I want to publish my theories about this week's LOST, "The Constant," so later on I can say, "I told you so!", or some more polite variation thereof. I know it had nothing to do with Kate (Evangeline Lilly, pictured), but hey, she's hot.



Some would say the most significant piece of information revealed in the show is the actual date "on the outside," to use prison parlance, when Sayid sees a calendar in the communications room. It's confirmed when Desmond makes his life-saving call to Penny on December 24, 2004 (in which she references her brief chat with Charlie at the end of season 3). There has been much (well-deserved) speculation about how fast time is passing for the Losties compared to the rest of the world. Now we finally have the answer: It really is just 3 months since they crashed, just like they believe. That translates to roughly 1 month per season, a handy benchmark.



No, that's not the most significant tidbit. It's the book that Penny's father bought at auction, the journal of the first mate on the Black Rock, a ship destined to be LOST in the south Pacific. Sound familiar? (This is the ship where the Losties got the dynamite to blow the hatch at the end of season 1.) It is this journal that provides the recipe for Penny to set up her listening stations all over the world to look for clues to Desmond's whereabouts. (Remember the Arctic station at the end of season 2?)



Faraday (who should be referred to as "Professor" He was shown as a professor at Oxford in 1994, and he's stranded on a desert island. C'mon.) is having the same kind of mental issues as Desmond as a result of 20 doses of wicky-wacky radiation per day to his noggin, and as he peruses his own notes with new eyes, as if he hasn't seen them before, we see a note to himself, "If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant." I believe that Faraday goes back in time to when the Black Rock ship-wrecked on the island and either shared his theories and equations with the 1st mate, or actually WAS the 1st mate from the ship. The auctioneer states, "The contents of this journal have never been made public, nor are known to anyone outside the family of the seller." (Sounds like some pretty explosive stuff, if you'll pardon the pun.)



The seller is Tovard Hanso, most likely a son of Hanso Foundation head Alvar Hanso. The journal must also have something to do with Alvar setting up the Hanso Foundation and the Dharma Initiative.



At any rate, my main point is that The Professor had a hand in writing the journal that starts everything in motion in the first place.



As an aside, anagrams seem to play a big part in LOST. Particularly a person's name and where they're from. Henry Gale Minnesota = See An Other Man Lying. Ethan Rom = Other Man. Naomi Dorrit = Raid Monitor. Research on the web indicates Alvar Hanso is from Oslo, Norway. Alvar Hanso Oslo = Valor As Han Solo. Just my 2 cents.