Review:
I like this episode far more than the first episode. Mostly because it involves better characters. It isn’t the Jack show anymore. Sawyer, and Locke have lines, these two are the people that would really intrigue me if I had just started watching. This episode also has a fair amount of humor, from the only funny people on the island, Sawyer, Hurley and Charlie.
There was a massive amount of info in this episode. Shannon and Boone are Brother and Sister, Kate was the prisoner/fugitive, Sayid was a soldier in the Republican Guard, Charlie is a druggie, Locke is a frightening guy. But I really don’t care about those kind of things this time around. The important things that happen in this episode are the Polar Bear and Rouseau’s distress call. Mostly it’s the distress call, that sets up a lot of storyline and really scares the survivors.
Since this episode was more of an ensemble episode than the first episode, and because it set up some big mysteries, I like it much more that the first episode. I’ll give it a 9.5/10.
