My pal Sharon pointed out a parallel I overlooked regarding Charlie and Locke in Fire + Water.
The only thing I got out of that episode was that Charlie and Locke share a similar situation. Charlie’s bro sold C’s beloved piano for his own gain — to get clean. Locke’s dad took L’s kidney. Then Liam [...]

“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 [...]