LOST---The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Part XIII(The Son of Widmore!)

Sorry about the lateness of this review, fellow Lostians, but I was exhausted after the show on Wednesday and immediately went to bed. Do not expect this to be a particularly pleasant review because this week has been hell due to many, many things. However, most of the episode’s scorn, be it inspired from my life or otherwise, is deserved.

The Good:
1. Farraday hopelessly telling every soul in the Dharma Sack-Racers Committee that he is from the future. It was awfully cute, though bloody painful to watch.

2. Haha, Phil, you bastard.

The Bad:
1. The Lost writers managed to, once again, create a strong, lovable, and smart character in DANIEL FARRADAY! And then….absolutely…..waste him. I suppose he had to die because of “destiny” or whatever. Honestly though, he had a good deal of potential that had not been awakened yet. He was still the messenger boy, the connect-the-dots man, what with his explaining time travel, and then the hatch button and all that jazz(even though we already knew all that). He could have been so much more but no, the LOST writers have to keep things interesting by killing one of the only voices of optimism on the entire fucking show. His purpose was done. He told the Losties that oh, he was wrong before, they CAN change the past, they are the variables, and then the writers treated him like a pile of shit and threw him in the fan.

2. Dear LOST casting agents, find better child actors!

3. This episode came at an impasse in the series. Last episode kind of left the storyline at a logical point of view: most of the Losties had realized their purposes for returning to the island, but were lacking a definitive plan of action, and no such plan of action was really presenting itself on the show. The plot was at a standstill, ready to either fart out its last gas and die, boldly go into an entirely new direction, or find a convenient twist that would fuck with people’s minds. Unfortunately, the writers chose option number three and fucked up the scenario with: “My mother was wrong.” Here we go everybody, ready? HOW REMARKABLY CONVENIENT! Now that I look back on the moment, I cannot help but laugh a little because after he said that I thought to myself: “God, just die already.”

Purgatory: Okay, time to make predictions.
1. Prediction #1: Inspired by Farraday’s words and his martyrdom(I hate that word), the Losties will rise up to new levels and decide that they can cheat destiny and make new destinies for themselves, and blah blah blah all that other stuff that has to do with hero myths and destiny tales. Meanwhile, 18 million of the 20 million viewers of the show will eat all this shit up, swearing that they have never seen anything like it before; and then they’ll go watch Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Slumdog Millionaire and not understand what they’re about.

2. Prediction #2: So far, whenever a Lostie’s purpose has been fulfilled on the island, they die. That being said, the series will end with all of the Losties sacrificing themselves in an effort to save…some “large catastrophe” from happening. The only one who will live on is Walt (WAAAAAAAAAALT!). Walt will be the Storyteller, the character who learns and retains knowledge of the events, and passes it on to future generations.

3. Prediction #3: Perhaps they manage to stop the “large catastrophe” without dying. Then they are visited by some people from the far-flung future. They tell the Losties that the future they are from is in terrible shape because of the magnetic properties unleashed from the island in the “large catastrophe”. They reveal that have been manipulating the Losties along a timeline that has successfully altered the events of the past and save the world from disaster. How the magnetic properties of the island came to be is left unexplained…

The Ugly:
1. My roommate and I were discussing LOST earlier this week, and he described the show in what is probably the simplest and clearest explanation by anyone yet: “LOST gives you just enough information to get you to the next episode. It just gives you information.” Not bad for someone who has only seen six episodes of the show.

2. I then challenged my roommate by telling him that he cannot possibly consider his opinion valid having only seen six episodes of the entire series. He then asked me “why?” And even though I argued against him for a while; after some thought, I came to the conclusion that he was correct. His opinion was perfectly valid. This is because my roommate was commenting on what he had seen, not what he understood or knew about the show. And that is what I do. Each of these reviews---each theory, each critique, each joke---is a response to things I SEE in the show.


Overall, this episode lacked a good deal of interesting material. However, despite falling back onto the usual convenient mind-fuck plot twists, the characters did decide on a plan of action that looks as if it will jump-start the action again. Until next week, Lostians.

Ciao.