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Episode 5.04 “The Little Prince”
Kate discovers that someone knows the secret of Aaron’s true parental lineage. Meanwhile, the dramatic shifts through time are placing the lives of the remaining island survivors in extreme peril.
Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Melinda Hsu Taylor.
Directed by Stephen Williams.
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February 4th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Jin is Alive !!!!!!!!!!!
February 4th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
I have one bit of beef… After the island leftovers found that boat, and as they flashed while getting shot at, they jumped in time to Rousseau’s team getting stranded on the island. How did they get to still be in the boat? Shouldn’t it have disappeared too????
February 4th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
It didn’t disappear just like the zodiac didn’t disappear. Whatever is with them when they “jump” stays with them. Just saying I called the Rousseau thing. O, and the Claire thing. But holy hell JIN’S ALIVE!! I am so pumped for the rest of this season, it’s looking to be the best yet.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I also have a theory about those boats. When they found them at their camp…could they have been in the future?? And that’s how the O6 finally got back to the island? They flew Ajira and then boated to the island???
February 4th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
And I SO called it that Ben was trying to get Aaron in order to scare Kate into running, so she’ll go back to the island.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Remember when Faraday and Frogurt were in the Zodiak? And how people were still wearing clothes? Well, if u are totching something, it will come with you in time!
I had always known that Jin would be alive, bexcause when you see where he is on the fraiter through his eyes, he is pretty close to the edge. That means that he was able to jump off as soon as he saw/heard the first explosion! And if u watch the fraiter explode, it explodes in one place, and then two others, so there was time between the first and the others to jump off. He probably swam to the nearest peice of scrap metal, and stayed on it. Either that, or he got knocked out, and just happened to get on that part of the freiter.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Hmm, the part that amazed me most..
the ajira airways bottle!
any ideas?
February 4th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
cdncr
wow, i actually think you’re right!
February 4th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
eh, it was ok. Nice to see that jin is back on the island. I cant wait to see how he responds after hearing that the prego is Rousseau. I wonder what the “sickness” is that infected her team. Interested in seeing how Ben obtains Alex. Other then that, i’ll accept whatever next episodes gives me.
Oh and hopefully we’ll see Charlotte as a baby/child(on the island) and who her parents are.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
OH! And I almost forgot…Did you guys catch when Miles and Daniel were talking, and Miles said he hasn’t been on the island before/very long and Daniel says “are you sure???”…Is Miles Pierre Chang’s son?
February 4th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
The time side affects happen to people who were on the island a long time…so that makes sense for desmond,juliet,charlotte, and it looks like we know miles was on the island before this time. More evidence to support him being that baby in the opener.
My theory on the ajizra boats/water bottle thing is those people are the oceanic six which means that time flash happenes three years later. At the same time…it could be themselves shooting at themselves..lol it looked like the same boat and all with the same amount of people. I’ll have to go back and see if the guns sounded the same. If it is them…they could be trying to change the past by injuring one of them? lol idk
Whatever happened to Rose/Bernard/Vincent/losties after the flashes?
Why was Rousseaus team in the middle of the ocean during a rainstorm…or was that just them being their first time coming to the island?
Was that wreckage part of Rousseau’s team or the frieghter or both?
How come Rousseau doesnt remember Jin unless the “sickness” caused her to lose memory of him…
Did anyone just see that weird lost untangled thing lol what was with the dolls it was pretty stupid
All in all pretty good episode…lots of mysteries to mess our minds with for the coming episodes.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
except for jin being alive i found this episode pretty stale and predictable. i dunno why but i feel like nothing interesting and suprising happened (except for jin) and besides that there wasnt an interesting story line that had any gravity to whats going on except for setting up for next week. i guess in that vain it was a “filler” episode. but certainly not as good as “jughead.” this was close to my least favorite so far. “the lie” and this episode are tied for last
February 4th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
oh but kate did look pretty:)
February 4th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
this pretty much confirms my theory, that the future 815 losties are actually the whispering “others” in the jungle that are never seen by the past 815 losties. future self bumping into past self would screw some stuff up
February 4th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Rousseau doesn’t remember Jin because she hasn’t met him yet, ‘BOOM’ ..
