In the 8th episode of the 2nd season, we get another episode focused on the Tailes. Finally, the Tailes and the Losties are being brought together but it's almost torturous in the method that it's happening. Ana Lucia made a mistake by shooting Shannon and out of her own guilt, she doesn't know what to do and goes from leader to hostage taker.
We are shown flashes off island of Ana Lucia's police work past where she seems just as jumpy and disgruntled as she is on the island. After several months of work with a psychiatrist, she is allowed to go back to work. We learn that she was shot with armor piercing bullets and almost died. We later learn that she was pregnant, lost the baby, and the father of the baby has left her after the incident. She found the guy that did this to her and killed him in cold blood.
After dwelling on this, and the words from Sayid that maybe it was meant to be that he should be punished for the torturing he did in his past, she decides to untie Sayid whom she captured. She gives him the weapons she had on her person and tells him to kill her for what she had done, now, and in the past. Sayid, of course, does not kill her since they are both already dead. (This is probably where man fans got the purgatory idea.)
After all is said and done, we are treated to the best part of the episode -- the reuniting of many characters: Michael and Vincent, Jin and Sun, and Bernard and Rose. The end scene with the fantastic orchestra playing as the people hugged, laughed and smiled was great and again, it was the highlight of this episode.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
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.
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.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
S2: Abandoned
Unfortunately, the past two episodes have been away from the hatch. The writers tease us during most of the first season and finally in the second season we get to see it and then they take it away again to follow other storylines, with the primary storylines being the introduction of the Tailes and the Others, which continue to remain a mystery.
What do we know about the Others? Well they were on the island first, there were 4 or 5 of them that took Walt, Ethan took Claire's baby who was later shot by Charlie, they kidnapped the children and survivors from the Tail section and one named Goodwin was killed in that process.
The flashbacks centered on Shannon who is not a very interesting character, but in true Lost fashion, they make you like her character and her relationship with Sayid right before she gets shot.
What's funny is that even though Jack didn't get any lines, he was seen at the hospital when Shannon and her stepmother were informed of Mr. Rutherford's death.
What do we know about the Others? Well they were on the island first, there were 4 or 5 of them that took Walt, Ethan took Claire's baby who was later shot by Charlie, they kidnapped the children and survivors from the Tail section and one named Goodwin was killed in that process.
The flashbacks centered on Shannon who is not a very interesting character, but in true Lost fashion, they make you like her character and her relationship with Sayid right before she gets shot.
What's funny is that even though Jack didn't get any lines, he was seen at the hospital when Shannon and her stepmother were informed of Mr. Rutherford's death.
S2: ...And Found
We take a break from the hatch and get an episode featuring everyone's favorite Asian couple, Sun and Jin. It's funny that even though they are apart, we are shown, pre island, when they are together and see them first meet and instantly fall in love with each other.
On island you can see the pain in Sun's eyes when she loses her wedding ring and she does everything to try and find it. She has a very good conversation with Locke where he tells her that she will find it when she stops looking for it. Sure enough, after Sun tells Kate about the bottle of messages, its found sitting right in the sand.
On the other side of the island, Jin and Mr. Eko work together to find Michael who ran off. I don't know how they convince him to come back, but they do and they continue their journey back to their friends.
On island you can see the pain in Sun's eyes when she loses her wedding ring and she does everything to try and find it. She has a very good conversation with Locke where he tells her that she will find it when she stops looking for it. Sure enough, after Sun tells Kate about the bottle of messages, its found sitting right in the sand.
On the other side of the island, Jin and Mr. Eko work together to find Michael who ran off. I don't know how they convince him to come back, but they do and they continue their journey back to their friends.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
S2: Everybody Hates Hugo
The title of this episode threw me at first. I thought it was going to be a bad episode when I saw the word hate but thankfully I was wrong.
The side story again was very cryptic. Michael, Jin and Sawyer are finally let out of the hole/prison and brought to another Dharma station. I believe it is the Arrow. The survivors of the tail section are skeptical and seem very afraid at the moment.
The heart of the story, of course, is happening back at the hatch. Hugo is put in charge of inventorying and potential rationing of the food supply that was discovered there. Unfortunately, this reminds Hugo of his time off the island when he won the lottery. He had everything and everyone was jealous of him and friends were lost. He didn't want history to be repeated. He decides to blow up the food with the leftover dynamite that they brought back from the Black Rock. Thankfully Rose talks him out of it and Hugo decides to give all the food away. Hugo is successful with his plan and everybody loves him. The end music that plays while everyone has smiles on their faces was very moving. Great episode.
The side story again was very cryptic. Michael, Jin and Sawyer are finally let out of the hole/prison and brought to another Dharma station. I believe it is the Arrow. The survivors of the tail section are skeptical and seem very afraid at the moment.
