Impressions of a Second Viewing: Lost, Season 2
CHARACTERS
- Jack is still a jerk, but somehow a little more tolerable. His relationship with Sawyer is more interesting to me than his relationship with Locke. If they’d quit being a**holes to each other, they’d be a great team.
- This season was the beginning of Locke’s fall. This is where doubt enters, culminating at the final episode when the incident starts to happen and he tells Ecko he was wrong.
- Still loving Sawyer. His whole sheriff thing lasted as long as that one episode and then was gone. Sure he’s a jerk sometimes but becoming much more likeable.
- Nobody can walk away from this season and still like Michael, even if you don’t count the fact that he sold out his friends and murdered to innocent people. All he has to do is say, “But they took my SON!†one more time and I want to throw a brick through the TV.
- I actually started to like Kate a little more this season. She’s almost become a maternal figure and less of a badass (which is hard to believe anyway).
- Still love Sayid and Hurley.
- Ecko is, of course, an awesome character, though still not one of my favorites. He’s just as loony as Locke, but with more religion.
- Ana Lucia was a great character, and knowing her end makes me appreciate her story from the beginning a little better. But it’s still hard for me to take her attitude seriously.
- Characters for whom my opinion didn’t change: Claire, Jin, Sun, Rose, Bernard, Libby, Walt and Charlie.
STORY
- Season 2 is either just as good or almost as good as the first season. I’d say it might be better, but loses the advantage because the novelty of what the show is has worn off.
- I still maintain that the writers weren’t anticipating seasons 4 & 5 while writing Season 2. They weren’t thinking time travel, they weren’t thinking Jacob/Esau.
- Still more interested in the happenings on the island than in the back-stories.
- Season finale was amazing. Maybe the best of the show. So many great things they bring in: the 4-toed statue, the boat, Ben as leader, the Portuguese dudes, the exploded hatch, going to the Others’ camp, etc. Good stuff.
- Best line in Season 2: Sawyer explaining to Jack how Ana Lucia got his gun and he tells him they got “caught up in a net.†Hilarious.
I have less to say this time. I don’t know if I can do Season 3 again. I remember not loving the first 7-8 episodes. We’ll see I guess.
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I started blogging at the beginning of season 2 and have blogged almost every episode since, but I’ve never gone back and watched any episodes after I’ve blogged them.
Are there any obvious plot holes that are apparent in retrospect? One thing that always struck me as odd about season 2 was the way that the Tailies view the Others as some sort of superhuman, horrific force on the island. This doesn’t seem to mesh with what we later come to learn about the Others during season 3. Maybe this can be chalked up to the Tailies’ paranoia and fear of the unseen. Also, the Monster seems takes on a very different image in season 2 than it had in season 1, as I recall.
Greg,
I had a recap of my thoughts after re-watching Season 1 here in case you missed it.
Regarding how the Tailies view the Others, I’d say you’re right, but that’s the way they’re portrayed in Season 2. Locke at one point says that they don’t leave tracks (or footprints, I don’t remember). And they are very calculating in everything they do, from the torches surrounding the Losties to the costumes/tents/hatch-to-nowhere to the tranquilizer darts. And they are paranoid, scared and Ana Lucia is dramatic.
The monster is interesting. Season 1 it seemed to be on a path of destruction and murder. Season 2 it seemed to be more of an adversary that blinked first when confronted by Ecko. This change in character is actually one of the reasons I became less interested in it because it became a little too much of a deus ex machina. And it seems like its character or purpose changes every season.
And for that reason, I was glad to see her go.
I know you hate Michael, but I think you forget that they took his SON!
Ana Lucia got a lifetime pass from me when she gunned down Shannon.
I need to rewatch it.
My big question is who was responsible for Shannon’s death now that we know more that is going on. Rather than the smoke monster there was the walt-ghost and the whispering.
While I think the full spectrum wasn’t know in seasons 1 & 2. (In particular I think it was halfway through season 2 that the Other’s became defined) That said I think from the beginning the Tempest & Forbidden Planet parallels were there. There was always going to be a hidden Wizard and the Smoke monster was always going to be tied to him.
Some interesting news: apparently Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje has had a change of heart about being on Lost.
I think the very nature of the smoke monster changed from the first episodes of the first season. At that point it was something of a large invisible dinosaur that knocked down trees, and chewed up the surviving pilot. It’s smoke form seems to have been added later.
If A.A.A. wants to come back to Lost they should let him, just to give the character a better ending.
My understanding is the man is a total douche, but I’ve read interviews where Cuse and Lindeloff state they wish they could have wrapped up Eko’s storyline in a better fashion.
You would think they could put away their differences long enough to make it work.
I’ll lay good odds that the producers are pissed off at Mr. Akinnuoye-Agbaje enough that he will never return except in a cameo. There clearly was an arc there that they had to cut short. And that hasty episode produced one of the worst episodes of the season frankly.
uh… isn’t it a bit late to try and bring back Eko? Then again, with all that time travel, they could do whatever they wanted.