Lost episode 02: Adrift
**UPDATED Thursday night, 8:30pm**
I have to admit I was a bit let down by this episode, mainly because the plot didn't move forward. Yes, it was great to go back and see what happened to the guys on the raft and what happened after Kate went in the hatch and Locke followed, but it is a bad thing when the brief promo for NEXT week gets you more excited than the prior hour of the current episode.
That said, there was still some great stuff this week. Here's some tidbits... I'll keep adding to this post...
For those wanting more screen capture, there is a great collection here.
There's also a good summary written on Entertainment Weekly's site here.
and another one here.
This is the first episode to not start with an eye-opening sequence. It starts with Sawyer getting on pieces of the broken raft. As the raft breaks up, we here Jin screaming something. We don't see him again until the very end of the episode. Sawyer saves Michael from drowning. Michael starts yelling for Walt and when Sawyer tries to calm him down, Michael blames Sawyer for forcing him to shoot the flare and thus causing Walt's abduction.
It is Locke who takes off the shoes we saw in the premier. Not sure if this is for him to walk quieter, of some wonder if he thinks he is walking on sacred ground. He stops to observe a logo on the walls. It's the same one we saw last week on Desmond's shirts, the medicine cabinet, etc. We see a wall with a TON of scratched marks, indicating someone keeping track of time. We see him open miniblinds and see that it is artificial light.
That logo was EVERYWHERE inside the hatch. Here's a closeup...
Locke finds Kate on the floor of Desmond's room. Desmond then confronts Locke and asks "Are you the him?" Locke says yes, but Desmond then asks Locke "What did one snowman say the the other snowman". A code phrase? Something dealing with polar bears? A kid's riddle -- chill? freeze? do you smell carrots, etc.? When Locke can't answer, Desmond becomes hostile again.
Desmond asks Kate to tie up Locke, but Locke says it is Kate that is the dangerous fugitive. Kate is obviously pissed. He ties her up, but slips a knife into her pants. Desmond then throws her in a dark room.
Sawyer digs out the bullet in his arm with his fingers *OUCH!*, then asks Michael "You got a Band Aid?"
Their wreckage is bumped by an apparent shark. If you looked carefully, the shark's tail had the logo on it!!
Other favorite quotes of the Sawyer-Michael exchanges: “Well I’ll just stop bleedin’ then!” and “What are you gonna do, splash me?” Sawyer checks his bullets and just then the shark bumps again, causing Sawyer to lose many of the bullets. Sawyer later swims toward the bigger chunk of raft and Michael shoots the shark (we see blood in water).
Back in the dark room, Kate manages to get out the knife and untie herself. She feels around and finds a lightswitch and we see it is a huge supply closet, filled with canned/jarred foods, all with the same logo as above. It is now obvious this truly is a long-term shelter (bomb/virus/etc)?
She grabs several chocolate Apollo candy bars. Interesting to note that Apollo was the god of the sun, which is prevent in many aspects of the show (the mural on the hatch wall, Sun's name, etc.) Question: Kate eats a chocolate bar -- will it affect her in any way?
Locke talks with Desmond and gets his name (confirms what we as viewers knew). Keeps trying to tell Desmond he's not a threat. Tells him he works as a collections agent for a box company (which we know was owned by Hurley, which at some point burnt down). Interesting that Locke is more open with Desmond than he has been with anyone else. Desmond asks about how many are out there, whether any are sick (dead). “The world is still out there?” Locke asks him if he never leaves there (no response).
The beeping alarm goes off again and Desmond forces Locke to enter "the numbers" into the computer, one that Locke says "I haven't seen one of those in 20 years". Locke hesitates before hitting "Execute" asking “What’s gonna happen?” After doing it, it increments a counter back to 108.00 or 10800. This tells us the beeping at the begging of the premier wasn't an alarm clock that woke Desmond, it was a "put in your numbers into the computer or something will/won't happen". Obviously this is on a constant cycle.
Someone on one of the fan boards noted that The diameter of the Sun is 108 times the diameter of the Earth. The distance from the Sun to the Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Sun. The mural has 108 in the sun and 108 outside the sun. Interesting.
As Jack is heading to the hatch, we see Claire and Charlie talking. She sees the figurine in his bag and pulls it out. Charlie gets visibly nervous and tells her to be careful, and tries to distract attention by saying it's a Virgin Mary statue he found and "It might just come in handy."
