We have spent the first 30 shows covering what has happened to the survivors of the front section of Flight 815 in their 48 days on the island. Show 31 gives us the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of all forty-eight days for the tail section survivors and it ain’t pretty.
In the episode number thirty of eighty-two flashback we are at the hospital where Shannon’s father has died. In typical TDTVS fashion he was killed in the very same car accident that almost crippled the woman who would become the future Mrs. Jack Sheppard after he chooses to save her instead of him, the other driver. Off island we attend Adam Rutherford’s funeral and on island Shannon visit’s brother Boone’s grave before chasing off into the jungle where she is ultimately shot and killed by the returning raft sailors and tail section survivors.
(29 of 82) If this episode was a movie I would have to label it a “Chick Flick.” In the off island flashbacks we get to see how Sun and Jin met in Korea and on one side of island we get a little bit of Jin wondering about Sun and on the other side of the island a lot of Sun wondering about Jin.
Twenty seven of eighty two finds flashback Locke finding love and then losing it because of his obsession with his father while on island Locke finds a replacement obsession — the button.
“We’re gonna have to watch that again.”
Episode #26 unfolds in typical soap opera fashion as we spend an hour and progress the story 5 minutes, mostly with a flashback involving Micheal and his original separation from Walt as a follow up to him losing him again to the “others.” A full third of the show is spent rehashing Locke, Jack & Kate entering the hatch as we saw in the last episode and progressing nowhere. The most exiting thing that happened was Kate getting locked in a closet in the hatch and discovering chocolate bars.
Episode 1 of Season 2 and number 25 overall finds Jack in flashback being the miracle surgeon saving the woman who will become his wife from being a paraplegic and on island he chases Locke & Kate down the rabbit hole of the opened hatch where he comes face to face with a blast from that flashback past and it’s not his wife.
Season 1 Episode 21 revolves around Sayid off island and we find out just how he ends up on that fateful Flight 815. On island we attend a funeral, witness a near murder and Sawyer calms the new baby, “Turnip Head”, by reading a car magazine. The SciFi Channel has been running repeats of TDTVS since September by running 4 episodes every Monday starting at 7 PM and coincidentally the show running tonight at seven is The Greater Good.
I stayed up to see the whole game last night. It was close the whole way and the FRS had a couple of chances in the late innings, but couldn’t pull another rabbit out of their hats. The Tampa Bay Rays are on the way to the World Series to play the Philadelphia Phillies and the Red Sox are going home. Because it doesn’t matter to me who beats who in the Series, I might watch some portion of the games if Donna can’t find anything she wants to watch on TV those nights, so baseball is pretty much over for me for this year.
Pitchers and catchers report in 115 days.