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. :)