Lost Season Four: "The Constant"

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What I Liked

• It's a Desmond/Penny (it never is just Desmond) flashsomething! His episodes are always the best. It could be a cheesy love story with him and Penny but it never is.

What I Didn't Like

• Fisher Stevens is dead already? What a waste.
• If Desmond and Penny don't find each other, I'll be extremely disappointed.
• I wish Sayid had suggested to Desmond, "Before the battery dies, give Penny our coordinates!"

What We Learned
1996:

• Desmond was in the Royal Scot Regimen
• Daniel was a professor at Oxford and was working on sending consciousness through times
• A journal from the Black Rock-the slave ship on the island-survived and sold by Tobard Hanso and Charles Widmore bought it

2004:

• Keamy, Omar, Ray are three of the Freighties
• The freighter is in last port in Fiji, in the Pacific Ocean
• The Satellite phones can only call each other
• When exposed to high levels of radiation/electromagnetic energy, going to and from the island causes one's consciousness to shift through time
• George Minkowski in charge of communications on the freighter
• George Minkowski answered Penelope's call when he wasn't supposed to
• Someone destroyed all the communications equipment
• If your consciousness jumps one time too many, it will be too difficult to get your present and you might get a brain aneurysm
  

Questions:

• Why didn't they want Frank to bring Sayid and Desmond back to the freighters?
• How many people are on the freighter?
• Is Sayid going to regret trading his gun for that phone?
• Where's Regina (the voice on the phone)?
• Who's the captain?
• Why didn't the freighties on the island want to talk to George Minkowski before?
• What time period is George going back to?
• If Penny moved, how did Desmond have her number on the army base? (if it's 1996, she probably doesn't have a cell phone)
• What are the odds that Daniel and Desmond would be in the United Kingdom at the same time?
• Was Daniel a habitual weed smoker in 1996?
• Was Daniel exposed to radiation because he didn't protect his head during his experiments?
• If so, how did he get to teach at Oxford?
• Did Daniel reach the conclusion about the setting for his machine on his own in the future and sent Desmond back to tell him(which should cause a paradox) or was Desmond always the one who told him in 1996 and he just forgot?
• If the latter, how did Daniel forget meeting a guy who said he was from the future?
• Is Desmond going to die?
• What happens if Desmond dies in 1996?
• Who sabotaged all the equipment?
• Who opened the door?
• What are in the contents of the journal from The Black Rock?
• Why did Charles Widmore want the journal?
• If Mr. Widmore doesn't "hate" Desmond, who does?
• Why didn't they need an area code?
• Has Daniel been transferring his consciousness between multiple points in time?
• If so, does that explain his memory loss?
• If so, what point in time is he transferring from?
• If so,is that why he cried at the discovery of Oceanic 815 but didn't know why?
• If so, did Daniel know about the island before anyone else because of Desmond?
  
• Where was Ms. Hawking? Does she only appear for temporal course correction*?
• If Minkowski and the other guy who died where affected by just rowing to the island, would Locke experience similar effects if he were to leave the island?
• What happens is Desmond tries to return to the island?
• What happens if Desmond flashes to a time before he met Penny?
• Since they aren't really flashbacks or flashforwards, what should we call Desmond episodes?

* I'm a geek so sue me.