The Lost running diary: 1.01 - 1.02
This is something I've kinda wanted to do for a while. This summer, I'm going to go through the first and second seasons of Lost and, taking a page from Bill Simmons, keep a running diary of all the things I deem worthy of writing about. This is that diary:
Pilot Episode, Part 1:
Here's something that I've thought about for a while now. In season two, Anna Lucia knows the guy that's with her is one of the other's because he comes running out of the forest totally dry. The entire series starts out with Jack in the middle of the jungle TOTALLY DRY.
Jack has some pretty bizarre tattoos. When Kate is sewing Jack together in their first meeting, you see a tattoo on his left shoulder with a 5 on it and some sort of semi sun something or other. It doesn't look like it has any relevance to any sort of Dharma symbol, but I thought it was weird and noteworthy.
In the same scene, Jack mentions the thing about how he got scared during a surgery and allowed himself to be afraid for exactly 5 seconds. I forget when, but sometime in the second season Kate uses that counting to 5 thing.
The first night on the island, the first time we see Sun and Jinn, Jinn says: "Don't worry about the others, we need to stay together." Foreshadowing? Maybe, but then I might be giving the writer's slightly too much credit.
In reference to my first comment about Jack in the forest, he also says he blacked out during the crash. Could be a likely story from a guy who wasn't actually on the plane. Or they may have already explained sometime in the past two seasons why he blacked out. Regardless, it seems to be my thing that I think Jack wasn't on the plane. I know, everything points to the contrary and that would be a bit too much. I guess I'm weird like that.
First flashback scene, we see the stewardess tallie that ends up in only an episode or two. That was one of the things I wanted to confirm as I watched the series.
Kate asks Charlie if they've ever met before. We assume it's because she knows DriveShaft ("You are everybody!"), but maybe they have met? We don't have a connection between the two of them to my knowledge so far.
While watching the second season, my sister pointed out to me that whenever it rains, someone dies. We've now hit the first rain scene in the series, and Jack, Kate, and Charlie are about to find the pilot who will soon get mauled/eaten/bloodied by the beast/black/metal-sounding stuff. Anyway, another goal of going through all this again is to make note of everytime it rains and what happens.
According to the pilot, "6 hours in, the radio went out..." So maybe Desmond crashed the plane with the magnet, but why did the radio go out?
So Kate just counted to 5 'cause she was scared of whatever demolished the pilot. I thought it happened in the second season, but maybe this happens a number of times.
Pilot Episode, Part 2:
Something I noticed during the first part of the Pilot but forgot to point out until now: Charlie writes "FATE" on his fingers after he gets off the plane while he's high. I don't know if that's significant.
I like how awkward Hurley is, especially in his conversation with Sayid when he finds out that Sayid was in the Republican guard. Just throwing that out there.
Enter Locke with the backgammon set. Remember when Locke was the creepy guy who blindly believed in things and was altogether weird? He also seemed to be all knowing and mystical. I miss that Locke, he was fun.
Also regarding Locke, do we know what the secret was that he told Walt? Was it that he used to be paralyzed? For some reason I seem to remember another episode where it flashes back to Locke telling Walt that a "great miracle" happened there, but I can't really remember.
Seriously, why is there a polar bear on the island? What the hell is that?
Oh yeah, another awkward Hurley moment where he's with Jack and the shrapnel guy. Hurley says "Hey guy, you awake? Hey, it's a rescue plane, we're saved! Yeah, he's out." Then Hurley proceeds to pass out on top of Jack and shrapnel guy. High comedy.
Final scene of the pilot, great way to end it. As if the polar bear and the crazy beastly mechanical black smokey stuff didn't confirm it enough, now there's a repeating message from some French woman recorded 16 years ago about dead colleagues. That's one fucked up island.
"Guys, where are we?"
Pilot Episode, Part 1:
Here's something that I've thought about for a while now. In season two, Anna Lucia knows the guy that's with her is one of the other's because he comes running out of the forest totally dry. The entire series starts out with Jack in the middle of the jungle TOTALLY DRY.
