So tonight B and I crossed a line. We podcasted something that was NOT Lost.
We present:
Paranormal Entity, with esteemed guest podcaster Chelsey. It will fuck you up.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
lost links!
I'm in a LOST mood today. And since it's slow at work...
Apparently there is something called http://lostrevised.tumblr.com/ where someone is editing ALL of season six and removing the alternate sideways line. Holy dang. That's dedication.
Here's a hilarious animated version of how LOST should have ended. Lapidus!
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/06/28/how-lost-should-have-ended/
When LOST was on air, I used to look for Vozzek69's imdb posts. Eventually he got put on the Darkufo site and bam, he's got some of the best recaps you can get your hands on. Check them out if you haven't already.
Also, there is another re-watch of LOST going on. It might be more put together and have a ritzy forum, but I'm listening to the White Rabbit podcast right now and I can tell you with absolute certainty: Bridgette and I are considerably more entertaining. We talk about Mickey Rourke. And Belle Tire.
And we don't sound like we're on a telephone.
Apparently there is something called http://lostrevised.tumblr.com/ where someone is editing ALL of season six and removing the alternate sideways line. Holy dang. That's dedication.
Here's a hilarious animated version of how LOST should have ended. Lapidus!
http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/06/28/how-lost-should-have-ended/
When LOST was on air, I used to look for Vozzek69's imdb posts. Eventually he got put on the Darkufo site and bam, he's got some of the best recaps you can get your hands on. Check them out if you haven't already.
Also, there is another re-watch of LOST going on. It might be more put together and have a ritzy forum, but I'm listening to the White Rabbit podcast right now and I can tell you with absolute certainty: Bridgette and I are considerably more entertaining. We talk about Mickey Rourke. And Belle Tire.
And we don't sound like we're on a telephone.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
podcasts!
Alright bitches. Remember how I posted that jankety two minute thing?
Gone!
Though I suck at technology, Dave and B have mastered the fine art of podcast uploading. Hallelujah! B tagged them all as podcasts over in the label section of the blog to the right, but I'm slapping them down here as well. Just cuz.
Tabula Rasa
Pilot Part Two
Pilot Part One - final thoughts
Pilot Part One
There is some pretty epic commentating going on. Do not miss it.
Gone!
Though I suck at technology, Dave and B have mastered the fine art of podcast uploading. Hallelujah! B tagged them all as podcasts over in the label section of the blog to the right, but I'm slapping them down here as well. Just cuz.
Tabula Rasa
Pilot Part Two
Pilot Part One - final thoughts
Pilot Part One
There is some pretty epic commentating going on. Do not miss it.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Walkabout by Bridgette
*Disclaimer – I make fun of LOST because I love it so much. Also, I constantly write in sentence fragments and capital letters. I defy the laws of grammar.
“Walt, you gotta keep that Dog quiet!” says Michael, and one of the greatest episodes of LOST ever begins. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? You are stranded on an island, and your dog RANDOMLY wakes up and starts barking his head off…and you chastise it? It’s trying to tell you something, dick. I've got mad love for Vincent. He always knows what's going on.
Something interesting, too. What’s in the fuselage? Is it sawyer? Nope. It’s Pumbaa. Pumbaas with a vengeance is more like it. Something interesting though, before the attack of the piggies – Sayid says, “everyone in there’s dead.” Knowing what we know, is he talking about the actual people who died in the crash, or is he talking about all of them? I’m pretty sure he was talking about the actual dead people, but you never know. Sam and I discuss at length on our podcast recording the fact that it’s pretty weird that there’s what sounds like a T-Rex in the jungle, and the people are absolutely terrified of the boars when they run out. Really Sayid? Sawyer, where’d your gun go? Just funny. I guess I’d be scared, but I wouldn’t think that the Iraqi Torturer would be screaming over some piggies. Also, you gotta love when Locke just busts out his suitcase full of knives.
