Lost is back, for good
By fred | February 16, 2007
(S03E08) I’ve read that lots of people, fans included, actually liked the previous episode, Not In Portland. I was a bit surprised reading this, because I did not. But I’m sure all of them loved this episode even more, and this time, I couldn’t agree more.
This one was simply freaking fantastic, it was excellent, it was right there, on the subject, it was all the reasons I love Lost so much !
Last time I said I didn’t like the fact that we were getting more and more questions & new mysteries, I said how much I was getting frustrated by this. Well we had kind of the same during this episode: brand new mysteries & questions, many of them, things you don’t really understand (fully), or not yet.
But there is a HUGE difference with the last episode, well two in fact. For starter, we’ve got a new lists of questions indeed, but it didn’t came along, it came with answers as well! That is always really enjoyable, obviously.
And also, all those questions & mysteries were more than welcome, because we were right on what Lost is all about, what the show deals with, what & why we’re obsessed with it. I don’t think one could get “annoyed� when getting new mysteries when it’s done that way, you might even get the opposite effect, in fact : we want more !!
Because this episode dealt with Desmond, why he sees the future, what happened (to him) when the hatch imploded, what happened in Desmond’s past (or was it?), and yet all of that was somehow not really about Desmond, not only, it was about the Island. About what’s going on in that Island, and why. It dealt with everything that is Lost, that turned regular people, otherwise referred to as viewers, into real fans, into complete addicts, analyzing episodes frame by frame and writing books about their new theories…
Writers were not throwing at you brand new mysteries that came from nowhere, and didn’t really make sense, it wasn’t “tada… the foot of a statue!�, “tada… a couple of scientists in an igloo!�, “tada… a brand new island!� or “tada… a room for brainwashing people!� ; no this time it was part of the story, it all made sense.
Well. At least you could sense it did for those we knew what was behind all that, and it really felt like they did, knew was it was all about.
Yes, this episode was like a fresh and damn welcome return to the source of the show, and there is simply nothing better that they could have done. Well, yes there is : this episode should have been episode 6, that was how this “new season� should have started, this one should have been Lost comeback, cause it really was. And an incredible one!
We knew Desmond could see the future, and Hurley got that as well. He & Charlie confronted Desmond, and he explained it all!
He also said he wasn’t saving Claire (who it seems goes swimming every day, and fully clothed), but Charlie. Charlie is going to die, according to Desmond’s predictions. But that fact, that this was actually said out loud to us, means to me that Charlie is probably safe for a while.
