We're Lost

1.01 The Pilot

(part 1)

I’m cheating a bit because I actually watched the pilot before deciding I wanted to do this. So, I do have some bias as I’m rewatching. It’s mostly just confirming thoughts here and seeing the characters that I know and how they were in the craziness that was the beach in the opening scene. It goes without saying, but SPOILER ALERT if you haven’t seen the pilot of Lost. You can’t say you haven’t been warned.

Opening title card is creepy. It always has kind of creeped me out. I guess that’s it’s intent?

I want to know how Jack got so far from the crash site. I get thrown, but wow does that suck. At least he was unconscious. I can’t imagine experiencing that. I’ve always been a nervous flier. I remember watching this pilot and saying, “I never want to fly again.”

I remember watching the pilot and thinking of it in terms of The Breakfast Club. You have the Doctor, the Redneck, the Bitch, the Druggie Musician, the Criminal, the Pregnant Girl, etc. It’s how we categorize things in terms of social psychology which interests me. Jack definitely has all the qualities of a hero, leading man… Kate isn’t as she appears and I hope that Sawyer isn’t this douche-y the whole series.

Loud scraping and crashing noises? Palm trees getting ripped down? What the hell. NO SRSLY, what the hell? The caption says “whirring” which is not how I would’ve described it. I thought it was a roar, aka THE DINOSAUR roaring. (Don’t break my bubble, plz. I want to learn things on my own. For now, I choose to believe that it’s a dinosaur and it’s going to come and eat Shannon.)  Just realized I can’t trust the captions either (Thanks, J.J. Abrams) because it called the thunder “blast” and her panting breathing “pounding”… nothing is as it appears… even the captions.

I could’ve done without seeing the in-flight turbulence and plummeting, but I’ll live. It was cool seeing the other people that are on the beach on the plane.

Kate taking the shoes while practical was both sad and horrifying. I think John’s a little crazy. I assume he’s trying to insert some brevity, but it’s clearly lost on Kate. Just cementing my crazy!John idea.

I love the Dominic Monaghan bit with Kate and his band. Much needed relief, especially considering what’s about to happen. Also, who am I kidding? I love Dominic Monaghan. All his bits (both horrifyingly realistic in terms of the drug related stuff and hilarious) are just fantastic. “I’m fine. Charlie’s fine, by the way.” XD Love.

As The Oceanic 6 said, “The Monster ate the pilot”. FREAKY. I’ve jumped every time. The worst was the first time. Even though I’d seen Jurassic Park, it still scared the crap out of me when it happened.

A broken transceiver, 1000 miles off course, crash landed, and scary freaking monsters in the jungle?

I’d say they’re more than just lost.

I’m “Lost”

Alright. I’ll be straightforward with you from the start. I’m kind of a noob when it comes to tumblr (I have another acct but it lays dormant bc reblogging from my iphone was confusing… and didn’t want to work and let me get back to the previous page, blah blah blah). I chose tumblr as my medium for this project because:

a) I want to learn how to use it. I love the tumblr’s I stalk.
b) It’s photo/text friendly and that part seems simple enough to do
c) I got to pick a fun web address. (don’t lie, that’s part of the appeal for you, too)

Alright. Here we go.

In 2004, a television series about a group of plane crash victims stuck on a remote desert island grabbed everyone’s attention. Even people who didn’t give a crap knew some stuff about Lost, via their coworkers, friends, or family members who couldn’t stop talking about it. I started watching it and watched it every week for the first two seasons. I was pretty invested because (like the majority of watchers) I had no idea what was going on half the time and there always seemed to be another secret waiting to be revealed that was going to solve this puzzle piece. Third season rolled around and I missed the first episode and then the second. By that point, I was lost (hah). So, I stopped watching. I have since forgotten everything about this show except some character names and that some numbers are important.

The series is over now (obv) and my bff Ben has been talking this show up for years trying to get me to watch it. At one point, he even went so far as to loan me his seasons 1-3 for over 6 months to a year to give me the opportunity to watch it. This blog is for him. Him and all my friends who have ever said, “But that show is so good” when the show was brought up in conversation and I said I’d given up on it. This blog is also for me. I am going to make comments and guesses about what is going to happen, what I want to happen, etc. I am actually excited about looking back on predictions and random thoughts and seeing how my perception has changed (or hasn’t) over the course of watching the show.

I ask that anyone reading this feel free to comment, but PLEASE do not spoil me. I want to learn things as I go and be just as confused as you were when you were watching it.