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by Ryan j Budke, posted Apr 5th 2006 10:38PM
Another week, another new Lost. Ok, so that doesn't
actually happen that often, but we're kind of on a roll here. This week didn't stack up all that well against last
week's episode, that's for sure. I would still probably rank it above the Sun and Jin trip down memory lane though.
There seems to be this frightening trend emerging with the Lost episodes where one week is awesome, the next,
not so awesome. They've always kind of had that roller coaster feel, but it seems much more pronounced the second half
of this season. I'm fine with it, I love roller coasters, but I can easily see how some people want to get off this
ride. On with the show!Tonight's episode was a Hurley-centric one, but not like any other Hurley flashback we've seen, and that's where I think the biggest problem for this episode was, but I'll get to that in just a moment. We all knew Hurley had some mysterious past, and some accident. We all knew that eventually we'd ,find out what it was and we all knew that it probably wasn't going to be pretty, since it was strongly alluded to that he was in a mental institution, but this is Hurley we're dealing with -- did the episode have to be so damn depressing? As I said above, I've gotten used to the ebb and flow of learning juicy tidbits from the episodes, but the Hurley flashbacks so far have been so light-hearted, that I haven't cared whether I "learned what the numbers meant," I just had a good time watching them. Not tonight though. It sucked the fun out of it.
You could see the revelation that Hurley's friend Dave (played by Evan Handler for those going "where do I know him from?") was imaginary from a mile away. Even when the two of them were having their misadventures, when it should have been silly and carefree, seemed really mean-spirited. The one twist that I enjoyed, but called early on (along with some of my faithful chatters), was that Libby was a little bonkers herself. That however leads to another bad habit Lost has gotten into. The chose not to reveal that Libby was there until the final moment of the show. They could have shown that much earlier and let the tension build-- Is she crazy with him? Is she going to throw him from the cliff? Maybe this is all HER dream. Nope. They gave it to you in the closing shot. Lost is becoming like most basketball games-- you can tune in for the last couple of minutes and get the entire story.
Once again, I was much more interested in the "b-story," which happens to be the main story ... I think. I wanted to see more of the-prisoner-formerly-known-as-Henry-Gale. I wanted to see him continue to manipulate everyone like an award winning puppeteer the way he has for the past couple of episodes. I wanted to see more of Ana Lucia and Sayid working together (great team). Alas, not this week. I guess I'll have to wait until next week, it looks like we're going up another hill on the roller coaster. Let me know what you think.
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