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Originally Posted by inkriminator
I had some issues with the whole "unbound by time" thing. If Desmond wasn't bound, then shouldn't he have been able to see into the future and known that he would have contacted Penny, so why would he freak out?
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Des wasn't unbound in a Billy Pilgrim kind of way. (A shiny new nickel to the first person to cite the reference!) As we saw, he was bouncing between two very specific times. He had no memory of who he was in the show's present of Christmas Eve day, 2004--it was as if leaving the island had the side effect of reaching back into his past (1997, did he say?) and pulling that consciousness into the show's present.
There's an inconsistency, though--the ship's comm officer, whose name I forgot but who was unstuck in the same way--remembered his position and circumstances of the current time. That's necessary from a storytelling point of view; he has to be able to tell our losties enough about the radio room to motivate their action. But it's inconsistent with the symptoms Des was having.
By the way, I'll bet another shiny nickel that this was originally written to be aired around Christmas time. This was LOST's version of a Christmas episode, that got schedule-FUBARed by the writer's strike.
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Originally Posted by inkriminator
Also interesting was the note in Faraday's notebook saying, "Desmond is my constant". My only guess about why this is significant is that it could mean Faraday also unbound himself from time.
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"If something goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant."
All he's saying is, coming and going from the island is dangerous. Particularly, it seems, for people exposed to radiation or strong electromagnetism (like, say, turning the failsafe key in a magnetism-related bunker). Daniel has been exposing himself to radiation regularly in the past (particularly his head), and so would be at risk. He's GOT to come and go from the island via those particular bearings, or he's toast. But if he is, he now has Desmond to balance his equation, and he'll be fine.
Problem is, he can't know that he'll be bouncing between the NOW of the island and the NOW in which Des came to him at Cambridge for help. The effect is random--might be just a few hours, might be years. He could find himself bouncing to when he was a high school physics geek, with no Desmond to come along for a decade.