In an earlier post I said that dream sequences are a writer’s crutch. They can mean everything and nothing all at once. Weird for its own sake is the realm of the art school film. Thankfully, the dream sequences in ? were very effective.
For one thing, they were literal. No BS symbolism or esoteric nonsense. [...]

“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 [...]