Okay, lets get a little more serious here.
Rose in this episode is just amazing to me. I love her. I think I’d react in ways similar to hers if my love was missing. I love how she is confident that Bernard is alive. I feel like I would know too, if I loved someone that much. I admire such wise and poised characters like Rose. They love life, and they know life, and they make other people better by just being around them. Jack decides he needs to talk to her, even though he’s not a psychiatrist, and she gives him a little more than he gives her, I think. I love when she tells him, “You’ve got a nice way about you, Good soul.”
I really identified with Claire and the gang for most of the series. Charlie and Hurley trying to catch the fish was adorable. When they plan the little funeral type gathering, you feel greatly humbled by the fact that there are lives ending around them, and the most that they can say about the people is where their layover was going to be, or what seat they were in. I think love is a huge message in this show, (notice all the couples in that little heaven room?) and I think the fact that the couple who were so in love with each other had the most evidence for Claire to talk about. Watching this now, I really saw where that fit this show. They WERE very important.
Have you noticed I haven’t talked at ALL about Locke yet, and this is HIS episode? What can I say that Sam hasn’t. Seriously, this man is amazing. All of his stories are mind blowingly awesome, sad, humbling, triumphant…he goes through such a range. Rewatching this, I found more hate for his stupid office manager guy than ever before, especially since you know that the things he is saying are to a handicapped man. I felt like I was watching a middle schooler. I really hope that character wasn’t based off of a real person. I loved that Colonel Locke was his title basically due to the fact that he played a game similar to Risk with a good friend. I have a hard time watching this episode or even thinking about this episode without tearing up, but it brings an important message – whether you think you can or think you can’t you’re right. Locke could have done that damn walkabout…but he got something better. He got a REAL walkabout. I’m really excited to do a little more studying of Locke’s story knowing what we know now. I just can’t get over how horrible that office guy was to him. There had to be a devil set aside for that guy.
Some really important things came from this episode. Jack definitely has some Daddy issues. Shannon’s defense mechanisms are using her appearance to get someone else to take care of her. Sayid is still the island’s go to tech guy. Rose is wise, Claire is a humanitarian, and Hurley and Charlie are going to be Bffles. Most importantly, that secret that Mistah Locke wanted to tell Walt was that his poor legs didn’t work until he crashed in that sand. Think about someone Shannon who just stood there screaming instead of helping people and then think of Locke who wiggled his toes, had the greatest miracle of his life happen, and spent no more than a second relishing in his own joy and divinity before rushing to help others. Who would you be?
“Walt, you gotta keep that Dog quiet!” says Michael, and one of the greatest episodes of LOST ever begins. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? You are stranded on an island, and your dog RANDOMLY wakes up and starts barking his head off…and you chastise it? It’s trying to tell you something, dick. I've got mad love for Vincent. He always knows what's going on.
Something interesting, too. What’s in the fuselage? Is it sawyer? Nope. It’s Pumbaa. Pumbaas with a vengeance is more like it. Something interesting though, before the attack of the piggies – Sayid says, “everyone in there’s dead.” Knowing what we know, is he talking about the actual people who died in the crash, or is he talking about all of them? I’m pretty sure he was talking about the actual dead people, but you never know. Sam and I discuss at length on our podcast recording the fact that it’s pretty weird that there’s what sounds like a T-Rex in the jungle, and the people are absolutely terrified of the boars when they run out. Really Sayid? Sawyer, where’d your gun go? Just funny. I guess I’d be scared, but I wouldn’t think that the Iraqi Torturer would be screaming over some piggies. Also, you gotta love when Locke just busts out his suitcase full of knives.
Okay, lets get a little more serious here.

