LOST was a bit disappointing last night, as half of the episode was a solid snorefest. In a flip-flop from most of the early season episodes, the parts featuring the Island itself are now pretty stale, while the real drama going on involves Bizarro LAX / the tangent universe / the side-flashes, whatever you'd like to call them.
Going from the good to the bad, pretty much everything that happened in Bizarro LAX this week, I found pretty interesting. As I thought, Desmond smashing Locke with his car resulted in Jack being the specialist that would see him, although we didn't find this out until the end of the episode. For the rest of the episode, Desmond worked on getting Claire to see his lawyer - Ilana, it turns out - who magically was the same one handling the Shepard will reading, so there was a brief reunion until Jack got called into surgery.Outside of this, in Bizarro LAX we also had the plot thicken a bit with Sawyer, Kate, Miles, Sayid and Sun. Sawyer and Kate's flirting is still just as annoying, but it was cool to see him catch Sayid the Killing Machine when everyone else had failed throughout various seasons of LOST. Miles continued to be solid in a small role, and Sun and Jin were cute, and thankfully, their baby is still OK. All in all, I was happy with the brisk pacing in Bizarro LAX, even if the results of Hurley knowing about his past on the Island still haven't been revealed.
In contrast, the Island portions had lots of crap going on that I found uninteresting. FLocke was doing his usual lying and tricking and misleading, such as denying that he had Desmond, then sending Sayid to kill Desmond. Of course, I don't think this actually happened, which is sweet, because Desmond is the best thing going on the show right now. Widmore got seriously pissed off that FLocke wouldn't turn him back over though, and bombed the shit out of FLocke's camp, which I kind of liked.
A couple of FLocke's group - Jack, Sawyer, Sun, Claire, Hurley and Kate - managed to make a break for it on the boat. However, Jack willingly left the boat, since he had a nagging feeling that they weren't meant to escape. My friend Nikki and I agree - I don't think LOST ends without them killing FLocke, as opposed to just running away from him. Once the rest of the group got to Widmore's camp, they were held hostage by his second-in-command, presumably because Desmond either 1) wasn't with them or 2) turned over by FLocke.
Anywho. While this wasn't the most scintillating episode of LOST, I am very interested in seeing how it all ends up, especially in Bizarro LAX.
Island portion grade: D
Bizarro LAX grade: A
Combined grade: B-
You're right, this week's episode was a little underwhelming. You can tell that they are just putting in answers to the show and not building them up (ex. the dead people being the "voices", Flocke being in Christian's body, etc). And the Sun/Jin reunion was very odd - they didn't build it up, and it totally came out of nowhere.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you totally on Sun and Jin. There was practically no build up on it, it was just like, "Hey guys, you're reunited, and p.s., Sun can talk again!" I'm not really into their whole relationship in general though, as it has been boring for most of the show's run. I liked when Sun got some backbone and took over her father's company last season, and Jin learning English was cool, but that's been the extent of my enjoyment with them.
ReplyDeleteSEE SEE. you SHOULD have watched Glee instead. way better.
ReplyDeleteI know Danielle :( I still haven't seen this week's episode of Glee! I will probably watch it tonight. But at least I caught up on South Park, which was excellent.
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