{"id":8790,"date":"2010-03-01T12:57:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T11:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2010-03-01T13:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:03:03","slug":"tv-review-lost-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/tv-review-lost-6-5\/","title":{"rendered":"TV review: Lost 6.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8791 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\/03\/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"Picture 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/large_4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"27\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Director:<\/strong> Jack Bender<br \/>\n<strong>Writer:<\/strong> Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse<\/p>\n<p><strong>In all honesty, no Jack-centric episode is every going to beat season three\u2019s cliffhanger, \u2018Through The Looking Glass\u2019.<\/strong> But, that\u2019s not to say that \u2018Lighthouse\u2019 isn\u2019t a step in the right direction for Lost\u2019s final season.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike \u2018What Katie Does\u2019 and previous episode \u2018The Substitute\u2019, this instalment manages to make us care about both timelines, as opposed to ploughing all the good writing and characterisation into one. Events on the island are intriguing and take us straight to Jin, who is in the company of a very different Claire. Is she a bad guy now? Or just a tad misguided? Either way her fate is one that has somehow got much more interesting in the wake of this episode. Meanwhile Jack and Hurley embark on a little mission to meet Jacob at the episode\u2019s titular location. Matthew Fox is a real beacon in this episode, and once we take a trip over to the 2004 timeline his acting chops really impress. With the introduction of his son \u2013 a development that could easily have alienated viewers \u2013 the show\u2019s creators have added a new dimension to both Jack and the season as a whole. Needless to say, it is clear that this timeline isn\u2019t as straightforward as we once thought.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike \u2018The Substitute\u2019, which had something of a lame reveal at its climax, \u2018Lighthouse\u2019 ends on a bombshell. There are questions still being asked, but already you get a sense that this series is going to finish with a thrilling showdown. Fingers crossed the quality doesn\u2019t slip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Following on from the Locke\/man in black events of the previous episode, \u2018Lighthouse\u2019 succeeds in directing the series towards a memorable finale.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out, &#8216;Lighthouse&#8217; isn&#8217;t a total wreck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8791,"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\/03\/Picture-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790"}],"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=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}