I really identified with Claire and the gang for most of the series. Charlie and Hurley trying to catch the fish was adorable. When they plan the little funeral type gathering, you feel greatly humbled by the fact that there are lives ending around them, and the most that they can say about the people is where their layover was going to be, or what seat they were in. I think love is a huge message in this show, (notice all the couples in that little heaven room?) and I think the fact that the couple who were so in love with each other had the most evidence for Claire to talk about. Watching this now, I really saw where that fit this show. They WERE very important.

Some really important things came from this episode. Jack definitely has some Daddy issues. Shannon’s defense mechanisms are using her appearance to get someone else to take care of her. Sayid is still the island’s go to tech guy. Rose is wise, Claire is a humanitarian, and Hurley and Charlie are going to be Bffles. Most importantly, that secret that Mistah Locke wanted to tell Walt was that his poor legs didn’t work until he crashed in that sand. Think about someone Shannon who just stood there screaming instead of helping people and then think of Locke who wiggled his toes, had the greatest miracle of his life happen, and spent no more than a second relishing in his own joy and divinity before rushing to help others. Who would you be?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Walkabout by Sam

Hopefully we'll find a way to upload our podcasts soon, because a lot of what we say in the moment I can't remember now. Also, I know other shit happens in this episode (transceiver/Jack's smokemonsterdad/etc) but I'm not interested in that. Locke is life.
Only in the last season, when we were watching the flash-sideways, did I start to consider that the flashbacks people were having impacted their island lives. It's so evident in this episode! Right after his dick-manager tells him that he can't go on his walkabout, Locke is laying in the grass listening to Michael wail about his leg wound. Locke gets up and hunts the shit out of the boar because no one, not even L'oreal Kate, tells Locke that he can't do it. She can walk Michael back on her own, thanks.
It becomes standard, but this is our first glimpse into the sorry life of pre-island Locke. He's of the nerdy RPG sort, comfortable in his cubicle but committed to the idea that he's meant for more.

In this show, there's a trend of capable, walking men looking at a guy in a wheelchair and telling him he can't do shit. Locke goes to Australia without his phone companion and gets told again: You can't do this.
He can't do this? This is his destiny. He's supposed to do this.
He's supposed to do this. An orderly in a later episode plants the seed that this walkabout is what he needs to do. Locke goes there and is brutalized for his physical ailments and his plane crashes. Who is that guy? The orderly guy that eventually becomes Locke's cab driver? A creepy and less-invested version of Desmond? A friend of Jacob and Richard? It starts to become a little too convoluted if I consider it for too long. But I'm starting to trust my instincts. Locke really was pushed out of a building, forced into a wheelchair, denied his walkabout and given a second chance at walking about with all the other survivors. When Locke is strangled by Ben, that is when he dies. His first and only death that is ever shown to us. I'm going the man-of-faith route this time.
Man-of-science-ly, there is plane wreckage. Our final image is physical evidence that somebody's plane crashed. Like all of their physical baggage, Locke and company get to leave their emotional wreckage on that damn island. From what I can recall, when they all have their moment of dawning in the flash sideways, they don't remember anything that didn't happen on the island. Locke doesn't see himself being denied his walkabout. On the island, in his natural life, he walked about and that was what he remembered and that's what helps HIM let go. I maintain that the show opening and closing on Jack's eye doesn't change the third-person perspective this show has. We have to have a central character to help us cement what's happening in a show like this. They picked Jack, probably out of convenience. Good-looking, leadery doctor. Of course he's the one you start with! But he isn't the point of the show. His eye is the one we open on, but it isn't the only one. It's a story-telling device. And I'd argue that no one is more important than the next person, even the screaming Shannons. I don't consider every person in my life to be this stepping stone to greater spiritual knowledge. They're people. Their pasts matter. Their presents matter. And just like I don't live my life like I'm the one who matters most, I don't like considering a story where only Jack matters. Jack's a survivor, just like the rest of them are. They're all on the last half of their walkabout, trying to sort through their internal messes before they get to the end of the line.

Locke is also the first person so far to survive a personal

I love Locke episodes. Much like he does for the survivors on the show, he helps bring me back to a place where I believe that all of this has a meaning and a purpose. Even though the final scenes were romantic and pretty, I still think it's really clinical to dismiss everything we've been shown like it doesn't matter if it happened or not. It matters.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Tabula Rasa, by Bridgette
Shannon, my loathing of your ignorance is burning during this episode. Seriously, when she yells about just killing the air marshal so that he’ll stop screaming… wow. WOW.
Now that that’s out…here we go.
Kate. I love her. A lot of people don’t, but I really do. I can relate to her. I am a passionate loyalist to those I love and while I don’t ever condone murdering someone, it pains me to label her as “wrong” for what she did. I guess we don’t know that yet though. Obviously it wasn’t a good choice, but yeah…I’d definitely think about doing the same thing. This episode was kinda boring to me – her back story stuff is much less interesting to me than her on island time or even her future time. The court marshal revealing everything is cool, and as of so far on this episode we think Kate is bad – but we see that goodness when she tries to make sure that the farmer gets his money and she tries to help him as much as she can. Was it necessary for the farmer to have a fake arm? Yes. It was. : )

