Thanks for the welcome Camster.
HEre are some of my theories (some have already been said and I am just agreeing with)
Juliet=Annie (Ben's childhood friend)
crazy hooded lady writing equations on the chalkboard = Eloise = Daniel's mom and yes I beleive that Whidmore is his dad
Remember when Richard said to Locke that they had a selection process for selecting their leaders and it started at a young age? Well I think that Whidmore was in training to be the leader at that time. Something happened during the Dharma initiative where there was a falling out between Whidmore and the others and so Richard approached Ben to be the new leader and we know the rest of the story.
I am still confused about Jacob? Still have no idea who (what) he is. Why he was calling for Locke to help him? And what Jacob's connection is to Jack's dad and Claire?
Miles & Charlotte had to have been on the island at some point. But perhaps too young to remember or they are lying.
just my thoughts
Welcome to the discussion. I too love lost and ownall four seasons on DVD.
On the Anne=Charlotte thing, I think that was discussed earlier and I for one came out on the side that she is not Anne. Although some of my reasons can certainly be discounted, here they are.
Age, Charlotte seems a little young to be Ben's age.
Accent, while they can change Anne was 10 to 12 years old when she knew Ben as a child and while it could change to being British that was a really big change.
Memory, if they were the same person Charlotte in all probability should have a memory of her time on the island but so far it seems that her prior time on the island was when she was very young and she left before she formed much memory at all.
The EYES, as I said earlier maybe its the new LCD tv but maybe its just a twist the producers threw in to confuse us but Charlotte has the most piercing blue eyes I have ever seen. Anne had dark eyes (I went back and looked)
As far as Miles go I think he is the baby from the first episode of this season when the orientation guy wakes up and his wife tells him it's his turn.
I also think that Hawkings is Faraday's Mother by way of Widmore. Daniel's comment to the young Eloise when asked why do you keep looking at me, was I sorry you look like someone I know. That does it for her being his Mother for me, but the Widmore thing may be a stretch but then again in the time travel to 1954 they were the only two speaking with a British accent so there is that.