Lost: "The Constant" and "The Variable"

I haven’t really been following “Lost,” but watching these two episodes pique my interest. I did find some parts a bit difficult to follow because I hadn’t seen some of the previous episodes that they were referring to, but I think that the episodes do stand on their own very well. I liked how in “The Constant” they connected things between the flashbacks and present time (Desmond talking on the phone, using the sink, etc.) This gave the effect of time not being linear but moving in multiple directions at once. In “The Variable” I found the flashbacks to be a bit more haphazard possibly because I could not grasp which time was the present.