I love that Michael promises Walt that he’ll find Vincent (by the way, just to reiterate, I LOVE Vincent) when it stops raining, and then, of course, it stops. I’m really starting to think that someone has control of the weather on this island. I think my favorite storyline in this episode is Locke making the whistle throughout the whole thing, finding the damn dog so easily, and then giving it to the man who is accusing him of creepsterness so that he can become a hero to his son. I love that. Random acts of kindness are insanely important. (although this one maybe didn’t seem as random because there was so much involved.) What did Locke have to gain from doing this? Nothing really. I can imagine that being stuck on an island doing things like this would keep me alive. As I’ve said before, Hurley would be my best friend. I’d be right by his side building that golf course.
The Kate/Sawyer/Jack drama starts over the air marshal and whether or not he should be put out of his misery. I don’t know that I’d wanna be put out of my misery, so I don’t know that Sawyers choice was the best, haha, especially since he missed. I find their little love triangle to be really annoying later on so I was really bored by this part. I was probably interested more the first time. Maybe Sam and I were just gabbing, I dunno. Talking about Mickey Rourke or some noise.
So what did we learn? A lot about a lot of people. I forgot to write about the whole Sun and Jin stuff. There’s a lot I forgot to write about I guess. I think the most important part of this episode is that our characters are getting to know each other. Hurley and Sayid become friends. People are finding out what’s going on with Kate. Jin and Sun interact with the rest of the castaways a bit more. John Locke is a good man, not a pedophile. Charlie is adorable, and Shannon is a child.
A rather important moment to end on:
Jack says, "We all died three days ago. We deserve a clean slate." If you’re reading this blog, I’m assuming you know the ending.
Your thoughts?
Now that that’s out…here we go.
Kate. I love her. A lot of people don’t, but I really do. I can relate to her. I am a passionate loyalist to those I love and while I don’t ever condone murdering someone, it pains me to label her as “wrong” for what she did. I guess we don’t know that yet though. Obviously it wasn’t a good choice, but yeah…I’d definitely think about doing the same thing. This episode was kinda boring to me – her back story stuff is much less interesting to me than her on island time or even her future time. The court marshal revealing everything is cool, and as of so far on this episode we think Kate is bad – but we see that goodness when she tries to make sure that the farmer gets his money and she tries to help him as much as she can. Was it necessary for the farmer to have a fake arm? Yes. It was. : )

