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Air Date

The airdate is mistakenly displayed as Feb 21, when it is being aired on Feb 28. David 10:17, 2 February 2008 (PST)

Noticed the same, wanted to correct it, but edition is blocked. --Ptrue 16:07, 4 February 2008 (PST)
Yeah, seriously, guys, can we fix this please? Ddevlin 19:14, 7 February 2008 (PST)

Press Release

The press release is up at ABC Medianet today, with guest stars and writer/director info:

Guest starring are Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Rebecca Mader as Charlotte, Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus, Alan Dale as Charles Widmore, Sonya Walger as Penelope “Penny” Widmore, Graham McTavish as sergeant, Darren Keefe as Billy, Edward Conery as auctioneer, Marc Vann as doctor, Fisher Stevens as George Minkowski, Kevin Durand as Keamy and Anthony Azizi as Omar. “The Constant” was written by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof and directed by Jack Bender.

http://abcmedianet.com/DNR/2008/pdf/dnr021108.pdf --Compossible 11:22, 11 February 2008 (PST)

Alan Dale

Call me crazy, but I think Alan Dale is the actor and Charles Widmore is the character...ShadowUltra 13:38, 11 February 2008 (PST)

Origin of the name

With a name like "The Constant", we can expect two kinds of episode (at least). One (the most likely, given the summary) is that it has some relationship to Desmond's KillerForesight (tm) Mechanics. He's talked before about "not changing the picture in the box". The other (the one I'd like) is that the episode has some insight on the the numbers and the Valenzetti Equation (the word "Constant" brought this to my head). What does everybody else think?--Ainulindale 16:49, 11 February 2008 (PST)

What's up with the directors?

I mean, so far Season 4 has a really creative line-up:

4x01 Jack Bender

4x02 Stephen Williams

4x03 Jack Bender

4x04 Stephen Williams

4x05 Jack Bender

What's up with that? Where's Paul Edwards and Eric Laneuville and Bobby Roth (they've gotta get him back). I mean, I love Jack Bender and Stephen Williams, but WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I know 4x07 is supposedly directed by Stephen Semel, so that's good news. I'm hoping 4x06 (since it's a Juliet episode) will be either Eric Laneuville or Bobby Roth. Evil-pineapples 16:57, 11 February 2008 (PST)

It wasn't all that different in season three. Of the first five, four were by Williams/Bender with one by Paul Edwards. Dharmatel4 19:10, 11 February 2008 (PST)

Mikhail?

I know he's not listed as a guest star, but did I see Mikhail in the episode preview shown after "Eggtown"? I'm pretty sure he was in there (but he looked different). It wouldn't be too farfetched; ABC have left certain guest stars out of the press releases before to preserve secrecy. Someone please confirm this. It'd be so awesome if Mikhail showed up somehow. Evil-pineapples 19:11, 21 February 2008 (PST)

That is not Mikhail, I just re-watched the promo. Also, I'm pretty sure the producers have confirmed Mikhail as officially dead.--Theslate 19:49, 21 February 2008 (PST)

  • Meh, you're right. Just some dude who looks a lot like Mikhail when you see him for 0.5 seconds (That must have been intentional; remember ABC's promo for Expose? Loaded with foilers and empty promises....) But thanks for helping out. Evil-pineapples 19:50, 21 February 2008 (PST)

difficulties in the timeline of the show

The constant is set on day 94 on the freighter. But on the Island its the end of the day 96. There is a solid unbroken timeline going back to the end of DOC on day 88 that has no room for interpretation and no extra days that can be removed. The timeline of the show seems broken in a fundimental way and there is no way to really solve it without eliminating something seen or said in the show. Lostpedia's timeline is correct. Its the show that seems to have made an error.Dharmatel4 19:05, 28 February 2008 (PST)

  • No, it's not a problem. There's something fishy with time on the island, remember? The 20 minute helicopter ride seemed to take a day to those on the island. Danhm 19:09, 28 February 2008 (PST)
  • EXACTLY -- We need to accept that time on the island is different than time in the rest of the world... Desmond doesn't know it is Christmas Eve until he is back in the real world. We are unstuck in time.--Chuck 19:12, 28 February 2008 (PST)
There is a bunch of problems with that. There is communication between the freighter and the island. Its day 96 on the Island and day 94 on the freighter. If time is going at different rates between the two, why is there only two days difference after nearly 100 days. Dharmatel4 19:16, 28 February 2008 (PST)
We don't have enough information at this point to really know what's going on. Danhm 19:21, 28 February 2008 (PST)

Uh oh Lostpedia island timeline in trouble!

They made it a big point tonight to tell us that it is Christmas EVE. Yet the timeline would put this episode either boxing day or the day after...........Ok nevermind someone else posted this a second before me.Voodoo 19:06, 28 February 2008 (PST)

Why this "side-effect" didn't happen to the passangers of 815

Feel free to comment on what I'm saying, but I know that people are going to say "well how come none of the many survivors of 815 suffered this?" Would it be unreasonable to assume that it was the release of the electromagnetic charge in the Swan that caused this? Daniel asked if Desmond was recently exposed to electromagnetivity, he may not have known about the Swan. So anyone coming to the island is exposed to it, and some people may feel these affects. They just got fortuante in that none of the freighter crew were affected, and perhaps this explains why they were chosen for the operation and someone like Mikownski(sp) was ordered to stay on ship. Just some thoughts Voodoo 19:12, 28 February 2008 (PST)


Could these side effects be the sickness suffered by Rousseau's crew?

  • I thought about it being the sickness as well, especially when the doctor gave Minkowski the shot, it was like the vaccine.--Theslate 19:24, 28 February 2008 (PST)

Flashbacks?

Okay. So tonight wasn't flashbacks, but it wasn't Flashes Before Your Eyes either. How are we going to categorize it? Also, it seems like the flash...things weren't independant of the actual on-island story. So should we maybe not break them up into two headings? --Cormacalian 19:13, 28 February 2008 (PST)

  • I think keeping them in one section is a good idea -- they are in chronological order that way, as strange as that seems. Danhm 19:19, 28 February 2008 (PST)
  • based on Desmond finding his constant this seems like it might be the only occurrence of this type of event--Redheadguy719 19:21, 28 February 2008 (PST)
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