Fire + Water

Charlie has surreal daydreams with Aaron, and he believes that the baby is in danger. However, Locke believes he is using heroine again. Charlie clumsily advises Claire to baptize Aaron with Mr. Eko, while he recalls his past with his addicted brother. Hurley is attracted by Libby, who seems to correspond his affection and attention.

"Fire + Water" was a quite deceptive episode of "Lost". I felt sorry for Charlie, who is full of good intentions with Claire and her baby, but is absolutely misunderstood. The disappointment of John Locke with him is understandable, but his coward aggression is totally unnecessary. I do not understand why John Locke has not destroyed the heroine he took from Charlie. My vote is seven.

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Note: On 29 March 2013, I saw this episode again.

I dont get why this episode is rated as low as it is, perfectly fine episode....

Yes this was before Breaking Bad, and Lost was in fact the Binge Series that started all modern Binge Series's, but let's just imagine that Breaking Bad's FLY episode basically relates to anytime a great show with surreal undertones simply goes overboard and dives off the overly-bizarre plank...

It's just not Drive Shaft (one of the lamest, most unbelievable fictional music bands) in diapers; Claire and Charlie's mom in bad CGI religious rendering; or the fact that the once very lovable Charlie, despite his heroin addiction, is given his own episode that lacks the other b-story's building as they should, since the entire series is made to push everything forward...

That alone makes it better than FLY being that it does involve other aspects and subplots, like Jack building his army with Ana, or Hurley's cute romance...

But, other than being redundant in the Charlie's addiction story, it's just an off-putting episode overall, and tries too hard to push the envelope, which wasn't needed on a show that folded the (binge series) envelope and mailed it successfully into inspiring future (and in many cases, superior) shows, like the aforementioned Breaking Bad, or The Walking Dead or Mad Men or... you name it...

It's just that, at this point, Lost was trying too hard to be original... and didn't have to.

Lost is a great show, we all know it. However it shocked me to find John Lock stepping so far out of character to beat the living **** out of poor ol' Charlie, who was quite honestly just have a bad week. Other than that i found this ep rather random and found myself pitying Charlie, and questioning Locks motives..

Ah well

Hopefully in the weeks to come Locks intentions will prove the wiser, but for now, picking on a recovering drug addict just didn't seem so genuine, Even If Charlie was stealing babies left right and center throughout the show...

I appreciate what Fire + Water is trying to do, but it fails in every way possible narratively. Other than that the show is well-scored, well-shot, well-acted, and all, and particularly well-directed by Jack Bender here, who does about as much with the show's haphazard attempts at surrealism as possible here.

"Fire + Water" is almost universally regarded as the worst "Lost" episode. Many factors have lead to this, not just the lacking quality of the episode itself, but coming after numerous similarly useless flashback episodes, and coming after the big cliffhanger the week before. It's simply not a good episode of "Lost".

It's not really the worst episode of "Lost". It's definitely more interesting than "Whatever the Case May Be", simply due to the focus being on Charlie and not Kate. "Stranger in a Strange Land" is possibly marginally better, but I'd still probably rather watch this than that. Undoubtedly one of the worst episodes on the series though, simply because it fails to be either a good character episode (the characterization here is terrible, really, and inconsistent) or a reasonably entertaining action-packed ride.

4/10