I really never would have thought that a Shannon-centric episode would be so telling of the about the entire show and how it ends. It shows us a little more clearly than it did with Boone about letting go of your past. It sets up the idea of constants. It is perfectly annoying with Wet Walt. And it also gives us a little bit more to see about the tail section. But I think I will save that for next time.
Shannon probably always had it in her to be caring and do well for herself. But no one ever thought she could. Maybe it was because she was young and pretty. Or whatever it was, people around her made her this way. Her father included. And she believed it about herself almost. I think her step-mother was jealous of her and wanted her to be incompetent for the rest of her life because she probably didn't like the relationship Shannon had with Boone. Shannon needed to be believed in. And Sayid did that for her. He helped her let go of that feeling she had about herself.
We knew there was a connection between Shannon and Sayid since early Season 1 when he asks her to help him with the French translations. But we don't know why and how big of an impact that is going to have on each other until Season 5, when Daniel Faraday explains to Desmond that he needs a constant. They set this constant thing up so early. And we don't even notice it. We don't even think it's that big of a deal. And most of us think that Shannon and Sayid are a weird couple. And he loves Nadia anyway. And to me it just seems that all of that was cleverly placed in there to throw us off.
And while I have Nadia brought up, let me bring up something that I noticed. In Season 6's "Sundown", Sayid tells MIB that the only thing he ever wanted died in his arms and that he will never see it again. He is really talking about Shannon here. Not Nadia. While he was with both of them when they died, he is really holding Shannon. Whereas, with Nadia he kind of strokes her hand. I mean that is probably very minor and doesn't mean much. But I will take it since I am all for Shannon and Sayid!
I have tried for a long time to try and figure out what they were trying to do here with Wet Walt and honestly, I can't. I have thought about some really strange ideas of what they may have been thinking but I just can't get anything to make real sense. And maybe it's because they didn't have anything to make sense of it. At this point they knew they weren't going to have him back on the show. So why have him lead Shannon to her death? Who knows, maybe they were really going to do something with it but Malcolm David Kelley grew more yet again! And they had to drop it. Whatever it was, the whole Walt situation really pisses me off. And I do hope that later on sometime the creators might explain it. But I am not holding my breath.
This was a really good episode. It showed us a lot of answers before we knew they were answers. And some creepiness in the background with the tail section, which again does not really bother me since I know kind of where that comes from. A first watch recap of this episode would have been completely opposite of this one. But now that we know everything we are going to know, I think it has completely changed the show. And maybe for the better, you know. I think I am actually starting to enjoy Season 2.
