Get your holiday week started off on a fun note with this fan video that compiles every time Desmond has uttered the word “Brother” on camera — from his debut in Season 2 through to his escape from the island with the Oceanic Six at the end of Season 4 — in less than two minutes.

Time Magazine’s current issue contains a special feature titled “Top 10 Everything of 2008,” and among its various Top 10 lists are the Top 10 TV Episodes and the Top 10 TV Series. Time has named the Season 4 episode of Lost, “The Constant,” as the #1 TV Episode of 2008. I (and most fans out there) couldn’t agree more! I defy anyone to watch the clip above and not tear up, at least a little. It’s pure gold, and one of the best episodes of Lost ever — primarily because of this very scene.

Time also named Lost the #7 TV Series of 2008, behind the likes of The Wire, Mad Men, and The Shield, which came in at #1. I suppose that’s pretty good company to keep, but of course I would have put Lost higher. (But hey, kudos to Time for having the chutzpah to include the Internet-only Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog at #4.)

Lyly Ford Blog turned up ten new promotional pictures for Season Five. The pics are individual profile shots that match the cast shots from the Season Five poster (that “Destiny Calls” one you’ve probably seen a dozen times by now), which were obviously Photoshopped together to create the poster. Here’s your chance to see each character image from that poster solo, if that strikes your fancy. Note that these are not official ABC images, but instead appear to be the cut-and-paste (but still very professional looking) concoction of a TV network in Brazil, using the Destiny Calls poster as source material. But they still turn up a few interesting tidbits…

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Lost actors and fans are always wanting to know … who lives and who dies? Well Henry Ian Cusick has a hunch that Desmond is going to die. It’s just a hunch, no logistics. But since he isn’t one of the Oceanic 6, you never know!

Henry recently chatted with the Washington Post about Lost and his character. “I am guessing he does die,” Henry says. “I just have a feeling.”

That said, there’s still a lot of Desmond in the show. For the remainder of Season 4 “Desmond stays on the freighter. And you’ll see more shenanigans on the freighter.” But Henry’s not sure if we’ll see Penny again.

Henry also chatted about filming and understanding The Constant. “I didn’t find it difficult to comprehend or follow. My initial reaction was, how do I play that? I think anyone being in one time all of a sudden and then in another time, and not knowing who people are, that would put you in a mental ward. It would put me in a mental ward. So it was a fine line [for Desmond] to go bananas and not go bananas That was the challenge: To make it believable and not go over the top.”

Source: Washington Post

Lost
Character Profile
Desmond Hume

Actor: Hery Ian Cusick

On The Island: Desmond was stranded on the island and lived in the Swan Station.

Profession: Previously a set designer for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Prior to the Crash:
Desmond dated Ruth for six years. They were engaged but Desmond was afraid of being married. He woke up on the street after a night of drinking and Brother Campbell, a monk at a monastery in Eddington, Scotland, offered him help. Desmond decided to join the monastery as a novice monk. After a run-in with Ruth and her brother, Desmond began drinking the wine produced at the monastery. Brother Campbell said he should leave. It was then that Desmond met Penelope Widmore (Penny). They flirted and she offered to take him back to Carlisle with her.

Penny and Desmond began to date and fell in love. Desmond was offered a job by Penny’s father, Charles Widmore. Desmond revealed that he had come to ask Penny’s hand in marriage. Widmore was not in favor of the arrangement.

Desmond began having some flash-forwards to life on the island and was able to predict some future events, including a soccer match. He purchased a ring for Penny but ultimately told her that he wasn’t good enough and threw the ring into the Thames.

Sometime around 1996, Desmond joined the Royal Scots Regiment. During this time he connected with his time-traveling self from 2004 on the Freighter. He was instructed to meet Daniel Farady at Queens College. There, Daniel told him that he needed to find a “constant”, which for Desmond was Penny.
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Lost
Episode 4.05: The Constant
Airs: February 28, 2008
Spoilers

Henry Ian Cusick sat down with USA Today and spilled on Lost Season 4 (most specifically tonight’s episode and I’m excited to see Penny!!)

Q: So is Desmond’s episode tonight a flash-forward or flashback?
A: It’s, uh … to be honest, it’s neither. It’s more in line with those time-travel flashes before his eyes. A lot of people either love the time-travel element or hate it.

Q: The last time we saw Desmond, he and Sayid were being taken by helicopter to the freighter, but it had been taking an unusually long time to arrive. What’s up with that?
A: There’s a reason for that, and you’ll find that out in this episode. And you’ll find out why it’s so difficult to get to the island.

Q: With whom do we see Desmond interact?
A: You will see (Desmond’s love) Penny and her father, Charles Widmore. You will also see Desmond back in the military. And you’ll also meet a whole new bunch of guys on the freighter, who have been a whole lot of fun to work with.

Q: What was it like for you and Naveen Andrews (Sayid) working on that freighter out in the middle of the ocean?
A: We filmed off Barber’s Point (the west coast of Oahu) — about 10 to 15 minutes offshore. Once you’re there, you’re stuck on the boat, so we all had to find places to sleep and hide to be out of the shots. We had days and days being on that freighter and had a few night shoots as well. Because Naveen and I are both from the U.K., we had a lot of things to talk about — like characters from crappy old TV shows from our childhoods.

Q: We are learning one by one who make up the Oceanic Six, so far revealed to be Jack, Hurley, Sayid, Kate and maybe (the show’s not confirming) baby Aaron. Since Desmond was never on Flight 815, can we assume he does not turn out to be one of the six?
A: That’s what all of us were trying to figure out when we were receiving the scripts. I think it suddenly dawned on us that you had to be an original passenger on the plane that went down to be an Oceanic Six.

Q: So tell us. Who is Ben’s man on the freighter?
A: You find out, but not for a few episodes.

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