Lost: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham (2009)
Season 5, Episode 7
9/10
An extremely satisfying episode showing Locke's journey - but not flawless.
27 February 2009
Warning: Spoilers
TLADOJB had it's fair amount of weaknesses, which i'll mention, but what's not to love about this episode? Seeing some new survivors already being shady, Locke coming back to life, meeting Widmore and finally getting to know more about his motives, Ben killing Locke...

This episode was fantastic. Very similar to the previous episode as far as the format goes. Strictly character driven, and it's all about just one character: Locke.

I have to say that there definitely were some missed opportunities, especially regarding his meeting with Walt, but it was a very enjoyable journey with a tragic and brutal end - Locke ending up being killed by Ben.

The flaws of the episode are mostly small writing errors(Locke not telling his fake identity only to one person, not mentioning "Very bad things happened" to Jack, minor details like that).

If this was any other show, I wouldn't care, but... this is Lost. The details make it what it is. While lots of this could still be fixed in a future flashback or even just a simple island-dialog, the fact that they were missing from THIS episode, will never be forgiven.

Overall, extremely great, slightly flawed episode of Lost, season 5 is terrific so far.
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