like a cat on a hot tin roof

• And the saga of the radio receiver begins!
• A Charlie flashback already?! 
• Who else initially tuned into the pilot for Dominic Monaghan?
• Heroin in his shoe. Ah, the days before removing your shoes at the airport.
• Shannon: “They’re coming.” 
• THE OTHERS ARE COMING.
• THE OTHERS DON’T EVEN EXIST YET.
• OMG.
• “God’s freaking gift to humanity.” Shannon was definitely quotable, we must give her that.
• “Have you seen my boy?” ALREADY?! JESUS CHRIST.
• Who else shipped Sun/Michael? Before we knew how cute Sun/Jin were, I was all over that.
• Handcuffs. THE PLOT THICKENS.
• Sawyer and Sayid are fighting. I forgot this happened. Pretty hot.
• I know that it’s part of Sawyer’s whole “I want everyone to hate me” thing to say stupid racist shit, but still. It sucks. 
• Annnd I think that was Sawyer’s first nickname! Just called Hurley “Lardo.”
• I’m not quite sure Hurley knows what the Republican Guard is.
• Gratuitous Kate in her Undies Scene. Because why not.
• SAYID/BATTERIES OTP.
• Kate is so concerned about the poor shrapnel man. HMM I WONDER WHY.
• OH WOW JACK IS ALREADY TELLING KATE NOT TO GO INTO THE JUNGLE. HOW NOT SURPRISING.
• And to run if she sees or hears anything. Thank you for the spectacular advice, Captain Obvious.
• This Hurley/Jin scene is pretty adorable.
• POLAR BEAR. IN THE COMIC BOOK. FORESHADOWING!!!
• Michael is trying so hard to be a good dad and I love him for it. I’m a Michael apologist. 
• SHANNON HAS BEEN THROUGH A TRAUMA, OKAY.
• I love how Shannon immediately recognizes Charlie as her equal in uselessness, which therefore validates her desire to go on the hike.
• Sawyer is looking moody and mournful.
• HE’S A COMPLEX GUY, SWEETHEART. One of my favorite lines. HE REALLY IS COMPLEX.
• THEORY: Sawyer was a huge douchenozzle in season 1 because he probs ran out of cigarettes real quick and forced nicotine withdrawal makes you a moody bitch.
• The backgammon scene occurs 23 minutes into this episode, just so everyone knows. 
• “Two players. Two sides. One is light. One is dark. Walt, do you want to know a secret?”
• EPIC EPIC EPIC.
• Jin feeling the baby kick is so adorable. He’s so uncomfortable with this.
• HE DOESN’T WANT TO WASTE THE BATTERIES, DAMN IT, SAWYER.
• POLAR BEEEEEEAAAR.
• That fucking bear is still the worst fx work this show has ever done.
• He had to shoot that thing like six times. Sawyer really does have bad vision.
• If I had a giant metal thing stuck in my chest, I would probably ask to be shot before jungle surgery was performed on me.
• It could not have been that hard to find someone who doesn’t faint at the sight of blood, Jack. You could have let Hurley off the hook.
• BEAR VILLAGE. Y’ALL DON’T EVEN KNOW.
• Hmm, Kate is very interested in this marshal discussion. I WONDER WHY.
• Kate pretends not to know how to use a gun. She’s good.
• Oooh I didn’t realize the “Kate as prisoner” reveal happened early. I thought it wasn’t until her first flashback.
• I have NIGHTMARES about the marshal getting hit with that suitcase and the blood gushing from his head, I swear to God.
• I love when Naveen’s British accent slips through. IT GIVES ME FEELINGS.
• ACK. THIS SCENE. ACK.
• “The French are coming!”
• “I’m alone now. On the island alone. Please someone come. The others, they’re … they’re dead. It killed them. It killed them all.” 
• SHIIIIITTTTT.
• SIXTEEN.
• MOTHERFUCKING.
• YEARS.
• “Guys … where are we?”
• SHIT’S GETTING REAL.

I’m on Pilot: Part 2, I might do one more tonight as well if I’m feeling up to it.

OK, LOST rewatch is being postponed until tomorrow, or maybe very, very late tonight.

staying-palindromic replied to your post: Pilot, Part 1

lol do they ever explain the polar bears? I know they explained the smoke monster, but I’m still confused about the polar bears? Also, Jack is the worst. Sawyer is the Daryl Dixon of Lost.

YES, they do! 

I definitely have a type, and that type is Sawyer/Daryl/The Beast.

melusines replied to your post: Pilot, Part 1

I love that you hate Jack. I love it when anyone hates Jack. I feed on Jack hate. It nourishes my soul.

SWEET, SWEET JACK HATE.

bookling-stormborn replied to your post: Pilot, Part 1

srsly with the smoke monster. JUST LET THERE BE WEIRD SHIT ON THE ISLAND. it’s cool!

YES.

