Skip to main content

Lost Recaps: Episodes 1.01 & 1.02

L O S T - Episode 1.01, Pilot Part 1
We open on Jack’s eye - closed.
No, wait, it’s open now. Lots of tension.
Poor innocent Jacko, he has no idea what he’s about to get himself into. Cue Vincent.
Jack is injured - the perfect excuse to meet...well, we’ll get to that. Cue the first of many, many, MANY future running-through-the-jungle scenes.

 The beach seems calm...until we pan a little further left. Shannon screams, people stand around, not sure what to do because they’re not hero/leaders like our good buddy Jack. We see Charlie, Jin, we hear Michael’s first ever cries of “WALT!” They won’t be his last, but first-time viewers don’t know that yet.


Jack’s ready to jump into hero mode. And he’s off!
Locke is up & walking. Jack’s just met his pregnant half-sister, but we’re not supposed to know that yet, either. Oh the joys of a rewatch.
Jack calls on Hurley to help Claire, and Hurley is not amused. Boone is TRYING to be in hero mode too, but he’s rather unsuccessful. Jack revives Rose & off he goes again to save Hurley & Claire from the falling wing of the plane.
RUNNING + EXPLOSION SHOT! Epic.
Hurley utters the first of many “dude”s. Things have quieted down a little now. Jacko needs to collect himself but Hero!Boone interrupts. (I love Boone, don’t @ me.)


Time to dig through the dead people’s luggage for supplies to heal that wound we talked about. Shirtless!Jack makes his first appearance, aaaaaand enter K8, holding the wrist she just had handcuffs on. Yay, she can sew! Jacko tells a story to calm her nerves, because she’s just so helpless and innocent and...lost. Heh heh heh
James - I mean Sawyer - somehow already found a pack of smokes. He’s so over this scene already.
Boone tries to get cell reception (what a cutie) while Sayid makes a fire. Rose is silent.
K8 tells Jack she might throw up on him. How romantic! He tells her the infamous Count to Five story, which will come into play far too many times later on. K8 also tells Jack she’d run for the door in a tough situation & he doesn’t believe her. Hm.
No one is coming.
Shan makes herself busy relaxing & gettin’ pretty for the rescue boat. In a weird, foreshadowy twist, Hurley decides to take charge of the food sitch. Michael has found WALT. Jinsushi has such a long way to go, development-wise…
K8 wonders whether the man who’d been sitting next to her on the plane will survive his injuries. She secretly hopes he won’t, cause she’s K8 & he knows her secret. Jack felt the need to make a plane out of a leaf for some reason.
MISSION #1: find the cockpit.
“I’m goin’ with you” is uttered for the first time.
Ol’ Smokey is wandering around the campsite. (Nope, he’s not a dinosaur.) Terrific.
Flashback to the flight, Jack flirts with the flight attendant so she’ll give him more alcohol & then chats with Rose. Turbulence!
Daylight on the beach. K8 & Jack are on a mission, but first they must steal some corpse-shoes. Locke gives her an orange-peel smile, but it doesn’t seem to help.
B-O-D-Y-S, Hurley? Nice.
Charlie joins the mini-A-team on their mission. YOU ALL EVERYBODY! He flirts with K8, which is distracting because Dom & Evie dated for a minute in real life.
Aaaaaaaaaaand cue spontaneous rainstorm. Locke is the only one enjoying it.

Smokey’s back…
Mini-A-team have found the cockpit, but they won’t be happy about it for long. Pilot gives them a couple answers but he doesn’t stick around too long.

Transceiver - found. Mission: accomplished. Now time to run. Through the jungle.
1...2...3...4...5
Rain’s done! “We have to go back”...for Jack.
Pilot in a tree. Yikes.


-end of episode one-
L O S T - Episode 1.02, Pilot Part 2
Mini-A-team is headed back to the beach & feeling quite pessimistic after their run-in with the pilot & Ol’ Smokey. Flashback to Charlie’s POV of the crash, we find out why he’s so keen on the bathroom, but he’s saved by the...crash, not bell.


Shanny’s gettin’ tanny & has no interest in helping Boone. She & Claire bond a lil’ bit. I wish we’d gotten to see even more of a friendship between them, but I digress.  
Jinsushi is picking sea urchins while Sun looks on disapprovingly. She’s not that great at pretending she doesn’t speak English, I don’t know how they didn’t see through it sooner.
WALT! The count’s already high & it’s only episode 2. Walt is busy looking for Vincent, but instead he finds K8’s (no one knows they’re K8’s yet) handcuffs.


Sayid & Sawyer go at it for the first (and certainly not last) time. SON OF A BITCH! Admittedly, James was being a teeny bit racist. Or a lot bit. He’ll learn. K8 shouts at them to stop but she knows the truth, so. Whatever. Angry James gives out his first nicknames: “Lardo”, which won’t stick, and “Doc”, which will.