I love that Michael promises Walt that he’ll find Vincent (by the way, just to reiterate, I LOVE Vincent) when it stops raining, and then, of course, it stops. I’m really starting to think that someone has control of the weather on this island. I think my favorite storyline in this episode is Locke making the whistle throughout the whole thing, finding the damn dog so easily, and then giving it to the man who is accusing him of creepsterness so that he can become a hero to his son. I love that. Random acts of kindness are insanely important. (although this one maybe didn’t seem as random because there was so much involved.) What did Locke have to gain from doing this? Nothing really. I can imagine that being stuck on an island doing things like this would keep me alive. As I’ve said before, Hurley would be my best friend. I’d be right by his side building that golf course.
The Kate/Sawyer/Jack drama starts over the air marshal and whether or not he should be put out of his misery. I don’t know that I’d wanna be put out of my misery, so I don’t know that Sawyers choice was the best, haha, especially since he missed. I find their little love triangle to be really annoying later on so I was really bored by this part. I was probably interested more the first time. Maybe Sam and I were just gabbing, I dunno. Talking about Mickey Rourke or some noise.
So what did we learn? A lot about a lot of people. I forgot to write about the whole Sun and Jin stuff. There’s a lot I forgot to write about I guess. I think the most important part of this episode is that our characters are getting to know each other. Hurley and Sayid become friends. People are finding out what’s going on with Kate. Jin and Sun interact with the rest of the castaways a bit more. John Locke is a good man, not a pedophile. Charlie is adorable, and Shannon is a child.
A rather important moment to end on:
Jack says, "We all died three days ago. We deserve a clean slate." If you’re reading this blog, I’m assuming you know the ending.
Your thoughts?
Monday, June 14, 2010
Tabula Rasa by Sam
Our first Kate-centric episode. Of course it involves her ripping off the false arm of an Australian farmer. Why wouldn't it?
Plot-wise, we know the drill. Kate, a somewhat decent criminal, is watching the air marshal die. I liked this episode on first viewing. Second time? After the finale?
To paraphrase Jack:
"We all died three days ago. We deserve a clean slate."
Initially, I was convinced that season one was purgatory. After being told by all the Lost-sites/writers/etc that it was not purgatory...that little line, the fuckin' title of the episode? Post-finale I feel somewhat foolish for having believed that it was something past "Let's make an interesting little un-world where we can deal with our daddy-issues and move on!" It's a shame that it's shaping up to be exactly what the finale claimed. I'm considering it entirely possible that none of the island stuff ever happened. What a mess, if that's the case.
I'm a bitter-betty today. Better to take it out on Lost than on my unsuspecting husband, right?
The one moment in this episode that is sticking out in a positive way is the part where Kate asks Jack why he can't just let the cop die and he looks at her straight-up and says "Because I'm not a murderer." She doesn't correct him. He just says it and walks the hell away. Ballsy stuff.
Don't go thinking that I'm just hating on Lost for the sake of it. I love this show. I love Locke and Desmond and Eko and I love what so much of the story says about the human condition. But I'm still struggling with how reductive that ending was; I'm not swung by it yet. People finding peace? Yes, that's nice. But some of us liked the whole "keep evil at bay! save the world, save the cheerleader" thing. Reverting back to "it was always a character show" is a shiny version of "what we put our characters through was for their own good in the after life and that's about it."
Boo to that! I'm staying on the side where Sawyer really shot that cop (and fucking missed) instead of just creating a world where he could shoot one because he needed to ascend yea I'm already not interested. It's just plain cooler for this stuff to have really happened. I'll chin-up soon, I promise...
Plot-wise, we know the drill. Kate, a somewhat decent criminal, is watching the air marshal die. I liked this episode on first viewing. Second time? After the finale?
To paraphrase Jack:
"We all died three days ago. We deserve a clean slate."
Initially, I was convinced that season one was purgatory. After being told by all the Lost-sites/writers/etc that it was not purgatory...that little line, the fuckin' title of the episode? Post-finale I feel somewhat foolish for having believed that it was something past "Let's make an interesting little un-world where we can deal with our daddy-issues and move on!" It's a shame that it's shaping up to be exactly what the finale claimed. I'm considering it entirely possible that none of the island stuff ever happened. What a mess, if that's the case.
I'm a bitter-betty today. Better to take it out on Lost than on my unsuspecting husband, right?
The one moment in this episode that is sticking out in a positive way is the part where Kate asks Jack why he can't just let the cop die and he looks at her straight-up and says "Because I'm not a murderer." She doesn't correct him. He just says it and walks the hell away. Ballsy stuff.

Boo to that! I'm staying on the side where Sawyer really shot that cop (and fucking missed) instead of just creating a world where he could shoot one because he needed to ascend yea I'm already not interested. It's just plain cooler for this stuff to have really happened. I'll chin-up soon, I promise...
Pilot, Part 2 by Bridgette
This episode started my anxious love/hate relationship with the soundtrack to LOST. Sam and I were discussing – music moves me so much that I don’t even realize it sometimes. I have a hard time playing the game, “Scene It” because of the background low toned “baaaahhhhssss” that drive me over the edge! The soundtrack to LOST is mind-blowing, especially in the first seasons. I guess I love it through the whole series, but it was just weird to look back at the difference between the sweeping sorrowful music of the last season and this suspenseful stuff.
Oh Sayid and the transceiver. I love how he says that. Sayid is working on his mission to get the damn thing to work, and of course he does because, well you know, he’s Sayid. The troops march up the mountain and finally get it to work and we hear Danielle, the numbers, and we get a great sense of doom when the cast realizes how long that damn message has been broadcast. That gave me chills. I would be very upset at that moment!
Kate’s whole bathing scene for some reason never struck me as being there to show Sun’s longing for freedom until now. I guess it’s because I know the whole story now…I dunno.
Okay what’s more strange…the fact that there is a polar bear in the jungle or that no one gives a crap that Sawyer is packing heat and no one knew?
I feel like this episode has a lot of foreshadowing; Sun watching Kate bathe, Sawyer skimming his letter, and of course – the most important part – “Mistah Locke” teaching Walt about Backgammon. (and scaring the world shitless when he asks Walt if he wants to know a secret!) I’ve never been a fan of Michael, but when Walt explains at this part that he never even knew Michael and has to be with him because of the circumstances it does make me sad. Vincent is missing, but Jack gives us hope that he’ll be found! Anyway – about the Backgammon – We get the famous quote, “"Two players, two sides. One is light. The other, dark." Wonder what that was all about? :)

