>: 95 SOME LIKE IT HOTH
About the best episode title imaginable.
No “Previously . . .” but 8:15 gets replaced on the microwave by young upstart 3:16. “It’s a steal at $200,” this IS a flashback. Recognized Laura Chang right away and knew at once that it was Miles time. I guess a little Kind of Blue would have been too much but it was nice for Hurley to at least acknowledge the situation. From Miles’s sole flashback in 4.02 >: CONFIRMED DEAD, it’s always been a question, is he really communicating with ghosts or just another stripe of Sawyer, conning his way down the line? This first scene let’s us know that it’s real. Miles talks to dead people (the trumpeter probably did too, at least between ’76 and ’80 in the tunnels beneath his house, man, that autobiography just wins). And white rabbits are everywhere.
That shot of Miles reading the latest issue of Sports Illustrated on the cover is hilarious, just checking in with the latest news.
Man, Radzinsky really does seem to be a ratfuck. Poor old Alvarez. I guess it would be too much for HIS story to cycle back around in twenty episodes, somehow.
Giacchino continues to drop the ominous staccato piano and strings.
Laura’s delivery on the Island being “somewhere you can never go” is so spot-on, not even counting the cut to Miles tromping down the stairs and Horace saying his dad’s name (how did Dr. Chang wind up with a French moniker?).
Kimbley and I have discussed the fact that Hurley is pretty much the ultimate foil for anybody in any given situation. Sharing a chocolate bar (or not) with Ben while waiting for Locke to come out of Jacob’s cabin with Christian’s instructions, not really eluding Widmore’s men in motels with Sayid, defiling Ben’s dad’s corpse and drinking his beer with Sawyer and Jin then almost doubling down on Charlie’s fate before being saved by Three Dog Night, D. J. Fucking Qualls and a girl called Starla. EVERY scene he’s in with Sawyer. Now this bit with Miles, first without, then with his dad. All I’m saying is, why wasn’t he on the ill-fated raft? That could have been an entire classic episode, somehow. More rewatchable than 2.02 >: ADRIFT. But back to what actually happened. I love that bit about “How do you spell bounty hunter?” That’s Ilana’s job description, not so weird at all, even though the first thing I think when I hear the question is still that scene with Fett and Bossk and IG-88 (and who was the FOURTH?), I correct for that, tune back in, but how wonderful the way it works out.
And great spin to put on things, Hurley just embracing Miles into the fellowship of those who speak with phantoms. Because we’re kind of conditioned to think that Hurley’s just crazy, not really playing chess with Eko, of course not, whereas Miles is REALLY communing with spirits. But, eh? Is this so?
They shot it convincingly, but you’ve got to know that Miles is ripping off that football player’s daddy.
And Naomi’s right back in the game, Miles sniffing after her.
Roger is displaying an incredible amount of intelligence and ability to perceive undercurrents while being drunk on the swing set with Kate, doing a bit better than we’ve seen from him, thus far. The plot is almost driving here, given everything that we know about him up until now he A) shouldn’t really give a shit that Ben’s gone and B) certainly wouldn’t be questioning what Kate’s been saying but rather be trying to parlay the sympathy poke, I should think.
When Chang pauses, checks the stitching, and says, “Hurley,” the universe takes a deep breath, but doesn’t quite shatter.
Miles’s “Yes, sir,” to his dad is perfect.
And, back in the kitchen with Naomi and Felix, Miles really gets back to work. Felix was delivering papers for the plane and pictures of the empty graves housing the bodies from the fake crash. Delivering these to Widmore. At first I yah-hah’d that at last we knew that this meant that Widmore staged the crash but it really tells us nothing, Felix could have been delivering the evidence of Ben’s machinations. All we know is that Widmore killed him, and more than anything that makes him Ben’s man. Soooooo, the needle now, I guess, swings toward Ben for faking the crash. (and, why not, Ultimate Bad Guy [if there must be one and not both] because they’re making Ben seem so bad this season, then we’ll swing back to how awful Widmore is next season and then finally reconcile in the middle that they’re both terrible or that, yah, Widmore is the White Knight)
Great scene between Jack and Roger. Afraid the Doc hit his mark a little bit too hard, could have talked Roger down off the ledge with a bit more finesse, but subtlety’s never really been his thing. Ever. We can’t all be Jim LaFleur.
