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Lunar Adventures Lost blog: Season Two, Episode “S.O.S”

I’ve decided that there’s an obvious lack of Lost information on the internet, so I’m going make a running diary of this episode of Lost. The previous two episodes blew my mind and brought back my fervor for the series after a spell of what I thought was sub par episodes. The following entry is extremely spoiler-laden — do not read unless you’ve seen Season 2 Episode “S.O.S.” Overall, I don’t think the episode was quite as suspenseful and amazing as the previous two — the pacing wasn’t as good. But there were definitely important nuggets dropped our way — and that’s just the ones I caught! There are always several I miss. And any time I use quotes, there’s a very real chance I have misquoted someone.

 

8:00 Here we go!

8:01 Rose and Bernard open things up. Rose is checking out the foods. Bernard shows skepticism about food from sky with weird packaging. I’m with you here, Bernard. I’m always a little uncomfortable even when I buy food in an unfamiliar grocery store; I imagine I’d be more than a little skeezed out by food that just comes mysteriously from the sky.

8:01 Bernard makes a great point, something I haven’t thought about since the whole raft incident. Have people given up on being rescued? “They’ve built a kitchen on the beach,” he points out. I know if I were on that island, I’d want to get out. Bernard and I think alike.

8:02 Locke is trying to redraw map the he saw on the wall during the whole lockdown thing. He must not have TiVo or the Internet; enhanced screen captures are all over the place. You would think he could At LEAST find some freeze frames on Google.

8:02 Jack asks him if he’s going to input the numbers since the alarm is going off. Locke looks like he’s struggling with the idea, but gives in to his number-love as the clock ticks closer to zero.

8:04 Two days with Gale not eating or drinking water. Jack goes in to chat with Gale, who doesn’t cooperate — says nothing. But Jack is still being a good doctor, and changes Gale’s wound dressing. Hipocrates strikes again. Gale doesn’t look good, not that he did in the first place. In fact, he’s looking worse. His eyes are somehow even more buggy.

8:04 Jack tells Gale he’s going to try to trade him for Walt. Gale says nothing until Jack is leaving — “He’ll never give you Walt.” This gives us some good tidbits — there is a single, big leader, Gale knows him, and he really likes Walt for his obviously nefarious purposes. Commercial time.

8:08 Tom Cruise and Diane Sawyer interview Friday at 9, on a Special Primetime. Not gonna lie, that’s gonna get TiVoed. I hope he goes bonkers like on Oprah. Maybe he’ll try to jump on Diane Sawyer’s head.

8:09 Rose and Bernard flashback. Bernard is kinda bossy, but he seems cool — helping Rose get her car out of the snow. After some awkward goodbyes, Rose offers to buy Bernard a cup of coffee. Aww, look, it’s budding love!

8:11 Hurley tells Rose about his new diet — fish and water. I doubt that will last. Bernard has an idea, and needs a bunch of people. I thought ideas were Jack and Locke’s territory? I didn’t know other people were allowed to have ideas.

8:12 Jack once again owns Sawyer. Jack walks up to Sawyer and Kate hanging out on the beach and explains that he’s going to do a prisoner exchange in the jungle. Sawyer smugly says “So want me to come along and bring a gun?” Jack replies, “No, I already have a gun. And I was inviting Kate.” SNAP!

8:14: Bernard wants to make a giant sign. Rose apparently agrees that Bernard is not allowed to make the ideas on the island and suggests they run it by Jack — Bernard seems insulted. Why does everything have to run through Jack? “He’s only a doctor!” Rose — “And you’re a dentist.” Rose thinks it’s a bad idea to give people the false hope of being rescued. Hey, some people would consider the island a nice vacation home, if it weren’t for the whole “Constant threat of smoke monsters and crazy people called Others, not mention a weird French lady.” For the record, shouldn’t we quit referring to her as the weird French lady? Isn’t that redundant? (Come on, everyone loves a good French joke, right?)

8:15 Commercial. It’s only been 6 minutes since the last one! I think we’re going to have a total of 19 minutes of actual TV show during this hour.

8:20 We’re back, and flashing back Rose and Bernard style, outside of what appears to be Niagara Falls. Bernard is proposing to Rose (revealing that he’s 56 at the time and that they met 5 months earlier), with violins playing and WHOA instead of saying “yes.” Now there’s an interesting tidbit. But she seems fine on the island! The island heals another? What is Rose sick with? I need answers stat!

8:21 OK, I got some answers. She’s been in remission for the last couple of years, and it’s back and not going away. Doctor says she has a year, maybe a little longer. Bernard looks disappointed. But Bernard shows he’s got some character — “You haven’t answered my question.” He still wants to get married. Good man.

