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- TV Series: Lost
- Episode: The Little Prince
- Starring: Michael Emerson, Elizabeth Mitchell, Henry Ian Cusick, Jorge Garcia, Ken Leung, Jeremy Davies, Yunjin Kim, Josh Holloway, Terry O’Quinn, Evangeline Lilly, Matthew Fox, Rebecca Mader
- Written By: Melinda Hsu, Brian K. Vaughan
- Directed By: Stephen Williams
- Network: ABC
- Series: Lost
Lost: The Little Prince
More Not So Random Thoughts on Lost. By Joe Oesterle
February 05, 2009
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Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sun (Yunjin Kim) team up in LOST: The Little Prince(2009).
© Mario Perez, ABC
Last night’s title, “The Little Prince,” seems to refer to Aaron – as he is the littlest guy in the episode, and it’s been more than a hint that he will eventually play a huge role in this island. There have been many theories floating around which claim Aaron is Jacob, and that could why Ben is so hell bent on bringing him back to the island.
Many viewers probably also remember the book “The Little Prince,” when they were children. (I’m a little more low-brow, but I do recall the animated movie) The story was written by French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. There’s a foreshadowing clue and a happy coincidence right there.
Like our Losties, the Little Prince spends considerable time adventuring away from his home. In a spooky/cool side note, note the author of the book was an aviator, who seemingly died in a plane crash. The wreckage of his craft was not found for 50 years, and the body of the author was never discovered.
In the opening of this episode, Kate and Jack are only too happy to back up each other’s lies. Kate wants to claim Aaron as hers. Jack needs Kate to agree that the Oceanic 6 are the sole survivors. When he asks if Kate is with him, the woman who has spent at least half her time on that island in the arms of another man, manages a sincere reply of, “I have always been with you.”
Fashion Show
Next we see Kate and Sun at Sun’s posh L.A. hotel. We come in to find Kate borrowing clothes from Sun’s “Vengeful Executrix” line of business suits, and looking quite hot. Now it’s a known and sexist fact that there is not a woman on the planet who can try on one outfit, believe her butt looks great in it, and run out the door to meet a lawyer who is intent on removing a child from her custody. Speaking as a known sexist, I wouldn’t have minded if we got to see Kate trying on the 6 or 7 outfits she undoubtedly rejected before she settled on the sexy professional look. I would also assume she and Sun got into some sort of tickle fight while changing clothes, but I suspect the writers were pressed for time. Sometimes the best stuff gets lost on the cutting room floor.
Another surprising revelation is Sun’s assurance to Kate that Aaron will be fine with her. “There's candy in the mini-bar and 100 channels on T.V. We're going to be just fine here." With that one sentence, Sun was able to dispel decades of Asian parental stereotypes. And speaking of parenting, they’re feeding that kid a mountain of Mac and cheese.
Sun receives a package as Kate is walking towards the elevator. The contents reveal surveillance photos of Ben and Jack outside the funeral parlor, and a box of candies, in which the bottom tier of bon-bons, not surprisingly contains a gun. This was no shocker – which was the problem with most of this episode – the revealss were not extraordinarily revealing. You never get chocolates with your spy photos. You get guns.
Not As Big a Jerk as She Used to Be
I would like to say Juliet has become a whole lot less cloying this season. Maybe because she has stopped forcing the dimples out of her “cute smile,” or maybe because she has nothing to smile about so far, but Juliet has become calmer, more sure of her self, and is taking charge of her surroundings much better lately than she has in the past.
In regards to the nose bleeds everyone is suddenly coming down with, I think it leads further credence to the theory that Miles is Marvin Candle/Pierre Chang’s son (Again, this will not come as a surprise to most ardent fans).
First Charlotte gets the nosebleeds, and while Faraday seems at a loss as to why she is fallen victim to this symptom while no one else has, soon Miles gets them, then Juliet. Seems to me, that they are affecting people in order of time originally spent on the island. Charlotte got them first, and it will come as no surprise when we learn Charlotte was born on that island. (And is possibly the daughter of Oxford coma woman Theresa and Daniel Faraday as I hinted last week) Next, the younger (I’m assuming) Miles starts expelling his own life force through his nostrils, because Miles was also born on the island (as the son of Dharma spokes model, Chang) and finally Juliet, who was there before the Sawyer and Locke.
What Sawyer and Locke Know
Speaking of Sawyer and Locke, they both saw signs of the recent past. Locke seemed to be wary of going anywhere near his past self when he recognized that Luxor Casino-like beam of light stretching up to the heavens, and Sawyer seemed legitimately shaken when he witnessed Kate assist Claire in the birth of baby Aaron. (Kudos to Josh Holloway’s acting job there too. He played “I can’t believe I am reliving a moment in the past with the woman I love but believe to be dead, and I’m compelled to experience this pain in absolute silence” as well as anyone possibly can.)
So they head for the Zodiac boat (but I have no idea why they assume it will still be there. It seems the only material items that make the time-skip are those that are in direct contact with the time-skippers themselves) and head for the Orchid Station, only to find the camp, exactly the way they left it – but not quite. And Sawyer is none to pleased to find that not only has someone been sleeping in his bed, but worst of all, they drank the Dharma beer all up.
I’m very curious who owns those Hawaiian-looking paddle-boats, and who is shooting at them from behind. It could be more Others, but I think that would prove unsatisfying. Juliet, a self-admitted Other doesn’t recognize them from that distance. It looks as if that boat has roughly the same number of passengers – could it be it’s them chasing them? And if so, it would be unsettling if Juliet just shot herself when she grabbed the rifle and started firing back.
Ass-kicking Machine
It’s always fun to see Sayid go all Ninja/Jason Bourne/Batman on potential captors. Sayid is an ass-kicking machine, so much so, it looks as if Ben is even surprised to see our Iraqi friend come out on top of this particular match. It is fun to watch Ben’s eyes get even buggier the few times he’s actually caught off guard.
How Come It Is So Easy to Tail a Guy in LA Traffic?
After tailing the mysterious Aaron-chasing lawyer to a very non-Los Angeles looking, very Hawaiian-looking motel (the location people on this show are usually great, they’ve made Hawaii look like the North Pole, Germany, Oxford, the Midwest, but they failed with this much simpler task) Jack and Kate find out he was only delivering a settlement check to Claire’s mom – who has no idea who Aaron is.
So until next week, fire up your Hi-Def TV, make sure you hit the record function on your TiVo, (For multiple viewings, and freeze framing purposes immediately after watching the show the first time.) keep your laptop nearby, (You’ll never know when you might need to Google the woman who was in the Airport in Season One and at Oxford in Season Five.) load up that bong, (For some of us, LOST isn’t our only drug of choice.) and get ready to get LOST.
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"Seems to me, that they are affecting people in order of time originally spent on the island. " Seems to you? Dude, it seems to everyone since Faraday said that same exact thing in yesterday's episode.
So they head for the Zodiac boat (but I have no idea why they assume it will still be there. It seems the only material items that make the time-skip are those that are in direct contact with the time-skippers themselves) I think they assume it will be there cause the camp has remained there with beer can and all, even though they are jumping through time.
Yo JOE, again you don't talk about the biggest even of the episode what up with that? A little certain character who we thought was dead reunites with a younger version of a character that was! Come on now.