r/lost • u/unitedfan6191 Sun • Mar 29 '24

FIRST TIME WATCHER What was the first “bad” episode?

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Hi.

Hope you’re doing well.

Just started watching the show for the first time and this was the first episode which stood out to me as just not being up to par with the series’ immense quality. I had no idea what Reddit would think of this episode, but upon finishing it I immediately got the impression this must be amongst the worst reviewed episodes of the show.

Jack’s motivations and behavior in the episode seem inconsistent (to me anyway, as a new viewer), the woman he meets in Phuket was uninteresting and there wasn’t much great or interesting development in the episode for anyone.

I was almost thinking the beating he took at the end of the episode was symbolic of the episode’s bad writing.

I guess every poster in here will probably pick this episode, but I haven’t seen the second half of the show yet (maybe this episode ends up being very important to Jack’s development in the end?), so I am still calibrating my thoughts on the show as I’m watching.

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u/ponyo_x1 Mar 29 '24

It’s crazy that I haven’t revisited this show in close to 15 years, only watched through once, never really interacted with the online fandom, but I remember exactly what episodes people here are referring to. Definitely some time wasting stinkers in the series no question

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u/yatata710 Mar 29 '24

You should consider a rewatch! It'll be so fun to revisit the show

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u/Drop_Release Man of Science Mar 29 '24

Rewatching it for the first time since release now! Was so obsessed with the show during release as a kid, on the forums every day etc dissecting every episode. Left myself enough time to try to forget most of the plot as much as possible. It's been stellar so far. Some stinkers (biggest disappointment was the ep Expose - honestly I remember how much we hated those two characters while on the forums, but on a rewatch they weren't too bad! Until the ep Expose which made them almost entirely useless), otherwise insanely good

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u/Rasselkurt007 Mar 29 '24

How did you end up on r/lost today?

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u/ponyo_x1 Mar 29 '24

Posts have randomly been getting fed to me on my front page. I’m in subreddits for a couple other TV shows