[Editor's Note: hen you're done pouring over Michelle's deconstruction of this week's episode of Lost, check out the CL Lost Podcast for even more island action.]
Well, it's about time. Last night's long-awaited Richard Alpert episode "Ab Aeterno" was, in my opinion, the best episode of the season thus far. It had a great, classic season one Lost feeling. The flashback was thematically and emotionally fantastic. At times, I felt like I was watching a movie. I was instantly involved, hooked and the entire time I kept thinking back to the Richard we knew previously on the island, all the while learning he's really tragedy-stricken, wifeless Richard! In great Lost style, the flashback revealed information that advanced the character on the island. The episode worked as an entertaining hour of television and also managed to address tons of mythology, clearing up quite a bit of information about Jacob and his man-in-black nemesis (who I will refer to in this post as Titus, per the actor's name, Titus Welliver). There were a couple of things I didn't like, or mysteries that are still overly shaded in ambiguity. But I'm not going to talk about those, out of respect for a top-notch episode.
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2010.