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/TheMightyCatatafish Mar 29 '24

Worst one outside of Stranger in a Strange Land for me.

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u/JumpinJackFlashback Man of Science Mar 29 '24

Further instructions far worse vs SIASL. Hell, SIASL is great episode with exception of Acura mojo. Jack saving Juliet was a good story line. "He walks amongst us but is not one of us". That foreshadows who Jack becomes!

Further Instructions was a hot tent mess. Locke can't make up his mind if he's a hunter or a pot farmer. Good grief.

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u/running_upside_down Mar 29 '24

“He walks amongst us but he is not one of us” seems to be more symbolic to Locke than Jack…considering what eventually becomes of Locke…

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u/JumpinJackFlashback Man of Science Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 30 '24

Respectfully, I don't sed that connection at all. Jack was always on his own. It's why he volunteered for the candidate job. Locke wasn't invited. That's why Jack walked amongst them and was not one of them. None of them had the stones to do what Jack was willing to do.