They then hear Jack coming in. Locke identifies that it is Jack, he's surprised he's there, and he's their doctor. Desmond adjusts his mirrors and sees Jack's gun.
Kate moves some crates around and goes up into the ventilation shaft. She ends up over that control room just as Jack is coming in, and sees the whole scene with the Jack vs. Locke/Desmond showdown. Wild to see that warning shot (or was it) that Desmond fired almost took out Kate.
Desmond still shows no recognition of Jack (or perhaps he fully expected Jack to be there), but Jack obviously remembers Desmond. How he remembers someone he briefly met years ago is interesting.
I still have a problem believing this is the same guy (or the same timeframe) we saw showering at the beginning on the premier. Desmond is very dirty and this episode we saw nothing to indicate how he'd get that dirty between the shower and now. Look at his hands when he is holding the gun to Locke's head -- the fingernails are really dirty. He's unshaven and his face has smudges. Perhaps it is an oversight on the producer's part, but I doubt nothing at this point!
We see lots of flashbacks of Michael, mostly dealing with him getting a lawyer to try and stop his ex-wife from taking Walt to Rome. She wants him to revoke his parental rights so she and her new husband can adopt. It's a "David vs. Goliath" situation for Michael. In the proceedings we find out he hadn't seen Walt in 14 months, as she's had him in Amsterdam. We confirm he'd been in an accident, and his ex had paid the hospital bills. He's on disability and can't work to support Walt. She tells him he's a gifted artist.
In the final flashback, we see Michael meeting his ex and a very young (and shy) Walt. Michael gives him a stuffed POLAR BEAR. The bag it is in has sun logos all over.
The episode ends with Sawyer and Michael washing ashore. A very terrified Jin runs up, hands tied behind him yelling about "others". We then see a bunch of people in the distance advancing while carrying primitive weapons.
The preview for next week looks exciting. We see Sawyer, Michael and Jin all getting the crap beat out of them. We see them getting dragged off and thrown into a pit, which already contains Ana (the woman Jack met in the airport bar). We see them talking about a plane crash and she says "flight 815?"
People have noted that if you look at the scene where the "others" are walking up, she is standing in the back of that pack of thugs, so perhaps her being in the pit is staged to gather info. Maybe these "others" are survivors from the back of the plane, and they've had a rougher time with the OTHER others and thus are just a tad more defensive?
We also see Locke saying something about "this isn't what was supposed to happen" and a shot of him alone in the control room yelling "what am I supposed to do?" The computer box appears destroyed and the monitor appears to be dangling from the desk! Not a good sign!
We also see Desmond running through the forest, we see Kate with a rifle, we see Hurley in that hatch (how the heck did he get down there?) You know, maybe HURLEY is "him". After all, his numbers are on the hatch. hmmm....
Looks like a LOT will happen next week...
I have to admit I was a bit let down by this episode, mainly because the plot didn't move forward. Yes, it was great to go back and see what happened to the guys on the raft and what happened after Kate went in the hatch and Locke followed, but it is a bad thing when the brief promo for NEXT week gets you more excited than the prior hour of the current episode.
That said, there was still some great stuff this week. Here's some tidbits... I'll keep adding to this post...
For those wanting more screen capture, there is a great collection here.
There's also a good summary written on Entertainment Weekly's site here.
and another one here.
This is the first episode to not start with an eye-opening sequence. It starts with Sawyer getting on pieces of the broken raft. As the raft breaks up, we here Jin screaming something. We don't see him again until the very end of the episode. Sawyer saves Michael from drowning. Michael starts yelling for Walt and when Sawyer tries to calm him down, Michael blames Sawyer for forcing him to shoot the flare and thus causing Walt's abduction.
It is Locke who takes off the shoes we saw in the premier. Not sure if this is for him to walk quieter, of some wonder if he thinks he is walking on sacred ground. He stops to observe a logo on the walls. It's the same one we saw last week on Desmond's shirts, the medicine cabinet, etc. We see a wall with a TON of scratched marks, indicating someone keeping track of time. We see him open miniblinds and see that it is artificial light.
That logo was EVERYWHERE inside the hatch. Here's a closeup...
Locke finds Kate on the floor of Desmond's room. Desmond then confronts Locke and asks "Are you the him?" Locke says yes, but Desmond then asks Locke "What did one snowman say the the other snowman". A code phrase? Something dealing with polar bears? A kid's riddle -- chill? freeze? do you smell carrots, etc.? When Locke can't answer, Desmond becomes hostile again.
