Before watching this episode, I found out that it was J.J. Abrams favourite of the whole series, which made me excited to see it. It's also one of the most critically acclaimed episode too.
I liked how this episode started off with an interesting plot alike with the first episode of the series - Where is Everybody? A couple of past episodes have just started with a plot and it's not very interesting until the twist happens and i'm not so keen on that type of narrative. I really enjoyed the use of mirrors too, they always make stories more interesting and sometimes a little confusing, but in a good way.
My favourite character was 'The Wilcox Boy' who was played by non other than Ron Howard. He can't have been more than 5 years old in this episode and pulled wacky facial expressions, which i'm guessing was because the sun was in his eyes but it was cute nevertheless.
I don't understand why I didn't like this episode too much, i'm guessing that the slow progression has something to do with it. I think that this would have been better if it was longer, at least an extra 20 minutes would have been good to give a little more background version of the life of 'Martin Sloane' - both as a child and an adult. The ending too isn't a happy one, but it's very nostalgic. 5/10.
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