8:22 Back on the island, Bernard notices Charlie and Eko constructing. He asks what they’re building — Charlie spills the beans. They’re building a church. Bernard says they should help him, since trying to get people saved. “People are saved in different ways” Eko replies. “I liked you better when you just hit people with your stick.” “I like you just the way you are,” says Charlie. So here’s the question of the day — is Charlie sincere in trying to find God? Does he feel bad about kidnapping Sun, kidnapping Claire’s baby, and stealing stashes of drugs? Or is it lip service? Does the island only heal physical ails — so mental ailments like Hurley’s seeing things and Charlie’s addiction go untreated? Sounds like the island is a typical HMO. Or has Charlie’s addiction been treated? He has the mental desire to have the goods handy, but we’ve seen no evidence of him ever actually using the drugs. And maybe Hurley really did see his little pajama buddy — people have seen stranger things on that island.

8:24 Locke announces he wants to talk to Gale. Ana-Lucia explains he can’t go in, since Jack took the gun, but he can talk through the armory door. Locke demands to know if he entered in the numbers or not. As Locke is throwing a fit outside the door, the camera goes to Gale inside, sitting happily with a maniacal grin. The Fake Henry Gale 1, Locke 0.

8:25 Commercial again! We went a full 5 minutes without a commercial just now.

8:26 For the record, I’m trying to do this without the help of TiVo. It feels more pure this way, and I don’t want to know any Lost secrets a single secnod behind evreyone else. So far, so good, but mainly because there are so many commercials.

8:27 Mission Impossible 3 preview. Tom Cruies never struck me as a real action star. I bet he’s the kind of actor that has stuntmen do everything for him, except sex scenes. The stuntment probably even have to give some of his lines. Tom Cruise just sits there and delivers the cocky grin. Hmm, the more I think about it, the stuntment might have to do the sex scenes, too.

8:30 We’re back again, on the island. Bernard is really into this sign making. But he’s pretty disappointed that not many people are helping with his sign. It requires carrying rocks a half mile, which everyone else is supposed to do, while Bernard sketches in the sand. No one is very excited about it. Hurley asks why Bernard gets to play in the sand, and Bernard barks back that everyone has a role that they need to do. Not good people management here.

8:31 Flashback time. Bernard refuses to ask for directions as he’s lost on the outback. “We’re not lost,” he keeps repeating. Irony. Oh, I see, he’s taking Rose to a faith healer — on purpose. He really wasn’t lost. Rose is a little annoyed about being dragged across Australia to a faith healer. OK, she’s all out angry. Bernard seems a little confused that she’s angry. “I have made my peace with what’s happening to me,” Rose explains. “Well I haven’t,” Bernard explains. Well that makes sense about the sign now — “I have to try,” he says to Rose.

8:33 Back to live action, Bernard is begging Sawyer to help with the sign. “What, you got union trouble down by the sand factory?”

8:34 Bernard blames Rose for his lack of volunteers for building his sign, since she kind of pooh-poohed the idea earlier. Rose asks him why he can’t let things just be. He then says if he wasn’t so proactive, Rose wouldn’t be alive. I think he thinks the faith healer did a good job.

8:35 Kate and Jack in the jungle. Kate says thanks for inviting her and Jack says he did it because he knows they don’t want her. “They had you and let you go.” But they didn’t want me either, he said. “Damaged goods” Kate says. STATEMENT! The Others want kids for some reason — probably something to do with them not being damaged goods. Now, are we talking not damaged as in physically not damaged, or as in, not having committed ill against one another? Could almost be either one, but probably more about the life purity thing. Flashbacks keep showing that our Losties have plenty of skeletons in their closets.

8:36 Kate sees something in the grass. It’s a baby doll. Jack realizes it’s a trap, and tries to stop Kate from picking it up. He lunges for her… just in time for both of them to get caught in the trap. “Sorry,” Kate says sheepishly.

8:37 Commercial, duh. It’s a good thing though, I had to use TiVo to pause after Kate’s “damaged goods” statement. I had to chew on that for a second.

8:40 How to spot the surefire warning signs of a meth addict, tonight at 10 on the local news. So that’s what kids are up to these days.

8:41 We’re back. Good one Jack — “Are you ok?” “Yeah.” “So you CAN hear me.”

8:41: Wow, major hanky panky as Kate tries to get out Jack’s gun. (Jack can’t reach) They get the gun, and now Kate wants to fire it, explaining she’s a better shot. She misses. Jack takes a turn — he hits it. Only because he had a better angle, Kate says. Sexual tension abound, but nothing happens. Kate also slips in that this isn’t an Other trap, it’s less sophisticated. Probably the crazy French lady.

