'Lost' Premiere Features Most Creative Use of Dishwasher Since 'Rachel Getting Married'
Lost came back with a bang last night—one of those really scientific bangs that takes a lot of explanation and you're just waiting for the explosion and then it comes and you're like, "Ooh."
Lost superfans though we may be, we thought the two-hour premiere was too heavy on the mythology and too light on the emotional stakes that Lost producers usually employ to make the expository medicine go down. Perhaps that's a consequence of the shift from intimate, first-person episodes to a more conventional (but still unconventionally Lost) cross-cutting TV drama structure. Still, there were a few other problems, like the head-scratching end-of-episode stings: the first hour ended with a decidedly underwhelming cry of "Oxford!" from Desmond, and the less said about the second hour finale (which appeared to take place in the Loom of Fate from Wanted), the better. Still, we're too addicted to kick the habit—especially when it produces such sweet highs as the above fight scene, in which Sayid finds a sharp new use for a household appliance. Take that, Jenny Lumet!