4-5: "The Constant" 2008.02.28 - TWoP Forums p1 -This was the best episode of this show that has ever happened ever in the universe of ever. -That is probably the best episode of Lost yet. And they didn't fuck around with the secret surprise at :47 into it. what was that?
such enthusiasm for this episode. I found it compelling, well-paced, but not... not full of intrigue, interest. hmm.

Long Live Locke.: S4Ep5 - "The Constant" Subtraction of Years From My Life
As I'm sure you've already guessed, I--like millions of other people--love love LOVED "The Constant." I would rank it as my #2 favorite episode of the series (with #1 remaining "Walkabout," Locke's first flashback).

Completely 'Lost': SLAUGHTERHOUSE 815
Our favorite star-crossed couple was reunited in another dazzling Desmond-isode that referenced Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliant Slaughterhouse Five. The main character Billy Pilgrim is “unstuck in time” -- the same phrase used by Daniel Faraday (in 1996) to explain what is happening to Des, when he begins to simultaneously experience his present (landing on the freighter with Frank and Sayid) AND his past (as a soldier in the Royal Scots. Billy Pilgrim’s time problems begin when he inexplicably survives a plane crash, after which he becomes unstuck, traveling back and forth between his past, where he is a German prisoner of war during WWII; to his present, as an optometrist in the fictional Illium, N.Y.; to his future in a “human zoo” on the planet Tralfamadore. As Vonnegut explains, via his narrator, Tralfamadorans see in four dimensions, while we only see in three. “All moments, past, present and future always have existed, always will exist.” Sadly, Billy Pilgrim’s pet phrase “And so it goes” only pops up 106 times in Slaughterhouse Five. Another two would have been perfect for “Lost” fans. push the button ev 108 min
ON THE BOAT
The unseen Captain of the freighter sounds like an ominous, threatening figure. In production notes he is referred to as Capt. Gault -- a reference, perhaps to John Galt in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. That character (a captain of industry) designs a new motor (powered by ambient static electricity), survives a plane crash -- Doesn't everyone? -- and creates a secret society in the mountains of Colorado that is protected by a “privacy shield” which makes it invisible to the outside world. It was Galt’s intent to provide a refuge to like-minded individuals, who will stay there until the outside world has been transformed.
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-Another thing I found interesting was the difference between Faraday in 1996 and 2004. In 1996 he was much more assertive and kind of an obnoxious jerk. In 2004 he's empathetic and a little timid. What happened to change him?

The Bastard Machine : "Lost" - The Spoiled Bastard.

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