8:43 Back on the beach, Bernard flips out on Jin. 3 rows of rocks, he yells! Jin gets mad and leaves, and Bernard has to beg for him to stay. “I just want to get my wife home,” Bernard says. “Sorry,” Jin says as he walks off. I think he does have bad management tactics.

8:44 Rose tells Locke she’s in his spot. “I can move” he says. “Can you?” she says. The two healed. Locke drops a bombshell — announces he’s done with the hatch. “You’re just frustrated,” Rose says. “You’ll be back on your feet in no time.” “Jack says it will take at least 4 weeks,” Locke replies despondently. “Honey, you and I both know it’s not going to take that long.” And we have the first oral awknowledgement of the island as a healing force.

8:45 ZWOOP! Flashback. Rose is at the faith healer’s. We meet the faith healer Isaac. Rose is skeptical. “There are certain places on the earth with energy,” he explains. “Places like this.” Hmm. And places like the island?

8:47 Isaac does his faith healer thing and looks confused. “I’m sorry. I can’t do anything for you, Rose. It’s not that you can’t be healed. Like I said, there’s different energies. This isn’t the right place.” “Where is the right place?” “I wish I knew.” Well, he made a good try with his waving his hands near her head thing. “I’m going to return your husband’s donation,” Isaac says. “Don’t, I’m going to tell him you fixed me.” Bernard payed $10,000 to get her in to see him — that’s a pretty expensive ruse.

8:48 Raining in the jungle. Why does it only rain in the jungle? Are there bigger clouds there? “What did you mean back there, in the net?” Jack asks. “That they’re sophisticated.” Kate drops the bomb about the other hatch and the costumes and the medical stuff. “When were you going to tell me this?” asks Jack. “When you let me back in the club,” says Kate. So I guess she noticed that they were keeping a prisoner and keeping everyone out, eh?

8:50 “We’re here,” says Jack. “HEY!” he yells. “I’M BACK! YOU SAY YOU’RE WATCHING US? YOU HEAR ME? WE HAVE YOUR MAN, YOU WANT HIM BACK, YOU HAVE TO COME OUT HERE!” Kate is like, they’re not here. ZWOOP commercial.

8:50 I’d like to note that after two weeks of mind blowing episodes, this one has been pretty subtle and not mind blowing. ABC probably heard through the grapevine that I was going to blog about it, so they didn’t want to give me too much material. I see how it is, ABC. I see how it is.

8:55 We’re back. Bernard is making his sign by himself. Rose brings him some supper. Bernard is not amused by Rose’s question of where everyone is. Rose reveals to Bernard that Isaac didn’t heal her. Bernard is like, of course he did. Rose is like, he didn’t. “But that doesn’t mean I’m not healed.” Rose says that this place has healed her. Bernard is like, how do you know it wasn’t Isaac? Rose is just like, I know. We flashback to her in the airport, with Locke rolling up in his wheelchair handing her her medicine that fell out of her purse. Finally someone that remembers that Locke was handicapped before he got on the plane. Bernard asks “You don’t want to be rescued, do you. That if you leave, it’ll come back. And if you can’t leave, then neither can I.” And now we have a touching moment. Bernard tries to crack a joke — “I’d offer to take down the sign, but we didn’t get very far.” They zoom out to the SOS sign, with just a sliver of the S done.

8:59 Locke back in the hatch after. “I pushed your button” says Ana-Lucia, showing a rare smile. “It’s not my button.” says Locke. “Where did you go?” she asks. “I just needed to stretch my legs.” And he sits back down to work on the drawing of the map again.

9:00 It’s touching moment time! Jin and Sun, Charlie and Eko, Claire and baby, Hurley and Libby, Sawyer and the dog (first dog appearance in a while. Proof that dogs love everyone.) And Rose and Bernard. All the happy couples.

9:02 And speaking of happy couples — Jack and Kate in the woods, clearly no answer from the Others. Now it’s time for more sexual tension! “I’m sorry I kissed you” said Kate. “I’m not” said Jack. They’re about to kiss… and… SOUNDS! It’s the OTHERS! They’re here! Torches! Suspense! Someone running toward them, and they fall down in front of them. IT’S MICHAEL! He’s passing out. ZWOOP! And that’s our episode.

Next timeichael wants to go after the Others to get Walt back. He keeps saying that they’re barely armed. That should be a good episode. And I’m still hooked.

 

 

Wed April 12th, 2006 9:12 pm

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