{"id":8653,"date":"2010-02-22T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2010-02-22T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:25:05","slug":"tv-review-lost-6-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/tv-review-lost-6-4\/","title":{"rendered":"TV review: Lost 6.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture-111.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8656 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture-111.png\" alt=\"Picture 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/large_3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"27\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Locke-centric episode of Lost is always an appealing prospect, and upon viewing this latest instalment all the bad memories from the season\u2019s dodgy third offering, \u2018What Katie Does\u2019, do subside. <\/strong>Only slightly, though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2018The Substitute\u2019 takes us away from the temple and maintains a focus on Locke. On the island, \u2018Claimed Locke\u2019 is mooching around, abusing Richard Alpert (his character remains the season\u2019s biggest disappointment) and forming a tentative alliance with Sawyer. This particular element forms the episode\u2019s big reveal, but the best to be found is definitely within the alternate timeline. It\u2019s probably a credit to Terry O\u2019Quinn\u2019s dual performance, but seeing this version of Locke back in action is a heartfelt experience. The new island incarnation of Locke isn\u2019t the warmest fellow to track on screen; so being back on urban soil with the Locke we only ever really saw in flashbacks is a welcome treat. He\u2019s down on his luck and hating every minute of it, but you can\u2019t help but muster up hope that he, more so than any of the show\u2019s other characters, will come emerge from this series with a happy ending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As you can see by the score, though, there are problems with this episode. Quite big ones in fact. The main one is that we are now four episodes in, and it is clear that this 2004 timeline isn\u2019t actually a \u2018what happens when they land\u2019 perspective, it is a new one altogether. Locke is still with Helen, he is still on good terms with his father and why, oh why, is Ben a school teacher? If the creators have created these new alternative back-stories for Lost characters, then that means there will be more episodes on the horizon addressing these alterations, when really they should be getting on with answering the lingering questions we\u2019ve wanted answered for years. Troubling times, but by no means a total disaster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>There are middling moments, and a few potentially troublesome questions asked, but overall \u2018The Substitute\u2019 is marked improvement over its predecessor. Is Sawyer a bona fide baddie now? Only time can tell.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does &#8216;The Substitute&#8217; signal an upturn in Lost&#8217;s fortunes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[62],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture-111.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}