#lost season 1

[lost-inanotherlife]

biggest lie ever told on that damn crazy island.

[ethereal-ocean-eyes]

i love the aura he gives off. this is the vibe he brings to the function <3

[a-map-of-gays]

Guess what I finished watching last night!!

Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4

[reuels]

Lost Season 1 (2004) created by J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber & Damon Lindelof

[ouroboobos]

Like Sawyer's whole schtick is he deliberately treats everyone around him like shit unprompted and then acts all morally superior and pissy and hurt when people hit him back but then every time someone DOES give him a shot and try to have a normal conversation he blows up at them OR gets sexually aggressive and condescending (if they're women) and then still turns around and acts like EVERYONE ELSE is being mean to him or whatever.

He's like wahhh I don't fit in I'm an outcast people don't trust me everyone thinks I'm a thief they think I suck etc etc. Well yes thats because you have repeatedly gleefuly proven yourself to be untrustworthy and a racist a thief and a creep and you do in fact suck. Literally nobody is doing this to you except yourself man grow up. I cannot stand him every time I see his face I want to hit him with a hammer.

[miumiu-grl]

Starting Lost as somebody who managed to avoid spoilers for 25 years

Just started Lost, 21 years after its release. So far I can tell that everyone is bound to have some sort of purpose. A doctor, a pregnant woman, even the dog seems to play a part in what will become the stories dynamic. This moment where Kate is pulling the shoe off of one of the deceased passengers is so telling of her character (what I've gathered). She obviously looks upset, but she does what "needs to be done" in order to survive. She then regards John with an uncomfortable stare when he smiles at her with an orange peel over his teeth as if to say he should be mourning or upset by the dead. But she's the one pulling the shoe off the dead guy.

Can anyone tell me if this is supposed to be sci fi or fantasy? I'm trying my best to not look anything up (I'm going crazy over it).

[local-queer-classicist]

Maybe the real Drive Shaft was the Drive Shaft we Drive Shaft along the Drive Shaft.

[lostfrenchhorn15]

sHoCkInG & gRaPhIc CoNtEnT aHeAd (f you t!kt0k youre throwing off my groove)

[storywriter12]

[lost-inanotherlife]

"White Rabbit" meta: a perfect episode. pt I

“White Rabbit” is another favourite LOST episode of mine. Like “What Kate Did”, I just think it’s a perfectly written piece of TV media that’s extremely juicy to analyze. As the title suggests, the episode main source of inspiration is “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. As a matter of fact, LOST in its entirety is, imo, very much based off of Caroll’s books: after all LOST is also all about symbolism, allegories, spirituality/Christianity and logic/mathematics and their fallacies. Let me outline the episode’s main themes so we can start from there.

Water + Father + Looking for/Following.

“White Rabbit”’s main character is water: being on an island, these people are literally surrounded by water and yet, they have none. Like Michael tells Vincent, ocean water isn’t drinkable because it makes people thirsty. Here, right off the bat, we have a big, clear metaphor: to be surrounded by what you want but what you want doesn’t quench your thirst, it’ll just make it worse. On top of that, this water the characters are surrounded by, specifically signifies death in this episode. This is interesting because water usually represents emotions, nurture and life but here we have the complete reversal of that.

Now who do we find in the ocean water that makes people thirsty? Jack’s father, Christian. Or, I should say, Jack’s dead father. If it wasn’t clear that the episode was going to subvert established symbols here’s a reminder. Water is associated with the archetype of the Mother who gives life but here it signifies the other side of the coin: death via the “hallucinations” of Jack’s father. We’ll have to keep this in mind.

“Water” and “Father” are connected by the third theme: looking for water/following the dead father into the forest. This is key because it reveals the episode’s fourth “secret” theme that is growing up and taking responsibility. Jack must grow up and accept his position as leader of the losties. But has he really matured? Is he really a capable leader? The ending of the episode with the famous “live together, die alone” speech seems to suggest that he is. I argue that, viewed in its entirety, “White Rabbit” lays the foundation for one of Jack’s biggest issues on the island: his inability to be a unifying leader which reflects his inability to let go of his father/past/trauma and become an adult (“inability” is not the correct word here because more added trauma is piled up on Jack as days go by on the island. Therefore, it’s a bit unfair to say he’s not able to let go of this trauma. However, this is basically Jack’s arc: to become able to let go. It’s fitting from a narrative pov because, I mean, this is fiction and Jack’s a fictional character but, of course, it would be an invalid reading in a real-life context with actual people dealing with trauma).

