No start for Lost comeback
By fred | February 11, 2007
Ok, here we are. The so long wait is finally over, and Lost is back! I finally got to watch it, and this episode left me as, I’d say, surprised, and disappointed.
Here’s the thing, and may be I’m wrong and it’s only me, but I have some feelings about how things usually occur with the show.
For starter, that they do like, when they know people are waiting for more on some story, to go somewhere else, to tell another story. Not that it will be a let down, might be just the opposite, whether or not it eventually gets link to the original source of desire viewers had.
So I was actually pretty sure that this first episode would not deal with Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Ben, Juliet and the others. Wouldn’t have any revelations about the statue or the scientists in their igloo either of course, but I had my money on the new Others, those left on the beach. Story about Locke sounded right to me…
But they decided otherwise and went with the latest in that old story we left so many weeks ago. That explains the first half, why I got surprised.
Now the big part.
I have the feeling that whenever there was much expectations regarding Lost, besides the usual I mean, they always delivered. That on occasions such as the beginning or end of a season for example, when people really expect either something (huge/important) to take place, or to learn something (huge/important) about the show, the story, the characters, whatever, it happened.
And there used to have one scene, yeah just one, remember: it’s Lost, we get things done slowly, but there was one scene that would make you go “wow!�. Just like the opening of this season, which actually started 6 episodes ago with a bunch of people in a nice little village.
Oh wait, they were the Others. The day that plane split itself in two and crashed. Oh and, yeah they’re in fact on that damn island!
That scene was a wow-er, it was the scene everyone would remember and talk about. Because it was huge, and great, and wow! Sure it brings a huge lots of new questions to our lists, it also gives a few answers, not much, sure more questions, but it was simply worth it.
But this new episode has been different, in that way. There was no such scene this time. It’s like this episode was only the seventh one of the season, the one that came after the sixth first, after the last one we saw. Only that was weeks ago, because ABC decided to do this very stupid thing.
So those 6 episodes were more like a first mini-season on their own, in a way. And this episode definitely felt like a comeback, a start, a new season almost.
Or that’s how I felt before watching it. That’s how it should have felt, but that’s not what happened. It was just the next episode of the season…
Don’t get me wrong, I know how the show works. I’ve read all people saying Lost got slow, nothing happened, etc. and I never agreed with that. Because that’s how this show as always been, since day one.
But it was brand new, very exciting, and there was no Prison Break, so maybe it felt rather different, or you wanted more, but I don’t think Lost ever changed. I mean, there were some flashbacks in season one already, you know?
