“Lost” — Greatest Hits
“Are ya havin’ a laugh?”
Going into tonight episode I kind of expected not to really get anywhere until next week’s two-hour EXPLOSIVE finale. Unsurprisingly, I was right in that assessment. Still, I rather liked this week’s installment — especially the fact that it made me actually feel sorry for Charlie despite the fact that I’ve been calling for his death for well over a year.
What the episode did well, that others hadn’t, was used the flashbacks as a way to highlight a person’s life, not just as a way to weave together this maddening web of connections. Sometimes character is character and even though I generally find myself hating Charlie, you had to give the guy the benefit of the doubt when he’s staring down his own mortality.
The rest of the episode was nothing more than a set-up for next week, with the exception of reminding us that, yes, Bernard and Rose are still alive. It was a minor work in the Lost canon, but I don’t get bothered by pit-stops on the way to something really big (we are going to be getting something really big next week, aren’t we?).
Not a lot of mythology this week outside of the underwater station whose name escapes me. I do find it curious that it took this long for our castaways to follow that cable the other way. Speaking of, those hostiles must be awfully hungry since Locke blew up the sub a few weeks back, no?
May 17th, 2007 at 3:50 am
That caption created an honest to goodness spit take. Well done.
May 17th, 2007 at 7:39 am
The name of that hatch was the Looking Glass Hatch, with a white rabbit in its logo. And there was an episode called “White Rabbit”. Plus the white rabbits seen in at least three episodes dealing with the Others. In fact, Alex was skinning one in this episode.
I’m thinking those two women in the underwater hatch just throw fishing lines down into the moon pool and catch the ocean’s bounty. De-salinated water for drinking…. oxygen drawn from the water?
May 17th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
looking glass, eh? wow, those people are good at creating episode title tie-ins. next week’s episode is called “through the looking glass”, which i took just to be a play on the white rabbit episode.