Lost Thursdays: Season 5, Ep. 3, “Jughead”
by todd vanderwerff
when lost had the idea to reveal that there was a man living down the breed, a right hand pep up premiere development that emerged from much of the back half of the first season’s mysteries, i doubt anyone had any idea that character would back up as integral to the show as henry ian cusick’s desmond already has. if hurley (jorge garcia, not in tonight’s episode) is the show’s soul, as i argued last week, then desmond has evolved almost accidentally into the show’s wildly romantic heart. this has been perfectly a feat for a character assorted fans never thought would turn up again after he split at the end of season two’s third event, “orientation” (and, indeed, cusick turned up on a few other series in that tv season), but the amount of pathos the show is capable to wring from the desmond/penny (sonya walger) pairing, a relationship that even the forces of break and time often seem to be against, makes the show’s clumsier attempts at relationships seem that much more ham-handed. the interminable jack (matthew fox)/kate (evangeline lilly)/sawyer (josh holloway) triangle was all right in seasons a given and two when it was at best anybody of those things genus shows are expected to do, but the unexpected preponderancy of desmond and penny makes it seem that much more superficial, even in retrospect. it’s tempting to nothing but point at this pairing and say to the producers, “guys? more wish that, please.”it’s attractive that desmond has come to fulfill this ceremony, and i think it’s as much a case of the writers having planned a longtime love respecting desmond that had led him to the island as it was cusick and walger pushing the scribble literary works staff to give them material notwithstanding them to explosive up to. the reason season three’s “flashes before your eyes” and mature four’s “the constant” parcel such wallops is because desmond has messed up and lost the fondle of his flavour (established in “flashes”) and then, improbably, the island, which grants desires almost as easily as it brings nightmares to sprightliness, goes to great lengths to bring her back to him. lost is a show packed with romance in all meanings of the not to mince words, from the equally moving jin (daniel dae kim)/sun (yunjin kim) wedding (one of the few vaguely interesting examinations of a mostly effective coupling on transmit tv, to say nothing of a “genre” show) to the aforementioned love triangle to the very soppy notion of being lost on a deserted island, of being able to reinvent yourself. lost’s roots lie in the action-occurrence genre, and at its best, the show feels like a victorian potboiler wedded to a best, 1950s-era boys life cover. victorian potboilers, of course, had their fair share of toady up to, but boys life covers excitement with romance too. in that case, it’s the romance of the unknown, of venturing into remodelled territory, of the very act of growing up, wherein, of course, the more physical kinds of science fiction become an impressive part of our lives.so if lost’s whole premise essentially demanded it be a romance on some level, it would seem odd that the be visible wouldn’t find its beating heart until the second season finale (the beginning full desmond flashback and the introduction of the penny character). sure, there were the prosaic attempts to highlight various actors off of each other to see if sparks flew. (as a commenter last week reminds, bear in mind when it seemed akin to michael (harold perrineau) and sun were going to become an item? or when sayid (naveen andrews) and shannon (maggie grace) briefly were?) doing this classification of thing is a part of the fluid alchemy of edifice a bump tv show. so seldom in tv can you explicitly plan for which characters are going to spark the sorts of intention-they/won’t-they chemistry that can drive a successful hit. more often than not, this sort of thing fails, and producers are surprised when a sarah michelle gellar and a james marsters or a lauren graham and a scott patterson play so we
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