Lost, S1 ep1-3

Floro's Late to the Party Reviews - Lost

I finally decided to do this thing because it had been sitting on my Netflix queue for a long enough time. I figured I could catch up to the popular TV culture of 2004. I've managed to go this long without hearing anything critical that really stuck, and I'd like to keep it that way so shut up.

I'll post my working theories and commentary about the show here. I hope it brings back memories for the rest of you, and mostly it gives me a way to keep track of what's going on.

So far, in the first three episodes we have a T-Rex terrorizing an island of plane crash survivors that includes:

• A drug addict hobbit
• A girl who has no concept of what being that pregnant does to a person
• The girl from Taken and Lockout as a whiny useless party girl who did find her bikini in tact among the corpses.
• That guy from Vampire Diaries as the dumb brother of said girl
• That cop from all of those shows as a soon to be dead air marshal who was bringing the fugitive
• Future minor role girl friend in Real Steel and The Hurt Locker as tough hot leader chick with a dark past and a reason to stand in her underwear for some plot point I'm sure they'll create eventually (they'll have to explain it, or keep doing it. Either way works for me). She could use several sandwiches, and would likely die from starvation considering the only food I've seen are some left over plane meals, an apple-like fruit, and some possible sushi made by...
• The asian cop from the remake of Hawaii Five-O, only he doesn't speak English
• That guy from Heroes who told the future (though Lost is before there was Heroes) as the pilot that gets eaten by a T-Rex which is potentially a massive polar bear. Because they already killed...
• A CGI polar bear that changed into a stuffed animal covered in ketchup (yay pilot episodes with no budget)
• Some guy getting sucked into an engine because they totally had to do that
• Oh, and some of the absolute worst fake CPR in the history of captured footage. At least they tried to make shaky-cam jump cuts to distract me, unlike Scrubs or A Sound of Thunder.

Also, Hurley is immediately loveable and I get why everyone wants the best for him. I also like that the dog has more episode credits than a third of the series, so I think it's safe to assume that Hurley and the dog are the heroes of the story.

He's not this bad ass yet

Probably going to outlive at least 1 of these humans

My current theory is the island is either a secret lab that would've made for a better Jurassic Park 4, a dream that Vincent the dog is having, or it's a 6 season long rendition of The Sixth Sense. There's some similarities between Jack and Bruce Willis in the first episode, and things are weird enough to make this happen. And if you haven't seen The Sixth Sense yet, I won't spoil it for you here. There. Now we're even. Don't say I never did anything for you.

OK so that's 3 down and...114 to go?! Awwwww what? How did you people make it through this 1 week at a time? No wonder everyone was so rabid about it. I don't even know how they're going to continue for another 4 episodes without killing off half the cast or making this all Lord of the Flies. Guess I'll find out.