And that scene with Hurley in the backseat behind the two Changs. I hope there’s like half an hour of that on the DVD, every beat is just gold. Jorge really plays it well. You know, I’m not sure how much of an actor he is in the traditional sense, Jorge appears to = Hurley in every situation that I’ve seen, but it really doesn’t matter, his timing, every facial expression he makes here, perfection.
“I like country.”
The construction of the Swan. Too much. So THE NUMBERS were just the serial number for the hatch door? I mean, I know they were more than that, but THAT’S the reason those numbers were imprinted on that metal, not some warning, or nothing to do with, oh, the fact that they have to, or will have to, be entered on Radzinsky/Kelvin/Desmond/Locke’s computer inside post-Incident? We will see. Man, I need some kind of crushing #s endgame, not just “Wasn’t that cool, those numbers? They were EVERYwhere!” This is not a step in the perfect direction (the one that cannot be pointed to) but there is time, there is time.
Craziest scene of this entire episode is Miles getting abducted and taken for a ride in the van with Graham (?) and his friends. That’s the guy who’s either on 316 and crashes, or gets to the Island some other way and is waiting, Ilana’s smirking sidekick who bounds off after Lapidus went down. Are these “What lies in the shadow of the statue?” people some entirely new faction? That would be psycho. Or are they just Ben’s army? That’s certainly a simpler solution, and gives this fellow an easy way onto the Hydra island with the 316 passengers and Sawyer and Kate’s runway (still just crazy about that). This scene also gives like a 22-episode payoff, so funny when Miles simply doubles Naomi’s earlier #s-based payoff up to $3.2 million dollars to keep him off the Island, finally explaining the weird non-Valenzetti price he quoted to Ben in Locke’s basement in return for “taking care of Charlotte” and convincing his employer that Ben was dead, way back when Kate let him have 60 seconds (never figured out why that one was called EGGTOWN, a literary reference? About afraid to Google anything at this point)
How how how does the Incident expand things to the scale of World-Threatening? The fact that Hurley’s reiterating that, they’re really going to go with it. Just can’t imagine what it means.
And Hurley’s writing EMPIRE. I just about have no words for that, except he continues to be EveryFan and God bless him for it. I love this idea. So much. “With a couple of improvements.”
And Jack & Juliet had tea. Lots going on off-screen at this point. Sawyer commits himself by decking Phil/Jimmy. They’ve either got to go or kill him, it’s that simple.
(I don’t like seeing President Palmer hawking All-State during 24, it has always enraged me, and I don’t like seeing Michael as an Unusual during commercial breaks here. It throws me, and not in the good way)
That wrap-up with Miles and the football dad, nice bit of flashback closure the like of which we used to get every week back in the first couple/three seasons, but that have gone by the wayside with all the insanity that’s erupted since we took it to the bridge. Uncle June’s cohort did a fine job with his –centric. And wow, this is the first and only so far of the Freighter Folks’ cancelled fourth season spotlights, cheers Writer’s Strike. Charlotte’s obviously out, but Faraday might be up to bat, the way that Kate lateral’d over to Ben makes me think and deeply hope that it’s finally time to of course not get to the bottom but plumb the depths just a bit and learn why a man would cry at the sight of a faked plane crash on the television set and, most importantly, if he hasn’t been a savage in a cave for the last three years bemoaning the death of his beloved as I thought, just what the hell he’s been doing on the mainland, in Michigan no less, for the last three years, that genius fractured mind, with all the knowledge of what’s to come.
And skipped ahead (which, how can anybody fault me for?) but enjoyed Hurley’s wrap-up vis a vis lack of Skywalker communication that inspired Miles to witness those incredible seconds of his dad reading to him. Could not handle the pride on Chang/Candle’s face while handing the tyke over.
ONLY THREE MORE TO GO!
FARADAY IN THE CHUTE!
SAWYER REVERTING TO HIS TRUE NATURE!
RICHARD ALPERT AND CHRISTIAN SHEPHARD STILL WALK THE ISLAND W’NARY A FLASHBACK BETWEEN THEM! (though God knows they’re all over everybody else’s)
CLAIRE STILL NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!
AND SAYID STIIIIIIIIIIILL DEEP IN THE DEATHTRAP JUNGLE!
WAITING.
STAY TUNED, ISLAND FAITHFUL, PUSH THAT BUTTON ON YOUR REMOTE WEDNESDAY AT 9/8 CENTRAL!
