After last week’s underwhelming episode, Lost came roaring back with a vengeance last night, delivering a mind-blowing backstory saga that ranks among the series absolute best hours. After enduring who knows how many eyeliner jokes, Nestor Carbonell gave us a look at the man Richard Alpert grew out of in a performance that was nothing short of inspired, revealing a man trapped between the forces of good and evil, of reasoned choice and pure faith.
“Fake Locke” has become boring of late and that whole conceit has been growing tiresome. Last night brought the return of the real Man in Black in the person of Titus Welliver, hypnotic and fascinating on many levels. Equally fantastic work by Mark Pellegrino as Jacob, giving us encounters that made us feel we were glimpsing moments of pivotal history and portent, where fate itself is up for grabs.
Last year’s season was heavy on science and the physics of time travel – a season of reason. Last night threw down mythic, Biblical revelations that trigger an avalanche of questions – if, in fact, the stage of this landscape is what Richard believes it is, remains to be seen. Many assumptions are in play. Lost has always mined fertile ground contrasting free will with faith – science with hope and belief – how the science of what’s come before will reconcile with what we seemed to learn last night will be what ultimately defines Lost’s cosmology from here to the story’s end.
An astonishing episode I can’t wait to revisit very soon.
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