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. :)