# Lost 1.23 "Exodus, Part One" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420 "2005-05-18T15:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jmizzou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jmizzou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmizzou)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/41 "2005-05-19T00:23:46Z")
Hooray! More answers! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/42 "2005-05-19T00:36:52Z")
**tcm!** . ---
**Author:** ![jmizzou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jmizzou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmizzou)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/43 "2005-05-19T00:40:53Z")
Thumbs up to the writers on the “Black Rock”. I was expecting, well, a big black boulder. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/44 "2005-05-19T00:43:03Z")
Yeah, this mystery goes back further than we expected. **Black Rock** is a sailing ship. Late 17th century? or newer? I need a better look. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/45 "2005-05-19T00:50:01Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Yeah, this mystery goes back further than we expected. > > **Black Rock** is a sailing ship. Late 17th century? or newer? I need a better look. Looked more early 19th century to me. But I too need a better look. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/46 "2005-05-19T00:53:02Z")
Two great life raft launch bits: Message in a Bottle Vincent obeys Okay, a third: seeing all the B cast What did Sun’s letter say? Next week will absolutely kill many of us. I can’t wait! ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/47 "2005-05-19T00:56:34Z")
Did anyone else flip open the laptop and start trying to find out anything about a real instance of a missing ship called Black Rock? ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/48 "2005-05-19T00:57:42Z")
These guys are panicking over nothing. THe Others are just trying to elect a new Pope. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/49 "2005-05-19T00:58:21Z")
TV shows don’t make me cry, but I got more than misty-eyed over the whole dog bit. I love this show. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/50 "2005-05-19T00:58:22Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Looked more early 19th century to me. But I too need a better look. I shoulda recorded this one! The hull did look newer, not quite as tall and a bit longer than what first came to my mind. Maybe a clipper? And I meant 18th cent, not 17th, my dyslexia sometimes screws with me like that, as I forgot which way the century tag pointed. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/51 "2005-05-19T00:59:52Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > Did anyone else flip open the laptop and start trying to find out anything about a real instance of a missing ship called Black Rock? Yeah. NOW! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/52 "2005-05-19T01:02:46Z")
Man, that was a moving episode. I was about to mist up myself when Sawyer told Jack about his father. ---
**Author:** ![jmizzou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jmizzou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmizzou)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/53 "2005-05-19T01:03:58Z")
The **Lost Minute** (not that you missed anything): [ul] [li]Another shot of the raft[/li][li]More black smoke footage[/li][/ul] Previews for next week (and feel free to add anything I missed; there was so much going on, I know I didn’t get it all): [ul] [li]“An accident”[/li][li]Claire: “They took my baby!”[/li][li]Raft radar is picking something up[/li][li]A skeleton[/li][li]Boxes marked “Explosives”[/li][li]Locke being dragged off-screen by his feet, in the jungle (a snare?)[/li][li]Jake: “Who brought us here, John?” Locke: “The Island.”[/li][li]Charlie punching. . .Sayid?[/li][/ul] Emmys! Truckloads, mountains of Emmys! Well written, with some new twists to old mysteries (TCM: The Home Security version!), and _very_ well acted. I was very pleased with this episode, and can’t wait for next week’s season finale. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/54 "2005-05-19T01:08:13Z")
How do they know they are on an island? Maybe I missed it, but I don’t remember anybody climbing to a point high enough to see 360 degrees of water. Certainly no one has walked completely around it on the shore. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/55 "2005-05-19T01:08:19Z")
Overall an excellent episode. I loved the bits with Walt & Shannon, Jack and Sawyer, Jin & Sun. More answers than I can shake a stick at and plenty of creeps. I did feel that the scene with the Marshall was a bit too much of a recitation, but otherwise great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/56 "2005-05-19T01:12:13Z")
Apparantly, there was an important trading port and privateer haven in Mass that was/is named Black Rock. Played an imprtant part in some wars of the Napoleanic era by means of sailing vessels based from there. Possible link to our island? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/57 "2005-05-19T01:23:07Z")
> [@jmizzou](#): > > [li]Jake: “Who brought us here, John?” Locke: “The Island.”[/li] Just before that, Locke said “We were all brought here for a reason, Jack.” Or something like that. I thought Claire was screaming “She killed my baby” but I may be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/58 "2005-05-19T01:23:52Z")
Got another phone call this week (I know, I know. I’ll tell him not to call next week.) and missed everything after Shannon takes the leash from Walt. Anyone? Please? ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/59 "2005-05-19T01:24:39Z")
The girl Jack was talking to in the bar has been signed on as a regular for next season. She was in the tail section of the plane. I smell a second set of survivors somewhere! ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420/60 "2005-05-19T01:44:00Z")
In the teaser for next week, Claire was screaming “he took my baby” (I thought) Why would Charlie deck Sayid? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-1-23-exodus-part-one/304420.md?page=4)