The Variable

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#1

A couple of thots:

  1. Would you guys classify this episode as centric around just Daniel or both Daniel and Eloise? I’d argue the latter since some of the flashes involve just Eloise.

  2. So if Daniel really is Widmore’s son, how f–ed up are both of his parents for intentionally sending him back to the Island to die?

  3. How would blowing up Jughead help contain the energy from the Swan?

#2
  1. I would agree the episode is about both, but I think that Daniel is the variable referenced in the title.
  2. Thinking fourth dimensionally,what if Eloise knew there would also be a young Daniel on the island (a variable) and was simply course correcting. It’s far fetched, but easier to believe than a mother sending her son to his death.
  3. I don’t know much about these things but I can’t imagine that a hydrogen bomb could neutralize a pocket of electro-magnetic energy. Wouldn’t it destroy the island and everyone on it? Maybe it’s proof that Daniel just went bat sh*t crazy and had to be put down.
#3

  1. Because Jeremy Davies is a full cast member, technically I would refer to this as a Daniel-centric episode with undertones of MamaHawking.

  2. Totally, utterly frakked up. Widmore could have said it during “the talk” as Daniel would have no memory; Mama, knowing what she did 30 years ago, sends her son back to the Island. Either she is fatalistic or simply knows that whatever she does, Daniel would have ended up there in 1977.

  3. I think because a nuclear weapon itself unleashes an EMP, maybe that EMP from Jughead’s detonation could counteract the EMP to be unleashed from the Swan…

Loved this episode: (1) contrast of The Constant; (2) The Constant is my top Lost episode; (3) Daniel awesome; and (4) Pesmond are still alive.

#4

I agree that Daniel is the variable-- it makes sense in the narrative sense since “The Constant” identifies Des as Daniel’s constant. Hence, he is the variable to Des’ constant. I liked the episode a lot but I hope that we get more Daniel in flashbacks or something. His character on the whole seemed somewhat underdeveloped in the end. I’m hoping we’ll see him in “The Incident.”