Lost Review:
"Some Like It Hoth" (Episode 5.13)

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This week's episode of Lost, "Some Like It Hoth," was sharper and more finely tuned than one of Jack's (or now, Juliet's) surgical scalpels. With great detail and precision, it carved out the life and past of Miles, one of the final pieces of Lost's missing story.

Over the course of the episode, we witnessed Miles' fatherless childhood, his ability, Hayley Joel Osment-style, to "see dead people" (actually, he just talks to them), and his eventually recruitment to the island by Naomi. We also learned the secret of his paternity, a secret many of us have suspected for quite a while.

The fatherless boy running off to dangerous enemy territory in search of an absent father—it's not exactly a new story, which the show's writers acknowledge with numerous Star Wars references. But Ken Leung's biting portrayal of a "prodigal father's son" dials down the sentimental to the point of believability. When he looks through the window in the house where the father is rocking an infant version of himself (kind of a trippy experience), he barely lets his emotions show, leaving their relationship in limbo until the next episode.

Oh, and those Star Wars references. It's 1977, after all, so Hurley is writing The Empire Strikes Back, just because George Lucas might need a script. His greatest words of wisdom in the episode: "Let's face it, man; Ewoks suck."