This week: There's not much bad to say about the final 2/3 of "There's No Place Like Home", but I give it my best shot anyway. LOST, Season 4, Episodes 13 & 14 There’s No Place Like Home (pts 2 & 3) I. The Future They Create A. What about Locke’s reppaearance off the island makes it important to call him “Jeremy Bentham” at every opportunity? You’re adding five syllables to the name of a guy who’s had one name for the entirety of y...
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This week: The greenhouse effect as everyone storms towards The Orchid on "There's No Place Like Home." LOST, Season 4, Episode 12 There’s No Place Like Home I. Leavin’ On A Jet Plane, Don’t Know When I’ll Go Nuts And Demand To Go Back Again A. It would be harsh to classify Jack’s schemes as harebrained (and I’m no stranger to being harsh about what Jack does, doesn’t do, thinks, doesn’t think, is, isn’t, etc.), but wh...
This week: Great, just what I needed, more story complications in "Cabin Fever". LOST, Episode 4.11 Cabin Fever I. Locke To The Future A. Maybe I should consult Juliet on this one, but I wasn’t aware that being six months pregnant and getting hit by a car means you have to deliver the kid immediately? I can see an emergency c-section if something went wrong with the mom, but since Mama Locke has a Claire-like dexterity and suffered little more than a scrape on the head...
This week: Jack wishes he had "Something Nice Back Home," but we quickly learn again why Jack can't have nice things: because he's a d-bag. LOST, Episode 4.10 Something Nice Back Home I. Meet The New Jack, Same As The Old Jack A. Every Jack-centric episode makes it more and more frustrating that he’s the “focal” character of the show. This time around, as we watch his descent into the bearded madness to come, it’s becoming painfully obvious that he&rsq...