Lost: Some Like It Hoth
By fred | April 16, 2009
(S05E13) This was an episode like we might not have been used to anymore, an old-school Lost with its character-centric course and a construction based on flashbacks to give us some background information about someone. Recent episodes have had more & more a little return to basics as such, and this one was probably the most “classic” of them all. Not that is was a bad thing, though, because I have to say it also felt very much like the calm before the storm.
Unfortunately the storm isn’t coming right away, as next week is nothing but reruns/clip show, but I’m assuming now that when the show will come back, it will go full on and won’t stop until that two-hour season finale, blowing our minds away one more time as we’ll get ready to enter the very last season of the show and, as such, we will have to find out what this is all about. It’s already shaping up, we’re almost there, the explosion is coming…
As for now, things are still calm, even though the cracks in Sawyer’s so far perfect con are starting to show. Kate looks suspicious to some, Hurley annoys other, and Sawyer is taking people hostage in his own house. It can’t end up good, but we all knew that, and if we don’t want everyone to simply die in the purge anyways, they can’t stay there forever.
But for now, things are still quiet, as we focused on Miles, just another kid with daddy issues, as is, well, about everybody on the show. In a twist that we all suspected, Miles got to meet his own father on the Island, one Pierre Chang. Many things had hinted that way in the past, so no surprise here, but some interesting moments allowing Miles to develop much like Sawyer recently did, because those guys are more than just funny remarks.
Ever since he was a child, Miles could hear dead people. We don’t know why and neither does he – so chances are it will be linked to the Island somehow, either the reason his father sent him & his mother away, as I’m guessing he did maybe after loosing an arm or something, or because that’s what happens when you are born on the Island. And if Miles pretended not to care or want to even talk to his father, thank God for Hurley.
Hurley always manages to be funny, doesn’t matter the situation. Whether he was talking about his sandwiches, trying to get Miles and his father to talk, having no problem with Miles talking to dead people as he himself does every so often, and even seeing Miles being jealous, because Hugo’s powers were just better than Miles’, or of course his brilliant idea to rewrite The Empire Strikes Back before it’s done, and send it to Lucas. Of course since whatever happened happened we now that it will either failed, or is that movie actually as good as we know it because it is based on Hurley’s script!?
After all, if you believe wikipedia right now, the screenplay of the movie, while based on a story by George Lucas, was indeed “written by Hugo Reyes“. Which of course could also mean he might be the one responsible for the creation of the Ewoks…
i think it was a cool episode.
the old style lost is still catchy :)
and it was good to know a little bit more about miles.
cannot wait till all ends :D
eventhough i don’t want it to end
hehe
take care mate
nice to read your reviews as always.
i’m the invisible reader :P
un abrazo!