LOST Character Leaderboards, Season 4, Episode 11

Previous Episode: 407

Next Episode: 414

  1. Desmond: Thank you for being the only couple on the show that doesn't make me retch. (407)
  2. Hurley ↑1: It's pretty cool that you came to see Sun's baby, dude. (407)
  3. Jin ↑1: Wow, I didn't know you could get Rosetta Stones tapes on the Island!
  4. Sawyer ↑4: Aw, Sawyer's being protective of Claire! How adorable.

    Achievements unlocked:

  5. Sayid ↓3: That's....that's a bummer, man. That's a bummer.

    Achievements unlocked:

  6. Ben ↑3: I want one of those telescoping batons.

    Achievements unlocked:

  7. Faraday: There aren't enough nervous science geeks on TV. (403)
  8. Kate ↓3: So did the "Kate wears a man's shirt and no pants for 20 minutes" episode air during sweeps or something?
  9. Jack ↓3: Thank God Jack's latent dysfunction and alcoholism sabotaged that relationship in one episode.

    Achievements unlocked:

  10. Sun: For once, I would like to see a flashback where the character just, you know, gets along with their parents pretty well. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? (318)
  11. Miles ↑1: Does the vacuum cleaner annoy the spirits, or just the viewers? (403)
  12. Charlotte ↓1: Meh. (403)
  13. Juliet ↑1: Damnit, please de-arch your eyebrows!

    Achievements unlocked:

  14. Locke ↓1: This week on "John Locke's Had a Shit Life": the first known instance of DTMWICD.
  15. Michael: You've got a lot of "Waaaaaaaaalt!" to work off, buddy.
  16. Claire: A trusted source says that you are probably dead and will never be heard from again. No offense, but I hope this is true.

    Achievements unlocked:

Summary

After the very sloooooow middle section of Season 3, I understood why so many people that LOST went off the rails in 2007. After watching this entire disc in a single sitting, I now understand why so many people though it got back on track in 2008. The show is moving now, and I can't help but think that Seasons 2 and 3 would have benefited from being cut down to 18 or 20 episodes. Of course, it's helpful that we've spent 70 episodes with the main cast, and we don't need any more development for them. For that reason, it's a little surprising that we still don't really know anything about Faraday, Charlotte, or Miles. Assuming they survive the season, I hope the writers flesh out their background a bit in Season 5.

The flash-forward structure helps the pacing, as it lets the plot be driven towards something; it's now clear that there is a kind of destiny or inevitability to the events happening, and gives a different feeling to the viewers' jigsaw-puzzle construction. Ben ended up in the middle of the Syrian Desert, some months after the Oceanic 6 were rescued. How and why did this happen? It's a pretty good bet we'll find out in the season 4/5 finale/premiere.

Jack and Kate are living together in domestic bliss. Thankfully, these two shitheads are waaaay too dysfunctional, and pretty soon Jack's inability to communicate and substance abuse problems, Kate's secretiveness, and the bull-headed stubbornness of both sabotage the relationship in a single episode. Thank you, writers, for going on strike and thus sparing us a multi-episode "Jack and Kate's Marriage Collapses" arc.

Michael's back, and at least he realizes that he acted in an utterly shitty manner all through Season 2. Whatever the Island is, it's interesting to see that its power reaches across the globe. Knowing that Jacob has an influence in many of the characters' backstories, it makes me wonder if he is an entity by himself, or if he's a personification of the Island itself (or some part of the Island). Oh, and Tom's gay! I guess Kate really wasn't his type.

Time travel! The Kahana's doctor is dead before he dies. Anything that lets Jeremy Davies fidget and mumble, "Yes, well that's actually kind of complicated" is a good thing.

And meanwhile, on "Sudden Cast Reduction Theatre", Rosseau, Karl, and even Alex — three of the most appealing and likeable supporting characters — are murdered in cold blood by Keamy. LOST hasn't had a Chaotic Evil villain before, so it's rather shocking to see Keamy just shoot Alex, despite Ben's assumption that "the rules" were still in place. That said, Ben is still the most dangerous person on the end, so I see a very unpleasant end for Keamy in the season finale.