'Lost': My recap for 'Some Like it Hoth' is now live
Wasn't the best, wasn't the worst. Certain things rocked my face off, others has me looking at the clock and making that "get on with it" gesture with my hands. This episode did a lot of narrative lifting, but didn't necessarily get me any closer to Miles as a character. If you liked mythology, this episode was for you. If you like your "Lost" with more character than craziness, then this might have fallen a little flat for you.
As I try to flesh out in the full recap, while Miles' life certainly reveals hidden shades of Widmore's motivations, a new aspect to The Metal Box Worshippers on Hydra Island, and more detail on the shrouded Swan construction process, it didn't add much depth to a character I've longed to learn more about. Thus, my middle of the road review. For every mindblowing reveal, we got a hamhanded "Daddy didn't love me!" scene. And after five years, I'm pretty much done with the daddy issues.
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With the disclaimer that I read this suggestion in another review, here's my question: what do you think about the fact that the two Dharma stations related to electromagnetism (the Orchid and the Swan) are being constructed at the same time? With apparently a batch of important scientists showing up?
What dead body?
I think they should have played "Do that to me one more time" instead of "Love will keep us together" but I would like to see Kate wearin some Corduroy gouchos and boots!
It seems that Hurley converses with the souls of the dearly departed after their death while Miles experiences the mirror opposite by sensing the persons history (who they were and what they knew before they died).
I liked this episode. I'd put it in the middle third for this year as well - but as I've said before, I'm REALLY liking what I've seen from season 5. So, I basically have no complaints about "Hoth".
Felix has me stumped - was he bringing to Widmore evidence of a job completed, or evidence of what Ben was up to? Either way his death makes sense.
I agree that the "Daddy issues" angle is getting a bit stale, but it seems to be a central theme to the show, and will probably play a big role in the end game. I've come to accept it, along with many of the show's other weaknesses, since they seem to be part of the price of admission for a series that operates beyond the episodic TV norm. I.E. there is a big payoff in exchange for these shortcomings.
Anyway...
Here's my take on the "Shadow of the Statue" folks - they are the ones that the Others/Hostiles have been protecting the Island from for all these decades. The "Shadow" folk may have infiltrated the US Army in the 1950's and arranged to have an H-bomb sent to the island. They may have infiltrated the Dharma Initiative. Maybe they infiltrated Widmore's expedition to the Island - I've always thought Keamy was operating on his own agenda - NOT Widmore's. And now...they've found their way to the island again.
Should be good times!
I think we learned 1/2 of everything we need to know about Miles tonight, that being his relationship to his father and how he's coping with living his own, unremembered past. Although I do want to see him totally lose his cookies, Faraday-style, and tell his parents everything about his time travelling, his ghost powers, and the Purge and perhaps be the reason they get sent away.
The other 1/2 of Miles story is HOW he got his powers to begin with, and I think that is fundamentally tied in to event(s) we'll see by the season finale.
Hello Morning-Afters!
Time to stretch out and relax while all heck breaks loose over on It Happened Last Night. What can I say? One of my favorite episodes. I loved how Miles finally confirms that, in fact, Widmore did arrange the fake wreckage of flight 815. The give & take between Hugo & Miles was cl***ic. I hope they take Miles & Daddy to it's ultimate conclusion. You'll see a tear-jerker that's going to make you forget about the Penny-Desmond phone call.
Well, at first I was convinced that the Shadow of the Statue crew were a secret society of Island descendants, but then with Ilana knowing so many details about Widmore's actions, I ***umed she was a Widmore goon. Now, I'm re-convinced these really are the Knights Templar of the Island.
The most interesting question to me is who the heck is Bram working for? Ben? It's possible, but I rather doubt it. Ben didn't seem to know who Ilana was on the beach, and I'd sort of ***umed that Caesar and Ilana were on the same team. (I may not be too justified in thinking that, but it was the impression I got the first time around.) Caesar wouldn't have been plotting to kill his boss, and Ben wouldn't have killed someone working for him without any discernable reason. On the flip side, it would make good sense that Ben had arranged for Sayid to be caught and brought to the island, and he definitely doesn't like Widmore. The theory I'm working off of, though, is that Ben and Charles and Eloise are all essentially on the same side (that of protecting the island), even though they don't really like working with one another. This would mean that Bram and Ilana represent a previously unknown third faction -- perhaps a Dharma splinter faction, or a splinter faction of the Others, or possibly even a heretofore unknown interest. (M***ive Dynamic maybe?)
The reason I postulated a "Dharma splinter group" is that the preview for our next episode seemed to imply some sort of Dharma civil war. That could easily be the lead-up to introducing a new faction.
I laughed my head off when Hurley turned out to be writing the Empire Strikes Back. I think my theory that Ben gets messed up because Hurley accidentally tells him Vader is Luke's father just might be true!
The only thing I was a bit disappointed with is that it doesn't look like we're going to get the resolution to Young Ben's story. I was hoping to see more of how he gets sent back to Dharma, and how his life as a spy for the Others works out. The Young Ben arc was the best part of this season to me so far (Ben is a great character and Sterling Beaumon does an awesome job as the young version). I guess they could go back and revisit it at some point next season (I sure hope so), but I have the gut feeling that the end of this season will also be the end of the Dharma Initiative subplot. Pity.
Let's all face it...Ewoks DO suck.
sing along
Changs a lil bit country, Straumes a lil bit punk rock and roll
@BOTN -- Exactly!
So, here's my burning question. What do you think Hurley's "improvements" are to Empire Strikes Back? (I would so love to see Hurley's version.)