Recaps of "La Fleur"

Here's what Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly had to say about this week's character driven episode after week's of theme-based episodes and wacky time travel:

If Jack is the Man of Science, and if John Locke is
the Man of Faith, then I nominate Sawyer as Man of Heart. To hell with it: Can
we just say he's the
effin' man?!' Because in last night's Lost, he certainly
was all that, plus a bag of Dharma chips. The kind of dude all the boys want to
be; the kind of hunk that all the girls wanna get with —provided they're cool
with his new slightly shorn and less stubbled look. Stepping up as leader,
savior, and super-cool boyfriend — and succeeding wildly at all three — Sawyer
found himself born again in the Dharma Initiative past. He seemed perfectly at home, perfectly at ease, perfectly self-realized within the confines of the trippy-hippy Utopian commune. Making the ex-con the head of Dharma security? Genius. Coupling him with fertility doc-turned-motor pool mechanic Juliet? Totally worked for me. Kudos to Josh Holloway and Elizabeth Mitchell for selling us on the best romance Lost has ever given us. Consider my membership in the Skater/SawKate/Kateyer 'shipper club resigned, chopper kiss be damned. But bliss is fleeting on Lost, and so, after Sawyer told Dharma's troubled uber-nerd Horace Goodspeed that he could barely remember the face of the girl that got away, we got the moment the entire season had been setting us up for. As Sawyer locked eyes with his former (?) fugitive dreamgirl, newly returned to the
Island, I heard Sawyer's internal monologue say ''Oh, yeah. I, like, totally love you. Er, I mean, loved you. I mean: Crap!'' If they gave Emmy nominations for meaningful gazes, Holloway should start ironing his tuxedo T-shirt and best ripped jeans, because he'd be going to the ceremony.

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Here's The Washington Post's recap and chat.