All of you who brought up the confusion over the Arrow and Swan stations are correct. That was my bad. I misremembered the speech from the season premiere because I recalled Candle wearing a smock with the symbol for the Swan station while he was recording, and it bothered me. I must’ve blocked out the Arrow since then. So, yes, that makes the most sense as I do remember the Arrow being identified as the security/defense station for the DI on the island.

As for Daniel: Believe me, I give the Lost writers a HUGE berth in their temporal fiction, as well as all the other plot or detail holes that crop up from time to time. I could pick apart every episode for all the teeny details they miss (such as Candle wearing the Swan logo instead of the Arrow, for instance) but I don’t find any fun in that. I just have little pet peeves that crop up from time to time. It happens with just about every piece of fiction that deals with time travel, but I’m able to put them aside and just enjoy the ride, for the most part. Jeff from Boston, you were also correct about Faraday stating the “rules” for time travel in the beginning, I just thought it was an interesting take with how my girlfriend put it. It made more sense than another Lost character simply stating “because I said so.”

For all the questions about Charlotte’s lineage, I’m not quite convinced about that. There’s a fairly decent chance she might be a long lost Widmore. Or she could simply be the child of one of the Others that they encountered in the ’50s. Her connection to any of the other characters may not be that important, only that she’s tied to the island intimately. I will say that I don’t believe she and Daniel were brother and sister, because that’d be really creepy in a Luke/Leia kinda way.

Interesting, though, that Ben’s map for Alex indicated the Temple using a Dharma logo. I forgot about that. Either Dharma took over the Temple and used it as a station, or built their own station nearby, or had a station called the Temple that is something entirely different from the Temple Jin and the French crew found.

You say that Dr. Candle “said in this season’s premiere that the Swan was created…” But it’s not the Swan (and @joshuaCG, it’s not the Staff either) but is in fact _The Arrow_.

Go back and listen to it. Dr. Candle says to the camera “…this is the orientation film for Station 2: The Arrow.” Also, if you freeze-frame the clapperboard, before the filming starts, you see it says “Arrow” on it.

1. ) What if you warped to a place where someone else was standing? Would you then occupy that person’s space and displace what was left of them? Or would you simply meld into a dual mass of human parts?

2.) If your clothes can’t go with you because they are not living tissue, what then of your hair, your saliva, your fingernails and teeth? If you held to that rule hard and fast time travel would be a giant mess!

You just have to let certain things go. I think the writers of Lost are pretty good at establishing rules and holding to them. If they had to consider all of these things, Lost wouldn’t be nearly as compelling as it is.

but besides that, bra-vah..one of your pictures is wrong also.

Alex – Interesting… I will have to check out both episodes this weekend and check that out. I’ll get back to you.