"Lost" Pilot: Part 2 (2004)

User Rating:

9.2/10   

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (story) and
J.J. Abrams (story) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

29 September 2004 (Season 1, Episode 2)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

Jack, Kate and Charlie return to the group, but the transceiver is broken. Sayid Jarrah fixes the apparatus and organizes an expedition with Kate...

Plot Keywords:

Mysterious Island | Swimming In Underwear | Mysterious Plane Crash | Labrador Retriever | Plane Crash

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Maggie Grace	...	Shannon Rutherford
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Malcolm David Kelley	...	Walt Lloyd
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Harold Perrineau	...	Michael Dawson
Ian Somerhalder	...	Boone Carlyle
Fredric Lehne	...	Marshal Edward Mars (as Fredric Lane)

Runtime:

40 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Korean | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:15 | Portugal:M/12 | USA:TV-14 | Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

O`ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

The comic book that Walt reads is Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends #1, published by DC Comics, and a polar bear really appears in it.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the flashback sequences for both the pilot and the finale, different characters are meant to be traveling through different sections of the plane, although it appears that, with the exception of business class, the same section was used for filming but with different people. This becomes a problem when spoken lines referring to seat numbers as well as the footage from right before the crash doesn't match at all to the boarding footage in the finale.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Charlie: [as Jack fiddles with the transceiver] Anything?
Jack: You keep asking if there's anything.
Charlie: Pardon me for appearing desperate, but before the pilot was *ripped* from the cockpit, he did say that no one's going to find us unless we get that transceiver working. So... is there anything?
Jack: No.
Charlie: Okay.

great pilots part 2: plane and transmission

This continues JJ Abrams' triumphant directorial job. We see here much more mystery open up, on all fronts: what happened to the pilot? What the hell is that monster? What's with the polar bear? Who is that French lady saying there's great danger and everyone's dead and that it's been going on for 16 years? What is this place? If this pilot didn't go on for the rest of the series, which is a moot point perhaps but one to raise, it would be such an insane, confounding but endlessly wonderful piece of fantasy-fiction that it would keep everyone wondering. The point in a lot of science fiction is to raise questions, and not always answer then definitely or even at all, and Lost does this on top of doing something that is great in fantasy and mystery lore which is opening up the space of genre to develop characters in a kind of satirical or 'statement' setting. Lost is never too blunt with the preachiness, but it does have its moments where one recognizes "yeah, this is a melting pot", and Abrams, Lindelof and team milk all of the potential elements of mystery, of social statements, and makes it all unique.

This is a great pilot. Check it out if you haven't, or check it out again if you're a 5th season die-hard burn-out on the show who is so wrapped up in the current conundrums that you may have forgotten how it started in the first place. Polar bear, monster screams, freaky radio transmissions, rinse, repeat. At the least, you'll get "You All Everybody" in your head for days on end.