Hurley & Sayid bond while the latter fixes the transceiver.
K8 gets half naked and stands in the ocean, because I guess we needed a gratuitous shot of Evie’s perfectly sculpted...okay, yeah, I get it. Her armpits are somehow perfectly smooth after two days. She must have gotten waxed before the trip. I bet the marshal totally let her make a spa appointment. I mean, you don’t want to escort a hairy criminal...okay, I’m done now.


Naveen Andrews is a handsome man. I never truly appreciate that enough.
Jack tends to the marshal while K8 feigns concern. She tells him she’s going on a hike without him. Jack tells her to run if she needs to, as if that isn’t already her first thought at all times. #bitter
Jinsushi has made everyone...sushi. Lolol
Hurley don’t want none, tho
MISSION #1: get a signal on the transceiver
MISSION #2: find some antibiotics


Shanny is sulking, and Boone’s not having it. She joins the mini-A-team for the hike to prove her worthfulness. James gets tired of reading his letter for the billionth time & goes along, too, because he’s “a complex guy, sweetheart.” Lots of climbing ensues.
Locke & Walt discuss the complexities of backgammon...and of life, of course. “Two players, two sides. One is light, one is dark.” A+ foreshadowing.
Jin’s sushi makes baby Aaron jiggle around a lot in Claire’s tummy. She’s happy about it.
Back with the mini-A-team, things get interesting when one of the Dharma polar bears shows up. Luckily James has a secret gun, so he’s not worried. Also, he’s a lefty. Not sure why this has never occurred to me before.
Jack continues his doctoring, sure he can fix everything as usual. Hurley attempts to help, but isn’t actually that great of a nurse.
James has to own up to why he’s got a gun. K8 uses her acting skills & we have to endure a “moment” between her & James, the beginning of the grossest love triangle known to man. We find out - what’s that? Oh right - SHE’S the criminal the marshal was escorting. I mean, at least she had the courtesy to put an oxygen mask on him after stealing his keys, so that’s something, I guess.
The mini-A-team picks up Danielle’s distress signal, and luckily Shanny’s there to translate. My girl is anything but worthless. Just FYI.
NEW MISSION: find the radio tower

-end of episode two-

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

30 Things I've Learned in 30 Years

As per tradition, I've compiled a list of things - lessons, values, and general silliness - I've learned over the course of the last three decades. --crap on a spatula, THREE DECADES? Okay, I'm just gonna get started before I think about this too much... Family. Family. Family. Family. Family...you get it. I think. I mean, I hardly EVER talk about it, so how would you know? Anyway, whomever you consider your family to be, blood related or not, hold tight and don't let go. Life is far too short to hold onto trivial annoyances. Feel your feelings and then let them go. It's tough, because at the time it usually feels like the most important thing ever, but it's really worth it. Life is also too short to read mediocre books, so if you need recommendations, I'm always happy to oblige. Mental Health Awareness is SO IMPORTANT. Mentall illness is surrounded by a stigma that should not exist, and the only way to break it down is to talk about it. If ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Why Lost Doesn't Belong on Your "Worst Finales Ever" Lists

There are a lot of reasons to love Lost - strong characters with interesting arcs, great writing and acting - I could write entire essays (and I have) about how fantastic it is. Unfortunately, there is (STILL) a large group of people who seem to think that the 2010 finale of the series was less than superb. Those people are wrong. Now, I have been let down by many a show in my day ( Desperate Housewives and How I Met Your Mother, I’m looking at you). This has made me highly critical of the things I love because I expect greatness from them. Many shows fall short, but Lost delivered greatness in its finale. The main hangup I’ve seen is that the finale didn’t answer all the little, lingering questions the audience had. No, it didn’t. Here’s the thing, though: THAT’S THE POINT. Lost is a show about life , and in life, you don’t always get all the answers. The finale (and the show as a whole) is about the big picture . Jack Shephard spent most of the series trying to fix ever...
Post a Comment
Read more

A Cinderella-ish Christmas

So today we watched A Cinderella Christmas , and it made me think and feel a lot of things. I might just have ridiculously high standards based on my deep and undying love for all things Disney and fairy-tale-related...who are we kidding, that's totally the case. Nevertheless, this movie was a mix of things, both fine and...not so much. It starts off pretty predictably, with Angie being bossed around and harassed by her awful cousin Candace, clearly the "evil stepsister" in this story. Angie works with Candace and wants to break out on her own, but she's too afraid. Then there's Nikolaus, the obvious Prince Charming, heir to a grand inheritance. He's famous for some reason, but I can't remember why. He also wants to be "free", but his mumsy tells him he's got some growing up to do, and UH OH, he can’t have his inheritance until he gets married. Because I guess that’s the only way to show you’re a mature human being or something. The...
Post a Comment
Read more