The Constant Hottie

1996 wasn't a bad year for our old pal, Desmond. Lookin' good, Paddy-in-the-Hatch!!

So yeah. Um. Time travel? Wormholes? While this episode certainly kept you on your feet throughout, I truly don't understand a lick of it. I'm not a big enough geek to be able to tell you all about the ins and outs of time travel, and I'm certainly not scientific-minded enough to even come close to understanding all Daniel Faraday's blathering. So, after watching Thursday's "The Constant," here's what I do know:

• There were a lot of number references. A LOT. For example, Desmond was told to tell Daniel to set his machine thingy-doo to 2.342. Penny's street address at her new place was 423. Those numbers were all over the place! On the tail of the helicopter, in the number of the auction piece Charles Widmore was bidding on, etc. 
• It's December 24, 2004. Get to high ground, kids, there's a tsunami comin'.
• The Black Rock was owned by Torvas (sp?) Hanso? And Charles Widmore was bidding on his journal? Maybe Charles Widmore is the one who staged the remains of 815 complete with dead bodies? Remember, Penny herself said something to the effect of "If you have enough money, you can do anything."
• Haircuts didn't exist in 1996. Or so Daniel Faraday's bob would indicate.
• There is someone on the freighter that is helping Sayid and Desmond. I think we're all wagering on it being Michael. For a brief moment, when Omar and the other hot freighter guy brought Desmond to the sick bay, I gasped out loud and thought we were about to see Ethan again. I mean, it made sense, no? Ben has a man on their ship and Ethan was a doctor. But then I remembered that Ethan took two (or three?) shots to the chest, and there probably wasn't any fixing that. Oh well. 
• Next week's Juliet-centric "The Other Woman" features the return of Tom, Ethan, and Goodwin. Seems Goodwin was married. That could make things awkward, since we saw Juliet and Goodwin in bed together. I'm guessing Juliet is Other Woman. That's my deductive reasoning hard at work, kids. I also hear that Juliet plants (another) one on Jack. He just doesn't seem to get it. Or, He's Just Not That Into You, Juliet. 
  

Now, if anyone cares to enlighten me on the whole time travel thing, please feel free to do so. But as Juliet said (quote of the night award winner, right here!), "Talk real slow and maybe we'll understand you." (I won't even get into the grammatical structure of tat sentence... in fact, just typing it out made me cringe.)

See you next week!