Because we're so pressed for time, I'm posting the review for "The Moth" right away. Don't be surprised if I post more today -- I've still got five more to go after this one."The Moth" is the seventh episode of season one, as well as the seventh episode of the series as a whole. It shows us the past of Charlie Pace, the rock star, who is also undergoing detox on the Island with the help of Locke.
Kate and Jack continue to bicker about the caves, but Kate says that she wants to go through with Sayid's plan to triangulate a signal to call for help, a plan that is destined to fail for two reasons: Locke, and the Looking Glass.
In a flashback, Charlie confesses his sins to a priest, and vows to quit the band. However, as soon as he leaves the confession booth, he meets Liam, his brother, who tells him that the band has signed a records deal.
Locke tells Charlie that he can ask for the drugs three times, and after the third time Locke will return the drugs to Charlie. Charlie asks him why, but Locke says that it's to give Charlie a choice.
Later, Charlie, who has been told he's in the way, finally tells his frustrations to Jack, but the cave collapses, trapping Jack inside. Charlie and Michael go to the beach for help, and get Steve and Scott (who they famously mix up) to help.
Meanwhile, in a flashback, Charlie confronts Liam, who has broken another promise once again. Back on the Island, Charlie goes to find Locke to help, and Locke tells Charlie the moth parable. Charlie asks for his drugs the second time, and Locke says he has one more chance. Charlie returns to the caves, and volunteers to go inside and rescue Jack. A flashback shows him being yelled at by his brother, eventually turning to his brother's drugs. Charlie reaches Jack in the cave, but the tunnel collapses behind him. Charlie tells Jack "I'm here to rescue you," a line that will be repeated (once again to Jack) by Daniel Faraday.
Charlie, seeing a moth in the cave, finds a way out through a hole in the roof. He's a hero this time, and even Hurley says "Dude, you rock" (another hint at the beginning of a beautiful friendship).
Meanwhile, Sayid is able to triangulate the signal, but is knocked unconscious by an unseen person (Locke) before he is able to do anything. His tranciever is destroyed.
Later, Charlie goes and meets Locke, asking for his drugs a third time. Locke, disappointed, gives them to Charlie, who promptly tosses them into the fire. Locke is proud. Charlie looks up, and once again sees a moth, closing out the episode.
And that's it for episode 1x07, "The Moth." You can discuss the episode in this forum thread, read others' posts about it at the rewatch hub, and edit the episode's article.
Nice summary, but we can get that inside Lostpedia. What we need here is how this summary fits into the bigger picture of LOST. What's in this episode that we will need for season 6? Just my 2 cents.
ReplyDeleteWell, this episode wasn't that important. Not every episode will be relevant in season six.
ReplyDeleteI like the blog this person is writing since they remind me of key points.
ReplyDeleteIt always seemed that the first season did give us keypoints for the rest of the series, but it was mainly a season of introducing all the characters and giving reasons why this group was on this plane. Somehow the Island wanted that plane and those people so it made a situation that caused the incident that brought it down. We have to remind ourselves that it was the 3rd season I think that the go ahead was given to finish the series by 2010.
Kinda bad for the other passengers since they were just fodder with no purpose or reason for the Island (Jacob) to need them and it looks like all but the key players were slowly killed off. Hugo was a good guy to buy up all the seats left on 316 to keep that from happening again. None of the others seemed to give a damn about anyone else that was on the flight. And interesting that this time the plane landed without massive lost of life. Did Jacob need the extra troops for the War? Or maybe its MIB that wants troops.
Another thought...Sun started looking for plants that were healing and edible even after Jack collected drugs and supplies from the wreckage. Of all the Losties she was the only one that started preparing for a long stay. This could be proof that there is a memory of the past even though she never time traveled..maybe she knows they will be there a long time and is preparing. I wonder if her garden survived the 3 years they were gone from the Island.
ReplyDeletesomething interesting in this episode was how locke emphasized freewill. when he was talking to charlie and skinning the boar he tells him that choice (as in Charlie's choice not to ask for the drugs) is the only thing that separates him from beasts. this is really ironic because later locke will be all about predetermination. May I suggest that locke has multiple personality disorder. Wait doesn't locke's mother have that? But probably Locke has been influenced by Jacob and MIB alternately. I don't mean possessed though because even though some people have been suggesting that Locke was on team smokey from the beginning, he was too confused and obviously human even when he was overly confident, which is definitely a contrast to his season 5 collectedness. I do think that the monster he saw was influencing him at some points and that Jacob (possibly the bright light that Locke mentions later) was sometimes a greater influence on him. This seems likely considering he is more about freewill in the beginning closer to the time when Jacob healed his paralysis, and he becomes more about destiny the closer he comes to death which if you think about it was really the fault of MIB undercover as fake season 5 locke. (during the time travel, fake locke is the one who tells Richard to tell real locke that he will have to die to save everyone so really locke's death is because of fake locke.)
ReplyDeleteSo I've been catching up on this rewatch thing. Sam I thing you are doing a great job on this. I know the time and energy it takes to write these things up. I do kinda agree with some of the bashers about the content though. I do like the summery it help me remember what the hell is actually going on in, but the anonymus writer who posted before me made an amazing point with fake locke being responsible for real lockes death. I repeat AMAZING!!! This is what I though the rewatch was supposed to be about.
ReplyDeletehow the hell did I miss this: (thank you)
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(during the time travel, fake locke is the one who tells Richard to tell real locke that he will have to die to save everyone so really locke's death is because of fake locke.)
Lost can get too intense sometimes. It's relieving to have these heart warming episodes every once and while to lighten the atmosphere. There are still great character developments, this isn't a completely useless episode.
ReplyDelete'during the time travel, fake locke is the one who tells Richard to tell real locke that he will have to die to save everyone so really locke's death is because of fake locke.'
ReplyDeleteConsider looking at this in a different way..
Has anyone considered that Jacob is really the 'evil' one and MIB is the good guy? What if Locke has to die so that MIB can take over his body and finally have the oportunity to beat Jacob, therefor saving all of his friends on the island...
I think they are trying to get us to think that Jacob is good and MIB is bad but in reality it is the other way around.
IF Jacob is the good guy then this would mean the entire island is on the dark side, including smokey who insisted that Ben do as Locke does/says (as Alex) and the dark side would supposedly win.
Lets run with the idea MIB is good and Jacob is bad for a minute.. That would mean that the good guy,MIB, was locked up and cursed to a Cabin (asking for John to help him because he saw the Faith John carried with him) While the 'good' is locked away, people are unable to bear children on this island and Jacob is free to play games with all of the people on the island including Ben and the others.
It is obvious during the conversation between MIB and Jacob that MIB doesn't like the fact Jacob keeps bringing people to the island (on boats and planes) [He claimed Jacob had brought the ship to the Island, saying that this would only end in fighting, destruction and corruption as it always had] Does Jacob enjoy these corruptions maybe? That doesn't sound like somthing the 'good' side would want to bring to people..
Maybe the island was at one time cohabitated by both good and evil and evil took over. What we are watching is Good trying to win back the island.