Lost: Season 1, Episode 1

Pilot: Part 1 (22 Sep. 2004)

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Forty-eight survivors of an airline flight originating from Australia, bound for the U.S., which crash-lands onto an unknown island 1000 miles off course, struggle to figure out a way to survive, why trying to find a way to be rescued.

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Following a horrific plane crash, 48 survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California, USA find themselves on an uncharted tropical island in the South Pacific Ocean which is full of secrets, as they come to learn. The first day on the island is full of monsters, countdowns, screams, stories of the past and an unfolding love story between the quick-thinking Jack Shepherd, a doctor, and the level-headed Kate Austen, a mysterious young woman. Jack, Kate and Charlie, a British former rock music player and heroin junkie, venture into the jungle to locate the pilot cockpit to find the transponder and come up against a mysterious and unseen island "beast." Other survivors with mysterious pasts are introduced who are the mysterious Sayid, an Iraqi with personal demons; the bumblingly awkward Hurley; the determined John Locke; Sawyer is an unpleasant and unfriendly self-serving swindler and sociopath whom tests everyone's patience; Claire Littleton is a very ... Written by JohnnyDtheLost

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Matthew Fox's dilating pupil in the opening shot was achieved through digital effects. See more »

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Rose is not wearing her husband's wedding ring around her neck as she later says she always does when they are flying. See more »

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Jack: You can do this, I'm telling you... If you don't mind.
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not simply a sign of things to come, but one of the great pilots
24 May 2009 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

The opening of LOST is about as disorientating as anything in the past ten years of cinema or film-making. If it were, indeed, a student film it would be praised to the sky as something almost without comparison. But since it's JJ Abrams, it's just the start of the ride, as Jack (Fox) wakes up in a jungle, perplexed, stumbling, and in one very long take Abrams tracks along on a beach as Jack passes by the wreckage of a plane crash and everyone else running for cover this way and that. It's a spectacular action sequence filmed with a lot of energy and violence, but keeping it within the range for an ABC television show. We're also introduced to (some of) the characters, and the start of the spooky, uncertain mood that will pervade the show as a whole.

It's clever, wickedly engaging writing that keeps up moving from the immense nightmare of the plane crash to the 'what-do-we-do-next' feeling of the dozens of people on the beach, looking to Jack since he is a) a doctor, and b) a natural leader. It's one half of a pilot that sucks you in just based on the prowess of the storytelling and the sucking-you-in factor of the actors, who are all top-notch- especially the ones (i.e. Evangeline Lilly, Jorge Garcia, Terry O'Quinn, for me Matthew Fox) one hasn't heard before. It's further great that there will be more to come just in the second half. The pilot of Lost function as a mix of action and excitement, tragedy and velocity, and the inklings of a Twin Peaks style surrealism.


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