Caught in a riptide: Marc Silverman, Joanna and Boone.

An unofficial code dictates that, in case of emergency, “women and children” should be the first to be rescued. It’s considered a chivalric, Victorian, heroic act.

Jack doesn’t do that.

He heroically jumps into the sea to rescue a life, no questions asked, no time to spare but the first person he finds in the waters is Boone, who also went after what we discover is a second person, drowning: Joanna who went for a swim and got caught in a riptide.

We see Jack calculates what to do next: Boone tells him to let him go and to go after Joanna but Jack decides against it. He goes back to shore with Boone and then goes back into the ocean to save Joanna but it’s too late. To be fair to Jack, he takes responsibilities for what he did as he states “I decided not to go after her”. He, too, was caught in a moral riptide: he jumped into the sea to save one person but it turns out there were two and he had to choose whose life had “priority” over another. Now, he’s a surgeon so he’s actually used to making this kind of decision. However, this doesn’t mean it’s easy for him or that those decision don’t weigh him down. The show doesn’t provide us with an answer: was Jack right? Was he wrong? We’ll have to decide for ourselves but this is enough to insinuate the doubt that, perhaps, Jack the Doc is (rightfully) not the idealized and idolized version of a leader that people want him to be. He’s no chivalric, Victorian hero. He doesn’t… “have what it takes”.

To have or not to have what it takes: that is the question?

Interestingly, young Jack Shephard does have what it takes as we see him stand up to a bully to try and defend another boy like him, Marc Silverman. The bully screams into young Jack’s face to “stay down”, “your choice, man” and he does make a choice: he stands up against the bully. It’s a noble choice that’s hard to disagree with. The kid has guts. Too bad Jack’s father doesn’t see it the same way as we do.

Here the lovely dialogue between young Jack and his father:

CHRISTIAN SHEPHARD: So, you want to tell me what happened? YOUNG JACK: A couple guys jumped Marc Silverman. CHRISTIAN SHEPHARD: A couple guys jumped Marc Silverman. But they didn't jump you? YOUNG JACK: No. CHRISTIAN SHEPHARD: I had a boy on my table today. I don't know, maybe a year younger than you. He had a bad heart. It got real hairy, real fast. And everybody's looking at your old man to make decisions. And I was able to make those decisions because at the end of the day, after the boy died, I was able to wash my hands and come home to dinner. You know, watch a little Carol Burnett, laugh till my sides hurt. And how can I do that, hmm? And even when I fail, how do I do that, Jack? Because I have what it takes. Don't choose, Jack, don't decide. You don't want to be a hero, you don't try and save everyone because when you fail... you just don't have what it takes.

First of all I want to highlight the poetic justice at play here: the kid that died on the operating table had a “bad heart”. Later in the episode we’ll discover that Christian will die of a heart attack. I don’t want to sound mean, I just want to highlight Christian’s hypocrisy here: it’s easy to lord over and picture yourself as a great man in front of a traumatized, beaten up kid. When life will confront Christian with his own issues he won't act as tough as he proclaims. Sure, the façade of masculinity, the performance of the top player etc etc. I feel for that. But this is not Christian’s story, this is Jack’s story. And in Jack’s story Christian acts like a dick.

What I find brilliant in this episode is that the main question seems to be whether Jack has or doesn’t have what it takes but nobody, nobody ever asks what “it” means. Jack doesn’t have what it takes to do what? To be a hero, a “savior” like Boone calls him? To know how to manage failure? To make decisions that are beneficial to all people? Or to be able to wash your hands after you’ve failed? Because, you see, washing hands after an operation is praxis but here it has a double meaning: Christian says that people look at him to make decisions and he does make them but he doesn’t feel responsible for them. He washes his hands at the end of the day. So if this is what “to have what it takes” means I’m actually happy to know that Jack doesn’t have “it”.

