Pilot-Part 1

It has been said many times before but the Lost pilot has to be one of if not the best pilot episode of a TV series ever. Most shows take at least a few episodes to find their footing but Lost came out of the gates firing on all cylinders.

The show began with the opening of Jack Shepard's eye before quickly expanding its focus, which as we all know the focus of the show continues to become more broad throughout the series' run. Directly following the opening scene, the scene with immediate aftermath of the Ocean 815 crash is still just as exhilarating as it was the first time I saw the episode back in 2004. The other thing that stuck out to me most on this rewatch was not a single scene but instead was the ability of the show to introduce so many plot elements and characters in the very first episode.

Favorite Scenes
-The aforementioned aftermath of the plane crash scene.
-Jack/Rose scene before the plane hits turbulence.
-Kate taking the shoes off the dead person, I know it is strange but I think it was an effective way to communicate how tough it was for the survivors.

Minor (or Major) Quips with the Episode
- Very minor, but I think the Jack/Kate sewing up and count to five scene played off a little forced feeling. I like the recalls to the scene later in the series but the actual scene was just a little off.

Random Thoughts/Episode in Relation to the Rest of the Series
-Interesting that Charlie and Sayid shared several scenes together, I didn't really remember them spending much time together.
-I know a lot of people were either indifferent or disliked Boone, but he was actually one of my favorite characters when the show started. Shannon on the other hand was always one of my least favorite characters.
-How did Jack make such a good airplane using that leaf?
-Was the smoke that Kate said she saw in the jungle actually the Monster?
-I forgot how intense and genuinely frightening the pilot was. The show had many intense moments, but I don't think it was as ever as scary as the first episode.
-Michael Giacchino did fantastic work scoring this series, the music has always been one of my favorite parts, the way it captures and then heightens the emotions in a scene.

Score
9.8 -the best pilot episode of any series I have every seen. The best setup for the show you could ask for, containing only the smallest of flaws and that is all in the 1st half of the pilot.

Your Thoughts
How would your rate the episode? Do you agree that the pilot episode was the scariest episode of the series? Did I miss anything in this episode that becomes important later on in the series?

Introduction

Hi all, if anyone actually reads this Thank You! My favorite show of all time LOST just ended, and I'm not quite ready to let go yet. So I've decided to do a start to finish rewatch, and wanted a place to post my thoughts about the episode after watching them. I won't be doing a recap as there are plenty of places to see that already, I'll just be jotting down some of my thoughts about the episode. If you are new to the series you shouldn't follow this blog as I'm going to start at the beginning but I will be talking about how the episodes tie in to what happened at the end of the series.

In addition to posting my thoughts, I've been interested by the lists that some sites have been posting ranking the episodes of Lost. Some of the episodes I haven't seen in awhile therefore I can't make my own list yet, but after watching at the end of the posts I will also give each episode a score and then after I complete the rewatch I'll use those scores to rank all the episodes.

So if you are still thinking about Lost, or considering doing a rewatch yourself please follow my blog, and post your reactions to my thoughts on the episodes as well as to the episode itself. Thanks again for reading, and I'm open to suggestions for things I should include in an episode writeup if you have any.