Exodus (1)

Season 1, Episode 23, Aired
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Rousseau arrives at the camp with the warning that the Others are coming, meaning that everyone is in danger. To protect the group, Rousseau leads Jack and a team of survivors to the Black Rock, where there is dynamite. Jack hopes that with it they can blow open the Hatch, and hide inside until the threat passes. Back at the camp, the survivors prepare the raft for launching.moreless
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  • Awesome.

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    By Sarah_LOST, Oct 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Rousseau arrives at the beach to warn the survivors that the Others are coming, and tells them more of her own story. She was pregnant when she came to the island sixteen years ago but the Others"their arrival heralded by a column of black smoke"came and kidnapped her baby, who she has not seen since. A column of black smoke is soon seen in the distance. Jack, Locke and Sayid tell Rousseau about the hatch, and their need to open it, perhaps with dynamite. Rousseau offers to take them to the Black Rock to get some dynamite. Jack, Locke, Kate, Hurley, Arzt and Rousseau arrive at the Black Rock, a large slave ship stranded inland. Meanwhile, Charlie gathers messages to put in a bottle and the raft sets sail. In flashbacks, several of the survivors are shown in the final hours before the flight. I love this episode, I love the start where Walt is hiding from the French chick. The Others are coming, Run Hide Or Die! I love the scene where everyone is trying to move the raft, and then the black smoke starts. I love Jack and Sawyers scene on of the best scenes ever when Sawyer tells Jack about his father. I love the scene where Walt gives Vincent toShannon and when Vincent tries to follwo the raft - so sad. I also love the Jin and Sun scene.moreless

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  • The first part of the Exodus Season Finale doesn't leave a dry eye in the house. Powerful, emotional and epic.

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    By martync7, Jun 04, 2010 Report Abuse
    Exodus Part 1 is a truly impressive opening to the final 3 hours of Lost Season 1. What first makes an impression is how the flashbacks are altered for this episode, which makes watching this and the next episode that much more enjoyable. All the characters get a flashback moment and that is a good move by the writers. If the flashback structure was getting a bit tiresome this set will feel fresh and interesting. All the flashbacks are set on the day that Oceanic 815 took off on its fatal flight. We see how many of the characters connected themselves with each other, even before the crash, like Sayid and Shannon, which was kinda of weird, looking at that now as they are almost lovers. Like "Numbers", this episode feels like an Indiana Jones movie in miniature. A mission group, consisting of Jack, Kate, Locke, Hurley, Artz and Rousseau, journey to the Dark Territory, to find dynamite from the Black Rock. The purpose of this journey is to find the only means to blow open the Hatch. The reason: the Others are coming!
    After most of the episodes focusing on character relations and their personal issues and vendettas, often with frustrating results, Danielle walks into the survivor's lives and forces the issue that danger faces them on the island and that they'd all better wake up and face up to it.
    It is this episode that makes you understand why the writers chose to focus on the characters alot of the time previous to this. It suddenly shocks the survivors who have been rather blaze about the whole "mystery island" concept since their arrival, and gets them all to focus on the problems of the island rather than themselves.
    It is great to see Danielle back after Numbers. She is such an enigmatic character and adds to the mystery of the island. She also gives the survivors the dilemma of whether to believe her or her interpretation of events on the island.
    This episode is full of little revelations but most importantly begins to connect the dots between past mysteries and current ones, offering some kind of closure on many issues. One closure relates to character when Sawyer opens up to Jack about his conversation with Jack's father, Christian, which we saw in Outlaws. Sawyer was a surprise in this episode. He may be redeeming himself. He certainly seems to be becoming more helpful and offers to help with the Raft. There could be an ulterior motive, of course, but some of Sawyer's behavior seems quite genuine. When the raft launches the sight of Sawyer and Michael shaking hands in jubilation is emotional and unexpected.
    We get an answer for what the Monster could be, though we don't see it. Danielle says it is a security system protecting the island. Even though we don't know why the island needs protecting, it still makes sense.
    And we discover that the Black Rock is actually a ship, washed ashore.
    For all the character and plot line revelations, the real highlight of this episode are the final moments when the Raft is launched. The first couple of times I watched this I was almost crying. It is beautifully constructed to epic proportions that you refuse to believe that you're watching a 45 minute TV episode. This moment could almost be the final moment of the series, and it almost feels like the weiters were backing themselves up with a couple of episodes that felt like the end of the series, rather than the end of Season 1, just in case they couldn't do any more episodes. I think they knew that there would be more prior to making this episode but still feels that this was the anti-climax to the series.
    This was an impressive first part. The second part may blow it out of the water but this episode stands on its own very well.moreless

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  • Season One Finale Part One!

