February 28th, 2008 | 
Author: Spoilers: beware.
I’m calling it right now: this is the best episode of Lost to date.
Around the office, we call revealing moments in Lost, “nuggets”. In this episode, “The Constant”, Lost didn’t deliver nuggets. It delivered a massive golden payload of goodness.
Episodes featuring Desmond to date have been among the best episodes, almost without exception. So when it was revealed early that this was to be a “Desmond episode”, I cheered.
The only thing, and it’s a minor, minor thing, that bothered me was all the sciency talk about frequencies and radiation and what not, but then talking about the unsciency idea of “a constant” that somehow anchors one’s time/space traveling. Maybe that makes me a fool who is enslaved to time and space. I dunno.
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The 3 Desmond episodes are probably my top 3 LOST eps. They’re a lot more self-contained than the other episodes – and Henry Ian Cusick plays crazy real well.
Regarding the unsciency idea, it just seemed lame that this guy who has only fiddled with mice could suggest a mental “constant” would get Desmond un-unstuck in time. Based on what did he come to this conclusion? You’d think more exposure to EM radiation would be the obvious solution.