The Moth

Season 1, Episode 7, Aired
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Charlie struggles with withdrawal symptoms after giving his remaining heroin stash to John Locke. Elsewhere, Sayid sets in motion his plan to isolate the origin of the French distress signal, in the hope that it could provide a means of finding a way off the Island. Flashbacks in this episode center around Charlie's struggles with the temptations involved with being a rockstar and also his older brother's massive ego.moreless
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    8.7
    "Great"
    By Canogaparkcindy, Mar 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    More substantial development coming from Lost this week, and we got great development to say the least. I've always been intrigued by the Charlie character and I couldn't wait for the Charlie-centric episode this season, I was quite satisfied with it overall.

    We got fantastic interactions between Locke & Charlie, and Locke is easily becoming my favorite character with all of his wisdom and help he gives to the others. This episode also showed how much Kate cares for Jack, and some possible romantic involvement between Kate & Sawyer, a very interesting triangle if you ask me.

    I loved how everyone played a part in shooting the rockets in order to get a signal. The cliffhanger was pretty intense with Sayid getting knocked out, but by who? Interested to see what happens in the next installment. Great episode.moreless

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    By Sarah_LOST, Oct 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Charlie is suffering from withdrawal and asks Locke for his heroin, and Locke says that he will return the drugs the third time Charlie asks. Charlie later asks Locke for his heroin for the third time and Locke gives it back but Charlie destroys it. Flashbacks show Charlie and his brother Liam leading their band DriveSHAFT and, eventually, Liam gets Charlie hooked on heroin. Years later, Charlie visits Liam's house in Australia and wants him to rejoin DriveSHAFT for their comeback tour but a clean Liam refuses. My favourite character episode - Charlie - I love his storyl - best one by far! I love the scenes with the transceiver. I also love the caves and what happens in the caves this episode - brilliant story. I love the way Jack helps Cahrlie and of course Locke helps too.moreless

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  • Lame Salvation

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    By Rufam, Aug 26, 2010 Report Abuse
    The seventh episode is all about (not) being rescued. Charlie rescues Jack from a collapsing cave and later on heroically rescues himself from drugs. Kate rescues herself from losing her beloved doc, but fails to rescue the audience from her annoying presence. Meanwhile, no one is to be found to rescue Sayid from being hit in the head with a bat. By a stranger. Just on time when he seemed able to detect the origin of the French transmission. Oh, well. -

    OK now, this has to be one of my least favourite episodes of Lost of all time. In fact, Season 3's "Stranger in a Strange Land" is the only one that outmatches this one in dreadfulness. It is a pity actually that this one is so bad because Charlie is a really likable character (at least in Season 1). His flashbacks aren't awful, but kinda unintresting. But the really annoyning stuff happens on the Island. Jack is trapped into a cave and everyone hatsen to rescue him, like he's the President or something. Meanwhile, Charlie's silly storyline involving drugs and salvation continiues, with his final "heroic" act of throwing his heroin stash into the fire consisting a MASSIVE clichi. But more irritating than Jack and Charlie together, is Kate, whose extreme eagerness to save her beloved doc from the brick of death is not only unjustified, hysterical and pointless but also extremely annoyning as well. Plain bad writing. On the bright side, Sayid gets knocked out. Don't get me wrong, I really like Sayid, but I liked that scene because it was the only truly exciting thing that happened in this episode.moreless

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  • This episode bloody rocked...

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    By Jacob316, Feb 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Another hugely character based episode, this time it's Charlie's turn, we see him struggle with his drug adiction and we see why he became an addict. The episode has good flashbacks that develop the character, we like him more after seeing this and hate his brother Liam. There was plenty going on in the episode to keep me on the edge of my seat like the cave in, Charlie's struggle and the attempt to get the signal. The cave in is at first a bit over the top but I forget that it would be nearly impossible to dig a tunnel of that length in an hour because its worth it, seeing Charlie save them Jack was great and he redeems himself and prooves that he can do something useful on the island. I always find it funny when Sayid is counting on Boone and Kate when it in fact is Shannon and Sawyer the two most likely people to help out on the island who successfully get the signal working shame it was all for nothing when Sayid is unexpectfully knocked out, who done it? Well it takes a while to find out.moreless

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  • Charlie Moment.

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    By Dante_Edy, Jun 16, 2009 Report Abuse
    Charlie is not a very strong character and his drama is not very interesting. It is difficult to create a great episodes or something special involving problems with drugs.

    Not for the writers of Lost. There are some disney moments, however, the flashbacks give the necessary information about charlie, not only about his life, but also about is low self - esteem. That is his main problem. That drugs seems a way to resolve that.

    One more time, Locke is helping someone, like he did before.

    The events the inland, about jack, could be a filler, however, it was very important, for charlie development. The Final Scene was beautiful.

    It is interesting how the writers add more and more mystery, in a long list of mysteries. The interaction between kate and sawyer was interesting, and should prepare us for the next episode were sawyer will be focused.moreless

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    • When Jack and Charlie are in the cave Charlie sees a moth go to the top. If a moth heads to light it would have gone to the flashlight not the top of the cave.

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    • The method Sayid refers to (Triangulating) actually just requires two sensor locations instead of three. Edit
    • Numbers: 4 Michael says he needs 4 people working at a time to try and dig up the rocks. Edit

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    • The church scene with Charlie and Liam at the church in Manchester was actually filmed on Honolulu, where the scenes on the island are filmed. Edit
    • International Airdates: - Denmark: February 18, 2005 on Kanal 5 - Greece: August 12, 2008 at 23.00 on ANT1 Edit
    • This episode along with two-hour pilot and "House of the Rising Sun" won a 2005 Prism Award for TV Drama Series Multi-Episode Storyline. Edit

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    • Hurley: (while helping Jack move luggage) Dude, what's in these things, cinder blocks? Edit
    • Jack: Call me a broken record, but caves are a natural shelter, and a hell of a lot safer than living here on the beach. Kate: You're mad at me. Jack: No, Kate, I'm -- I just don't understand why you won't come with me -- us. It's maybe a mile up there, if that. Kate: We crashed eight days ago, Jack. I'm not setting up house here. Edit
    • Charlie: Where's Kate, we have to tell Kate about Jack? Sawyer: Sorry sport, you just missed her. Her and Muhammad headed into the woods about ten minutes ago. Charlie: Which way? Sawyer: Don't sweat it amigo, I know which way they went. Charlie: Yeah, but ... Sawyer: I'll tell her. You just keep doing whatever it is you do around here. Edit

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    • Title: The Moth "The Moth" is a song by Aimee Mann from her 2002 album, Lost in Space. It was also the original title of Tennessee William's play 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and comparisons can be drawn between the play and the episode. Edit
    • Liam: And the meek shall inherit the Earth. Is a passage from the New Testament, Matthew chapter five, verse five. Edit
    • Charlie's Band: Driveshaft Driveshaft seems to be a light spoof on the British band Oasis. Oasis is a band made up of two brothers. Charlie is a lot like Noel, who writes all the music and lyrics and cares deeply about his music, whereas his older brother, Liam (who has the same name as the older brother in Oasis) merely sings them. The band has broken up and gotten back together many times due to bitter feuds between the brothers. They have reconciled in recent years and are making their first major album in over eight years. Driveshaft's song 'You All Everybody' even has a guitar riff that sounds suspiciously like Oasis' 'Rock 'n' Roll Star. Edit

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