![]() Combined with a strong character-driven ”flash” story, it was very old school Lost. I promised that I would….” Then he fell flat on his face.Īs it turned out, Jack didn’t have a stomach bug but appendicitis - the kind of hardcore castaway survival plotline we haven’t really seen since season 1. ”I said I was gonna get us off the Island, all of us. ”I’ve gotten us this far,” he said, groggy and pale. Despite being sick as a dog (”Food poisoning,” he said), Jack tried to play his elected part of commander in chief: He vowed to vanquish those freighter evildoers should they attack, and he renewed his pledge to formulate an exit strategy out of their tropical, possibly quantum quagmire. He staggered out of his tent and into a squabble between his castaway friends and Faraday and Charlotte apparently, the sat-phone-turned-telegraph wasn’t working as it did last episode, when Camp Jack came to grips with the hard truth that the freighter folk have exactly zero interest in taking them off the Island. But mostly, it was about Jack.Īnd so it went that ”Something Nice Back Home” began with Jack’s iconic eyeball flittering awake, an ironic wink at the first scene of Lost‘s very first episode, in which the good doctor, having just fallen from the sky, pops awake and springs into life-saving Hero of the Beach mode. Jin cut a secret deal with Charlotte, Claire went MIA, Christian Shepherd bonded with his grandson, flash-forward Hurley went nutty, and flash-forward Kate did secret favors for left-behind Sawyer. ![]() (I swear to you, this is relevant.) Similarly, ”Something Nice Back Home” was partly a transitional passage in the Lost saga, a busywork episode designed to put all the characters in position for the year’s big finale, a three-part affair that starts in two weeks. The dilemma is making her weep: Poor Alice can’t figure out how she fits - literally - in her new world. As she ponders the riddle of herself and the problem of opening the door - a problem because the door is rather tiny and she has grown very large thanks to a piece of magic cake - she cools herself with a fan left behind by the White Rabbit, oblivious of the fact that the very act of fanning is magically making her smaller. She’s just fallen out of her world but finds herself stuck in a stuffy corridor on the other side of a door leading into Wonderland proper. ”The Pool of Tears” is a transitional chapter in Alice’s adventure. (For those of you who insist on a ”hard science” explanation of Lost, check out The Elegant Universe, which makes such a scenario plausible.) But the specific Alice in Wonderland reference cited in last night’s episode (taken from the book’s second chapter, ”The Pool of Tears”) reminded us anew that Lost is first and foremost about its characters, and more deeply, the tough, often impenetrable mystery of ourselves: Perhaps by Lost‘s last episode, if not sooner, we will realize that Carroll’s topsy-turvy underworld was a clue to the show’s essential metaphysical enigma perhaps, for example, the castaways have literally tumbled into a hidden, beyond-microscopic dimension tucked into the seams of reality, as described by current superstring physicists. In last night’s episode, ”Something Nice Back Home,” flash-forward Jack - enjoying domestic bliss with flash-forward Kate - read a whole stinkin’ passage from the thing as he put flash-forward Aaron to bed. You’d think Lost was trying to tell us something the way it keeps pointing toward Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s book on its bookshelf. ![]() ![]() Alice of Alice in Wonderland fame, of course.
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