YOU HAVE NO CHOICE.
No “Previously . . .” but 8:15 gets replaced on the microwave by young upstart 3:16. “It’s a steal at $200,” this IS a flashback. Recognized Laura Chang right away and knew at once that it was Miles time. I guess a little Kind of Blue would have been too much but it was nice for Hurley to at least acknowledge the situation. From Miles’s sole flashback in 4.02 >: CONFIRMED DEAD, it’s always been a question, is he really communicating with ghosts or just another stripe of Sawyer, conning his way down the line? This first scene let’s us know that it’s real. Miles talks to dead people (the trumpeter probably did too, at least between ’76 and ’80 in the tunnels beneath his house, man, that autobiography just wins). And white rabbits are everywhere.
That shot of Miles reading the latest issue of Sports Illustrated on the cover is hilarious, just checking in with the latest news.
Man, Radzinsky really does seem to be a ratfuck. Poor old Alvarez. I guess it would be too much for HIS story to cycle back around in twenty episodes, somehow.
Giacchino continues to drop the ominous staccato piano and strings.
Laura’s delivery on the Island being “somewhere you can never go” is so spot-on, not even counting the cut to Miles tromping down the stairs and Horace saying his dad’s name (how did Dr. Chang wind up with a French moniker?).
Kimbley and I have discussed the fact that Hurley is pretty much the ultimate foil for anybody in any given situation. Sharing a chocolate bar (or not) with Ben while waiting for Locke to come out of Jacob’s cabin with Christian’s instructions, not really eluding Widmore’s men in motels with Sayid, defiling Ben’s dad’s corpse and drinking his beer with Sawyer and Jin then almost doubling down on Charlie’s fate before being saved by Three Dog Night, D. J. Fucking Qualls and a girl called Starla. EVERY scene he’s in with Sawyer. Now this bit with Miles, first without, then with his dad. All I’m saying is, why wasn’t he on the ill-fated raft? That could have been an entire classic episode, somehow. More rewatchable than 2.02 >: ADRIFT. But back to what actually happened. I love that bit about “How do you spell bounty hunter?” That’s Ilana’s job description, not so weird at all, even though the first thing I think when I hear the question is still that scene with Fett and Bossk and IG-88 (and who was the FOURTH?), I correct for that, tune back in, but how wonderful the way it works out.
And great spin to put on things, Hurley just embracing Miles into the fellowship of those who speak with phantoms. Because we’re kind of conditioned to think that Hurley’s just crazy, not really playing chess with Eko, of course not, whereas Miles is REALLY communing with spirits. But, eh? Is this so?
They shot it convincingly, but you’ve got to know that Miles is ripping off that football player’s daddy.
And Naomi’s right back in the game, Miles sniffing after her.
Roger is displaying an incredible amount of intelligence and ability to perceive undercurrents while being drunk on the swing set with Kate, doing a bit better than we’ve seen from him, thus far. The plot is almost driving here, given everything that we know about him up until now he A) shouldn’t really give a shit that Ben’s gone and B) certainly wouldn’t be questioning what Kate’s been saying but rather be trying to parlay the sympathy poke, I should think.
When Chang pauses, checks the stitching, and says, “Hurley,” the universe takes a deep breath, but doesn’t quite shatter.
Miles’s “Yes, sir,” to his dad is perfect.
And, back in the kitchen with Naomi and Felix, Miles really gets back to work. Felix was delivering papers for the plane and pictures of the empty graves housing the bodies from the fake crash. Delivering these to Widmore. At first I yah-hah’d that at last we knew that this meant that Widmore staged the crash but it really tells us nothing, Felix could have been delivering the evidence of Ben’s machinations. All we know is that Widmore killed him, and more than anything that makes him Ben’s man. Soooooo, the needle now, I guess, swings toward Ben for faking the crash. (and, why not, Ultimate Bad Guy [if there must be one and not both] because they’re making Ben seem so bad this season, then we’ll swing back to how awful Widmore is next season and then finally reconcile in the middle that they’re both terrible or that, yah, Widmore is the White Knight)
Great scene between Jack and Roger. Afraid the Doc hit his mark a little bit too hard, could have talked Roger down off the ledge with a bit more finesse, but subtlety’s never really been his thing. Ever. We can’t all be Jim LaFleur.
