The Hunting Party

Season 2, Episode 11, Aired
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Jack faces tension as he wakes to find a gun-toting Michael, who leaves to find Walt. With the help of Locke and Sawyer, Jack heads out to bring Michael back before the Others kill Michael.
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  • Pathetic. Let's go to war. Sure, great solution. It's worked so well for the U.S. hasn't it?

    5.0
    "Mediocre"
    By ecinajx19, Jun 23, 2011 Report Abuse
    Considering how excellent the prior episode was, this one was just terribly boring. I don't think Jack is much of an actor, and I'm tired of seeing his backstory when there are so many other characters I'd like to know more about. And I don't get why no one seems able to communicate, everyone has secrets, and too many people just cannot resist trying to control each other. I sure hope this episode was an exception, as many others have been a total blast, exciting and unexpected.
    a few more words wasted here so I can be done with this.moreless

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  • Awesome.

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    By Sarah_LOST, Oct 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Michael leaves the survivors in search of Walt. Jack, Locke, and Sawyer pursue Michael but encounter the Others in the jungle. In flashbacks, Jack's wife leaves him. Wow - what an awesome episode I love the way Michael goes after Walt. I love the scene in the hatch with, Jack, Sawyer, Locke annd Kate. I also love the way Jack doesn't want Kate to go with Locke, Sawyer and himself. Sun and Jin are awesome - there characters and storyline is so real. I love the scene where the other talk to the gang for went looking for Michael, it's awesome the way they have Kate. Jack really loves her. Charlie and Hurley are so funny I love their scene talkign about women. Jack's back story is awesome too.moreless

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  • This episodes has it´s issues, but overall as some interesting scenes!!!

    8.0
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    By Dante_Edy, Jul 06, 2009 Report Abuse
    Ok, why this episode deserve a 8? Instead of 9 or 9,5?

    From Writers/Producers Perspective:

    Jack is the main character, so he needs at least 3 flashbacks per Season, which means that the audience may feel bored. The writers insist with Jack Story through his marriage, which make sense, since Michael go after his son, to rescue him, so Since Jack is the leader, he go after Michael too.

    So, The writers tried to tie the flashback to Jack situation on the Island and his necessity to fix everything. Here the writers forced the flashback into a situation that doesnt needed to be done in that way.

    What worked in this episode, is the fact that the writers did the unexpected. The Others appeared, and the confrontation and the conversation was great. This is the Key moment of this episode.

    The Producers know that a episode only need a story that in the end or even in the middle, has something that feels great to see. So this was the case and was well executed.

    My Point of View:

    What I think that was great was the confrontation, even the dialogues was interesting, and it was unexpected that they would found them in the jungle. What I expected was more delays, not the case.

    Jin and Sun share their time on screen, nothing bad or boring.

    The endind was good, but not great, just interesting, since this can make more deaths in the way.

    So, what sell this episode for 8, is the appearence of the others and the nice conversation Between Jack and one of the Leader of the Other.moreless

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  • Another merry chase, but this one really doesn't go anywhere

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    By DavidB226Morris, Jun 21, 2009 Report Abuse
    Because so much of the series is centered on Jack, his flashback episodes are traditionally the weakest, partly because he wears his heart in his sleeve, partly because we learn less about him as a person in these episodes. This is pretty much the same when we see his story in 'The Hunting Party'. He's under the thumb of his father when it comes time to perform the same kind of miracle surgery that he did on Sarah, who we see in this episode as well. He failed, he took it hard, and in a moment of weakness he kissed the man's daughter. As always, he couldn't keep these feelings bottled up, so he told Sarah, promising to be a better husband, only to find that she, too , had run out of patient with him. Jack may have loved her once, but as she puts it, he will always need someone to fix.

    Jack might not like Christian, but the fact is he is a lot more alike him then he would care to admit. In the season 2 premiere, he told Sarah that she'd probably never be able to walk again, and Christian told him that he needed to hold out some degree of hope. Now that he has pulled off a miracle, his ego flares up, and he can't help but gloat, which makes his fall even more devastating.

    Now that he's finally beginning to establish his leadership on the island, he faces the worse crisis to date, when Michael takes some guns and locks Jack in the armory while he goes after Walt. Why Michael has decided that he has to act now is hard to fathom; we won't get an answer till the end of the season.

    Jack forms a party, aided by Locke and Sawyer (who has sure healed up, considering he was near death less than three days ago) Kate wants to help, but the reemergence of Sawyer seems to have regressed their relationship yet again. Now he's treating her like a child, and she brazenly defies him. Only time the consequences are far more devastating.

    But then again Jack's behavior is particularly pig headed. He knows from what happened to the tailies how organized and careful the Others can be. He knows because he dealt with Ethan how deadly they can be. And he has to know after a point that Michael is not on his own anymore. Nevertheless, he keeps charging ahead, arguing all the while.
    And than what night falls, we get the episodes high point. They run straight into the bearded man who took Walt (who the writers have inexplicably nicknamed 'Mr. Friendly'). He seems to know as much about them as Goodwin did in 'The Other 48 Days', and this time things are far more chilling. And when Jack, not wanting to let things go, tries to press them, we learn that there are a lot more of them than we originally thought. The speech he gives is chilling, particularly the section where he tells them "This is not your island." He then tells them to give up the weapons they're carrying and walk away, which Jack and the others do very unwillingly.

