Lost the Richard Alpert Episode
I can’t even tell you how jacked up I was for the Richard episode to finally come last night on Lost. While he isn’t necessarily my favorite character, he does seem to have the most mystery surrounding him of the non-Jacob and Smokey/MiB characters. The man that never ages, been there for probably hundreds of years, etc.
Instead of spending time in recent Richard memory, the episode was almost entirely flashbacks. Richard was found way back when riding horses was still the way to travel in Spain. His wife sick and needing medicine forced him to ride to find a doctor. After being told he was too poor to afford it he accidentally killed the doc in a scuffle. He ended up in prison, and then eventually on the infamous Black Rock slave ship.
We got all kinds of insight into Richard’s motivations over the decades he ahs been on the island. Almost entirely that he wanted to be re-untied with his dead wife. He met Smokey, who tried to manipulate him with his religion that he was dead and in Hell. That Jacob was the Devil, and that Richard needed to kill him.
JAcob showed him that he wasn’t dead, and gave him that anti-aging “gift he seems to have and the lack of chin acne he has. Richard became Jacob’s servant at this point, and remained so until recent episodes where he assumed his life was meaningless after Jacob died.
The episode threw out a red herring early to make us all think they were dead, and in Hell, only to kill that notion right away 15 minutes later. The episode had just amazing MiB and Jacob scenes, and Jacob kicked the crap out of Richard too. This episode was a Top 5 all time easily.
