![]() The scene where Desmond calls Penny is possibly my favorite scene from a TV show, ever. Having made contact with Penny, Desmond stops jumping back and forth between time. Miraculously, he gets through to her, and she answers. Reluctantly, she agrees.īack in 2004, Sayid manages to fix the freighter’s broken communications equipment so Desmond can call Penny. He begs her to give him her phone number and persuades her to answer the phone on Christmas Eve, 2004. There, the younger Daniel, who is experimenting with time travel, instructs him to find a “constant”-someone who will anchor him to both time periods-to prevent him dying from a brain aneurism caused by the time jumps.ġ996 Desmond finds Penny, who is still shaken by and angry about their break-up. Others on the freighter are experiencing the same jumping back and forth through time-which eventually kills the person making the jumps.ĭaniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies), a scientist who came to the island on the freighter urges Desmond to seek his younger self at Oxford College, where he is a physics professor. Jumping back to 2004, he doesn’t know where he is and thinks he’s still in 1996. ![]() After landing on the freighter, Desmond begins jumping back and forth in time, going back to 1996, when he was serving in the Royal Guards. In “The Constant,” Desmond and Sayid (Naveen Andrews) take a helicopter from the island with a pilot who came on the freighter, Frank (Jeff Fahey). Every time he saved his life, he would see him die again, leading him to tell Charlie that he is destined to die. That one also involved the character of Desmond, who began foreseeing the death of Charlie (Dominic Monahan). In a previous episode, Lost had already played with the concept of time travel (“Life Flashes Before Your Eyes”). They believed the boat belonged to Penny Widmore (Sonya Walger), the ex-girlfriend of Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick), a character who was found on the island by the plane crash survivors. As with many events in the series, not all was as it appeared. Part of the acceleration of the story involved the “Losties” coming into contact with a freighter off the island that seemed to be there to rescue them. The show’s creators decided to work towards an end game for the series, limiting how many more seasons remained for the show. However, I think it’s fair to say that the Season Four episode “The Constant” is generally seen as one of, if not the best episode of the series overall.Ībout the middle of the third season, it seemed the show had hit a bit of a wall. The negativity is mostly directed at the show’s finale episode. (The article I wrote defending the finale remains to this day one of my most visited posts). The television show Lost has the unique position of being one of the most admired and most reviled TV shows of all time. Read the rest of the posts in this event HERE! This post is part of the Small Screen Blogathon, hosted by Maddy Loves Her Classic Films.
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