"Lost" Collision (2005)

User Rating:

8.7/10   

Director:

Stephen Williams

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (creator) and
J.J. Abrams (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

23 November 2005 (Season 2, Episode 8)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

Tempers flare when Ana Lucia and her group stumble upon Sayid and the other castaways.

Plot Keywords:

Plane Crash | Flashback | Survival | South Pacific | Doctor

Cast

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	...	Mr. Eko
Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton (credit only)
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Harold Perrineau	...	Michael Dawson
Michelle Rodriguez	...	Ana-Lucia Cortez
Cynthia Watros	...	Libby
L. Scott Caldwell	...	Rose Henderson

Runtime:

42 min

Language:

English | Spanish | Korean

Certification:

UK:15 | Portugal:M/12 | USA:TV-14 | Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating)

Company:

Bad Robot

Goofs:

Continuity: When Sayid Approaches Shannon's Dead Body at the end of Collision, he picks her up to hug her and you can see on her back that the pink shirt she is wearing has mud on the back of it and her hair is messed up and it is down in a pony tale. Then later when Sayid carries her through the jungle and passes Jack and Eko, her pink shirt is clean and she has no mud on her back and her hair is perfect and it is braided up.a

Quotes:

Jason McCormack: I know you?
Ana-Lucia Cortez: [coldly] I was *pregnant*.
[shoots Jason six times]

Soundtrack:

Outside

Aftermath

I am no Analucia fan, or more specifically I am not a fan of Michelle Rodriguez's performance in the role, but "Collision" is, regardless of my position on the actress playing her, an outstanding character piece, and one of the best episodes of the first half of season two. Leonard Dick and Javier Grillo-Marxuach's script is intelligent and well-structured in that they reveal the layers of Analucia's character slowly and carefully. I do think there's still some problems with Michelle Rodriguez's performance, but I do tend to think of her earlier work while criticizing her in the role, as she does succeed somewhat at showing more humanity here.

The episode is helped by tasteful direction from Stephen Williams, not always a director who gets the most out of an episode, but when not faced with directing action (at which he is rather poor) he is capable of crafting a visually strong episode and does so here, and the cast are also excellent here, particularly Naveen Andrews. The episode is a fine way to bring the tail-enders and the fuselage folk together, and none of it feels contrived or fake. I have problems with scenes like the final one here, especially given how sappy the music is, but it works okay I suppose.

"Collision" deals largely with the aftermath of Shannon's death, but while it easily could have gone for an action movie approach it instead goes for a character-based episode. There is an eventual understanding between Analucia and Sayid that is almost unexpectedly poignant, and the flashbacks are well-structured and if not consistently entertaining then certainly worth it for the final reveal, which really does succeed in making Analucia a more sympathetic character. Excellent episode.

8.5/10