February 4th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
@Boom:
Rousseau didn’t recognize Jin b/c it was 16 years younger Rousseau, she didn’t know Jin then!
February 4th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
cdncr, ur ajira bottle+boat thing makes lots of sense, def think ur right. also think boom is right too, the oceanic 6 are the ones shooting at locke and crew
February 4th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
No i mean when she was with the losties in the past seasons jin recognizes her but she doesnt recognize him 16 years later…even though 16 years is a long time she would recognize an asian jin 16 years later..not too many asians on the island
February 4th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Oh! Also, did anyone hear the itteration thing going off when jin was rescued? I think i remember rousseau saying something she putting up the radio signal after everyone died…she “found” the radio tower while she was still pregnant. I have a theory that Rousseau somehow moves in time and this is why she doesnt remember alot/can’t remember jin 16 years later.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
BOOM Okay, this is sixteen years later.. and she doesn’t remember Jin because she hasn’t met him yet?
February 4th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Sixteen years earlier*
February 4th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
yeah…i don’t think rousseau ever had any interaction with jin…did she?
February 4th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Kelly…im talking about sixteen years later…i know she doesnt know jin sixteen years ago
February 4th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Oh I’m so sorry, haha, yes but it didn’t happen when they actually did meet right?
February 4th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
the only people from 815 that she really had interaction with were like…sayid, jack, hurley, kate, arzt, locke, claire…and possibly charlie. thats off the top of my head. i’m not really sure if she ever met jin. but…i doubt the writers would mess that up.
February 4th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
also…at the barracks before she died i think she probably met sawyer and whoever was in that house. jin wasn’t there.
February 4th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I think Jin has been in the water the whole time Sawyer and folk where shifting. Ajira water bottle suggests the the future..I knew it was Ben who sent the lawyer! The equipment Daniele and her crew are with look really “Modern”..hmm..amazing episode! now we just need to see if Claire is still alive I hope she is..
February 4th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
They never officially met but in season 3 i remember when they were all figuring out what to do about the others nabbing the baby… rousseau was there talking about what to do when jin said..ill stay or whatever and i think rousseau would have heard him say that/recognize him…so she must have A: Forgotten him out of memory or B: She had time side effects which could be a reasonable theory considering how long she has been on the island…maybe she tried to leave the island at one point and suffered consequences. The side effects would have made her lose memory..but she didnt lose memory of her constant, Alex. But Im not gonna say more cuz I could go into tons of theories with Alex being the constant for something lol
February 4th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
But ya idk if Rousseau ever officially met Jin so my theories could be all wrong
February 4th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I called Jin being alive from the start! This episode was 108 times better than last weeks episode. There was a lot of story line advancement as opposed to last weeks that basically spent an hour telling us Widmore was an other haha
February 4th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
CDNCR..they went back in time and now their at the point in time when Rousseau’s boat gets stranded
February 4th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
The “hunt for the constant” time clock has started for Juliet and Miles..
I really hope they will be ok!..
I liked this episode a lot!! The writers through a lot at us this episode, but it will be interesting to see how the interactions between “losties” and the people the “losties”meet will pay off..
this is why I love this show!
February 4th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
@Dandy:
No. They didn’t necessarily go back in time. And even if they did, they didn’t go far b/c they were looking at their own camp which someone had trashed.
February 4th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
It has to be the guy repeating the numbers…roussea had her baby 3 days after she recorded her distress call and she didnt look all that pregnant. It looked like they were trying to leave the island on that raft they had but had no luck in the rainstorm…then they find jin and just decide to head back to the island.
