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"Lost"
Cabin Fever (2008)
41 out of 47 people found the following comment useful :-
A classic Lost episode, 8 May 2008
Author: AdnanZ from Canada
For some reason it's apparent that when choosing which writers should write which episodes, the head writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse select Elizabeth Sarnoff to write the episodes that are heavy on relationships, specifically romantic relationships, or maybe she asks to do them. This seems like a ridiculous strategy to me because once again it becomes clear that she is most suited to writing mythology-based episodes. After the excellent episodes she co-wrote like "The Man Behind the Curtain", "Meet Kevin Johnson", and now "Cabin Fever", I would probably say I was wrong about her being my least favorite Lost writer, she's just been getting the wrong episodes. Leave the relationship heavy stuff to Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, whose knack for well-written conversation helps keep such episodes from becoming soapy and silly. While we're discussing writers, I must mention that this wasn't just the Lost writing debut for Kyle Pennnington, it is also the first episode he has written for TV, period. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of his work and look forward to seeing more from him.
"The Constant" is still my favorite episode of Season Four, but "Cabin Fever" is easily so far my favorite Lost episode from Season Four. Allow me to explain- "The Constant" was brilliant, but it was also really very different to most of the episodes we have seen over the past four seasons of Lost. "Cabin Fever" is a more traditional Lost episode, one with revelatory flashbacks, a genuine sense of mystery on the island, and some brilliant character interaction. It stands among the finest of its kind.
The episode is divided in three, with one storyline following the events on the freighter, where it is fully established that Keamy is going to play a major role in the remainder of the season, and where we witness the fate of Doc Ray and Captain Gault, as well as get another scene with Michael. I would be disappointed if Michael was killed off at the end of this season because it would seem quite cheap and ridiculous considering that we've barely seen him outside of his episode "Meet Kevin Johnson". It would be an unreasonable artistic decision and unfair to actor Harold Perrineau.
The other story lines are the Locke flashback, which spans basically most of his life, and the scenes involving Ben, Locke, and Hurley heading toward Jacob's cabin. The Locke flashback is probably my favorite Locke flashbacks and just generally one of my favorite flashbacks we've had on Lost. As much as I've been behind the flashforwards and the other changes we have seen in season four it was nice to get back to a fun, mysterious, exciting episode like this one, which we haven't really seen the likes of since season three. It sure was great to see Richard Alpert again, and boy did they use the character well. Same goes for Abaddon, who is played just brilliantly by Lance Reddick. I love that it turns out Locke's arrival on the island was orchestrated, that he was meant to be on the plane. A really great flashback in general, and of importance as well is the scene with Locke as a child, which I'm sure will be analyzed by someone who can do it better than myself.
The writing for Ben, Locke, and Hurley while they were heading toward the cabin was excellent, providing most of the humor in the episode but never seeming out of place or silly, just tasteful. Ben and Locke in particular had some interesting conversation such as when Ben thought Locke had manipulated Hurley into going with them and Locke tells Ben, "I'm not you". Very interesting character writing there. I have to say I was both dreading and anticipating this episode and the return of the cabin because I had a feeling that the whole cabin arc could either be brilliant or ruin the show, and based on tonight it seems to be the former. I'm glad the writers definitively said that Christian Shepard is NOT Jacob because that speculation was frankly just annoying me, and every single second after Locke entered that cabin was pure brilliance. If the final stretch of season 3 promised an action-packed finale, I have no words for how good this finale will be.
I was anticipating this episode a great deal, but I was also nervous about it, especially when I discovered it was written by my least favorite Lost writer (whom I now really think deserves more credit than she's getting from fans as a collective) and a complete newcomer to television whose only film work is a little-seen short from 2005. Both writers proved I had nothing to worry about and delivered one of the best-rounded and most entertaining episodes of the entire series.
Season four is just getting better and better. At this point I'm wondering if the two-part finale can top some of the great episodes we've seen this season, and really, to do so would be to be the best Lost episodes to date, probably.
