Lost rewatch! *squeeeee*
I had an awesome girl’s night yesterday. It was our first “rewatching Lost” night.
We saw the first three episodes (Pilot part1&2, Tabula rasa), and now I feel like I’m high on drugs!
I’m now going to post here my impressions, written down during my almost sleepless and lost-thoughts-filled night.
First thing. It should have been obvious, but the first time I didn’t notice that between the pilot and tabula rasa at least a couple of weeks had passed. My judging metre being the length of Josh’s hair (too short in the pilot, imo). I guess that makes sense, however: I think they had to wait for the show to be approved, after the ABC heads had watched the pilot. Only after they could start shooting the following episodes.
1) Kate. In the pilot, she is quite a different character. I could have liked her. Much easily frightened, for example. To her credit, she immediately decides to look for Jack, in order to get him back, when it appears that smoky has taken him. In the next episode, however, she shows her true colours almost as soon as she is on screen. They give her a gun, and the following scene is her flashback as a handcuffed prisoner on the plane.
Jack, of course, takes the lie about her past very personally. Their bond was really strong from the beginning, unfortunately. And he is quite obviously lying when he tells her that he doesn’t care about her past, and they can start from scratch. Sorry, that’s not at all what Jack would be thinking. He cares. Definitely.
2) Charlie, like a puppy, overeager to please and to be pet: “I’m in a band”. Poor Charlie. *pets*
3) Boone. I found Boone quite annoying. Of course, putting up with Shannon’s fits is not easy, and the chocolate offering was cute. But still… why attacking her when she was mourning, in her own way?
4) Shannon. Yay for Shannon! “What are you? 2 years older than me?”. Yay! Take that, Kate!
5) Jack/Sawyer/Sayid (yes, these three go together in my mind)
The fighting scene! Sayid vs Sawyer (Sawyer trowing sand at him, lol!!) and Jack stepping in to separate them… the whole scene was devastatingly hot! *swoons* how could I miss it, and its wonderful slashy subtext, so completely the first time? *is slow*
And then the music montage with the peace offering: the apple toss… and Sayid and Sawyer’s faces… *swoons again*
And plenty of meaningful Jack/Sawyer scenes and dialogues: in the fuselage “I’m in the wild”; outside the makeshift hospital tent: “I did what you couldn’t”.
Yeah, different reasons maybe, but they were the only two to muster up the courage to get inside the fuselage to gather various things (and what Sawyer found has been useful more than once!), and to stop the marshal’s suffering.
Sawyer’s speech to Kate, in its cynicism, was also true and, in a way, mindful of the marshal’s situation.
And Jack. He entered that tent after Sawyer missed the shot, and killed the marshal, probably suffocating him. How it is even possible that I missed this the first time?
I thought he blamed himself for the death, as usual, because he was incapable to cure him. I didn’t at all remember that he had to physically end the marshal’s life.
Sayid. From the beginning, a rock. Wise and clever. And with a strong capacity to be a leader. But the others would never have accepted him as leader, probably, at least not at the beginning.
Speaking of Jack again, the man had no sense of humour. I think Sawyer’s company, and maybe even Kate’s, had at least improved that.
But anyway, I fell in love with him in the pilot. Seeing him running left and right to help everyone, all the while barely keeping himself togetgher. Oh, what a man! *loves*
6) Jin. I used to hate Jin and… well, rewatching this, I still do. Luckily, his character, along with Sun’s, has undergone a lot of change, for the better.
7) Locke. Creepy from the beginning. What was that scene with the orange? And “Walt, do you want to know a secret?”. *shudders* One of the very few times I agreed with Michael’s desire that Walt was not to be playing with such a guy.
8) Smokey! Hi, smokey! where are you know? Long time no see…
And the pilot’s death can’t be possibly ascribed to the Others. No way. Smokey is something entirely different.
9) The rest.
Claire. Cute and pregnant. Not very much else to say.
Hurley. Mainly a comic relief in this early episodes, but nice all the same.
Michael. Annoying, and not very at ease with his son.
Walt. Eerie.
As a last thought, I ought to admit that they had already built a really powerful and promising scenario, with only 3 episodes.
Oh, and rewatching the first of the DVD extras, I suddenly remembered that the initial page of the script was like this: title “The Circle”, subtitle “Lost”. I’m now sure they are going to be “found” in the next season, and then “lost” again, and maybe (?) they'll come back again from the island. Or maybe not.
