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The advert that made me started watching LOST...
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The day was the 10th of August 2005. LOST Season 1 had started in Britain. I never knew I would be hooked to a TV show like this and I really didn't think about it!
Lets start of why I started to watch it. Everyone should be aware of the famous UK promo for LOST. I saw it when flicking through the channels. I flicked over to Channel 4 and saw some people dancing around on a beach. I was and still am a major Lord Of The Rings fan and when I saw Dominic Monaghan in the advert, I had to watch it. Many magazines had articles wrote how good it was but I never paid much attention to it. Soon as I knew it the Pilot aired.
The notorious opening of the eye at the start of the Pilot, made me open my eyes to the possibilities that could come out of this show. I started watching it week after week, after week...and got hooked! I kept watching the next episode which aired straight after the previous episode was shown. I was going to sleep very late for just a TV show. Was this the start to my obsessession? As soon as the finale was displayed on TV, I was part of 'The Fuselage', a...
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***WARNING: SPOILERS FOR NOV 1ST EP. LIE AHEAD***
Lost is known for killing characters that you might not expect to die. I understand this, and have always taken it in stride. Why? Because every death has seemed to be for a reason. They served the story. Other shows kill characters off during sweeps just for the ratings effect, but not Lost.
Not until tonight....
If there was a good reason why Eko died, I'd like to know what it is. If there was a reason other than a ratings grab in the middle of Fall Sweeps, I'd like to know.
Eko was a fascinating character to me, but it wasn't his death alone that upset me. If he had died to further the story, I could accept that.
But, the fact that the episode was promoted as one in which a major character died, coupled with the leaked information from the show's creators along the same lines, makes me think otherwise.
The death of Eko seemed to exist only to make the viewers shocked at his death. The means and manner of his death seemed almost random. His character was more important than that to me, and I thought his character deserved more.
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The episodes title comes from the statement made by a TV news reporter. "Oceanic Flight 815 did, in fact, crash at sea," but says the discovery does not offer any sense of closure. All of the passengers are "confirmed dead."
We meet four new characters:
In Essex, Massachusetts, Daniel Faraday weeps as he watches a news report about the discovery on television. A woman (his wife, as indicated by her ring) asks why he is crying. He replies that he does not know.
In Inglewood, California a man drives up to a house while listening to the radio. A reporter on the radio says that it was the "worst case scenario" and a rescue mission is unlikely because of how deep it is. The various pictures they have of the wreckage prove that "all 324 passengers are confirmed dead." The man gets a briefcase out of his trunk and goes to the door. When Mrs. Gardner opens the door he announces himself as Miles Straume.
In Medenine, Tunisia, a blonde woman picks up a French newspaper that says that Flight 815 has been recovered. Her friend asks, "How many different languages do you have to read it in to believe it?" She quips, "How many different...
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