February 4th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Yes they went back in time. when the flash happened the shooting stopped it was night. then went back to the island and found reckage. then it goes to russeauos raft the is preg. soo its like 16 years back in time.
February 5th, 2009 at 1:23 am
ok, does anyone remember the episode where Jin is buying a panda and it looks like it will be for sun, but then it is another woman who just had a Baby? so we all knew he was alive, the question is how did he get off the island and why isn’t he with sun?
February 5th, 2009 at 1:33 am
@ emily -That was just a flash back on Jin.
If you remember, as he was walking out of the room the nurse asks Jin if he has any kids. He smiles and says that he has only been married 2 months(or some other short amount of time).
February 5th, 2009 at 1:34 am
couldn’t it have been a flash forward?
February 5th, 2009 at 1:41 am
oh wait got it?!
February 5th, 2009 at 2:07 am
Flashback, in the episode it says it’s the year of the dragon (round feb ’00- Jan’01). Jin and Rousseau’s meeting is equivalent to Faraday and Desmond’s. If she were alive she would have that memory shown to her through a dream.(Like Desmond) It seems to me that Faraday is Charlotte’s constant and that’s why she didn’t start time jumping like Desmond..even though she already is..? Also are Miles Juliet and Charlotte feeling the effects because they’ve been on the island longer and therefore been exposed to the energy the island is harnessing?
February 5th, 2009 at 5:02 am
best episode this season so far cant wait til “the life and death of jeremy bentham”.
was like OMFG jins alive
February 5th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Oh my, that was certainly one of the best episodes! Well, all this seasons seems to evolve to great one…
The scene with Claire’s mother was great… I was all like “it’s gotta be her!” and then: nope, sorry
Sawyer and Locke knowing when they are: it was strong scene. I liked how they both wrestled with their feelings and accepted that what happened, happened and made them the way they’re now.
I believe Rousseau’s crew just crashed, because they said something like “he must have been caught in the same storm”.
And I totally loved that Jin’s alive! When I saw that there was someone floating in the water, I was sure it was him.
I can’t wait for the next one!
February 5th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Does this mean Jin has a constant now? Since he’s met Rousseau in the past and in his present? I’m just glad he’s alive. And Ben is up the creek because it’s pretty obvious he has been orchastrating the whole conspiracy of getting the O6.
February 5th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Hahaha, as I told the last 3 eps, as long as they don’t get in the same time so its getting possible to meet themselves and voila, there they are
Saw somebody saying this was 108 times better than last ep. I think its 108 times worse. And that’s basically because it just doesn’t make enough sense to me. I know it already got far from ‘realistic’ but they are going way way past my line of being credible.
Actually the shooting boat-boat I thought they were shooting at themselves. First they were the boat in front and then they time switched like 2 minutes back to be the boat ahead and the ofcourse the boat in front dissapeared. The O6 idea however, after reading your comments, sounds more ‘logical’ … if I can still use that word lol.
February 5th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Awesome episode the best yet, i thought it couldnt get better than last week and i was wrong, it seems every episode is just getting better and better.
@Emily, you are right about jin and the panda that was a flash forward
WOW, i guess we will see rousseaus past
niiccceeeeee.
Jin Alive, great stuff
February 5th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Lost-A-Natic, Jin’s panda scenes were a FLASHBACK, it took place between February 2000 and 23 January 2001, the “year of the Dragon”: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ji_Yeon
February 5th, 2009 at 7:42 am
@Dandy:
I know the Rousseau stuff is 16 years back in time. I was talking about the flash right BEFORE that one. Where they found their camp trashed, and they took off in those boats and started getting shot at. I believe THAT was in the future. That’s what I’m saying is not in the past.
