I dub this episode
12 Monkeys for Algernon Five.
It's a little disorienting (ha ha) to see the show dip into several very familiar SF tropes that don't really appear elsewhere. It's kind of interesting how they're all so tightly bound to just this one character.
no subject
Date: 2008-03-02 01:32 am (UTC)On the other hand, it led someone to post to
no subject
Date: 2008-03-02 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-02 01:50 am (UTC)Seriously tho
Date: 2008-03-02 01:52 am (UTC)Agreed that it was a great one-off. I was gonna comment that it didn't feel very "Losty" because it replaced flashbacks with time travel (which aren't the same at all). But then I remembered that they did this (or something almost like it) with this character before.
no subject
Date: 2008-03-02 03:35 am (UTC)I think it's already been established that Faraday is messed up mentally, in that he has a short term memory issue (thus the problem with the cards). Is it from his experiments (and lack of head-shielding) or something else?
no subject
Date: 2008-03-02 03:44 am (UTC)