Jack’s on the complete opposite end of his father: he feels responsible. As a matter of fact, he feels too much responsibility and this is a direct consequence of his upbringing where his father could allow himself not to take any. Somebody’ll inevitably bear the burden in the end and the less responsibility people take upon themselves the more they want to put on their leader.

Down the rabbit hole.

The moment Jack is confronted with the consequences of his decision, he crashes. He’s failed, a woman has died under his watch. This is when he starts “hallucinating” his dead father. He’s spiraling because he’s being reminded that his father was “right”, that he’s still a child unable to choose, make decisions or, if he does make them, he makes bad calls. Jack starts shutting down and falling down the rabbit hole in the exact same moment that the other losties ask for his help because water supply is running dangerously low. They look at him like those people looked at Christian during the operation and what does Jack do? He says: “I’m not deciding anything” and runs off into the forest following his white rabbit: the figure of his dead father.

to be continued!!!

[w1ng3dw01f]

After seeing Sawyer read Watership Down in episode 7, this asshole's likability to one of my friends has significantly increased.

AS IT SHOULD

[lostallcaps-podcast]

Ariel is nothing if not predictable (and the shaky cam sucks)

[realisaonum]

Proper Motivation - Michael Giacchino, Lost Season 1

[ouroboobos]

Also the thing with Sayid torturing Sawyer.... sorry but you deliberately (wrongfully) led everyone to believe that you were withholding lifesaving medicine from a girl who was dying. Out of malice. For no reason. And refused to give it to anyone when they repeatedly tried to get it from you. And then you're gonna act like you're a victim when people get desperate enough to try and force it from you. Not to mention that in all the time you spent fucking with everyone they could have been looking for it somewhere else? Idc about your broody grown man drama whyyy would you do that to a 20 year old girl suffering from life-threatening asthma attacks.

[miumiu-grl]

Lost Watch Diary: Season 1 Episode 3:

Probably the most boring episode so far. I think I genuinely don't care about Kate, (I know she's a MAJOR character, I'm not saying I hate her I just DONT CARE) so this episode wasn't my favorite out of the three I've watched so far- lol. So my predictions from the first episode were true (click here for my first post) Kate will do anything to survive, but she's the sort that feels bad about it. I think these sort of characters are what remind me that I'm watching a show that's about 20 years old. We were so moralistic in the early 2000's. All villains had a reason for being the way that they were, and if they didn't they simply weren't human at all. I agree with Jack not wanting to know what Kate did. You're stranded on an island with strangers, there's bound to be people that have done bad things and there's no point in dwelling on it especially if you're one of the few that know that the distress call has been repeating for 16 years.

I hope John Locke gets more screen time soon. He spent the majority of the episode building a whistle for Walt's dog and he still let Michael take the credit for finding him despite Michael being suspicious and (I think) jealous of his ability to talk to Walt. He's been supremely quiet so far, but he seems pensive and resourceful. Also Walt is so cute to me I know he's 11 but he has such a baby face I love him.

The moment where Jin-soo is smoothing the hair from Sun-hwa's face changed my perspective on their relationship. At first I thought Jin-soo was abusive, and although it wasn't a very long moment, it is clear to me that they love each other (tenderly) and that his attitude might simply be cultural. Korean culture is all about honor and presentability-fitting into the social norms and it's hard to let go of decades of social teachings especially if you can't have a conversation with the people around you. Of course, for someone who grew up in the West's desire for freedom, you'd see their relationship as toxic and oppressive but for them, it may simply be how it's supposed to be. I hope I'm right, I think they wouldn't have shown this moment if it didn't show you something about Jin-soo's and Sun-hwa's character. I did see some tension between Michael and Sun-hwa though that might've been the naked girl thing. But I hope that instead of breaking up, Sun-hwa (especially) and Jin-soo find a freedom from social expectations that allows their marriage to thrive.

[jollymalt]

i am manifesting a meet-up