Jack has some pretty bizarre tattoos. When Kate is sewing Jack together in their first meeting, you see a tattoo on his left shoulder with a 5 on it and some sort of semi sun something or other. It doesn't look like it has any relevance to any sort of Dharma symbol, but I thought it was weird and noteworthy.
In the same scene, Jack mentions the thing about how he got scared during a surgery and allowed himself to be afraid for exactly 5 seconds. I forget when, but sometime in the second season Kate uses that counting to 5 thing.
The first night on the island, the first time we see Sun and Jinn, Jinn says: "Don't worry about the others, we need to stay together." Foreshadowing? Maybe, but then I might be giving the writer's slightly too much credit.
In reference to my first comment about Jack in the forest, he also says he blacked out during the crash. Could be a likely story from a guy who wasn't actually on the plane. Or they may have already explained sometime in the past two seasons why he blacked out. Regardless, it seems to be my thing that I think Jack wasn't on the plane. I know, everything points to the contrary and that would be a bit too much. I guess I'm weird like that.
First flashback scene, we see the stewardess tallie that ends up in only an episode or two. That was one of the things I wanted to confirm as I watched the series.
Kate asks Charlie if they've ever met before. We assume it's because she knows DriveShaft ("You are everybody!"), but maybe they have met? We don't have a connection between the two of them to my knowledge so far.
While watching the second season, my sister pointed out to me that whenever it rains, someone dies. We've now hit the first rain scene in the series, and Jack, Kate, and Charlie are about to find the pilot who will soon get mauled/eaten/bloodied by the beast/black/metal-sounding stuff. Anyway, another goal of going through all this again is to make note of everytime it rains and what happens.
According to the pilot, "6 hours in, the radio went out..." So maybe Desmond crashed the plane with the magnet, but why did the radio go out?
So Kate just counted to 5 'cause she was scared of whatever demolished the pilot. I thought it happened in the second season, but maybe this happens a number of times.
Pilot Episode, Part 2:
Something I noticed during the first part of the Pilot but forgot to point out until now: Charlie writes "FATE" on his fingers after he gets off the plane while he's high. I don't know if that's significant.
I like how awkward Hurley is, especially in his conversation with Sayid when he finds out that Sayid was in the Republican guard. Just throwing that out there.
Enter Locke with the backgammon set. Remember when Locke was the creepy guy who blindly believed in things and was altogether weird? He also seemed to be all knowing and mystical. I miss that Locke, he was fun.
Also regarding Locke, do we know what the secret was that he told Walt? Was it that he used to be paralyzed? For some reason I seem to remember another episode where it flashes back to Locke telling Walt that a "great miracle" happened there, but I can't really remember.
Seriously, why is there a polar bear on the island? What the hell is that?
Oh yeah, another awkward Hurley moment where he's with Jack and the shrapnel guy. Hurley says "Hey guy, you awake? Hey, it's a rescue plane, we're saved! Yeah, he's out." Then Hurley proceeds to pass out on top of Jack and shrapnel guy. High comedy.
Final scene of the pilot, great way to end it. As if the polar bear and the crazy beastly mechanical black smokey stuff didn't confirm it enough, now there's a repeating message from some French woman recorded 16 years ago about dead colleagues. That's one fucked up island.
"Guys, where are we?"
posted by Mike Oliver at 10:09 PM
1 Comments:
Jack was definitely on the plane. We saw him on the plane, remember? I think the significance of Ana-Lucia telling the Other that he wasn't wet was that the Tailies went down in the water. The original Losties went down over land (hence the unfortunate pilot-in-a-tree).
There definitely isn't a death during every rain scene, but you're right that it rains all the time during dramatic scenes. My favorite thing ever was that episode where Jack was screaming at the Others to come out, and the camera was whirling around and around him while it poured. During every "previously on Lost" clip montage after that, I'd be all, "Show the spin cam! The spin cam!"
I think counting to 5 only happens in this one episode, as a way of connecting Kate and Jack.
Anyway, cool idea! I will look forward to your commentary. It'll be like a book club, only with episodes of Lost...a TV club.
Where will you get the second season?
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