More of Faraday's Journal...

Of course I was thrilled last night to see some familiar images on Lost that we've only seen before in Daniel Faraday's journal. Hanging out at the Hydra station was the map Faraday was using to navigate the island as well as the same space-time map that I've obsessed about... repeatedly.

Here's the original image as seen in Faraday's Journal:

And here's the map that Caesar found at the Hydra station:

I thought for sure that these weren't the same maps with one on lined notebook paper and the other on a clean (and bigger) sheet of parchment. Indeed, as one commenter pointed out, they are one and the same:

I'm going back to revisit the circles of Faraday's various maps to compare them to the new, improved map over at LostMap.Blogspot.com. I'm just not able to line up these as well with this revised map and am wondering if it's the circles or the map that's the trouble:

I think that the layout of the stations probably looks closer to this:

It's remarkable how different the above maps of the island are from the one found at TheLostMap.Blogspot.com. The biggest difference seems to be the placement of the Hydra station island.

It's also been suggested by my pal Jeff Simko that these circles have nothing to do with the configuration of the stations but that they represent the "pockets of energy" that Eloise Hawking is tracking down at the Lamppost Station. This is tougher to "prove" as there aren't too many good screenshots of the world map Eloise is using. Here's one from GetLostPodcast.com with some circles from Daniel's map laid over it:

A better overlay can be seen with Hawking's computer:

Not an exact match... but close at times.

Likewise, an old friend, Terry May, volunteered that these may be tied into the "Vile Vortices". This idea has been kicked around for a while. There are a couple nice write ups about it here: Smoke and Mirrors: Decoding Lost and here.

I also wanted to note that there's an interesting theory over at JackLovesKate.com about Daniel Faraday and Stuart Radzinsky being the same person -- the door map and Faraday's map lining up so well. It's possible though I think Radzinsky is going to show up one of these days soon.

The Sawyer Son of a Bitch compilation:

Lost Thoughts: (John) 316

A few thoughts:

I'm glad that Kate didn't bring Aaron back to the Island since Claire was pretty clear about that in one of Kate's "dreams" (can we be sure that was a dream or it might have been a "memory" a la Desmond getting a memory from Faraday). I keep wondering if she left Aaron with Sawyer's daughter...

I thought it was a nice plug with Hurley reading "Y: The Last Man" (en Espanol) – "Y" was written by Brian K. Vaughn who has written a few episodes and is now producing the show. This is a great book, BTW. It's about a guy named Yorick Brown (his Dad was a big Shakespeare fan) who is… the last man on earth. The only survivor (apart from his pet monkey) of an "incident” that wiped out all people with a Y chromosome. Ironically, Yorick is trying to get to Australia to find his girlfriend. Kind of a reverse of the 815 flight from Australia.

Thanks to Steve Conroy for pointing this out to me. I love this kind of stuff:

Is Time Malleable?

I'm still fascinated by Daniel Faraday's journal. I wrote a bit about this before. Below are some screencaps from the first episode of the fifth season.

A lot of these images are too small/blurry for me to make out much of the text. I'm hoping that other folks will be doing that for the Lostpedia. However, note that the "If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant" inscription has changed and is on an entirely different page than it was originally shown.

Because You Left

The Constant

In a show where continuity is key and there's little left "to chance" (or so we're lead to believe), it seems that this error is deliberate. It would also seem to imply that Faraday's statements about being unable to change the past or the future are just for the tourists. I would venture to say that Faraday doesn't have another page in his journal with the same "Desmond Hume will be my constant" statement but, rather, he wrote it on two different occasions, meaning that time is malleable.

Faraday's Journal

I don't usually geek out like this but just needed to today. Here are some screen captures of the journal of Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) from "Lost" last night.

The reason this interests me is that the pattern in Faraday's journal looks strikingly similar to the diagram on the back of the Hatch door. Compare:

The two images overlaid directly didn't really line up in the above configuration (vertical). Here are two tracings of the lines from both:

Hatch Door Lines

Faraday's Journal Lines

Doing some flipping, rotating, and rescaling makes them line up just about perfectly. It doesn't take much re-jiggering at all to make this:

Here's the same shape from Daniel's journal laid over a map of the island that may or may not be 100% accurate. Some things seem to line up exactly -- The Flame, Staff, The Pearl -- and others not so much. This leaves Hydra out in the cold but I'm not sure how much of a "Hatch" this is versus a gateway.

The thing that I find very interesting is the alignment of one circle with the mysterious crater.

Another map showed up in "The Other Woman" episode. It's probably about as accurate as the above.