This Week's Lost Revelations And Theories

They're almost too numerous to mention, but among the more interesting revelations (aka SPOILERS) in tonight's episode, entitled "Jughead", were the following:

• a young Charles Widmore was an "Other" back in the 1950s
• Richard Alpert has "always" been with the Others, looking pretty much the same back in 1954 as he does today
• Daniel Faraday ditched on a girl after some experiment of his left her in a time-traveling predicament similar to what afflicted Desmond in "The Constant"
• Des and Penny now have a young son named after the ex-rocker who saved Desmond's life back at the end of Season Three
• Jacob's already running the show, way back in 1954
  
• Faraday loves Charlotte (duh, you think?) and his mother is currently in L.A. (just like Mrs Hastings; hmmmmmm)
  
• Those men from the end of the last episode who were wearing U.S. Army uniforms? Not really American soldiers! (they just helped themselves to the uniforms after killing the original owners, it seems, explaining why Widmore's shirt had "Jones" on it)
• Charlotte's health issues (presumably caused by the eXtreme Time Traveling) just got considerably worse
  
• An episode can actually rock without having hide nor hair of Jack, Sayid or Kate in it!

And now a few theories and quandaries, courtesy of yours truly:

• "Ellie", the young Other who took Faraday to the hydrogen bomb at gunpoint? Got to be his very own mother, aka Mrs Hastings! (no wonder she looked familiar to him!)
• Could Widmore possibly be Faraday's father?
• Why hasn't the girl who's bedridden in England because her consciousness is traveling through time (thanks to Faraday) already dead? That condition killed Minkowski on the freighter and would've done the same to Desmond if he hadn't broken out of it thanks to his constant (Penny). So why's the girl still alive?
  
• Does Richard seek out a young John Locke (at the home of his foster mother) as a result of this meeting in 1954? (That would lend credence to the theory that everything's playing out in exactly the way it always has, and make me a happy camper.) [Edit: Now that I've seen the episode without missing 10 key seconds of dialogue (thanks to ABC for having the show run past the hour mark!) I got to hear Locke's "... and if you don't believe me, why don't you come and visit me" comment that would explain why Richard was looking for him a few years later.]
• Do all of the Others live long lives on the island (like Richard apparently does) and if not, how do they make "new Others" (since pregnant women die on the island)?
• If Ellie is indeed a young Mrs Hastings, was it her encounter with the time travelers in 1954 (Daniel, Juliet and Sawyer) that resulted in her delving into the subject later in life (as we've seen in her few appearances in "the present") and was that obsession also passed along to her son (Daniel Faraday)?
• How did the U.S. Army locate the island in order to (try to) use it for H-bomb testing? Was the island not "unfindable" back then? Richard's comments to Locke in 1954 would seem to suggest that there were already difficulties in getting off of it back then, at least.
• Who gets more funny one-liners now? Sawyer or Miles?

This show is really in hyper-drive now, and so it's a damned good thing we only have seven long days to wait between episodes!