S2: The Other 48 Days

So what happened the other 48 days on the other side of the island with the Tail survivors?  Do we care?  Whether we do or not, we are shown Day 1, 2, 3, 5, and then it jumps to 10 or 12, and then it jumps to 15, and continues to jump and skip days.  In the last 5 minutes of the show, we finally are brought up to Day 45 where the Tailes capture Jin, Sawyer and Michael and we are shown flashes of what we have already seen and how Shannon gets accidentally shot.

It's interesting the different experiences that the different groups had on their separate parts of the island.  While the Losties were dealing with the smoke monster, a French woman, catching boar and fish and building shelters and a raft, the Tailes were just bombarded with kidnapings right from the beginning.  So we buy in to why the Tailes were always on edge to justify the death of Shannon.

It was revealed that the Others were given a list of people to take and they were taking the "good" people.  If that's the case, why did they just make it easy on themselves and kill the "bad" people?  Here, it's very subtle, but we see the theme of good vs bad and in true Lost fashion, there is as always, a very fine line separating the two.

Again, here is another episode that does not feature any dialogue from the main survivors that we have invested so much time with and fell in love with.  This episode felt very rushed but I'm glad the writers didn't drag this episode out longer to show the connections between one side of the island and the other.