The heart of the story, of course, is happening back at the hatch. Hugo is put in charge of inventorying and potential rationing of the food supply that was discovered there. Unfortunately, this reminds Hugo of his time off the island when he won the lottery. He had everything and everyone was jealous of him and friends were lost. He didn't want history to be repeated. He decides to blow up the food with the leftover dynamite that they brought back from the Black Rock. Thankfully Rose talks him out of it and Hugo decides to give all the food away. Hugo is successful with his plan and everybody loves him. The end music that plays while everyone has smiles on their faces was very moving. Great episode.
S2: Orientation
Finally, we get to see more of the hatch and sadly, Desmond, a man who probably could answer a lot of questions run off into the jungle. So the computer is busted and thankfully it gets fixed in time by Sayid where the numbers are to be entered to "save the world".
This episode is a great one. Unfortunately, it's very cryptic and offers very convoluted non straight forward answers, but we do get our first introduction to the Dharma Initiative and training video 3 of 6 at the Swan Station. Just that simple fact alone reveals that there are multiples stations out there and thoughts begin to run through my head wondering if the Losties find them all.
But the big picture isn't the Dharma Initiative, it's the battle between science and faith. A great scene between Jack and Locke rings true to this fact: Locke asks Jack why he finds it so hard to believe. Jack immediately retorts back asking how Locke finds it so easy. And then Locke exclaims that it's never been easy. Fantastic scene and I believe this theme will ring true through the entire season and definitely bleed into the other seasons.
Elsewhere on the other side of the island, there is also some cryptic things happening with Michael, Sawyer and Jin. They are captured by "Others" but find out that these other people could actually be tail survivors. With a little help from Ana Lucia, she finds out a little about them and we find out very little about her.
If I remember correctly one of the big complaints about Season 2 is that it focuses more on the tail members or Tailes too much and not on the Losties enough. Early on in the season I don't feel an imbalance yet, but I'm sure I'll post about it if I do.
This episode is a great one. Unfortunately, it's very cryptic and offers very convoluted non straight forward answers, but we do get our first introduction to the Dharma Initiative and training video 3 of 6 at the Swan Station. Just that simple fact alone reveals that there are multiples stations out there and thoughts begin to run through my head wondering if the Losties find them all.
But the big picture isn't the Dharma Initiative, it's the battle between science and faith. A great scene between Jack and Locke rings true to this fact: Locke asks Jack why he finds it so hard to believe. Jack immediately retorts back asking how Locke finds it so easy. And then Locke exclaims that it's never been easy. Fantastic scene and I believe this theme will ring true through the entire season and definitely bleed into the other seasons.
Elsewhere on the other side of the island, there is also some cryptic things happening with Michael, Sawyer and Jin. They are captured by "Others" but find out that these other people could actually be tail survivors. With a little help from Ana Lucia, she finds out a little about them and we find out very little about her.
If I remember correctly one of the big complaints about Season 2 is that it focuses more on the tail members or Tailes too much and not on the Losties enough. Early on in the season I don't feel an imbalance yet, but I'm sure I'll post about it if I do.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
S2: Adrift
The two cliffhangers at the end of season 1 were the blowing the hatch open and the Others blowing up the boat. Since we got to see the hatch in the first episode of season 2, we now get to see what happened to the Losties on the boat.
What we are treated to in this episode is just Michael and Sawyer floating along with the current with the threat of a shark who is attracted to a bleeding Sawyer who was shot trying to save Walt. Jin is missing as well. While they float along, we are shown flashbacks to Michael's "legal" fight to get his son to prepare us for the "physical" fight that will be Michael's task in episodes to come.
They finally make it back to the shore where they are greeted by a Jin that is bound and tied to a stick yelling "Udders". The last shot of the episode is random figures that we can't discern and are people that Jin obviously fears.
Sound like a boring episode? Well, what REALLY kept me intrigued was that they showed more of the hatch. I use the word "more" loosely since they just took the scenes from the first episode of season 2 and showed it from Locke's and Kate's point of view, instead of Jack's which allowed us to see a little bit more like the numbers being entered into a computer when an alarm goes off, a storage room full of food, and an introduction to the word "Dharma". The mystery of the hatch is really peaking my interest in the re-watch of this show so I'm glad it had a presence in this episode.
What we are treated to in this episode is just Michael and Sawyer floating along with the current with the threat of a shark who is attracted to a bleeding Sawyer who was shot trying to save Walt. Jin is missing as well. While they float along, we are shown flashbacks to Michael's "legal" fight to get his son to prepare us for the "physical" fight that will be Michael's task in episodes to come.
They finally make it back to the shore where they are greeted by a Jin that is bound and tied to a stick yelling "Udders". The last shot of the episode is random figures that we can't discern and are people that Jin obviously fears.
Sound like a boring episode? Well, what REALLY kept me intrigued was that they showed more of the hatch. I use the word "more" loosely since they just took the scenes from the first episode of season 2 and showed it from Locke's and Kate's point of view, instead of Jack's which allowed us to see a little bit more like the numbers being entered into a computer when an alarm goes off, a storage room full of food, and an introduction to the word "Dharma". The mystery of the hatch is really peaking my interest in the re-watch of this show so I'm glad it had a presence in this episode.
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