9/10
Brilliant, 25 June 2008
Author: esesj_ancimall from United States
This episode does an excellent job of enriching the mythology of Lost. The resonance and depth of the show's universe is attaining a level akin to that of Star Wars in the manner that it introduces a character in season 1 and in season 4 manages to elaborate on that character in a manner wholly effective and anything, but trite. I definitely don't recommend this episode to newcomer's of the show, but to the devoted fan, very few episodes are as rewarding and excellent as this. The beauty of this episode lies in the fact that the viewer has been following the series consistently and is rewarded with such beautiful and dramatic exposition. The episode deals with John Locke and this episode further establishes him as one of the strongest and greatest television characters.
3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
A Fine story about John Locke, 9 May 2008
Author: SirEmu from Sweden
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
First off , I have to comment about the written PlotSynopsis above (I added myself warnings to read that one), that is completely typed down frame by frame on what is going on in this weeks episode of Lost - that is wrong , and should not be read before seeing this episode!!!.
While John Locke , Hurley and Benjamin Linus is on a scout for Jacob's wisdom and fortune, the Soldiers on the big Ship is loading up with the aim to destroy the island and kill all the people on it...
During these 2 missions is on we see how John locke is born , raised and bullied in his period in school and that he in his early youth spoken to that he is a very special child meant to be a special someone This is a very fine episode , it gets a good 8 out of 10
4 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Disappointing, 16 May 2008
Author: TheDreamBrain from Ireland
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Taking off from where the episode "The Shape of things to come" left off two weeks ago, Ben, Locke and Hurley are looking for Jacobs cabin in the jungle. Locke has a dream in which he meets a Dharma worker, Horris, chopping down trees in the jungle and it turns out that he is building Jacobs house. He tells Locke to look for him, then he will find the cabin. So Locke leads Ben and Hurley to the pit where all the Dharma workers were lead to rest after Ben killed them. This pit is also where Ben shot Locke and left him for death a while back. Locke jumps in to it and finds Horris, now a well rotted corpse, and in his breast pocket, he finds a map, detailing where the cabin is. Meanwhile, back on the boat, the soldiers are preparing to land on the island and kill everyone on it. Locke, Hurley and Ben find the cabin- but only Locke will venture in. Locke goes in and finds Christian ( Jack's dead father ) sitting at a table in the corner. He says that he is representing Jacob. Locke then spots Claire in the corner and Locke starts asking Christian why she's there but Christian tells him that there are more important questions to ask- like how to save the island. The episode ends with Locke coming out of the cabin to Hurley and Ben and Ben asks him what Jacob said they should do, and out comes this ridiculous reply - "He wants us to move the island".
"Cabin Fever" is being praised as one of the best episodes yet of season 4 - I disagree. I was looking forward to seeing what Locke and Hurley and Ben would find in the cabin, and seeing Jacob, but I was ended up disappointed - something that very rarely happens when I watch this show. One of the good things however about this episode is that in the flashbacks, it details Lockes birth, him as a toddler, and him in high school. And, Doug Hutchinson, Percy from "The Green Mile" makes a appearance as Horris. But besides that, "Cabin Fever" is a let down.
6 out of 29 people found the following comment useful :-
Fourth Season Lost in Stall, 17 May 2008
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Locke, Ben and Hurley wander in the woods trying to find Jacob's cabin. Meanwhile, Keamy is extremely violent on the vessel, killing the doctor and the captain to force Frank Lapidus to fly back to the island. However Sayid escapes in a Zodiac boat back to the island to tell the survivors what is happening in the vessel.
"Cabin Fever" is another disappointing episode of this awful Fourth Season that again goes nowhere. I do not know the real intentions of the writers and producers of this successful series, but I see two possibilities: the authors are lost with the complexity of the plot, or the producers intend to drag "Lost" along many seasons as possible thinking in money only and forgetting the quality of the shows and satisfaction of the fans and viewers like me. My vote is six.
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