IN RETROSPECT: Pilot Part 1

Who knew eye contact would be such a big thing in this show? The first thing we see in the Pilot are Jack's eyes. Opening the show this way has been a reoccurring custom. So why the eyes??? The eyes are sometimes called "the windows to a mans soul". In this facet, many of the flashback episodes at some point in time focus in on the eyes of the character having the flashback. Each flashback lets us learn more about that particular character, what they've done, and how they were in the past. Thus, giving us a glimpse of their soul in a sense.



WHAT?!?! A DOG?!?!?! How did he get here? Vincent the dog was who we saw next. I still think that their is more to this dog then meets the eye. He was right at Jack's side just moments after the plane crash. He was in a cage, wasn't he? I would love to see his flashback.


(Note: This isn't the best retrospect review, but there is better to come...I promise....just maybe not this particular retro review. :) )

Jack's Every body's Hero

Jack's heroism is established immediately when he runs to the aid of the crash survivors. Re watching this scene sent chills down my spine. So many of the main characters were introduced in this scene, in less then 30 seconds.

Who could forget the story Jack shared with Kate? Well, I did until just recently whenever Jack referred to it in I Do. He tells of his experience doing surgery on a girl when things go wrong. He tells her how he let fear do its thing, but only for 5 seconds. He counted to five and then he went back to work. Kate, since then, has taken this method of facing her fears. When being chased by smokey, when going down the hatch, and when being held captive. She stops and counts to five and then goes on.

It didn't take the survivors long to realize that they were not alone. How interesting it is that three seasons later we are still finding out that this island has had many visitors and many occupants over the years. When I first saw the trees moving I thought of King Kong and Mighty Joe Young, but this creature is far from any over sized ape. The mystery of Smokey lives on. Of course we are to assume that it was Smokey moving the trees that first night, at least lets hope. Let us also hope that it was Smokey that pulled the pilot from the cockpit. I've never seen Smokey kill anything, save for Mr. Eko and that's it. It seems that it was judging Mr. Eko, but the pilot had done nothing. Why did it kill the pilot???

HAPPENINGS ELSEWHERE

That same day, Others were taking in their share of the action as well. A small community of people watched as the plane broke apart in the air. Ben would send two people to each part of the crash, Ethan and Goodwin. Afterwards Juliet would take a walk with Ben and see her sister, alive and well on a screen in Mikhails station.
Desmond is in the hatch just after forgetting to push the button, which we think caused the crash. He had been out spying on the resident button pusher and then murdered him.

Hmmm...thats interesting.


We can't forget that the Tailsection of the plane was also having their own struggles, but their is a whole episode devoted to that, so lets continue with the pilot.

Strangers in a Strange Land
Our crash survivors didn't know it then, but rescue wasn't coming and they didn't know that they would be in this strange land for longer then they hoped, at least some of them anyway. A land that has more mysteries than the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, or Boxcar Children could ever handle. The end of this episode shows a very dead, very bloody pilot hanging in a tree and then we cut to LOST.

So that is my retro review for this episode. I do apologize as I know it wasn't really much of any type of retro review, but I know there are many more episodes between now and the end of season 2, so I have a chance to redeem myself. Thanks for reading!

NAMASTE and GOOD LUCK!

CF