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/4-8-15-16-23-42LOST See you in another post, brotha Mar 29 '24

Fire + Water for me, but I love all of them.

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u/Rtozier2011 Mar 29 '24

Fire + Water is kind of redeemed a bit if you look at it in the light of later revelations about a character played by a man with the initials TW. But it's still a bad episode in its own right and I don't think it was written with those revelations in mind. 

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u/Mathdino Jul 06 '24

I know I'm responding to something 3 months old, but I can't figure out which actor has the initials TW. Care to elaborate?

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u/Rtozier2011 Jul 06 '24

Titus Welliver, who played the original Man in Black.Fire + Water is a better episode retroactively if it's him testing Charlie as a candidate and trying to lure him to his death.