Beautiful. It’s a masterpiece in itself and we still haven’t seen the second part of the pilot. This episode rocked. We are introduced to fun characters who all seem to have interesting backgrounds. We have this amazing storyline with some sort of a monster roaming around in the forest of the island. Sorry! For those of you who are new to Lost, I’ll explain it briefly. There was a plane crash on an island and there are 48 survivors. That’s hardly the story, though.

          Remind me to build an eternal shrine to J.J. Abrams when I get a chance. Every episode he directs seems to be perfect. All the Alias episodes he directed were just excellent and Lost appears to have inherited his brilliance. That’s fine with me. It better be fine with you. The beginning scenes with Jack on the floor were excellent. I’m sure that was Vincent, Walt’s dog that he saw. The poor thing is lost in the jungle without his owner. That’s too bad. The scenes of the plain wreck on the beach were fantastic. The actors truly played the panicked-stricken survivors well. Shannon, played by Maggie Grace, was shouting and yelling out of shock. That’s what happens. The pregnant woman was lying on the ground crying out that she has contractions. Another guy has a leg caught under a piece of the airplane and some other guy gets sucked into the engine. It looked like hell on earth and I’m sure that was the image J.J. wanted to depict.

          There’s a great diversity of characters. How is it possible though to have so many beautiful people on one flight? I personally love Kate. No kidding. We didn’t find out much though. I like Matthew Fox’s character Jack. He seems to have taken control as the leader of the pack. Kate (Evangeline Lilly) is also an interesting character. She seems to be hiding something. Meanwhile, Charlie, who played base for a band called Drive Shaft, seems to always go to the bathroom. In the flashback scenes on the airplane, he collided with Jack because he was running to the bathroom. He was being chased by two flight attendants. Otherwise, we don’t have much else. There’s an eight-month pregnant woman who thinks she’s having contractions. There’s also a brother and a sister who keep fighting. She thinks that they will soon be rescued and refuses to eat. There’s also an obese guy who’s scared of dead bodies. He’s my favorite so far. He had me cracking up every time he said something. There’s also a Korean couple (I think they’re Korean) where the man looks like he controls every step his wife takes. He wants her to be at his side at all times. I hate when people are like that. We even have a poor lady who I’m sure has lost her husband in the crash. She’s the African American woman that was sitting next to Jack. This is awesome tv.

          The Three Amigos (Jack, Kate and Charlie) went into the jungle to find the front of the plane. They were looking for the transceiver. They encountered something they hadn’t bargained for. When they had reached the cockpit, everyone seemed dead. The pilot had miraculously survived and he told them that they were thousands of miles off course. He tells them that the rescue teams are looking for them in the wrong place. Out of nowhere some gigantic monster grabs the pilot and throws him into a tree. We never see this monster, but I’m sure it will be back.

Quotable Quotes

-          Jack: “Stay with her.”

Hurley: “Dude, I’m not going anywhere.”

-          Jack: “Stop! Her head’s not tilted back enough, you’re blowing air into her stomach.

Boone: “Are you sure? That was exactly what I was doing. I’m a lifeguard, I’m licensed.”

Jack: “Yeah, well you seriously need to think about giving that license back.”

-          Jack (during the turbulence): “It’s normal.”

Rose: “Oh, I know, I just never been a really good flyer. My husband keeps reminding me that planes wanna be in the air.”

Jack: “Your husband sounds like a very smart man.”

-          Kate (when sewing Jack’s wound): “Any color preference?”

-          Hurley (to Claire): “Anymore…you know, baby stuff?”

-          Charlie: “Is this normal? This kind of day turning into night. The end-of-the-world type weather”

-          Hurley: “You think we should do anything about the B-O-D-Y-S?” He’s so funny.

-          Shannon (Boone offers her candy): “As if I’m gonna start eating chocolate.”

-          Kate: “What does a transceiver look like?”

Jack: “Like a complicated walkie-talkie.” I still don’t know what it looks like.

-          Kate: “We have to go back for him.”

Charlie: “Go back, there? There’s a certain gargantuan quality about this thing.” I’d be scared to go back to.

Some Final Notes

-          If J.J. stays involved with this show, I’m invested in it until the end.

-          The actors are amazing.

-          We haven’t seen the tail-end of the plane.

-          I might cheat a bit, but I have already seen the whole two first seasons. In that case, I want to keep track of the numbers that show up in the episodes. What numbers? Jack tells the pilot that it’s been 16 hours since the crash.

-          The scenes in the airplane were great.

-          I love this show.

Stunning. I will refrain from giving a rating until I see the second part.

-          Next episode

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