Lost: Season 4, Epsiode 5: The Constant

"Your perception of how long your friends have been gone... It's not necessarily how long they've actually been gone."
-Daniel Faraday. (December 24, 2004)

Happy Holidays to all of the Losties out there! It's Christmas Eve on the Island... oh wait... perhaps it's not. We don't know what time it REEEEEAAAAALLLYYY is on this island which appears to be inside a Faraday Cage. You can also read all about the English chemist and physicist, Michael Faraday, his constant, his law of induction and more... but be sure you have a "constant" of your own before you begin reading or you may suffer an aneurysm like George Minkowski.

My vision of Minkowski was so wrong, and he had such a short-lived role. Was it me or did anyone else flash back to 1985's "My Science Project" when they saw that Minkowski was played by Fisher Stevens? A movie oddly enough about time travel. Maybe it's just me. Of course when I asked someone if they remembered him in that movie they said they only remembered him from "Hackers." I could get off on a tangent here on Matthew Lillard, but I won't.

There was so much revealed in this episode, yet it was so confusing to me I had to watch it twice, and it's a good thing I did because I missed a lot the first go around. For starters, I was thinking the ability to travel through time was going to be a physical occurrence, but it turns out to be more of higher state of consciousness (hang on... *clicking play on Josh Wink's "Higher State of Consciousness" because I need a little background music.* I can hear this track pumping out of Room 23 at some point). Desmond 1996 travels into the future to join us in the present (according to the show timeline), whereas George (even though it was never specified) is time jumping from the present to the past. I only assume this because he says at one point, "I just got off a Ferris wheel." This makes me think that he is going back to when he was a kid. Just think, if you could harness the power and control where you go or "jump" (uh... Ben... hello!) you could become a very powerful person: the grand supreme being of the fountain of youth.

If all of that Faraday stuff didn't give you a headache, you may be able to draw a conclusion that time maybe stands still on the island due to the magnetic field. We already know that the time is off. I was talking to someone the other day and they had a better grasp on the Faraday stuff, and had proclaimed they had solved the show. I DON'T THINK SO!!!! Not so fast. All of this certainly plays a role in grand scheme, but there is much more to it. For all we know, it could be one person who has caused everything in the present to happen they way it has. Is Jacob really a ghost or just stuck between subconscious dimensions? Maybe he jumped on too many times with out having a brain aneurysm. Does that even make sense? I'm so freaking confused.

I know I'm late on my blog this time (what's new?), so I will just stick to a small list of stuff I caught when I watched it through a second time:

1. Helicopter Coordinates = 40 Miles N @ 30.5 Degrees, Then 7 K East.

2. The storm took them off course by 1/2 degree (31 degrees)

3. The freighter was named "Kahana." I did a search for it and found the book "Kahana: How The Land Was Lost." I think it's more of a political book, but I thought the title was interesting.

4. Keamy is from Vegas, and Omar is from Florida.

5. The last known port of the freighter was Fiji, so they are still in the Souht Pacific.

6. Who's the guy on the bridge with the binoculars? Is that the Captain? And if he is, wouldn't think he would be a bit more in tune with what is happening on his ship. If some one sabotaged the communications on my ship, I would be all over it. Are they keeping secrets from him? Does Ben's "man on the boat" have something to do with it?

7. George Minkowski was the communications officer on the Kahana.

8. I wonder why they were under strict orders to never take Penny's call?

9. Set device to 2.342, ocillating at 11hz. (Daniel's experiment with Elloise). The numbers are showing back up: 2.342 - 23,42.

10. The Black Rock returns as a painting (March 22, 1845)being auctioned by Southfield's, Lot 2342 of course. Mr. Widmore, bidder #755 wins the items with a bid of $380,000. The journal was written by the the first mate (I wonder if Richard is that first mate)and previously belonged to the family of Tobar Hanso. It's contents have never been made public.

11. Just for fun, the next auction item belonged to Charles Dickens.

12. Penny's Address = 423 Cheyne Walk (Numbers again - 4,23)

13. Penny's Phone Number = 7946-0893 (I heard this was a live number for the game).

14. Penny knows about the island. How much and what does she know?

15. Desmond is Daniel's Constant. Daniel was subjected to a lot of radiation with all of his experiments. He may start to "jump" as well if he leaves the island and passes through the magnetic field or storm. He met Desmond in the past and knows where to find him if he jumps.

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