Comments on: I hardly know her Stevens.

By: HieroHero

HieroHero — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:11:24 +0000

I loved this episode. In fact I think it was my favorite Lost episode ever. This has been one hell of a season but it’s a pity it’s going to finish after only 7 episodes.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:34:56 +0000

I read speculation online that Faraday’s card game was a sign that he was losing his precognitive abilities, the kind that Desmond had for a while there. He wasn’t trying to “remember” what was on the cards, exactly, but predict them, or at least “remember” what he was going to see in the future. This episode makes that theory more likely, if you take into account that he’s been exposed to the same stuff that Desmond was.

And I’d still say “Lost” isn’t a “sci-fi show,” because it and shows like “Alias” and “Buffy” are making genre descriptions less and less relevant. It’s TV in the age of mash-ups, or at least it would be if mash-ups weren’t already dated. It’s an action drama suspense horror sci-fi mystery comedy.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:24:20 +0000

I thought that Faraday’s card game moment was there to imply that he has some sort of memory issues (maybe for a while now — didn’t he have some sort of caretaker with him, during the scene when he sees the news about the Oceanic flight)? It was my thought when watching that scene at the end of this week’s episode that his journal might be a sort of Memento-esque device - important pieces of information he’s trying to keep preserved for himself?

More likely, I am full of beans. Whatever’s going on, that was a quality episode in what has been an awesome season. Every time there’s a big-moment episode like this, things always feel immediately closer to resolution for me and I wonder “how the heck are they going to do another two seasons of this??” and then I realize I’ve thought that same thing every time for the last three and a half years.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:44:57 +0000

I thought this episode was awesome, and am glad that the show actually explained why something was happening in the same episode that it was happening in.
Desmond to me has always been the one character who a simple understandable goal. He loves Penny and wants to be reunited with her, that’s all there is to it, and i think that is why his character works. I still don’t understand why he raced across the pacific to prove his love to her, but oh well.

As far as Faraday, i get a sense he is not all there. He’s probably the “world’s expert on time displacement”, but i get a sense his brain is kind of fried. Wasn’t he introduced at the start of this year all freaked out as he was watching a TV broadcast of the “found” oceanic plane? He also had that weird card game moment on the island where it seemed like he was trying to do something he used to be able to do easily but was failing at.

I could have sworn i heard in an early interview with the creators that Lost was not a sci-fi show. Well this episode blew that notion out of the water.