I’m feeling like the second time around, these episodes are loading with exposition, then I have to realize – hey – you watched this for six years – DUH. :)
Oh Sayid and the transceiver. I love how he says that. Sayid is working on his mission to get the damn thing to work, and of course he does because, well you know, he’s Sayid. The troops march up the mountain and finally get it to work and we hear Danielle, the numbers, and we get a great sense of doom when the cast realizes how long that damn message has been broadcast. That gave me chills. I would be very upset at that moment!
Kate’s whole bathing scene for some reason never struck me as being there to show Sun’s longing for freedom until now. I guess it’s because I know the whole story now…I dunno.
Okay what’s more strange…the fact that there is a polar bear in the jungle or that no one gives a crap that Sawyer is packing heat and no one knew?
I feel like this episode has a lot of foreshadowing; Sun watching Kate bathe, Sawyer skimming his letter, and of course – the most important part – “Mistah Locke” teaching Walt about Backgammon. (and scaring the world shitless when he asks Walt if he wants to know a secret!) I’ve never been a fan of Michael, but when Walt explains at this part that he never even knew Michael and has to be with him because of the circumstances it does make me sad. Vincent is missing, but Jack gives us hope that he’ll be found! Anyway – about the Backgammon – We get the famous quote, “"Two players, two sides. One is light. The other, dark." Wonder what that was all about? :)

I’m feeling like the second time around, these episodes are loading with exposition, then I have to realize – hey – you watched this for six years – DUH. :)
Pilot, Part two by Sam

