A couple of more thoughts about "Eggtown"

A reader posted something about Faraday's "card game" with Charlotte that I hadn't considered (check it out here). My take was that Faraday was having memory problems, and she was giving him a simple "Concentration" like exam to see if he could remember the three cards that she had just shown him. The memory problems could have been caused by an as of yet unrevealed malady or brain trauma, or even by (insert wacky theory) being "out of phase" with linear time, much in the way that our friend Desmond is. They did make a point of showing his odd reaction to the finding of the undersea wreckage of 815. It was also noted that in the "pop up video" version of that same episode, the mysterious woman in the background of this reaction shot was described as his "caretaker" and not necessarily as wife, girlfriend, roommate or fuck buddy. However, CoolSchool suggested that Faraday might be psychic, and the test was to gauge his ability to determine the cards without having seen them previously (a common psychic test. Just ask Dr. Peter Venkman). Thinking back on the scene in "Eggtown" I can't recall if any dialogue or visual cues indicated to us that Faraday knew the cards prior to his guesses, which I just naturally assumed. Good food for thought all the way around.

Speaking of the undersea wreckage of 815, I can't believe this didn't dawn on me immediately: the general public has to know that this wreckage WAS A FAKE. There are the survivors, the Oceanic 6, who all profess (and have now sworn under oath) that the plane crashed on an island. How can you reconcile their stories, and the fact that they survived, with the fact that there was a huge Oceanic 815 underwater? Was the island swallowed whole after the crash but before the rescue? Was it exposed that this plane was a fake? Something else?

God I love this show.