In my ongoing mission to re-watch all the seasons of Lost before the final season drops on Feb 2nd, I officially have a little over a month to watch the next 3 seasons. Fortunately, season 3 is the last of the long seasons, so seasons 4 and 5 will be easy. This season for me was a little under-rated, for some it's the worst season, but it's the season that gave us Eko, Ben, and Desmond so it could be argued as one of the most important seasons.
Once again, I'll start off with the top 3 episodes of season 2.
23rd Psalm
Easily m
y favorite episode thus far in Lost history. This episode makes me sad that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje didn't want to stay on the show because I'd love to have seen more Mr. Eko episodes. Darleton had big plans to make Eko stick around longer and to even be the recipient of the visions Desmond gained in Season 3 ( such a shame.) This episode is by far one of the best stories in Lost. Eko being a merciless drug dealer turned priest was every bit surprising as it was good. We even got to see Eko 1-up John Locke's Season 1 staredown against the smoke monster... Plus that plane that rid us of Boone? Yeah that was Eko's dead brother's plane!Two for the Road
I liked the sh
ock factor at the end of this episode. For the most part I didn't care about Ana Lucia being chaperon for drunk Christian Shepard in Australia (even though it showed us that Claire and Jack are half-siblings). Funny as it was, I wasn't surprised about Sawyer and Ana Lucia's fling (which Sawyer would later so delicately put as "I screwed her" when having a moment of bonding with Jack). The real shock came at the end when Bernard and Eko become the last of the Tail Section survivors and Micheal cements himself as the biggest douche on the show.Live Together, Die Alone
Finally! W
e get to see Desmond's story. So many cool parts, Ben being shown as the leader of the Others, Locke getting hit with the Jesus stick and crying about it, we learn why Oceanic flight 815 crashed, the four toed statue is shown and not brought up again until 3 seasons later and finally, The Kurrigan being shown as Desmond's Dharma Hatch buddy....if you didn't catch that reference you need to rent Highlander immediately. (Also did you know that Clancy f'n Brown does the voice of Mr. Crabs???) Season 2 V.I.P
A very ve
ry hard choice, Locke had some great stories, Eko won fans with his backstory and Ben went from being a guest star to a main character with a very awesome line about milk. Being the indesisive person I am, I can't choose between Locke and Eko. I know Ben had some moments but He really came into his own in the next 2 seasons so we'll leave him off this time. Locke was at the center of all the Hatch mystery moments, had some great moments with Ben/Henry Gale and his incident with the blast doors gave us a cooler map than the one Sayid stole from the French Lady's lair (where he was probably raped...just saying). Eko was a welcome addition and had the strongest and most appealing backstory in the series. Plus it's fitting that the two people who had a stare-down with Smokey and lived share this spot (although Eko doesn't go 2 for 2 later). Finally the Eko & Locke scenes are awesome.
Re-Evaluated Characters
Didn't really have any this season. I did hate Rose & Bernard and got mad that they got their own flashback episode and then I kind of liked them but then again I got more happy about seeing Vincent (the dog) than I was to see them after they were MIA for the full season last year...so maybe that doesn't really count.
Overall, fun season despite the WAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLTTTTT cries. Thankfully that didn't get dragged out into the next season. Best of all this season gave us mysteries such as the food drop that have yet to be answered. Also like WAAAAAAAAAALLLTT, Libby and the flight attendant seems to have a bit of significance, but with only 16 episodes left, kinda doubting that we'll find out what is going on with them.
Now time to kill off Season 3
Brad
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