Season 4, Episode 5 "The Constant"
If anything goes wrong, Sam Smith will be my constant. Happy birthday buddy.
Click comments for discussion of the Desmond centric episode "The Constant."
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posted by Germain at 10:04 PM
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Last season, after Desmond blew up the hatch, his mind had its future knowledge and went back into his past. He knew Charlie, he knew soccer scores, he knew about the island and more.
Tonight, his mind went back to the past again but this time he lost all future knowledge. Why? Who fucking knows. Daniel Faraday that's who!
What I liked about tonight's episode was, that basically nothing happened. The whole thing took place in what could have been an hour. But in that hour, we've learned something about the nature of the island. It does something to people, fucks with their perceptions of time and space. Or at least it has that ability.
Now, based on the ending, here's the big question. Oxford Faraday said that you can't change the future. So, at the end of the episode, after Desmond connected with Penny, assuring Desmond stays alive, assuring that what happened at Oxford was real in the second past (in the first past, desmond just went thru the military as usual, think back to the future), was the future changed when Faraday realized that Desmond was his constant? Did that JUST appear in the journal at the moment?
I tend to think so. I tend to think, like Back to the Future, an event in the past was locked in by the Desmond Penny phone call and now Faraday has proof that Desmond DID find him in the past and it all worked out.
What else is there to say about this episode? Um, is Fisher Stevens really dead? I knew he was the guy on the other end of the phone (watch a back episode, its his voice) so I thought he had a bigger part. But - when did he and dead guy have time to go to the island and then come back if the rescuers were only there a few days and talked to him?
And how long did it actually take them to get back to the ship vs Jack's perception?
AND - almost forgot, Mr. Widmore, Penny's dad, who has some sort of connection to the Hanzo Foundation/Dharma/whatever, bought the only known artifact of THE BLACK ROCK. A journal that no one has seen. At only like 400,000 pounds he now has information from people who were on a pirate ship that just happens to be crash landed on the middle of Lost island. That also happens to be the ship people were looking for at the beginning of this season.
Awesome episode and one of the first big clues as to some of the physical nature of the island.
Also, G and Andrew said they didn't catch this, the name of the sailor whose journal it was was Tovar(?) HANSO. Clearly the journal made its way back to the Hanso family, who learned something of the island, its powers, etc.
Can I just say how much I LOVE this episode?
Seriously, a whole series of Desmond trying to get back to Penny would totally work for me. I dig the time travel stuff, especially since they went to great lengths to tie up any possible paradoxes.
Pete, I believe that was Hobart (or Tobart) Hanso that previously possessed the diary. A fascinating little nugget within the ultra-fascinating Desmond story.
Jeremy Davies also got to do his "Gene from Eugene" thing as a crazy time travel-obsessed physics professor. I'm liking this Faraday guy!
My one beef with the episode was that it seemed like it took Desmond no time at all to cross the city of London when he only blacked out for a few moments. Truly a minor beef that I forgive.
I doubt they could kill Fisher Stevens this quickly. Like the typical movie mystery rule where if it seems like a big name actor has done too little in the film, chances are he's majorly involved in the films climax/conclusion (see also GONE BABY GONE) -- I'm pretty sure the Fish will be back.
Can't wait for next week!
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