Thursday, August 13, 2009

Ranking Episodes, Season Two (top half)

12. ?(2x21, Eko)
Episode highlight: finding the Pearl
#2: Morbid, but I jumped in my chair when Libby coughed up blood

11. The Hunting Party (2x11, Jack)
Episode highlight: Tom's talk with Locke, Jack, and Sawyer
#2: Alex is alive

10. Lockdown (2x17, Locke)
Episode highlight: The blast door map
#2: Jack and Kate discover the pallet

9. Maternity Leave (2x15, Claire)
Episode highlight: Claire's on-island flashback, the first full-length on in LOST history (not counting The Other 48 Days)
#2: Exploring the staff

8. Three Minutes (2x22, Michael)
Episode highlight: Sun spots Desmond's boat at the funeral
#2: Ms. Klugh and her interactions with Michael

7. The Other 48 Days (2x7, Tailies)
Episode highlight: The fist time we see the Others attack the camp, barefoot around the fire
#2: Ana-Lucia confronts and kills Goodwin

6. The 23rd Psalm (2x10, Eko)
Episode highlight: Eko stares down the Monster
#2: Eko's backstory, one of the most compelling on the show

5. One of Them (2x14, Sayid)
Episode highlight: We meet LOST's most complicated and fascinating character
#2: Hieroglyphics on the countdown clock as it reaches zero

4. Two for the Road (2x20, Ana-Lucia)
Episode highlight: Michael murders Ana-Lucia and Libby, one of the most shocking endings of any episode
#2: Jack, Kate, Locke, and Sawyer have it dawn on them that Ana-Lucia has the gun

3. Man of Science, Man of Faith (2x1, Jack)
Episode highlight: Make Your Own Kind of Music...the first scene is amazing
#2: Desmond and Jack at the stadium

2. Orientation (2x3, Locke)
Episode highlight: Mythological overload...DHARMA, Hanso, the Incident, the button...
#2: Did I mention Marvin Candle, electromagnetism, missing segments, ...?

1. Live Together, Die Alone (2x23, Desmond)
Episode highlight: They reach the capsule dump, which ties both major plot points together--the hatch and the trek to fight the Others
#2: "Ms. Widmore, I think we found it"