Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 1070 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Mirror of Erised
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2010.02.23
Original recipe Locke was way into using the sweat lodge as a meditational/revelational tool. Was he actually summoning Smokey, even then?
Who is David's mother? He looks like he ought to be Kate and Jack's son. He's even got freckles, but Kate is too young to have a child this age -- okay, maybe she's not biologically too young, but she would have been awfully young at conception, which would mean L.A. Reality Jack is seriously creepy, gross, and probably felonious. It could be Sarah, but that seems unlikely to me, somehow. If David's mother is a character we've already met, my money and hopes are on Juliet. She and Jack could have met in college, or med school and married young (considering their professions). It makes a sort of sense, and completes a love story that was only ever teased. If David's mother is not a character we've already met, how wrong is it that I hope she's played by Paula Devicq? Whatever you think or want to be true, cast your vote in our "Question of the Moment" poll, over in the righthand sidebar.
Now, I am of two minds regarding L.A. Reality Jack and his journey. I assume the two realities are going to dovetail at some point, so I have considerable patience for this newer one. But when David first appeared, it was difficult to care about him. I don't know him, and with the finale in sight, I will never know him all that well. And regardless of my seemingly enthusiastic speculation in the previous paragraph, I'm seriously annoyed that we don't know who David's mother is. Still, I find it effective that with his baggage left far behind (in Berlin), Jack is finally able to push through his own father issues -- and does so well enough that he reaches his wounded boy. Physician heal thyself, indeed.