Going through it a second time, I liked it about the same amount. It's a slow moving episode. We realize that Charlie is a devoted-heroin user. Sayid knows how to work a transceiver. Sawyer is a complex guy.
I don't have much to say about this episode that didn't get said in the podcast. Boone is still hot and Locke is still awesome. But I don't really like part 2 all that much. I think it's one of the weaker episodes in the show, truthfully. It reveals a lot about the island, I guess. Other people have crashed there. Polar bears run rampant. Shannon speaks French very reluctantly.
Meh. I don't really care for this episode. You?
Friday, June 11, 2010
Pilot, Part 1 by Sam
This damn show. Even if I'm disappointed with the final fifteen minutes of the series, the first fifteen SECONDS of the opening episode are enough to put that all right. I'm sucked back in all over again and I barely care that I know how it ends. There's so much to wonder about still.
I really hope that we're able to upload our podcasts because I think B and I did a bang up job. Also, her thoughts on Shannon's incessant screaming need to be shared with the world.
Like Bridgette, I didn't have any major OHMYGODOFCOURSE! moments watching this episode post-finale, but it was certainly different. I remember the curiosity of the first few episodes where you don't know that Kate was the one with the cuffs or that Charlie was snorting the bad stuff in the cockpit. Establishing those things immediately might've been too much considering how much chaos is set up in the first episode, but I like that they started laying the ground work. A plane full of people crashing on an island...it's cool that they didn't just let that be the driver of the story. These people are going to have issues before they rack up all the island-miseries.
Even in its most obvious moments, there's something really classy about the way that we're introduced to everyone in the pilot. We see a twitchy Charlie. A sweet Hurley who gives pregnant little Claire the extra dinner. Lame ass screaming Shannon who paints her toenails. Well-meaning Boone who brings those damn pens about three hours too late. Force-of-nature Jack who takes charge and can single out every cry for help in the middle of exploding engines and general turmoil. Suck-it-up-and-do-the-damn-thing Kate, who stitches up Jack in one of the most over-referenced scenes in Lost.
And Locke. He was my main man before my beloved Desmond came around. I was immediately interested in Locke. Physically, he looks a lot like my dad. Wrinkles around the eyes, sweet smile, bald as all hell. But past that...what a badass!, smiling at Kate like that when she's stealing a dead man's shoes. That's BOLD! I want to be that person. It's awesome to see that scene again, knowing his history, knowing that he really wasn't that person until he got to the island. Way to take charge of a new chapter in life.
Essentially, re-watching the pilot made me realize just how innocent and pure everything seems upon first glance. Who knew Sayid was a torturer who'd end up working for his nemesis Ben, die, get zombiefied by the smoke and explode himself in a sub? The hell kind of show is this?
Awesome, that's what. Bring on the next episode!
I really hope that we're able to upload our podcasts because I think B and I did a bang up job. Also, her thoughts on Shannon's incessant screaming need to be shared with the world.
Like Bridgette, I didn't have any major OHMYGODOFCOURSE! moments watching this episode post-finale, but it was certainly different. I remember the curiosity of the first few episodes where you don't know that Kate was the one with the cuffs or that Charlie was snorting the bad stuff in the cockpit. Establishing those things immediately might've been too much considering how much chaos is set up in the first episode, but I like that they started laying the ground work. A plane full of people crashing on an island...it's cool that they didn't just let that be the driver of the story. These people are going to have issues before they rack up all the island-miseries.
Even in its most obvious moments, there's something really classy about the way that we're introduced to everyone in the pilot. We see a twitchy Charlie. A sweet Hurley who gives pregnant little Claire the extra dinner. Lame ass screaming Shannon who paints her toenails. Well-meaning Boone who brings those damn pens about three hours too late. Force-of-nature Jack who takes charge and can single out every cry for help in the middle of exploding engines and general turmoil. Suck-it-up-and-do-the-damn-thing Kate, who stitches up Jack in one of the most over-referenced scenes in Lost.

Essentially, re-watching the pilot made me realize just how innocent and pure everything seems upon first glance. Who knew Sayid was a torturer who'd end up working for his nemesis Ben, die, get zombiefied by the smoke and explode himself in a sub? The hell kind of show is this?
Awesome, that's what. Bring on the next episode!
Pilot, Part 1 by Bridgette

