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FULL EARLY ACCESS: Lost 4x05 "The Constant" Full Reaction (Patreon)

Published:
2026-06-03 18:00:57
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2026-06-10 19:20:30
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Ed Green

What is there to say that can do this episode justice? It takes my breath away just as much on every rewatch. Penny doesn't have to wait 8 years to contact Desmond; their interaction at the stadium with Jack was 3 years ago, and even before that she cared enough to write him a consoling letter as he left for prison (possibly because he went AWOL by going to Oxford?) and slip it into his copy of Our Mutual Friend. 'It's a London number' likely means it has 020 in front, thus making it 11 digits like all UK numbers. Also, the Black Rock's first mate, mentioned at Widmore's auction, had the same surname as the guy who financed the Dharma Initiative according to the Swan orientation video.

Octavia

Highest rated episode of Lost. Many would rank it as their #1 favorite. (It's top 3 for me.) But also... it's just one of the greatest episodes of television, period. Desmond episodes are always fire. But this episode has everything... time dilation, electromagnetism, radiation, a boomeranging, time traveling consciousness, and a beautiful love story at its heart. The show really struck gold with the chemistry between Henry Ian Cusick & Sonya Walger. When Desmond & Penny finally reconnect with the phone call... the feels are palpable. And the choice of using abrupt editing cuts for the time changes is so brilliant... really makes you feel how Desmond must feel, jarring and off-kilter.

Octavia

You've got great instincts for this. And you pretty much got it. But their consciousnesses weren't swapping. Only his 1996 consciousness became untethered and was boomeranging to 2004 and back to 1996. Present day Desmond would just not be 'home'... like we saw when Minkowski traveled away. But he became aware of it all when the phone call anchored him again. I think Desmond may have the ability to change small things (like he got hit with the bat, not the bartender, in Flashes Before Your Eyes). But, see, I think it did happen this way originally. Personally, I believe that by showing that Daniel had... long ago... written in his journal that Desmond would be his Constant... that means that it did all really happen that way the first time. And that going AWOL to Oxford is what led Des out of the military and into prison. (But that's just conjecture based on what we already know about Desmond's life after breaking up with Penny.) Daniel just has memory issues. And in Desmond's case... time just happens differently for him. Overlapping at times. But it is interesting to ponder what effects Desmond has had on their timeline.

Octavia

I don't know about poor, already dead Brandon. But the key triggers to being unstuck in time are exposure to large amounts of electromagnetism and/or radiation.... and then traveling to or from the island without a specifically calculated course. Minkowski ran the radio room... which emits electromagnetic waves. Then he & Brandon took a small motor boat ("the ship's tender") towards the island on a joy ride. Like Desmond, that checks both boxes for Minkowski. (And Minkowski's mind appeared to be traveling from the present to the past. So George's present day self was aware... while Desmond's was experiencing the opposite.)