And that scene with Hurley in the backseat behind the two Changs. I hope there’s like half an hour of that on the DVD, every beat is just gold. Jorge really plays it well. You know, I’m not sure how much of an actor he is in the traditional sense, Jorge appears to = Hurley in every situation that I’ve seen, but it really doesn’t matter, his timing, every facial expression he makes here, perfection.
“I like country.”
The construction of the Swan. Too much. So THE NUMBERS were just the serial number for the hatch door? I mean, I know they were more than that, but THAT’S the reason those numbers were imprinted on that metal, not some warning, or nothing to do with, oh, the fact that they have to, or will have to, be entered on Radzinsky/Kelvin/Desmond/Locke’s computer inside post-Incident? We will see. Man, I need some kind of crushing #s endgame, not just “Wasn’t that cool, those numbers? They were EVERYwhere!” This is not a step in the perfect direction (the one that cannot be pointed to) but there is time, there is time.
Craziest scene of this entire episode is Miles getting abducted and taken for a ride in the van with Graham (?) and his friends. That’s the guy who’s either on 316 and crashes, or gets to the Island some other way and is waiting, Ilana’s smirking sidekick who bounds off after Lapidus went down. Are these “What lies in the shadow of the statue?” people some entirely new faction? That would be psycho. Or are they just Ben’s army? That’s certainly a simpler solution, and gives this fellow an easy way onto the Hydra island with the 316 passengers and Sawyer and Kate’s runway (still just crazy about that). This scene also gives like a 22-episode payoff, so funny when Miles simply doubles Naomi’s earlier #s-based payoff up to $3.2 million dollars to keep him off the Island, finally explaining the weird non-Valenzetti price he quoted to Ben in Locke’s basement in return for “taking care of Charlotte” and convincing his employer that Ben was dead, way back when Kate let him have 60 seconds (never figured out why that one was called EGGTOWN, a literary reference? About afraid to Google anything at this point)
How how how does the Incident expand things to the scale of World-Threatening? The fact that Hurley’s reiterating that, they’re really going to go with it. Just can’t imagine what it means.
And Hurley’s writing EMPIRE. I just about have no words for that, except he continues to be EveryFan and God bless him for it. I love this idea. So much. “With a couple of improvements.”
And Jack & Juliet had tea. Lots going on off-screen at this point. Sawyer commits himself by decking Phil/Jimmy. They’ve either got to go or kill him, it’s that simple.
(I don’t like seeing President Palmer hawking All-State during 24, it has always enraged me, and I don’t like seeing Michael as an Unusual during commercial breaks here. It throws me, and not in the good way)
That wrap-up with Miles and the football dad, nice bit of flashback closure the like of which we used to get every week back in the first couple/three seasons, but that have gone by the wayside with all the insanity that’s erupted since we took it to the bridge. Uncle June’s cohort did a fine job with his –centric. And wow, this is the first and only so far of the Freighter Folks’ cancelled fourth season spotlights, cheers Writer’s Strike. Charlotte’s obviously out, but Faraday might be up to bat, the way that Kate lateral’d over to Ben makes me think and deeply hope that it’s finally time to of course not get to the bottom but plumb the depths just a bit and learn why a man would cry at the sight of a faked plane crash on the television set and, most importantly, if he hasn’t been a savage in a cave for the last three years bemoaning the death of his beloved as I thought, just what the hell he’s been doing on the mainland, in Michigan no less, for the last three years, that genius fractured mind, with all the knowledge of what’s to come.
And skipped ahead (which, how can anybody fault me for?) but enjoyed Hurley’s wrap-up vis a vis lack of Skywalker communication that inspired Miles to witness those incredible seconds of his dad reading to him. Could not handle the pride on Chang/Candle’s face while handing the tyke over.
ONLY THREE MORE TO GO!
FARADAY IN THE CHUTE!
SAWYER REVERTING TO HIS TRUE NATURE!
RICHARD ALPERT AND CHRISTIAN SHEPHARD STILL WALK THE ISLAND W’NARY A FLASHBACK BETWEEN THEM! (though God knows they’re all over everybody else’s)
CLAIRE STILL NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!
AND SAYID STIIIIIIIIIIILL DEEP IN THE DEATHTRAP JUNGLE!
WAITING.
STAY TUNED, ISLAND FAITHFUL, PUSH THAT BUTTON ON YOUR REMOTE WEDNESDAY AT 9/8 CENTRAL!
YOU HAVE NO CHOICE.
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