We saw the first three episodes (Pilot part1&2, Tabula rasa), and now I feel like I’m high on drugs!
I’m now going to post here my impressions, written down during my almost sleepless and lost-thoughts-filled night.
First thing. It should have been obvious, but the first time I didn’t notice that between the pilot and tabula rasa at least a couple of weeks had passed. My judging metre being the length of Josh’s hair (too short in the pilot, imo). I guess that makes sense, however: I think they had to wait for the show to be approved, after the ABC heads had watched the pilot. Only after they could start shooting the following episodes.
1) Kate. In the pilot, she is quite a different character. I could have liked her. Much easily frightened, for example. To her credit, she immediately decides to look for Jack, in order to get him back, when it appears that smoky has taken him. In the next episode, however, she shows her true colours almost as soon as she is on screen. They give her a gun, and the following scene is her flashback as a handcuffed prisoner on the plane.
Jack, of course, takes the lie about her past very personally. Their bond was really strong from the beginning, unfortunately. And he is quite obviously lying when he tells her that he doesn’t care about her past, and they can start from scratch. Sorry, that’s not at all what Jack would be thinking. He cares. Definitely.
2) Charlie, like a puppy, overeager to please and to be pet: “I’m in a band”. Poor Charlie. *pets*
3) Boone. I found Boone quite annoying. Of course, putting up with Shannon’s fits is not easy, and the chocolate offering was cute. But still… why attacking her when she was mourning, in her own way?
4) Shannon. Yay for Shannon! “What are you? 2 years older than me?”. Yay! Take that, Kate!
5) Jack/Sawyer/Sayid (yes, these three go together in my mind)
The fighting scene! Sayid vs Sawyer (Sawyer trowing sand at him, lol!!) and Jack stepping in to separate them… the whole scene was devastatingly hot! *swoons* how could I miss it, and its wonderful slashy subtext, so completely the first time? *is slow*
And then the music montage with the peace offering: the apple toss… and Sayid and Sawyer’s faces… *swoons again*
And plenty of meaningful Jack/Sawyer scenes and dialogues: in the fuselage “I’m in the wild”; outside the makeshift hospital tent: “I did what you couldn’t”.
Yeah, different reasons maybe, but they were the only two to muster up the courage to get inside the fuselage to gather various things (and what Sawyer found has been useful more than once!), and to stop the marshal’s suffering.
Sawyer’s speech to Kate, in its cynicism, was also true and, in a way, mindful of the marshal’s situation.
And Jack. He entered that tent after Sawyer missed the shot, and killed the marshal, probably suffocating him. How it is even possible that I missed this the first time?
I thought he blamed himself for the death, as usual, because he was incapable to cure him. I didn’t at all remember that he had to physically end the marshal’s life.
Sayid. From the beginning, a rock. Wise and clever. And with a strong capacity to be a leader. But the others would never have accepted him as leader, probably, at least not at the beginning.
Speaking of Jack again, the man had no sense of humour. I think Sawyer’s company, and maybe even Kate’s, had at least improved that.
But anyway, I fell in love with him in the pilot. Seeing him running left and right to help everyone, all the while barely keeping himself togetgher. Oh, what a man! *loves*
6) Jin. I used to hate Jin and… well, rewatching this, I still do. Luckily, his character, along with Sun’s, has undergone a lot of change, for the better.
7) Locke. Creepy from the beginning. What was that scene with the orange? And “Walt, do you want to know a secret?”. *shudders* One of the very few times I agreed with Michael’s desire that Walt was not to be playing with such a guy.
8) Smokey! Hi, smokey! where are you know? Long time no see…
And the pilot’s death can’t be possibly ascribed to the Others. No way. Smokey is something entirely different.
9) The rest.
Claire. Cute and pregnant. Not very much else to say.
Hurley. Mainly a comic relief in this early episodes, but nice all the same.
Michael. Annoying, and not very at ease with his son.
Walt. Eerie.
As a last thought, I ought to admit that they had already built a really powerful and promising scenario, with only 3 episodes.
Oh, and rewatching the first of the DVD extras, I suddenly remembered that the initial page of the script was like this: title “The Circle”, subtitle “Lost”. I’m now sure they are going to be “found” in the next season, and then “lost” again, and maybe (?) they'll come back again from the island. Or maybe not.