Richard is likely pretty ancient. He gets to leave the island from time to time. There was that stint as Batmanuel in the mid-90s. So he has the capacity for heroism. I'd like to hear his Latin.
Whidmore being an Other rocked. Latin as the secret language, not so much.
Well, his brief stint as a sugar baron in the 00ties - not so rockin'.
Oh, and somehow I had missed people calling Frogurt by that name on the show and thought it was a twopism until I heard Sawyer call him that last night.
I was reading Cindy's recap on TWOP (squee) and read this:
Next, Daniel is at the backdoor to the hatch, banging on it like he'd just stopped Sawyer from doing. He's pleading, "Please let this work," over and over again. And hey, I like most of these characters (or enjoy watching them, at least) even Daniel, but after the way he lectured Sawyer, I'm sort of hoping it doesn't work because I'm mean like that. I am not a "the rules apply to everyone but me" sort of person.
I had assumed that the same rules didn't apply because he and Desmond had met back in Oxford already and Desmond was his Constant. Though... Desmond didn't remember it during their encounter at the Swan door so... oof, this show makes my head hurt.
I assume Desmond is special because of the Hatch explosion, which dosed him with the Island's time-hopping juice.
Desmond didn't remember it because he met Farraday after the whole explodey hatch thing - that's when he started time traveling.
Or, at least, that is how I understood it. And he needed to find his constant to stop traveling.
Didn't Desmond also live through a whole bunch of stuff twice? I get a little confused when it comes to him.
I'm not sure. There was some episode where Desmond finds himself back in some pub and he knows the score of the game. I think island Charlie plays a role too. It's a little fuzzy.
Right - before he knew that he had to find Penny and have her be his Constant he did some weird time travelling stuff.