Desmond asks Kate to tie up Locke, but Locke says it is Kate that is the dangerous fugitive. Kate is obviously pissed. He ties her up, but slips a knife into her pants. Desmond then throws her in a dark room.
Sawyer digs out the bullet in his arm with his fingers *OUCH!*, then asks Michael "You got a Band Aid?"
Their wreckage is bumped by an apparent shark. If you looked carefully, the shark's tail had the logo on it!!
Other favorite quotes of the Sawyer-Michael exchanges: “Well I’ll just stop bleedin’ then!” and “What are you gonna do, splash me?” Sawyer checks his bullets and just then the shark bumps again, causing Sawyer to lose many of the bullets. Sawyer later swims toward the bigger chunk of raft and Michael shoots the shark (we see blood in water).
Back in the dark room, Kate manages to get out the knife and untie herself. She feels around and finds a lightswitch and we see it is a huge supply closet, filled with canned/jarred foods, all with the same logo as above. It is now obvious this truly is a long-term shelter (bomb/virus/etc)?
She grabs several chocolate Apollo candy bars. Interesting to note that Apollo was the god of the sun, which is prevent in many aspects of the show (the mural on the hatch wall, Sun's name, etc.) Question: Kate eats a chocolate bar -- will it affect her in any way?
Locke talks with Desmond and gets his name (confirms what we as viewers knew). Keeps trying to tell Desmond he's not a threat. Tells him he works as a collections agent for a box company (which we know was owned by Hurley, which at some point burnt down). Interesting that Locke is more open with Desmond than he has been with anyone else. Desmond asks about how many are out there, whether any are sick (dead). “The world is still out there?” Locke asks him if he never leaves there (no response).
The beeping alarm goes off again and Desmond forces Locke to enter "the numbers" into the computer, one that Locke says "I haven't seen one of those in 20 years". Locke hesitates before hitting "Execute" asking “What’s gonna happen?” After doing it, it increments a counter back to 108.00 or 10800. This tells us the beeping at the begging of the premier wasn't an alarm clock that woke Desmond, it was a "put in your numbers into the computer or something will/won't happen". Obviously this is on a constant cycle.
Someone on one of the fan boards noted that The diameter of the Sun is 108 times the diameter of the Earth. The distance from the Sun to the Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Sun. The mural has 108 in the sun and 108 outside the sun. Interesting.
As Jack is heading to the hatch, we see Claire and Charlie talking. She sees the figurine in his bag and pulls it out. Charlie gets visibly nervous and tells her to be careful, and tries to distract attention by saying it's a Virgin Mary statue he found and "It might just come in handy."
They then hear Jack coming in. Locke identifies that it is Jack, he's surprised he's there, and he's their doctor. Desmond adjusts his mirrors and sees Jack's gun.
Kate moves some crates around and goes up into the ventilation shaft. She ends up over that control room just as Jack is coming in, and sees the whole scene with the Jack vs. Locke/Desmond showdown. Wild to see that warning shot (or was it) that Desmond fired almost took out Kate.
Desmond still shows no recognition of Jack (or perhaps he fully expected Jack to be there), but Jack obviously remembers Desmond. How he remembers someone he briefly met years ago is interesting.
I still have a problem believing this is the same guy (or the same timeframe) we saw showering at the beginning on the premier. Desmond is very dirty and this episode we saw nothing to indicate how he'd get that dirty between the shower and now. Look at his hands when he is holding the gun to Locke's head -- the fingernails are really dirty. He's unshaven and his face has smudges. Perhaps it is an oversight on the producer's part, but I doubt nothing at this point!
We see lots of flashbacks of Michael, mostly dealing with him getting a lawyer to try and stop his ex-wife from taking Walt to Rome. She wants him to revoke his parental rights so she and her new husband can adopt. It's a "David vs. Goliath" situation for Michael. In the proceedings we find out he hadn't seen Walt in 14 months, as she's had him in Amsterdam. We confirm he'd been in an accident, and his ex had paid the hospital bills. He's on disability and can't work to support Walt. She tells him he's a gifted artist.
In the final flashback, we see Michael meeting his ex and a very young (and shy) Walt. Michael gives him a stuffed POLAR BEAR. The bag it is in has sun logos all over.
