I'm watching the enhanced repeat version from last week, and an important detail popped up at the bottom of the screen.

Daniel Faraday, the physicist who was the first of the boat-folks we meet, shares his last name with another physicist: Michael Faraday.

The real-life Faraday was an expert in electromagnets, apparently.

So Faraday is obviously there to figure out the deal with the purple glow and the electromagnetic event that knocked out communications, crushed the first hatch and gave Desmond his ability to see the future.

Miles, the ghost buster, well, looks like he's there for Jacob.

What do you think? Post a comment.

If you want an enriched -- and slightly absurdly detailed -- understanding of last week's episode while you're watching the repeat, read the wiki entry the people at Lostpedia.com put together here.

I'm not going to support reading this, because I just did, and it almost explained too much.