Re Watched Season One

[Trekker4747]

I just got done re-watching Season One on DVD and I standby comments I made in an earlier thread of mine that Season One was their best season, engrossing and just damn awesome.

Lots of good stuff has happened between now and then, but there's just something about Season One that just owns a bit of awesomeness and what's came sense then nothing has lived up to it just short of the opening of Season 2, which is Lost's biggest and yet to be rivalled since Mama Cass sung "Make Your Own Kind of Music" and was rudly interupted.

Lost is still a great, great, fantastic show. But Season One just remains, simply, awesome.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I agree. I feel the same way about Lost's first season as I do about 24's. While the shows have had some great seasons afterwards, nothing rivals the first one. For both of these shows, I was on the edge of my seat every week. I could hardly contain my excitement and curiosity. Lost is still great, but I don't watch it like that anymore.

 

[Trekker4747]

I agree. I feel the same way about Lost's first season as I do about 24's. While the show has had some great seasons afterwards, nothing rivals the first one. For both of these shows, I was on the edge of my seat every week. I could hardly contain my excitement and curiosity. Lost is still great, but I don't watch it like that anymore.

Yeah. I was wowed, awed, and on the edge of my seat every week in the first season of Lost (and when I watched the first season of 24 on DVD) but when I watch the later seasons it's "good" back lacks a certain punch.

I respect and understand they had to tell us more and more, The Others, what was in the hatch, the tailies, etc. But, unfortuantly in giving some of the mystery the mystery is lost. The others aren't nearly as intimidating now as they were back when they were a rugged and rough looking bunch piloting a reef-runner.

Lost is still a very good, very intriguing show but it's missing a LOT of spark it had back then. It's still good, just a different good.

Also, I realize now how ultimately pointless the flashbacks were. Does anyone even remember, care, or does it even matter that Kate and an ex beau of hers burried a little trinket plane? Or the deal with Claire and the psychic? Saied working to bust a friend/terrorist. Sawyer killing whom he thought was "the Real Sawyer", I mean yes, all of this plays into their characters and some of the "bigger" mysteries but it seems a lot was filler and fluff. Watching all of these flashbacks it kind of stuck me how little all of it "really" means and how much filler it feels like, now.

But, I guess, in the end it gives a lot of depth into these characters that couldn't be gained any other way.

Fantastic season of any series out there.

 

[Mr Light]

I think the later seasons blow the orig out of the water.

In S1 everybody just stood around on the beach doing nothing, the Island plots were almost always worthless and do-nothing. Also, at this point the Island wasn't terribly interesting or developed, it was empty, then it had one crazy chick, then it had a nebulous threat who didn't even appear again until the finale. Somehow they manage to never discover any evidence of Dharma despite the Island being littered with their buildings, roads, a van with a dead dude who was right next to their camp but didn't get found until S3, etc. And the flashbacks were only interesting to learn who that character is, and then quickly became repetitive and unnecessary.

Not to mention that huge 'F U' cliffhanger ending!

 

[KLOEN]

Well, a couple of friends of mine have recently started on the show, borrowing my DVDs and watching almost an entire season over the course of a weekend.

Now, I don't know if it's because the general idea behind Lost has leaked out into general pop culture, or if it's because they didn't have to wait week after week for new episodes - but the whole hatch mystery wasn't all that mysterious to them.
I remember being mind-blown by the fact that there was a hatch on the island. It was like: "Holy f****** Christ, what is this. It makes no sense.. MUSt. WATCH. MORE:"

My friends were more like: "Oh look, somebody build something on the island. Meh.."

 

[gh4chiefs]

It's funny how people look at the same things in such different ways. For me, I thought the introduction of the hatch changed the show and not in a good way. That doesn't mean I haven't enjoyed it off and on since the hatch, but it just had a different feel for me after that time.

Kind of like season 2 of Jericho. Same characters, same setting, but almost like a different show.

 

[Trekker4747]

My friends were more like: "Oh look, somebody build something on the island. Meh.."

Maybe your friends shouldn't smoke pot while watching Lost.

Because, I would think that finding a hatch/man-made structure on a deserted island would be mindblowing. Feh- Kids these days!

 

[Agent Richard07]

I respect and understand they had to tell us more and more, The Others, what was in the hatch, the tailies, etc. But, unfortuantly in giving some of the mystery the mystery is lost.

If they kept all this in the dark, we'd see even more complaints about how we're being strung along and never get answers.

 

[Trekker4747]

I respect and understand they had to tell us more and more, The Others, what was in the hatch, the tailies, etc. But, unfortuantly in giving some of the mystery the mystery is lost.

If they kept all this in the dark, we'd see even more complaints about how we're being strung along and never get answers.