The episode ends with Sawyer and Michael washing ashore. A very terrified Jin runs up, hands tied behind him yelling about "others". We then see a bunch of people in the distance advancing while carrying primitive weapons.
The preview for next week looks exciting. We see Sawyer, Michael and Jin all getting the crap beat out of them. We see them getting dragged off and thrown into a pit, which already contains Ana (the woman Jack met in the airport bar). We see them talking about a plane crash and she says "flight 815?"
People have noted that if you look at the scene where the "others" are walking up, she is standing in the back of that pack of thugs, so perhaps her being in the pit is staged to gather info. Maybe these "others" are survivors from the back of the plane, and they've had a rougher time with the OTHER others and thus are just a tad more defensive?
We also see Locke saying something about "this isn't what was supposed to happen" and a shot of him alone in the control room yelling "what am I supposed to do?" The computer box appears destroyed and the monitor appears to be dangling from the desk! Not a good sign!
We also see Desmond running through the forest, we see Kate with a rifle, we see Hurley in that hatch (how the heck did he get down there?) You know, maybe HURLEY is "him". After all, his numbers are on the hatch. hmmm....
Looks like a LOT will happen next week...
posted by Slacker at 3:52 AM
10 Comments:
I was referred to your site by TMK and have enjoyed the recaps and links to Lost fanfare. An interesting tidbit a friend of mine passed along regarding the song "Make Your Own Kind of Music" by Mama Cass Elliot -- she died in a plane crash in the late 70s. These writers are good.
Thanks for the comment, Adam. Very interesting tidbit about Mama Cass Elliot!
To all you other Lost fans who are browsing my blog, stop lurking and start posting your comments/theories! :)
Mama Cass Elliot did not die in a plane crash! I had originally written that she died by drowning in her own vomit after overdosing on drugs. This is the story I always had heard. There are several rumors about her mysterious death.
I actually just went to her website just to confirm and it said that she died of a heart attack. (One year to the day before I was born!)
So much for that theory!
I have no theories. It gives me tired head just thinking about it. But thanks for posting your recaps and theories. You've posted stuff the past two weeks that I have totally missed (logo on shark). I'd rather come here and read about it, than browse through the endless, mind-numbing discussions on the tv.com forums!
The diameter of the Sun is 108 times the diameter of the Earth. The distance from the Sun to the Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Sun. The mural has 108 in the sun and 108 outside the sun. Interesting.
Did anyone really took at this song? The song is "Make your own kind of music" by Mamma Cass. The song peaked at #36 in 1969. That would be "36" years before the hatch was opened (in 2005).
And the numbers..4,8,15,16,23,42..well if you add them together, but individually..(4+8+1+5+1+6+2+3+4+2) and not as whole numbers, you get....."36".
Also if you take the 36 and multiply it by 3 you get "108".
Also, there are 36 lines in the Dharma logo.
And then there is the candy bar.. APOLLO. Didn't Apollo go to the moon in 1969?
This is hurting my head and I love it!
I have been sitting here all day trying to decided the meaning behing the song.
One could be that he has been in the hatch since the song was popular. Maybe it was a figment of Jack's imagination that he met him on the bleachers.
I have my own theory that seems much more plausible:
Mama Cass- M is the 13th letter in the alphabet. Well...1+3 is 4!!! There are 4 letters in Mama, 4 letters in Cass, 4 letters in John, and 4 letters in Kate, 4 letters in Jack!
If you add those numbers up, it equals 20. When you subtract them by the number of people above mentioned (4) you get 16!
Very deep!
Only kidding of course! I love the show and am ready for the plot line to pick up. Thanks for the interesting links.
I totally agree with your comments. My husband and I were annoyed that the episode didn't really move us ahead, but it was good information. Some of the quotes between Sawyer and Micheal were hilarious. I totally screamed at the sharks and when Jin said, "others". I also like the fact that Sawyer put it together that the others who were coming for the little boy were coming for Walt and not Aaron.
I thought it was sad that Charlie might get back on drugs. UGH!
I think the shark was a monitoring device. I saw the logo as well. I think that is why it busted the raft. It makes me wonder who controls the island and if it is the guys Desmonde is looking for.
By the way, I am am Alyssa's little sister. She and Kristen sent me to your blog.
I can not WAIT for next week. It looks awesome!
enjoyed seeing the comments from you guys today. I know there are other lurkers out there -- you've told me! The rest of us would love to hear your observations...
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