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.
Oh, that's right, so not only is there Frequency-like effects (so I'm assuming for now), but also Eureka-style time travel!
*misses Eureka*
(1) I hope the baby is named Charlie Hume and not Charlie Widmore.
(2) I like the speaking of Latin thing because I can think of it as a Neal Stephenson reference in a really really handwavey way.
Really interesting Lost discussion:
So… I think that they have memories of something happening, but don’t actually remember the reality or the details until the event has happened in the past as well. (Does that top your confusing sentence?) In a previous episode, Locke loses use of his legs in the same spot Ethan shot him. An example that may help that make sense is Locke’s getting shot by Ethan. When he was with Boone, he had temporary loss of his legs in the same spot, but couldn’t figure out why… this made no sense until he went to the past and was shot when in the same place.
Holy crap, that's cool.