    But Jack's attitude is particularly unsettling. He used to blame himself for his downfalls, but ever since he came to the island, he's been finding scapegoats everywhere. He blamed Locke for the death of Boone; he blames Kate for losing Michael, and now he has a whole other bunch of scapegoats to turn to. He is blind to his own failings. Sayid is conspicuous by his absence--- Jack never even thought to ask him around, even though he might have had a far better way to handle the search. Sayid ends up learning about it from Charlie and Hurley, for God's sake. And when he comes up with his idea to train an army, eh goes to Ana Lucia, even though he knows that Sayid has more experience, and is frankly, more trustworthy than someone who killed a woman the moment she brought her people here. But Jack can not communicate, which is one of the reasons this group of people who could make a decent group of warriors, will never become unified. (It's also the best explanation as to why this potential story never goes anywhere.)

    Indeed, everyone seems disconnected. Locke has lost his past because of the hatch. Kate and Jack seem to be moving two steps forward and one step back, Charlie is heading down the path to heroin again, Sawyer seems focused on having revenge than anything else (why else does he look at Mr. Friendly with promises that this isn't over?). and Michael didn't think enough of any of the people he's been on an island with for seven weeks. to ask for help on what otherwise might be a suicide mission. Only Sun and Jin are actually making progress with their relationship, and that's because Jin is willing to listen to his wife (then again, she still is the only person that he can talk to.) Despite Jack's remarks that they need to live together or they'll die alone, this episode seems to demonstrate that's exactly what's starting to happen.

    Compared to some of the other episodes this season, ' The Hunting Party' isn't nearly as strong. Part of this is because of the focus of the flashback, aprts of it has to do with the disconnect from later episodes, mostly it's because we are edging up to a mystery but we don't gain nearly as much about The Others than we thought. There's more information here, but we're not getting it.
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  • Run after you

    8.9
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    By napen, Sep 12, 2008 Report Abuse
    Pobre Michael... Por qu hizo lo que hizo con la computadora?!! Est bien, lo entiendo, yo hubiese hecho lo mismo: lo que sea con tal de encontrar a mi hijo o al menos saber qu fue de l y matar al que lo mat si eso fue lo que pas. Sali de cacera? Sus amigos lo siguen (no se para qu) y se topan con "The Others"... Mmmm... que gente mala... o no? Intrusos se aduean de su isla y a ellos les molesta, es entendible. Pero por qu no tratar de ayudarlos? Por qu la agresin? Est por verse, si es que no se matan unos a otros primero...moreless

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    • Mr. Friendly: You know, somebody a whole lot smarter than anybody here once said: "Since the dawn of our species man's been blessed with curiosity". Alvar Hanso, who had ties with the DHARMA Initiative, said this in his 1967 address to the United Nations Security Council. Edit
    • Gabriela & Angelo Busoni have strong American accents when they speak in Italian. Edit
    • Mr. Friendly is using a Luger P08 pistol, which is famed for it's usage by the Nazis during World War II. Edit

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    • In a deleted scene, Libby sets up a tent next to Claire's and we find out that Claire is wearing Libby's top from her luggage. Edit
    • Music: "Fall on Me" by the Pousette-Dart Band. Hurley and Charlie listen to this song in the bunker. Edit
    • International Airdates: - Denmark: March 29, 2006 on Kanal 5 Edit

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    • Kate: I was just trying to help Jack. When you told me not to go I just - I made a mistake. (Jack ignores her until she stops him by grabbing his arm and forcing him to face her) Hey! Could you just talk to me for a second? I'm sorry. Jack: (in a sad tone) Yeah. I'm sorry, too. Edit
    • (After Shephard sees Jack with Gabriela) Shephard: Careful. (Jack looks at him questioningly) There's a line, son. You know it's there and pretending it's not? That would be a mistake. Jack: Guess you would know. Shephard: Maybe okay for some people, Jack, but not for you. Edit
    • Kate: You got a gun for me? Jack: You're not coming. Kate: Excuse me? Jack: You're not coming. Someone has to be here to take care of the button. Kate: So why should that person be me? I can track, carry a gun - Jack: (forcefully) You're not coming! You're staying. Allright? Edit

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    • When Jack, Locke and Sawyer hear the gunfight ahead of them and then find the shell casings left behind, they find only three, yet claim to have heard seven shots fired. This is likely to be a reference to the Warren Commission of the John F. Kennedy assassination, which concluded that three shots were fired, and three shells were found in the Book Depository, even though more are audible of video evidence of the event. Edit
    • Daniel Boone: Sawyer calls Locke "Daniel Boone", after the American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Edit
    • Mr. Friendly: You know the other one about curiosity. He is referring to the saying, "Curiosity killed the cat." (The other part of this saying is, "Satisfaction brought him back.") Edit

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