What exactly is it about television authors and dad problems? And, especially, what exactly is it about “Lost” and daddy dilemmas? Among the dads that are notably bad’ve met and/or heard about over time (and I also’m certain i am making out someone like Boone or Mr. Eko’s daddy):
• Jack’s dad is a drunk with a Jesus complex, whom aided turn their kid into their precise reproduction before consuming himself to death.
• Ben’s dad invested Ben’s whole youth blaming a child when it comes to loss of Mrs. Linus, and slapped him around, on top of that.
• Kate’s biological dad (who she thought for many years ended up being her stepfather) had been such an abusive bastard that Kate decided the easiest method to deal waplog him to death with him was burning.
• Hurley’s dad abandoned him for a long time, and just came ultimately back after Hurley got rich (in which he’s most likely the most readily useful of the lot).
• Sawyer’s daddy killed Sawyer’s mother after which himself once they got conned by Anthony Cooper. And these are which.
• . Locke’s daddy had not been just an evil SOB of a con musician, he also conned their own son away from a kidney, then tossed their son out an window that is eighth-story.
• Walt did not understand their dad for some of his youth, then their daddy killed two people that are innocent save him from kidnappers and ended up blowing through to a freighter after Jack’s dad stated it absolutely was ok.
• Penny’s dad is either the principle villain of this show, or at the minimum such an amoral, selfish monster that Penny is traveling the globe attempting to conceal from him.
In comparison to all of that, just what little we all know of Pierre Chang thus far does not make him appear too terrible regarding the “Lost” Bad Dad Spectrum. It is feasible for he sent his wife and child away from the island because he knew bad things were coming (possibly being warned by Miles himself) that he may be responsible for Miles’ unwanted psychic powers, but it’s just as possible that he’s not, and even.
Just what interests me personally in taking a look at that list is what number of of your figures have now been provided a chance to confront their daddy numbers when you’re stranded on Craphole Island. Jack chased after their daddy’s ghost, and can even yet get to converse with Christian before it really is all over. Locke arrived in person with Cooper, then got Sawyer (whom considers Cooper a perverse alternative to their genuine dad) to destroy him as he could not. According to that which you think the horse that is black “just what Kate Did” had been allowed to be, Kate surely got to earn some form of comfort because of the daddy she murdered.
And from now on Miles, who’s the energy to speak with dead individuals, extends to meet with the really alive father he spent his youth wondering about, only now he is as disinterested in hearing through the guy as he is in hearing through the memories for the recently-deceased.
Honestly, i am astonished we have managed to get this far to the fifth period before Hurley compared a father-son relationship regarding the show to Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker.
Following the intense streak “Lost” was on since “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham” through the other day’s “Dead Is Dead,” we had been about due for a breather episode. Of course “Some enjoy it Hoth” had beenn’t precisely a light comic romp — despite having Miles stuck in a van with Hurley for very long stretches of this episode, and also with Hurley joining a nation of millions locked together in a shared hatred of Ewoks — it had been less mythology-driven and much more single in its focus than we have noticed in a bit. I am fine with this for two reasons. First, we felt I assume will be the typically apocalyptic final episodes of the season like we needed a breather before heading into what.