Jack opens his pretty little eyeball. It’s sad to know this time around that I’ll watch him close it for the last time later. If you listen to the podcast, we spend a lot of time discussing whether or not we think that the whole series is about Jack. I can see how some people think it would be, and I think that deep down I do too, but I was never the biggest Jack fan, nor did I spend the entire series thinking it was all about him – I think I chose for my LOST experience to be more about the other characters, but I do agree that Jack was changing A LOT. AS far as discussion about what the end means – I’ve kinda given up. I pretty much agree with what anyone else has to say about it, and I can never find a solid, “this is the end of LOST according to Bridgette.” Maybe this project will help me to do that!
In looking for similarities to the finale and foreshadowing and all of that magic, I wasn’t like intensely overwhelmed like I think every LOST fan hopes to be. I did think it was pretty cool that I hadn’t re-watched the first episode in forever and now I know that when the airline staff rushes past Jack and Rose that they were going to get Charlie from the bathroom.
I guess just a few things to touch on would be:
How much I love Vincent – seriously, I just love him. It would be so soothing to have Vincent around in such a stressful situation. Sam and I also talked about how Vincent weaved in and out of their lives at times that seemed pretty important. It seems to me that Vincent was typically used as a reason for everyone to go out into the jungle - but I also think about how he laid next to Jack as he died in the end.
Hurley as a character is so incredibly different in the beginning that he is at the end – our dear sweet Hurley who everyone loves so much. Not that Hurley wasn’t lovable at the beginning, but when you know his story and you’ve seen the man weep on a beach you kind of feel like he’s your best friend.
For some reason Boone really cracked me up when he brought back all of those pens.
One of the biggest memories of the LOST experience for me has got to be the scene of the plane crashing. You know, the one where the plane RIPS IN HALF and bodies are FLYING OUT THE MIDDLE?!?! Holy buckets – I forgot how well done that scene was. I can’t even imagine surviving that!
So here’s what I’ve really been thinking about – the end of the episode where Kate, Jack, and Charlie go into the jungle, and find the plane and the Pilot. (Oh, Matt Parkman!) This is when we are introduced to our darling Smokey. Well…kind of. I swear to you, I thought it was a dinosaur for so long! At any rate – we talked in the podcast a bit about why The Man in Black is doing what he’s doing at this point. Why is he scaring everyone? Why doesn’t he just take people out? I think any good villain has to show you how scary they are and what they can do before they start really doing it. I guess my other question, and I’m going to try to kind of watch this through the seasons is this: can he control the weather? It seems to me that conditions were always just right for good old NotLocke.
When the monster rips the pilot in half, Charlie says, “What the hell just happened?” I remember thinking the same exact thing, and that is why I loved LOST from the beginning. :)
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Intro? by Bridgette
I think this last year has been the year of things that I truly wasn’t ready for. It’s funny, because the end of LOST weights pretty highly in with some other pretty serious stuff in my life. Sam and I came up with idea, and it makes me happy because I am really excited about her as a friend and as a writer. I like to write, especially when there is something good to write about – and I just have a general overall great feeling about this project.
What you need to know about me and my view on LOST is that I am in love with this set of characters as if they are my own family. I have been madly in love with Sayid Jarrah for years, and in the series finale, I sobbed for a good 40 minutes because the man I loathed, Ben Linus, won over my heart and he wasn’t going along with the group. I felt like I was losing such a huge part of my life when the show was over. It’s funny, because one of the “Last Words” bumps that ABC played during commercials said, “I never understood Trekkies until LOST.” I’ve loved things and I’m a huge fan of writers who build us a whole new universe, but I now understand the Trekkies, and I guess I’m a LOSTie. (That’s for my loving boyfriend, Dave.)
Here's a couple of pics from my party...



And just in case, here's one of me. :)

I’m really excited to go through this series and be able to see it through the eyes of Jacob or NotLocke, or Man in Black, or Samuel – whatever you wanna call him. Mostly, I’m very excited to do something creative and spend some time with my favorite people, (nerdy, I know) with one of my favorite people in the world. <3
What you need to know about me and my view on LOST is that I am in love with this set of characters as if they are my own family. I have been madly in love with Sayid Jarrah for years, and in the series finale, I sobbed for a good 40 minutes because the man I loathed, Ben Linus, won over my heart and he wasn’t going along with the group. I felt like I was losing such a huge part of my life when the show was over. It’s funny, because one of the “Last Words” bumps that ABC played during commercials said, “I never understood Trekkies until LOST.” I’ve loved things and I’m a huge fan of writers who build us a whole new universe, but I now understand the Trekkies, and I guess I’m a LOSTie. (That’s for my loving boyfriend, Dave.)
Here's a couple of pics from my party...



And just in case, here's one of me. :)

I’m really excited to go through this series and be able to see it through the eyes of Jacob or NotLocke, or Man in Black, or Samuel – whatever you wanna call him. Mostly, I’m very excited to do something creative and spend some time with my favorite people, (nerdy, I know) with one of my favorite people in the world. <3
Once through isn't enough.
Bridgette and I (Sam) were dedicated Lost-fans for the run of the show. We'd call each other after episodes, try to figure out what year Jacob was born, ramble about how hot Sayid is and revel in the awesomness of Lost. When we had our separate finale parties, we made our last official post-Lost call. And right about then we decided that we were so NOT done with the show.
The plan is to blog our way through the seasons as we see fit, drop a few podcasts out into the internet ocean and experience the show all over again knowing everything that we know now.
Here are some pictures from my Lost Finale Party, to cement my nerdom. I'm the one with the humidity-sized hair and white Dharma shirt...



So, imaginary blog readers that we don't have yet, get ready because B and I are going to bring you the Pilot episode like it's never been brought before...
Here are some pictures from my Lost Finale Party, to cement my nerdom. I'm the one with the humidity-sized hair and white Dharma shirt...
So, imaginary blog readers that we don't have yet, get ready because B and I are going to bring you the Pilot episode like it's never been brought before...
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