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Yeah, yeah, I know I’m way late with this edition of Metareview. I’ve been working toward a deadline for a story of my own, my fourth novel. Anyhoo, that’s all done now, and I’m getting caught up on things. So here’s an overview of what critics thought of “The Little Prince,” episode #4 of Lost Season 5.
Entertainment Weekly‘s Doc Jensen found “The Little Prince” to be an appropriate breather: After three hours and three episodes of confusing quantum leaps and dense mythological downloads, we needed an episode like this to get our bearings. It was like a long sip from a canteen full of cold water…
Ryan McGee over at Zap2It thought it was “an insanely satisfying hour,” explaining: Those put off by the frantic pace and information overload of the season’s first hour didn’t have to worry: that episode merely had to set up the rules more leisurely explored since. Not only that, but the structure allows us to learn Danielle’s backstory while Danielle’s pushing up the crazy daisies with Karl. How’s this a bad thing?
Televisionary, aka Jace Lacob, enjoyed the ep, saying: While it lacked the whiplash-inducing plot twists of last week’s episode, this was another solid episode that advanced the ongoing story of the Oceanic Six, revealed some answers to some nagging mysteries this season, and raised the stakes for the castaways currently shifting through time. All this and nosebleeds, possible connections to the past, and carpet vans with cool anagrams.
The Star-Ledger‘s Allan Sepinwall called it: …an entertaining episode, with lots of interesting clues about the island’s time travel problem, another vintage Sayid action set piece, some more fine acting from Josh Holloway and, oh yeah, the return from death by Jin.
Jay Glatfelter of Huffington Post gave it a thumbs-up: I think the thing that made this episode — and the season thus far — really work is that even though there might be a certain focus on one character, there’s that same feeling of a Season 1 episode. We’ve got multiple stories being intertwined and it’s been put into overdrive this season.
Adam Sweeney at Film School Rejects proves himself my kind of fan with this: “The Little Prince” was more focused on opening doors for us to walk through later in the season, a series of segues essentially. And that’s okay… it is a testament to the beauty of the show that there is just as much excitement following the trail of bread crumbs as actually getting home.
Courtney Reimer at Pop + Politics‘ enjoyed this ep significantly more than last week’s: …this week’s Lost roared out out of the doghouse with a thoroughly compelling — and thoroughly confusing — Episode Four.
New York Magazine‘s Emily Nussbaum felt quite differently than she did last week, believing that this episode offered more positive results: …the bold time-travel gambit is starting to pay off, turning this season into a weirdly meta-annotated version of all the previous seasons. Viva crazy logic.
Lynn Peril of io9 thought “The Little Prince” was too soapy, but with some good reveals, making her feelings on the episode a tough call. I’m going with an overall negative, because of comments like these: I think we’ve been exposed to what is going to be an inherent problem with the last two seasons: The story of the Oceanic 6 getting back to the island is simply not as compelling as the struggle of those who remained behind.