Agreed. That's the Catch-22 of it.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Well, a couple of friends of mine have recently started on the show, borrowing my DVDs and watching almost an entire season over the course of a weekend.

Now, I don't know if it's because the general idea behind Lost has leaked out into general pop culture, or if it's because they didn't have to wait week after week for new episodes - but the whole hatch mystery wasn't all that mysterious to them.
I remember being mind-blown by the fact that there was a hatch on the island. It was like: "Holy f****** Christ, what is this. It makes no sense.. MUSt. WATCH. MORE:"

My friends were more like: "Oh look, somebody build something on the island. Meh.."

It must have been because they knew about it before they saw it. Because the scene in which Locke and Boone uncovered something metal right below the ground was an utter shock to me. Until then, the implication was that the Island was this place outside of civilization or maybe reality. (At the time I wondered if it were a buried submarine or something left over from WWII.)

The Hatch definitely changed the show. Until then, I was expecting it to be about survival in a place with absolutely nothing but jungle and wild animals. The Hatch introduced the idea that humans had already been there and built things. I wasn't upset that the show was going in a new direction, but it definitely was new. Now that everyone's been yakking about it, the surprise is long gone.

And I still think this season is as good as any that's come before. It was fun back when I didn't have the first notion what was going on, but it's also fun now that we're getting some reasonable answers or at least narrowing down of possibilities.

 

[Jack Bauer]

When Locke tossed the flashlight to Boone and he dropped it and it hit the hatch that was one of the biggest jaw droppers of the first season. Seeing that little bit of the hatch was a big WTF? It wasn't as awesome as the reveal of Locke in the wheelchair but it was still great.

 

[Dream]

I've been rewatching season one too. The show really seems small in the first season since much of it's mythology hasn't been developed yet. The flashbacks are the most interesting out of all the seasons.

But the show really isn't the same without Ben.

The first season is my second favorite right after season three. Lost definately started out very strongly as a show. I think season four is shaping out to be the best season yet.

 

[Starbreaker]

The first season is intense. The fact that they spent a whole 24 episodes trying to figure out just what the hell was going on and came to no conclusions is amazing.

 

[CrazyMaryT]

But the show really isn't the same without Ben

I totally feel the same. I always loved the show since the beginning. It was so different and had so many characters I yearned to know more about but I never felt like recording it or picking up the DVD's. Now once Ben showed up my like turned to obsession. Much to my husband's chagrin I got season 3 and have watched some type of Lost almost every day since Dec. I do have season 1 finally but I'm not pouring through it like I did with season 3.

Having all the series on DVD though does make the rewatch much better. It's a novel and you can breeze thru the chapters effortlessly. No hiatus' to wait through.

 

[Dream]

But the show really isn't the same without Ben

I totally feel the same. I always loved the show since the beginning. It was so different and had so many characters I yearned to know more about but I never felt like recording it or picking up the DVD's. Now once Ben showed up my like turned to obsession. Much to my husband's chagrin I got season 3 and have watched some type of Lost almost every day since Dec. I do have season 1 finally but I'm not pouring through it like I did with season 3.

I think that the only thing the first season lacked was a charismatic villain like Ben (Ethan was pretty much written as a one note monster at the time). The best thing season two did was to bring in Michael Emerson.

 

[CrazyMaryT]

But the show really isn't the same without Ben

I totally feel the same. I always loved the show since the beginning. It was so different and had so many characters I yearned to know more about but I never felt like recording it or picking up the DVD's. Now once Ben showed up my like turned to obsession. Much to my husband's chagrin I got season 3 and have watched some type of Lost almost every day since Dec. I do have season 1 finally but I'm not pouring through it like I did with season 3.

I think that the only thing the first season lacked was a charismatic villain like Ben (Ethan was pretty much written as a one note monster at the time). The best thing season two did was to bring in Michael Emerson.

Michael Emerson is the man. I can't imagine the series without him.

 

[sidious618]

See, now I've felt that the series has gotten better and better each season. Season One was good but had a number of real stinkers (the Kate one with the airplace especially).

 

[Trekker4747]

So I'm now re-watching Season Two.

I have to chuckle a bit that -early on- they Hatchers allow the timer to tick very close to zero and there's no ill effect. Seems like much later on (and with Desmond's later flashback) all hell breaks loose when it gets to be under a minute.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

But the show really isn't the same without Ben.

Ben and Desmond have really changed the show to a huge degree. Juliet as well, to some extent.

 

[Rowan Sjet]

Been a while since I last saw season 2, but I thought things only got screwy after 0. The only thing that happened between 60 seconds and 0 was the Alarm getting louder.