“I don’t believe so, personally. I don’t think that sub had moved in years. Ben was using it as a carrot to keep Juliet hopeful re: leaving, and he was no more going to let Jack leave than fly to the moon. That said, there definitely was a way to get to and from the Island that’s never clearly shown.” 

The more I see of Live Together, Die Alone, the more I love this finale, and it really should be up there on the list of great Lost episodes. I could also say about Season 2 overall, that despite a few bumps in the middle, it really compares well with the best the show has to offer.

Did you ever watch the “What’s your story?” deleted scene from the DVD? Libby is featured probably more than anyone in all of the deleted scenes, and we learn she was married two other times besides David, among other things.

Wow, we’ve really dug deep into this, haven’t we? ;-)

Several things to address here, and I’ll try to get to all of them...

Several things to address here, and I’ll try to get to all of them...

Several things to address here, and I’ll try to get to all of them...

“When Kate’s feelings and thoughts about the triangle aren’t clearly and cleanly shown, her character became a lightning rod for projection, for people reading into the situation whatever they wanted.” 

A brief note to add to what you said about Michael’s guilt: I don’t remember where I saw something about Edgar Allan Poe as it relates to the show, but that final shot in ? was pretty telling.

“I’ve got to give Locke credit here; he doesn’t buy it that Michael just appeared in the jungle out of nowhere. It always seemed odd to me that Jack and Kate didn’t draw a cause-and-effect relationship between their trip to go shout at the Others, and the Others responding by sending Michael to do their dirty work.”

This is going to be a combo of S.O.S. and Two for the Road, mostly because I have more to say about the latter.

First of two posts tonight...in this one, I’d like to talk a bit about Lockdown, which I think has become an underrated episode not just for Season 2, but overall.

Or the season finales which were always fuckin’ bangers. Or when an hour episode zipped by in what seemed like 15 minutes. Like Ben Linus’ flashback episode where he was basically Indiana Jones. Or Locke opening a closet in the Hydra base and seeing his dad sitting there tied to a chair with a bag over his head. ‘Dad?’

Still my favorite show ever. It tried different things, took chances, stayed organic as it was being written, had a spectacular cast, listened to what the audience liked and didn’t like, and like it or not, it rewrote the rules on what serialized television could be. There have been endless attempts to create ‘the new…

I always find it interesting that people think Lost is a show that dragged things out and went off the rails, because as someone who binge-watched the entire series instead of watching it live, the filler doesn’t really register as filler when you can just hop to the end to episode. The mysteries don’t feel dragged…

Same here, I didn’t watch the first season so I hit up ABC.com and binged it before the start of the second season. I thought it was awesome to be able to do that, especially for free.

It is a terrible show for syndication, as it is a serial with no standalone episodes. You cannot watch them out of sequence, and if you watch one, you pretty much have to watch them all to enjoy it. It is a perfect show for bingeing if on a streaming service though.  One of the best network shows in history. …

Binge watching was certainly a thing in 2004, you just had to buy a DVD set in order to do it.

Binge watching was most certainly a thing when Lost debuted. I remember watching entire seasons of shows in a couple days using my Netflix account. 

Thinking about The Long Con for this post, and came across these notes from last rewatch...