February 5th, 2009 at 7:48 am
yea I totally agree, the boat with the ajira bottle came with the 06 to the island. wondering why juliette knows about ajira, considering it is a new airline due to the ARG (or what is it called?) you know what i mean, the website and all that stuff in real life. and juliet has been on the island for 3 years.. hmmm.
by the way, i can’t wait till locke gets his first nose bleed. harhar
February 5th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Does the fact that Miles and Juliette had their first nosebleed pretty close to each other, that they have been on the island for about the same period? Little over 3 years, as we know from Juliette?
Why didn’t Charlotte get any more and heavier nosebleeds after the last few flashes?
February 5th, 2009 at 8:01 am
CDNCR – I got you now. Yeah I agree.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:15 am
about ajira: i feel that just because its new to us(the viewer) doesn’t mean that its new to juliet & the rest of the world(on & off the island).
about those boats: i dont believe it was the O6. If it was, lets say for arguments sake. They had to have “landed” in the ajira plane on the hydra island and then paddled back to their old camp. BUT, that doesnt explain why they would be shooting at those left behind. I mean, wouldnt that contradict them lieing to the world to keep those left behind “safe”? Why shoot at those you, for 3 years, have been trying to keep safe? That doesnt make much sense. Neither does it make sense to think that maybe they(O6) thought those ahead were others. Why try to kill the others all over again?
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Anyways, im still “Lost”. There were many questions to be asked about this episode. I still think it was just ok. Nothing extremely special about it other then Jin still breathing & back on the island.
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oh, and that iteration you heard was repeating “4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42″
February 5th, 2009 at 10:13 am
OMG great episode!! i was SOOO excited to see jin!! and Danielle! we finally get her story, YAY! yeah i definitely agree with he theory that thsoe boats belong to the O6 3 years in the future. thats why the camp looked old and grungy.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:21 am
that’s not an argument tsollost. why set it up as a brandnew airline and connect it to the lost world in where it is like known for at least 3 years? strange for me.
oh and I dont think that the ones in the boat shooting at sawyer and co are the o6, it could be people who stole it just like they did. so that doesn’t mean the o6 didn’t came in those boats.
February 5th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
hey you guys remember this back in season 4 episode 2?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkC7YlB3yl4
now that we know a little more about faraday and what’s happening to him why do you think he had this reaction? do you think they’ll address how he got to this sad state in essex mass. or do you think that after his foul-up at oxford this is where he retreated?
also on an unrelated note. where is matthew abbadon? i miss his awesome bad-assery!
February 5th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
ooh mmyyyyyyyyyyyyy godddddd……..
Im in shock……….
what a finish……..
I cant believe it….
Jin is back……….
February 5th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
yeah people we will get Daniellas story (thats what produsers sayed)
I dont think it was Oceanic6 who was shooting Sayer & everybody…
and I think that “numbers reapeter” will be back (for a short time)
yeah Miles is Pierre Changs son!!!!!!!!!!!!
it is very interesting what Sun gonna do?I dont thind she will just shoot Benjamin and thats it…,no no no but maybe shes gonna hurt him
CANT WAIT TIL NEXT EPISODE…
February 5th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I can’t believe people thought this was a good episode, it felt like total filler. Jughead was the best episode yet.
Does anyone else agree with me that this time shifting storyline is maybe a little too much? I always liked the sci-fi element of the show when they are played down
February 5th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
“JBAKER” lost never gave us too much, think about that…
and 2 episode from now you will understand why is it happining
I thought that it would be more more flashes….
come on!!!!!!!!!!!
February 5th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
First of all LOST is AMAZING!
You can’t say one episode is better than another at this point because it’s all one giant episode! You can’t say the first episode was better than the second because they ran right next to each other and connected very well. Clearly last episode had more about the others and this was more about O6…but they were both great episodes!
ON THE ISLAND:
I definitely wanna know what those boats were and what time it was. The placement of the Ajira Airways bottle was interesting but not exactly proof of anything….Juliet already knew about it so it’s not a new airline exactly….but I wonder if it had anything to do with the runway the others were building…maybe they landed the plane on the other island and used to boats to get back…
If the O6 came on the island using the boats then who was shooting at them? also why would they need 2 boats for 6…or 7 including ben…or 8 including desmond?
