We've been sort of iffy on some of the newer Lost characters. Daniel Faraday? He sometimes works our very last nerve. Charlotte? Red had to go. But Miles is different.
Anybody who's a friend (sort of) to Hurley, talks to dead people, and listens to Captain and Tenille while cruising around in a VW bus, is a-okay with us.
Also, he's kind of a sarcastic asshole (which we're into). This week we see where he gets it from.
Miles is a chip off the old crochety block
Dr. Pierre Chang is Miles' Daddy.
Along with Richard "Pretty Ricky" Alpert, Dr. Chang, (aka Doctors Edgar Halliwax, Mark Wickmund, and Marvin Candle from the orientation videos) is one of the island's most intriguing peripheral characters. First, what's up with the names homie? Edgar Halliwax? Second, as a Doctor with classified clearance, Chang knows all. This week he threatened Hurley with Polar Bear Poop Duty (hmmm, should've gone with dump duty or poop patrol), wherein Hugo would have to clean up after the bears and their "silly little experiments." What kind of experiments? Why the polar bears? What else was Dharma into? Now that Chang's linked to Miles, we have a better chance of finding out.
Back to Miles. As a Hot Topic wearing teen, Miles wanted to know more about his absentee father. Miles finds out from his dying mother that Daddy Chang kicked them out and never cared about them. So Miles goes about his life as a ghost whisperer, conning grieving families out of their money.
Suddenly Naomi appears. You remember Naomi. The G.I. Jane who leads the expedition to capture Ben. Naomi recruits Miles to her motley crew while wearing what we can only describe as a horrifying hair piece. And Homegirl is working that wig. She's wearing no less that two feet of discount caliber wavy weave and trying to pass it off as her own. The hair is so obvious that we have to wonder if it could play into the plot somehow. Was Naomi a commando in chemo? If not, the hair and makeup dept. should be ashamed of themselves.
Anyway, Miles accepts Naomi's 1.36 Million dollar offer to join Widmore's team. Then he's pulled into a van by mask-wearing avengers, who tell him that he should defect from the Widmore gang and join their "side," so that he can know "what lies in the shadow of the statue." Miles, being the money grubbing a-hole that he is (and we love him for it) says gimme some money and I'm down. The head kidnapper, who made an appearance last week as one of the gun-toting passengers from the latest crash, tells Miles that they'll guarantee him personal fulfillment and a relationship with his Dad.
Miles takes the 1.3, obvs. Papa didn't raise no fool. Well, papa didn't raise him at all. But that's neither here nor there. Here's what we like about this episode:
1. Naomi's wig.
2. Hurley uses Star Wars to help Miles with his Daddy issues. Perfect.
3. The new islanders are somehow complicit in the island mischief. They "know what lies in the shadow of the statue" and we wanna know what they know and how they know it and how come Ben didn't know that they knew. Or did he?
Lost makes our brain hurt sometimes.
Previously:
"Lost": We're So Over Ben
"Lost": This Is Not Back To The Future
"Lost": Rundown of Theories Regarding The Fate Of Ben Linus Neglects One -- Ours
"Lost": Sayid's Breaking All The Rules