THAT IS MY BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH THE LAST TWO SEASONS.

SHIT WAS SO MUCH BETTER UNEXPLAINED.

I DIDN’T NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GIANT CORK OR WHATEVER.

I DIDN’T NEED TO KNOW WHERE THE DONKEY WHEEL CAME FROM.

I CERTAINLY DIDN’T NEED TO KNOW THAT MOMMY DIDN’T LOVE JACOB ENOUGH.

• Jack’s tie is really ugly.
• Matthew Fox got so much more attractive as the show went on. The extra half inch of hair growth did wonders for him.
• Jack is really lucky he didn’t Daryl Dixon himself on a bamboo shoot.
• That slow pan over the beach with the engine and screams in the background, and then Jack diving into the chaos of the crash, still gives me chills.
• None of these people are important and we were never see them again.
• DAMN, MICHAEL WAS ALREADY SCREAMING FOR WALT THIS EARLY IN THE SERIES.
• Charlie is stoned as fuck.
• This guy with the leg: foreshadowing Boone?
• Locke is walking :’)
• Shannon standing there screaming is great.
• Nope, still don’t like Jack. He didn’t have to be so mean and dismissive to Boone. He was trying to help.
• Charlie: still stoned as fuck. When the piece of plane lands behind him he’s like, “FUCK, WHAT NOW, METEORS?”
• Where is Sayid.
• Ugh, I don’t care about your feelings, Jack.
• Boone and the pens :(:(:(:( at least Jack wasn’t an asshole this time.
• I wasn’t a huge Boone fangirl at the time, but now that I think about it, it was pretty interesting to make such an attractive actor basically play a loser. If only Shannon had been fleshed out to more than one-dimensional pretty girl before her death episode…
• A WILD KATE APPEARS.
• How did that little bottle not break in his pocket?
• SAWYER.
• SAWYER.
• SAWYER IS ON SCREEN.
• He lights that cigarette like Don fucking Draper. 
• (Matthew Fox is a charisma void and Josh Holloway has more expressive capability in one eyebrow. I will never be swayed. HATERS TO THE LEFT.)
• Sayid! You’re so practical and capable and sexy. 
• ANGEL HAIR PASTA. MMMMM.
• They faked us out so good with the whole Jin/Sun dynamic. 
• God, stop being so hateful, Shannon.
• Hurley, you precious little bean :’)
• I liked Michael and Walt. Their background and hurt feelings felt real and Harold Perrineau is awesome.
• Jack, you don’t know shit. Stop trying to explain everything.
• THE TAIL. THE TAAAAIILL. 
• He doesn’t know all that, Kate. 
• NOISES IN THE JUNGLE, Y’ALL.
• Charlie’s like, “THAT’S NOT IN MY HEAD, RIGHT?”
• I wish the Smoke Monster could have just been … a smoke monster. It was so much cooler before we knew it was some angry demi-god.
• Cindy the flight attendant! Those commercials she’s in always freak me out. THAT INTERNET COMPANY IS A FRONT FOR THE OTHERS, I’M CONVINCED.
• Aw, Rose. And Locke is sitting right behind her. How did none of you people realize he was in a wheelchair?!
• The plane crash is HARROWING. Every time they show it, it looks worse. So frightening.
• Kate taking off the dead guy’s shoes. Giacchino strings. FEELINGS.
• Followed by Locke trying to make her smile with the orange peel and coming off odd and creepy. Classic. MORE FEELINGS.
• No one appointed you, Jack. You can’t just boss people around and tell them to stay or go or not to come with you when you go for a hike. Jerk.
• LOL KATE HAS A FRIEND. HER NAME IS BETH AND SHE’S AN IMAGINARY HORSE.
• Locke is already becoming one with the Island.
• This shit is scary. Fuselage full o’ bodies. Creepy as fuck.
• Greg Grunberg! You’re alive! For a minute or so!
• A thousand miles off course. YOU HAD ONE JOB, GREG.
• “Where’s Charlie?” Hm, perhaps in the loo, finishing what he left of his stash, because he is a heroin addict.
• Pro tip: don’t fly first class.
• Evangeline Lily does terrified very well. That was the face of a painful bowel movement.
• Get away from windows, you morons!
• Aaaaaaand through the window he goes.
• I probably would have left Charlie’s ass behind. So points to Jack for going back.
• Get it together, girl. C’mon now.
• This whole sequence reminds me so much of the scene with the T-Rex in the rain in Jurassic Park.
• Did Charlie actually see the Monster? Seems like it. If he did, I don’t think that was ever mentioned again.
• HE’S IN THE TREE, Y’ALL.
• GREG GRUNBERG.
• IN THE MOTHAFUCKING TREE.

• Honestly, I don’t know if I’m emotionally prepared to watch this show again.
• I’m afraid I’m not going to like the things I loved before.
• Or worse, WHAT IF I LIKE JACK OR SOMETHING?