TV Review: Lost, "LaFleur"

“The record is spinning again, we’re just not on the song we want to be on.”

How a show can keep changing up the circumstances so much and yet remain the most engaging storyline on TV I’ll never know, but such is the case with ABC's Lost. I really like the fact that they are now in a different era on the island and we’re just picking up the story from here and running with it. The quote above from Daniel Faraday definitely does not reflect my sentiments. This is definitely the song I want to be on!



When tonight’s episode of Lost started and we caught a glimpse of the giant statue which we presume has 4 toes, all I could say was, “holy crap!” Unfortunately John Jocke’s fixing of the frozen donkey wheel shot the castaways forward to a different time so we aren’t going to learn any more about the statue, for now. Where that flash did place them was into a period when the Dharma Initiative was in full thrust in the mid 1970s. Skip 3 years later and we see that our little group of Oceanic survivors has integrated quite well into the organization and Sawyer is in a position of authority and is know by the name LaFleur.

Through a series of flashes back and forth in time, we learn that Sawyer and Juliet develop a love for each other. The guy that Locke saw in the woods building the cabin that he would later find Jacob in, was the leader of the Dharma initiative, and that something must have happened on the island to make it impossible for women to survive childbirth.

I’m starting to feel bad for Juliet who seems doomed to play the part of “The Other Woman”—which, incidentally, was actually the title of an episode about her from last season—especially because at the end of tonight’s episode, we see the reunion of Jack, Hurley and Kate with Sawyer and Jin and it appears that Sawyer still has eyes for Kate.

Lost has once again established itself as my favorite drama on television. No other show is brave enough to introduce as many twists and turns as this one, or smart enough to pull them off and not make it look like they’re loosing focus or grasping at straws. This is truly a one of a kind show.