Welcome to another Morning After edition of TV or Not TV where I’ll be reflecting on last night’s episode of LOST titled Some Like it Hoth. As usual, I will be freely be talking about what happened in the episode, so if you don’t want to have anything spoiled I suggest you come back after you’ve seen it.

One of the things that LOST has done this season is introduced questions that seem self-contained and answered within the same season. An example would be the question of where Kate took Aaron before deciding to come with Jack to the Island in the episode 316. In the episode Whaever Happened, Happened we see Kate delivering Aaron to his maternal grandmother. Question served, question answered. A quick and simple device to allow the writers of the show to compel us to watch.

Last week we were handed another mini-mystery which also carried over to this week’s episode. Ilana asked pilot Frank Lapidus the question, “What lies in the shadow of the statue?” During this question there was a man standing next to Ilana. This week we see this same fellow again in a flashback for Miles Straum. We learn his name is Bram (at least I did) and he is with a group that abducts Miles to try to convince him to not work for Charles Widmore. During this exchange he asks Miles the same cryptic question, “What lies in the shadow of the statue?”

Since Bram was trying to convince Miles to not work for Widmore I guess we can stick a pin in my theory that Bram was hired by Widmore and put on the plane. Without that theory I’m left to wonder if Bram is aligned with Ben Linus, or is this in fact the introduction of a new faction that we haven’t been made aware of before? I do not know who these people could be, unless they some how pre-date the Others when it comes to exotic Island living.

Another bit of history came back to us when Miles was being auditioned for hire by Naomi to join the freighter expedition in another flash back. Miles used his talent for hearing the dead on a body Naomi brought him to that was to deliver photos of empty graves and the purchase order for an old plain to Widmore. This is a reference to the documents that were shown to Michael Dawson back in last season’s episode Meet Kevin Johnson. What Michael was shown was proof that it was Widmore who had bought and sunk a plane identical to Oceanic 815 that was filled with dead bodies. After this revelation one has to wonder why someone would be delivering these documents to Widmore since they could really only be used as evidence. Widmore wouldn’t need evidence of the acts that he had himself had performed, would he? This bit of inquiry, mixed with the knowledge of our “shadow of the statue” people makes me wonder if maybe there is a third party that is playing Ben and Widmore against each other?

The “daddy issues” theme of LOST also carried over into this week’s episode when we discover that the father of Miles Straum is in fact Dr. Pierre Chang (or Dr. Marvin Candle, Dr. Edgar Halliwax or Dr. Mark Wickmund… take your pick), who wasn’t ever present when his son was growing up. I think a lot of people have been thinking that Chang was Miles’ father since we saw the scientist tending to his new born baby in this season’s premiere. The theory was further emphasized when both Miles and Charlotte seem to be having greater ailment from the time jumps on the Island, something Daniel Faraday mentions could be to amount of time exposed to the Island (suggesting they had been there longer than those around them / been there before).

The two other big things that occurred this episode aren’t really thought provokers at all, they are the elements that move the story forward. Miles wasn’t able to erase the camera footage of the pylons, so Phil was able to see Sawyer and Kate taking 13 year old Ben. This lead to Phil being cold-cocked by Sawyer after he reveals that he hasn’t yet told anyone about this. Juliet went to get a rope to tie Phil up and we now know that the comfy life in Dharma-ville is officially coming to a close.

Right before the end title of LOST we also saw a group of scientists arriving on the Island in 1977. One of these scientists was Daniel Faraday, the physicist who has been missing for the past five episodes. I find it very interesting that he is returning to the Island as a scientist in a dark jumpsuit but during the season premiere Because You Left we see him in a gray jumpsuit (with no identifying emblem on the Dharma patch) seemingly trying to infiltrate the Dharma station The Orchid. Was this scene from the season premiere something that has happened before or after Daniel left the Island? I guess we’ll know the answer in the next four hours of the show.

If you are like me you’re probably dissapointed that we are getting handed a clips show next week and have to wait two weeks for the last four hours of this season. At least you won’t have to be married to your television next Wednesday night, right?

Join me again in two weeks and we’ll talk LOST again.

– Will Wilkins loved that Miles shot his dad a dirty look when he heard that his dad liked country music.

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