… And one big heaping piece of filler episode.
First a word about the filler: Further Instructions.
What’s missing from the title is what viewers did for one hour: wait. As in the phrase “Await further instructions,” and boy did we ever. Nothing happened in the Locke centric episode.
We didn’t learn much new about anyone or anything. [...]

“Save the baby Charlie.”

Lost’s episodes that favor character development over advancing the plot are precarious. It’s as though you’re telling a large part of the audience “Keep squirming and we’re going home. Now sit still and learn something.” Sometimes it pays in spades, as it did with Mr. Eko’s backstory in The 23rd Psalm; sometimes [...]

If Jack is a good person who sees the error in his ways and goes emo with guilt, then Kate is his shadow. Kate’s problem isn’t our problem, for the majority of us anyway. Lost’s Neilsen ratings for female viewers 18-35 who are locked up in the federal penitentiary system aren’t measured so perhaps we’ll [...]

“The terror was just so…
…crazy, so real…
…and I knew I had to deal with it.
So I just made a choice.
I’d let the fear in.”

Jack first monologues for Kate after his heroic effort that save many of the surviving passengers of Oceanic flight 815. It’s a quiet moment where he reflects upon an incident during the [...]