Lost - Some Like it Hoth
What I particularly enjoy about Lost's use of back story storytelling and time travel usage are the development of characters over the length of their time on the show. Admittedly I have been dying for a Miles themed episode so I could get further information on him. Especially his abilities to "sense" the presence of the dead nearby, hear them after passing, even "requesting" to speak to them; Miles had more or less existed as a wisecracking smartass that balked at whatever caused him grief and frustration. Not that I haven't enjoyed that, certainly as an annoyance to Sawyer, with the two of them often butting heads and arguing.
Miles has the same issues as others in Lost: missing/neglectful father issues. He never knew his father so being teleported back to 1977 gives him a chance to see him and what is fact from fiction. While his dying mother lay on the bed being cared after while Miles was out there trying to figure himself out, her unwillingness to give him details about his father has been a driving force in his indifference during life. Money for telling others what their loved ones who died feel has been a supplement but never a satisfaction.
With Kate trying to assure Roger his son is okay without telling him just makes matters worse as Jack talks him out of going to Goodspeed while Sawyer is informed of the situation. Roger is an asshole, plain and simple. Roger is just not a nice man. Ben being gone is a gift to the kid. He's granted a reprieve from enduring his father's alcoholic benders and general ridicule. Kate seems to find good will with him only for his drunken ass to once again recall why he's wholly unpleasant. Losing your wife doesn't give you an excuse to treat everyone like shit.
Neat to get back story during Miles' history before the island regarding Widmore and Bram, the former financing the Oceanic plane facade and the latter trying to talk the dead-people whisper from going on the freighter. The "shadow of the statue" question resurfaces from Bram to Miles as it did in the previous episode when Iliana asked it to Lapidus...why does this continue to be brought up? I'm sure we will finding out quite soon.
I asked my friend at work if Dharma building all these stations on the island broke the truce with Alpert and the Others. Would this be the catalyst in the purge? Will Ben serve as a spy upon his return? The Swan's construction and the scientists (and body Miles is commissioned to carry to The Orchid for his father) involved at the Orchid, there are developments certain to culminate in The Incident. With Daniel, among other scientists, arriving from Ann Arbor in the sub, what lies ahead should be quite interesting!
With Kate trying to assure Roger his son is okay without telling him just makes matters worse as Jack talks him out of going to Goodspeed while Sawyer is informed of the situation. Roger is an asshole, plain and simple. Roger is just not a nice man. Ben being gone is a gift to the kid. He's granted a reprieve from enduring his father's alcoholic benders and general ridicule. Kate seems to find good will with him only for his drunken ass to once again recall why he's wholly unpleasant. Losing your wife doesn't give you an excuse to treat everyone like shit.
Neat to get back story during Miles' history before the island regarding Widmore and Bram, the former financing the Oceanic plane facade and the latter trying to talk the dead-people whisper from going on the freighter. The "shadow of the statue" question resurfaces from Bram to Miles as it did in the previous episode when Iliana asked it to Lapidus...why does this continue to be brought up? I'm sure we will finding out quite soon.
I asked my friend at work if Dharma building all these stations on the island broke the truce with Alpert and the Others. Would this be the catalyst in the purge? Will Ben serve as a spy upon his return? The Swan's construction and the scientists (and body Miles is commissioned to carry to The Orchid for his father) involved at the Orchid, there are developments certain to culminate in The Incident. With Daniel, among other scientists, arriving from Ann Arbor in the sub, what lies ahead should be quite interesting!
1_Hurley writing Lucas's script ahead of time for Empire Strikes Back, with Miles just kvetching with him cracked me up. The thinking of living in that moment, what to do and all that was conscious to me in the timeline's aware characters, trying to figure out their place where [when] they don't belong.
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