Category Archives: Lost

Hurley’s back stories have always been related to his curse, his involvement with the numbers, and the effect on his personal life. The problem, however, is that every episode feels somewhat the same because of this, and unless they bring a lot to the table in terms of the numbers they don’t seem important enough in the big scheme of things.

This week’s episode was structured much like the others, as his past experience gives Hurley some much-needed motivation on the island. This is quite similar to Hurley’s spreading of the food within the hatch at a point in the 2^nd season, and it just felt a bit too samey on the whole. I guess that there’s only so many inanimate objects they can randomly find on the island before I feel that things are a bit too contrived.

That being said, it was certainly entertaining, and it did a good job of balancing Hurley’s story with that of Sawyer and Kate. A lot was done in terms of character with Jin/Sun, Charlie/Desmond, and the two main plotlines. The ending of the episode even provided us with some good plot advancement, as well as a chance for Locke and Sayid to finally say something important for the first time since Eko was killed.

Speaking of the end of the episode, I’ve been saying this for weeks: Alex is absolutely Rousseau’s daughter, but I really don’t know how Ben fits into the whole situation. Was it just an adoption of convenience, or is there more to the story than we’re aware of? Rousseau was the one to find and capture Ben in the jungle, so he can’t be Alex’s real father…but yet something still tells me there’s more to see here. This would certainly throw Ben’s situation into the forefront, and it makes me want to see Ben’s back story that much more…which I guess is a victory for the show’s storytelling.

It’s not a bad episode, actually quite good in terms of character moments and writing. There was some funny moments with Sawyer and Jin, and it worked well. I guess that, after so many episodes with The Others, it was weird to get a “normal” episode of Lost. Part of me missed Ben and Juliet, and felt that we’d seen all of this before. This may put me into the minority, but don’t get me wrong: it was a good hour of television.

Check after the jump for a recap of the whole episode, in case you missed anything. Continue reading →

“He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us.”

[Spoiler Warning: Plot Details will be discussed!]

Further expanding the world of the Others was something that the first arc of Season Three of Lost tried to do; some found it annoying, but I for one felt that it was important to the show’s existence past this season. Without expanding the Others, making them characters, it is impossible for the show to appear dynamic, and not just the same group of characters fighting unknown threats forever. Continue reading →

One of my favourite prefixes is meta. I don’t know why this is the case, but I simply find it fun. There’s something about something within something else that just makes me pleased to be existing. Perhaps this is why I quite enjoyed tonight’s episode of Lost. Because, focusing on Desmond, it was really a flashback within a flashback. 

The episode had no subplots, it was entirely designed to setup why it is that Desmond receives flashes of the future. We went back to the moment when Desmond turned the key, and saw as Desmond flashed back to his time in England with Penny (Who we saw at the end of last season as the recipient of the research station’s phone call). Aware of his time on the island, Desmond began to come to grips with the role of fate within his past.

Desmond ran into Charlie busking on the streets, predicted the future a bit, and met someone else who was able to shed some light on his situation. He was forced to leave Penny , and then after realizing his ability to change situations woke up, naked in the trees. It is thus that he woke up, and found that he had this power. 

Now, this answered a few little things, but mostly it just set up a whole lot of Desmond’s future. Here’s some of the things we don’t know:

Does Desmond only see future things which affect Charlie? 

There’s no question that Charlie’s imminent death is the most important of Desmond’s flashes, but is that all he sees? And why are they just flashes, as opposed to true recollections like in his flashback within a flashback? Remember back to when Desmond woke up, and he talked to Hurley about Locke’s speech which had yet to be given. If he remembered that, has he already lived this future before? Or is it just strange foresight? Continue reading →

Considering that this will be posted two hours before the ABC airing of the episode, this will contain spoilers. So, if you want to know what happens later, keep reading. If you haven’t watched it yet, I suggest you don’t.

FINAL SPOILER WARNING Continue reading →

There are a large number of things to say about Lost these days. TV critics have been up in arms, viewers are apparently turning away in droves, and the hype machine which once led Lost into the Stratusphere is allegedly disappearing at an alarming rate. Ratings are dropping, and an attempt at a no-rerun 6 episode start to Season Three simply provided more fuel to the fire. Well, most of the things I have to say on this issue were covered today by the Elder in a piece I pretty much agree with 100%.

It is my belief that Lost has been unfairly placed in front of a giant rolling ball of doom. I don’t think that anything about the show should have people up in arms, and people are being more unreasonable than they realize. The Elder focuses on pretty well all of the major points, but there’s something that he doesn’t quite hit on that I think is incredibly important.

I don’t know how anyone could possibly HATE Lost after having liked its first season. You could grow bored, which is reasonable if not my personal experience. You could find you no longer have time to keep up with its plotlines, and that’s ok too. Maybe the show’s new late US timeslot of 10pm EST is too late for your early morning schedule, and I completely understand. You could get frustrated with the show’s quality in your eyes, which I think everyone does.

But this backlash of hatred flying all over the place is ridiculous. It has gone past frustration, and become a downright concoction of anger and haterade. I’m starting to see it happen with 24 as well, as people start to spurn it for being “too slow” and instead switch to watching Heroes which is almost exactly the same pacing style at times. It scares me to see how many people can downright turn against a show: as the Elder points out, a show like Studio 60 went from popular to hated in about 3.6 seconds, even though the show really hasn’t changed from its pilot (And stagnancy is not worthy of hatred).

I don’t want myself to be one of those people, and I hope I never do it. I watch a lot of TV, but I don’t want to become someone who downright hates a show due to a stupid decision. I like to think that I’m patient, understanding. I weathered a few storms on Alias, watching to the very end. I’ve gone through some turbulent times on a show like 24 as well, but I keep watching to enjoy the fine work on display. And, in the end, I love Lost. It is well-acted, well-written, and one of the best mystery stories on television. I want to know more about its characters just as much as I want to know more about its plot, and this is a sign of a TV show that is capable of taking over my life.

At 8pm AST, thanks to some fancy CTV scheduling that for idiotic reasons places Nelly Furtado’s Primetime acting debut on CSI:NY at 9pm instead, I’ll be sitting down to enjoy an episode of Lost that may not make my heart race, that may not answer any of my questions, but one that I will enjoy because it will be well-acted, well-written, well-directed and a whole lot of things a good drama can be.

Visit McNutt Against the Music for the Elder’s more indepth view on why people shouldn’t be quite so fickle, and then enjoy Lost this evening. And, if you don’t, subject to reasoning, you could be on notice.