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    By VGFreak8, Jun 01, 2010 Report Abuse
    There are flashbacks of various people before they got onto the plane. Jack meets Ana, Shannon and Boone cross with Sayid, Sawyer is taken on the flight as punishment, Kate is with the marshall, Sun and Jin get a bite to eat, and Walt and Michael have a little trouble getting along.

    Danielle comes to the camp to warn everyone about "the Others." They are coming to kill them. She says that at the sign of black smoke, it means they're coming. Sure enough, black smoke rises. Jack, Locke, Danielle, Hurley and Artz make their way towards the ship with dynamite, in order to open the hatch. On the beach, Michael and everyone else help get the raft into the water. Sun and Jin make up. Jin, Sawyer, Michael and Walt set sail.

    This was a great episode! I love the ending sound of the Lost logo! I'm glad Jin and Sun made up! This episode gets a 10 out of 10!moreless

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  • More flashbacks of the survivors' of plane crash lives.

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    By Writer2000, Jun 01, 2010 Report Abuse
    Let me just start off by saying that I really liked this episode. It was definitely a very exciting episode and a great way to start the two part season one season finale. I loved the all of the flashbacks of everyone's lives, especially the flashbacks of Sawyers life. Since Sawyer is one of my most favorite characters on the show, I really enjoyed his storyline in this episode. Jack's storyline was also very interesting to me. I really enjoyed Jack's flashback of the day that they all boarded their plane that crashed. All of the flashbacks in this episode were great. As a whole, I thought that this was a very well written, well acted and well made episode by everyone involved, and I'm looking forward to watching part two of the season one season finale.moreless

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  • MAnage To Had some Greats Moments!!!!

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    By Dante_Edy, Jun 28, 2009 Report Abuse
    I dont Think that this episode deserves to have a 9 or 10, this is due to the fact that a 9 episode have more great moments or stands out of other episodes in general, with great Cliffhanger, mystery, some death, or something totally new and reveling.

    This episode was all about goodbyes. The all episode was predictable, so what could be made? Emotional moments and that is exactly what the writers created.

    Sawyer Way to say goodbye for Jack was Great, emotional and now Jack Know what his father was thinking of him before he died.

    Sun and Michael goodbye was cool. Walt and Shannon Scene was one of the very good ones.

    And then Sun and Jin very emotional goodbye, if there is someone that can communicate this type of emotions is Jin and Sun.

    Other than that, you know that the Others are coming, but nothing happened yet, only the monster attacked again, which is kind boring, repetitive and fiiler type Scene.

    The Flashbacks was more about sharing information, like what they were doing before entering the plane?moreless

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    • Spoiler alert!: The raft ended up leaving with 4 people: Sawyer, Walt, Jin and Michael. 4 is one of "The Numbers". Edit
    • Walt is watching Power Rangers: SPD. However, that show premiered on February of 2005, while the flashback is from September of 2004. Edit
    • Numbers: 23 and 42 Jack and Ana Lucia are sitting in seats 23 B and 42 F respectively. Edit

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    • First appearance by Michelle Rodriguez who portrays Ana Lucia Cortez and by M.C. Gainey who portrays Tom. Edit
    • International Airdates: - Denmark: June 10, 2005 on Kanal 5 - Greece: September 3, 2008 at 23.00 on ANT1 Edit
    • Michelle Rodriguez ("Ana Lucia") receives the "And" credit. Edit

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    • (Kate walks up the beach. She heads over to Jack, who is packing his backpack) Kate: So you're heading out? Jack: Yeah. Kate: (hesitantly) I was thinking that I might go with you...for old times' sake. I want to help. Jack: You won't be here for the raft launching. Kate: Yeah, well, I'm, I'm not very good at goodbyes. Jack: Grab your stuff. Edit
    • Sayid: Danielle, what are you doing here? Danielle: The others are coming. Edit
    • Arzt: You want to keep a secret, don't tell the fat guy. Edit

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    • Sawyer's real name is revealed to be James Ford. James Ford was an american civic leader and business owner in southern Illinois at the turn of the 19th century. Despite his clean public image, he was also secretly a river pirate and the leader of a gang that would come to be known as "Ford's Ferry Gang". They would hijack ferries and flatboats with tradable goods from local farms coming down the Ohio River. Edit
    • Sawyer: (Speaking to Michael about being refused a place on the raft) You gonna vote me off, Mickey? This is a reference to the popular show, Survivor, in which one contestant is voted off the island/show by the other contestants every week. Edit
    • Gina and Jeff notice Sun spilling coffee on Jin. As Sun then jumps up to help him, Gina remarks that it is Memoirs Of A Geisha come to life. This is a novel by Arthur Golden, published in 1997, that later became a 2005 movie. Gina is another example of a very unlikable character on Lost. Edit

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