IRL: 1X09 - "Solitary" [**SPOILERS WITHIN**]

Basq

- WARNING: THIS THREAD WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT YET SEEN "SOLITARY" -

Episode Title: "Solitary"
Airdate: July 11th 2005

Synopsis (from TV.Com):

Sayid's life is placed in grave danger after he stumbles upon the source of the mysterious French transmission, the woman Danielle Rousseau (guest-star Mira Furlan) who was on the distress call is found alive. Meanwhile, Hurley has a ridiculous plan to make life on the island a little more civilized. The plan involves golf clubs he finds in the debris, and it looks like it just might work. Lastly, we flash back to Sayid's childhood friend Nadia as well as his participation in hostage situations in Iraq.

Next New Episode: 1X10 - Raised by Another - 18th July 2005

qz

Average

Didn't like this episode as much as others, but I found the creation of golf on the island to be very amusing.

steveland?

Poor

Hope ya don't mind qz but I added spoiler tags...

The golf game is a funny addition so it's best if no-one knows about it before hand... although the golf club thing in the synopsis kinda gives it away...

... best bet is for no-one who's seen the episode to reply before the episode is shown on RTE folks

qz

Average

Sorry about that, just assumed with the spoiler warnings that I could fire away, but you've got a good point.

OFDM

Good

Good episode. I liked the

whispers

at the end.

qz

Average

No need for spoiler tags now that the episode's been shown.

herobear

Good

that was excellent!

really liked how it introduces a new part to the series(being suitably vague here)

i was a bit worried when Sayid said that nadia was dead, way to kill the plot :rolleyes:
still fascinating backstory though with a nice open end.

the ending with the whispers was excellent, just ended really unexpectedly for me though

mr_angry

Good

My favourite lines from that episode:

Sayid: But you loved him.
Danielle: He was sick. They all were.
Sayid: You killed all of them.
Danielle: I had to. What if we had been rescued? I couldn't let that happen.

Make of that what you will...

Basq

Average

Yeah.. actually i liked this episode more after seeing it again tonight! The golf course scenes were fantastic, of course!

But probably still one of my least favourite episodes of the series - along with "House Of The Rising Sun".. but even a poor 'Lost' episode is pretty damn excellent!

Roll on Claire's backstory next week!

qz

Average

Claire's and Hurley's are the best backstories. But Hurley's is better than Claire's!

herobear

Good

basquille wrote:

Roll on Claire's backstory next week!

:eek: yay!!!

me lovesh claire!

oh and

TWOP wrote:

Hurley finds something cool enough to warrant a "Dude!" in one of the bags, though, to be fair, Hurley deals out "Dude!"s so liberally, it could be, like, anything, from a hairbrush to the head of Stanislaus Grumman.

Basq

Average

herobear wrote:

TWOP wrote:

Hurley finds something cool enough to warrant a "Dude!" in one of the bags, though, to be fair, Hurley deals out "Dude!"s so liberally, it could be, like, anything, from a hairbrush to the head of Stanislaus Grumman.

Television Without Pity are excellent!!

herobear

Good

1 more for good measure

Outside Casa de Sawyer, Kate's staring off into the middle distance, as if trying to encourage a flashback; unfortunately, she's already used her allotment of Season One flashbacks, so no Beckinsaliana is forthcoming.

baasquille: in future episodic posts like this one, can you post a random quote from the twop review alongside it, possibly replacing the tv.com plot synopsis(it kinda sucks how spoilery it is)

Manach

Good

Excellent episode.
To my fellow B5 fans, a welcome return to the actress who played Delean.

Mr E

Good

I liked this episode. It introduced the lore of the island - things that become important later on. Black Rock, The Others....

steveland?

Poor

I thought this episode was one of the worst in the flashback kind of sense... Sayid is a fairly boring character imo... He's alright on the island but his backstory just bored the hell out of me in both of the Sayid central episodes...

The things on the island were good, which I think kind of made up for it... Good to see Danielle finally in the Irish episodes

All in all a fairly average episode but one that introduces the main points for the rest of the series...

OFDM

Good

qz wrote:

No need for spoiler tags now that the episode's been shown.

WHISPERS!!!

This was also the 2nd episode with a flashback that didn't place the character in Australia. I like they way they're mixing it up like that. The power source is still a mystery also and what was the cable into the sea about?

Sayid also says "I am willing to make that sacrifice" which is what the GLA suicide bombers say in the game Command & Conquer: Generals.

o Fiac

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