Episode Report Card Daniel: B+ | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT I was blown up by a pirate ship
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 24 | Aired on May 24, 2005
So there's no time for your "secret scene," but there's enough room for a full minute-and-a-half commercial for your bogus Dancing with the Stars show? Because it can't be said enough, fuck you, ABC. No, I still haven't forgiven you for canceling Sports Night. ["I still haven't forgiven them for canceling My So-Called Life. Dance with this, Ted Harbert." -- Sars]
Montage time, complete with what sounds like that same music that they always use for here, and no dialogue! Yay! Claire's alone, at the caves, and Sayid and Charlie stroll in. Claire sees them, and practically knocks them over as she runs over to grab Turniphead. Charlie even gets a kiss out of the deal, so you know he's happy. Shannon strolls over, and is able to break out of her funk to be happy to see Turniphead. Then she starts looking for Sayid, who's over washing himself in the little waterfall, and she goes running to him, and they hug. Guess she was rather worried about him, but I guess there was "no time" to touch on that, hey? Claire examines Charlie's forehead owie, and we see in his backpack a statue of the Virgin Mary, and I can hardly believe that Charlie hasn't actually done all the heroin yet.
We switch to a slow motion scene of the passengers boarding the plane that I quite liked, although, as a portrait of the travelers before circumstances threw them together on the island, I think it'd be more effective after those CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED, but it's still pretty good. There's Claire trying to squeeze past a big guy. There's Kate with a jacket over her handcuffed wrists, the marshal behind her. There's Sawyer strolling on, looking surly. There's Locke watching, and Jack in front of him stowing something in an overhead compartment. There's Charlie trying to stuff his damn guitar into a wardrobe of some type, and maybe someone can explain to me how it is that he wasn't made to check that. There's Sayid sitting down, with some guy a few seats over staring at him, I guess because Sayid's Iraqi, judging from the way the guy quickly averts his gaze when Sayid looks over. Sayid reacts like this isn't new to him, which I imagine it isn't.