LOST Season 5: Episode 13: Some Like It Hoth

What an excellent episode! Once again, we got to be a fly on the wall for a conversation that any two viewers of the show would probably have while trying to make sense out of everything as Hurley and Miles spoke to each other.

Miles is the latest character to have "daddy issues" (i.e. Kate, Jack, Sawyer, etc.) and this episode gave us a good idea as to why. According to Miles's mom, his father left them, but at least the adult Miles got a chance to see himself as a baby listening to a story being read by his dad. In brilliant LOST style, the book was called Me and my Polar Bear.

Hurley shared that he "talks to dead people" just as Miles can, but in a very different way as we have seen when Hurley chats with Mr. Ecko and Charlie. Miles communicates with the deceased while the body is still there. Dead people actually come and visit Hurley. There was a connection to the uber electromagnetic pull of the island which killed the worker whose tooth filling sliced through his brain. This was the body being transported by Miles and that relayed that information.

We have a special next week, but in two weeks, we will see the "explosive 100th episode." I think I might invite my LOSTIE friends over for that one.

As a cliffhanger, we saw Sawyer knock out the guy who watched the surveillance tape in which Kate and Sawyer appear taking young Ben to the Others to be healed.

Other brilliant things about this episode:
-the return of the great looking Naomi as she recruited Miles.
-Seeing the construction of the original hatch, the Swan Station.
-Seeing the construction of the Orchid Station.
-Hurley stating the last number in the sequence (42) to Miles's amazement.
-The question asked to Miles by the guys who picked him up on the street which we heard for the first time last week: WHAT LIES IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATUE?
-even better-the information that if he doesn't know the answer to that question that he's "not ready to go to that island."
-THE RETURN OF DANIEL FARADAY ON THE SUBMARINE!!! HOW DID HE GET OFF THE ISLAND IN THE FIRST PLACE???
-I KNOW you all saw the Egyptian notes on the chalk board in the Dharma classroom!!!

This episode was insane! Off the hook! Well done!

QUESTION: Now that Daniel's back, where are Rose and Bernard and them?

Can't wait for the 100th episode!
The special, not so much...unless there's some new information to be gathered. I'm going to watch it, of course.

Check out the trailer for next week's special and episode 14 (airing 4/29/09) which is Daniel-centric, entitled "The Variable:"



LOST is the best show ever!