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Episodes: Reviews
5.14 The Variable
Sawyer: "Is he still crazy?" Miles: "It's on a whole new level, man." I have to say that I'm just floored. That Eloise. What a bitch. She knew for thirty years that she killed her own son in 1977, and she never even tried to warn him. She guided him in the path that would lead him to his death, and she wouldn't even let him play the freaking piano. If it had been my son, I would have told him the story every single day. I would have had it tattooed upside down on his chest. Jeez Louise. That was what the scene with Daniel and Charlotte was all about. Daniel believed there was no point in warning little Charlotte, but he had to try, anyway. Because he loved her. Didn't his mother love him? Did she keep her distance his entire life, knowing what would happen? The conversation that Eloise and Charles Widmore had in Long Beach intimated that they really did have no choice. The only thing that would even partially excuse them as parents is if they knew with absolute certainty, for sure and no mistake, that it was impossible to save their son. Was there another reason? Was Daniel's death critical to the survival of the Island, maybe? Did they love the freaking Island more than their own son? Why wouldn't that surprise me? Ben sacrificed his daughter for the Island, too. Maybe it's an Others trend. The Losties book-clubby meeting in Sawyer and Juliet's living room was great fun. We haven't seen the cast together all season, and I don't think we've ever seen them all in one room. And apparently, they're not supposed to be in 1977 after all, so we can forget all that destiny crap. (That was Eloise's fault, too.) Was Faraday wrong about people being variables? The gun Daniel carried that got him shot was Kate's idea; whatever happened, happened. I can't imagine the sort of re-write they'd have to do if the Losties succeeded in stopping "the incident" with Jughead. It'd be nuts. And let's face it, Radzinsky deserves to spend the next twenty some years pushing a button; he's insufferable. Trickstersonii on my LostReviews list suggested that the Losties will try to use Jughead to prevent "the incident" but that it will actually cause the catastrophe, not stop it. Meaning that the Losties cannot change the course of history and are, in fact, the reason they themselves crashed on the Island in the first place. It's beautifully circular. I like it. Print it up. Character bits: -- We were right about Ellie being Eloise. Where was Daniel Faraday in 1977, by the way? When was he born, and where? Was it on the Island, one assumes? Was young Daniel in the camp, even? Widmore was his father, so where did the name Faraday come from? -- If Daniel experimented first on himself and he was all right (before doing something awful to his girlfriend Theresa Spencer), then why was he all screwed up and memory-less in 2004? Did I forget something? Who was Caroline, who was with him then? A nurse? Did he leave her before he did her in, too? -- Charlotte definitely wasn't born in 1979, because she'd be minus two. According to an article someone posted, the actress said 1979 instead of 1970 and no one caught it. Ah, vanity. -- Desmond was indeed shot, but is now recovering in Marina Medical Center in Long Beach. Desmond, Daniel's "constant," was Daniel's brother-in-law. Penny will probably never know she had a half-brother. (Another familiar Lost theme, huh? Jack and Claire never knew, either.) -- The "incident" and upcoming evacuation explains why Charlotte and Miles didn't grow up on the Island. It doesn't explain how so many survived it. -- This week's nicknames: Sawyer called Faraday "Twitchy" and "H.G. Wells." Bits and pieces: -- The Lost credit at the beginning faded into a star field and a commercial for the Star Trek movie. Very funny. I'm a big Star Trek geek and can't wait. I'm definitely reviewing it, by the way. -- Is Jeremy Davies out of the cast? Or is he going to hang around as one of the Walking Dead? I guess, since he time travels, he could probably keep on showing up alive until the end of the series, too. -- The grant Widmore gave Faraday was 1.5 million pounds. But the code for the fence is 141717, which I don't think can be massaged in any way into Hurley's numbers. -- The restaurant where Faraday met his mother after he got his doctorate was the Kashmir Curry. I think. I was reading it backward. I don't suppose there's an anagram in there? Maybe there was a meaningful statue or something. -- What was on the TV in the hospital waiting room in Long Beach? I'm sure it was also something important that I didn't recognize. -- The music young Daniel Faraday was playing on the piano was the classical piece which was made into a popular song called, "I'm always chasing rainbows." Fitting. -- It looked like there was another "death by rampaging dental filling" under the Orchid. -- Four hours until "the incident." Time is running out. Quotes: Young Daniel: "But I want to keep playing the piano. I can do both. I can make time." Eloise: "If only you could." Faraday: "Hey, James." Sawyer: "Welcome to the meeting, Twitchy." Hurley: "You guys were in 1954? Like, Fonzie times?" Penny: "Is Des going to be okay?" Eloise: "I don't know. For the first time in a long time, I don't know what's going to happen next." Kate: "He's talking about erasing everything that's happened to us, Jack. It's insane." Jack: "We disappeared off a plane in mid-air and ended up in 1977. Getting kind of used to insane." We all expect something special of a 100th episode, and we definitely got something special. I didn't care all that much about Daniel Faraday, so his death didn't break me up or anything. But by the end of the episode, I felt such compassion for the poor guy, Billie Blog version is here, if you'd like to make a comment. |