Daddy Issues

Hey peoples!!

Wheee!! LOST begins!

Anywho, to get us back in the swing of things, i thought i'd start off looking at "The Beginning of the End" through the lens of the theme of "Daddy Issues" which has so often popped up in LOST. Thoughts/observations/questions:

1. Hurley was driving the Camaro he had been fixing up with his Dad, last season. Evidently, he finally got it on the road.
2. Ben showed paternal sentiment for the first time ("I don't want my daughter--"); only to be smacked down (literally) by Rousseau ("She is not your daughter!"). Did she mean that literally, or, uh, not?
3. According to Lostpedia (and a review of the ep bears this out) the dude sitting in the chair in Jacob's cabin is Jack's dad. Wearing white sneakers. What's that about?
4. Jack's back to drinking, starting his day with a screwdriver... and if we remember our Freud, from "Moses and Monotheism," the development of culture - repeated in the development of each individual - is when the Son kills the Father, and then out of guilt and sadness takes on his characteristics and Becomes the Father. (apologies to Walead, who is probably writhing in agony at my over-simplified/possibly erroneous interpretation).
5. Aaron lost his father figure.

Anything else?

xo

Sam JM