sees the underwater wreckage of 815? What is that wreckage? Is it really 815? Was there some kind of cover-up? Or is there something else funny going on? Did you know that Faraday is also the last name of a 19th century English chemist and physicist who studied electromagnetism? Didn’t think so. Apparently, he is known for the Faraday effect, which has to do with the interaction of light and magnetism, and specifically with the breaking of time reversal symmetry. I have no idea what that means, but time reversal seems like an interesting concept considering what’s going on with LOST. I’m starting to think that the island exists outside of time or something. This would explain why Richard (remember him?) doesn’t seem to age. There’s definitely some wierd time dynamic that is central to the storyline of the show. It seems that the past, present, and future are somehow indistinguishable? Maybe they’re all colliding on the island. What do you think?

Miles Straume is a ghostbuster or something. And Frank Lapidus is a pilot who was supposed to the pilot of Oceanic 815. I wonder why he didn’t pilot that flight. He insists that the wreckage shown of 815 on TV is not that of the real 815. Again, what are we to make of this? Were there two separate crashes? Was there a cover-up? Or are we dealing with some kind of parallel universe thing where the plane crashed in one universe, but not in another.

So we learn that this team of four was commissioned by Michael Abaddon, the supposed attorney who visited Hurley. Man, that guy’s creepy isn’t he? Why did he want these four to go along with Naomi? Why do they want Ben? Does Abaddon work for Dharma? I really thought we were going to find out about the monster when Locke asked Ben point blank about it. I should have known better though. By the way, the writer’s strike is over. We should get some info in the next week as to what this means for the rest of the season.

The conversation continues…