L O S T : season FIVE, “JUGHEAD” (episode 3)
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
This season’s third episode, “JUGHEAD,” aired this evening and definitely laid the ground work for an exciting story arc this year. Some highlights for me:
– Locke asking Juliet “exactly how old” Richard Alpert is… her reply: “Old.”
– The quick moment where it’s apparent that Faraday is not only AWARE of Miles’ psychic abilities, but that he trusts it enough to mine him for details after Miles informs him they just passed a fresh gravesite.
I was a bit worried about the relationship of Penny and Des after watching him struggle to explain his “new memories” of Faraday visiting him in the hatch. You’d think after three years together, he would’ve gotten the point across that The Island, everything about it, and everyone who’s ever been there or even heard of it is involved in some pretty BIZZARRE SH*T!!! My concerns were alleviated by the great scene where Desmond tries to lie and shrugs off her detection of it…perfect! They are still the best couple on this show by far.
It doesn’t seem like Faraday and Charlotte will ever have a chance to rival them, as the episode featured both Daniel professing his love AND Charlotte dying (filling the rumored death quota of 1 female series regular). While I never got invested in her character, it seems kind of pointless to have had her along for the freighter ride just to die now…
While Charlotte’s death was the closing “THUMP” moment, the episode’s real plot gem was the revelation of Charles Widmore on the island of 1954. This could keep the braniacs at LOSTPEDIA up all night recalculating and revising their theories. He was there, as an other, looking about 50 years younger than in “the present” and taking orders from Richard Alpert. No clue as to how or when he got there, but though his brash, bold attitude was present, he seemed youthfully naive and not completely enlightened about The Island. The most important detail to me, though, was his youth; he certainly doesn’t age as well as Mr. Alpert who Juliet said has “always” been there…
Next week will find the “left behind” crew in another time and perhaps find Des, Penny, and CHARLIE (sweet name choice!) docking in Marina del Rey and approaching Faraday’s mum who looks to almost certainly be Mrs. Hawking…
UPDATE !!! : Something I (and I would guess 99% of LOST fans) missed: apparently the actress that played the Oxford library receptionist (when Desmond queried about Faraday) was the SAME actress shown in season one working the counter at OCEANIC AIRLINES as the passengers of Flight 815 checked in and picked up their tickets… WhaaaaAAAAAAAA??? Surely NOT just a coincidence, but yet another mysterious detail… Thanks, LOSTPEDIA!