On the island in 1977, we see Miles meet his father - someone who left his mother and him, when Miles was just a few months old, and therefore Miles tells Hurley he is not interested in getting to know as an adult back in time.
But this scenario provides another touching time travel vignette, of a boy, now grown, getting a second chance to get to know his lost father.
Hurley encourages Miles, with some talk about Luke and Darth and the Empire Strikes Back. Not only that, we get another wink at the fun of time travel, with Hurley explaining to Miles that Hurley, who has seen the movie umpteen times, and knows every line, plans on writing the script and sending it to George Lucas.... (Hurley's becoming the resident science fiction discussant on Lost.) We also get a rare glimpse of Hurley's numbers - on the hatch, which is being built - and that reminded me how little we know of them. I'm guessing we won't find out more until next year.
Tonight also had some good flashbacks of Miles before he came to the island - including a plea from a group of guys not to go back to the island. Who are they? Ben's men? Maybe...
And in two weeks we'll see the next step in this story ... which features Faraday. There's only one reason he's coming back to the island in 1977 (after having left it, off camera). He's determined to save Charlotte...
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3 comments:
Very good, relatively quiet episode. The Star Wars references were brilliant; i laughed like a madman at Hurley´s lines "i´m writing Empire Strikes back"; the moment Miles is standing in front of his dad´s house, seeing the family scene, is incredibly touching. And, still, amongst all the subtlety of the episode, it managed to set the foundation for what is probably to come, the final events on this season´s main story arc. I think, starting from now, we´re going to see how things develop and how they eventually lead up to the losties being expelled from/fleeing the Dharma Initiative, and how the feud between the Hostiles and the Dharma Initiative finally takes its decisively violent course. Now, do you think Bramm and Ilana´s team is really Ben´s? I think they´re rather new Dharma members sent directly from mainland to regain control over the island. Maybe?
I think kid is right about Bramm, Ilana did not recognize Ben on the plane. This was a great episode. I love the lines they are giving Hurley.
I've been dying to know what happened to Faraday and if there's one thing we do know, it's that he'll end up down in the un-built Orchid Station at some point, as that's how this Season began.
I'm also thinking it will be kinda poignant if Miles is around when his dad dies :-(
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