TalkingApes

I’ll admit it. I’m a LOSTaholic. It’s easily my favorite show of all time. My wife and I have watched every episode at least twice.

Tom, I can’t get him into it. That’s his problem.

You can read ABC.com’s official overview HERE. I’m not going to type up a recap. What I am going to do is use this to chronicle things that I notice while re-watching the episodes a few years later and try to tie them into things we know now, 5 years later or so.

If you haven’t seen this episode and don’t want me to spoil anything for you, don’t read any further.

Jack awakens in the jungle, by himself (sort of), in bamboo
How the guy didn’t get impaled is beyond me, but he managed to both not die in a plane crash and escape with a couple scratches on his face and a gash on his back. Consider him lucky. Still, why was he in the jungle? Did he land there, or was he put there by someone? I suspect we’ll find that out in the future. Also note Walt’s dog, Vincent, is running around without a scratch and scares the crap out of Jack as he awakens from “blacking out” as the plane crashed. Why weren’t there other people in bamboo?

As Jack runs to the beach, there is a single white shoe hanging on a tree. Is that significant in any way?

Smoke Monster
We didn’t know what the smoke monster was back then, but we do now. Note the noises it makes: Growling, mechanical … like a drawbridge lowering. If you listen closely you’ll notice that Rose says “That noise sounds familiar”. Also notable, the pilot of the plane is the same guy that plays Parkman on “Heroes”.

But why didn’t the smoke monster eat Jack, Kate or Charlie? We’ve seen it tear some folks up over the course of the last couple seasons. Is this inconsistency from the writers or is it something more?

Familiarity
And adding to Rose’s recollection of the noise of the monster, Kate tells Charlie that he looks familiar. He plays it off as him being famous, as he is the base player for “Drive Shaft” (You all everybody!). But is it more than that?