Rousseau doesn’t recognize Jin 16 years later because she is crazy and I doubt she would recognize a random chinese guy from 16 years ago who happened to come on the island and look younger or same age! But I’m totally excited to see what happens to her crew and how the guy looses his arm and how ben takes alex!
OFF THE ISLAND:
Who is trying to kill sahyid? Why is that person give the address of kate? Could arron be controlling them? haha…..or maybe claire because she didn’t want kate going back…
February 5th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Vahag C. I meant it as, it’s a little too much to swallow – I always enjoy the mystery of things but to be honest I kinda want the time shifting storyline to finish – u see?
However if in 2 episodes time it is explained and it does turn out to be awesome I’ll completly eat my words and admit it is great.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
jbaker. I understood your meaning about your words.thats what Im talkin about They sayed(Produsers) that all will be explaned, so we just have to wait some periude (thats the hardest)…
ok, “agent M” you realy think Daniella is crazy? we will see is she crazy or not , but one thing I can garantie you, if you lived 16 years alone somewhere, you would be crazy too…
But I think she knows more-more than we all imagine !!!!
February 5th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Things I didn’t like: the conversations between Dan and Charlotte about how much her head hurts at any given point. It’s getting repetitive. ALSO hate how she gets a super bad nosebleed (maybe is dead) then ta-da, it stops, she gets up, we keep going. Also the Sawyer watching Kate went on a bit too long for me.
But that’s okay. I love the show. I only critique because it’s given me such high expectations.
Am I the only one who thought that Rousseau being acted by a different person might mean she -is- a different person? I know it’s 16 years earlier but… I dunno. Just a thought.
And I’m concerned about how the Aaron situation will be settled. I want Kate to be his mom because she’s so attached and for him, he thinks she’s his mom. But if Clare is alive then it would be sad if they didn’t get to be together as mother and son. And then there’s Clare’s mom.
For some reason the whole Kate-Aaron-Clare situation reminds me of Ben-Alex-Danielle. I don’t know how they could be the same thing… but I don’t know. It’s sort of the situation.
February 5th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
i loved this episode!! im not such a huge fan of the off island drama.. but im so sucked into whats going on on the island.
sam – i noticed that too!! the aaron drama totally reminds me of the alex situation
February 6th, 2009 at 1:50 am
do you think penny will die?
February 6th, 2009 at 9:25 am
no,she have difenders (Desmond and Jack)-(said the produsers)..
so we will hope… (Im also Pannys fan)…
February 6th, 2009 at 11:36 am
hey jbaker, as u can read in my earlier post (44), i agee with you. they are going a little too far with these time shifts in my opinion too. but as u said, if it all becomes clear, i hope i can appreciate it a little more.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Danielle did meet Jin in season 1, during the first 5 minutes of Exodus – Part 1. He was, however, just one in a crowd while she talked to the group warning them about the black smoke and that the Others were coming. Depending on how long Jin was with the French team before the next time travel flash (16 years ago), she should have remembered him 16 years later.
Hopefully we’ll understand more in the next episode when Jin comeback unfolds.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
@tsollost: I think that the sickness that you talked about was what is happening to the freighter folk (minus Dan) and Juliet. It would start to explain lots.
MY THEORY: Okay. Do you remember when Dan said: “If it didn’t happen, it wont. You can try and try, but you will always fail.” Or something like that. Anyways, this means that Danielle would remember Jin in the present. Unless something stopped her from doing that.
Well, that was my theory, hope you liked it.
February 7th, 2009 at 11:31 am
yeah I liked it……
February 8th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
did anyone pick up on bens lawyer saying that yemi told him hugo would be freed. yemi….as in ekos bro
November 15th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
And I SO called it that Ben was trying to get Aaron in order to scare Kate into running, so she'll go back to the island.
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