I’m on a quest to re-watch every episode of Lost, one per day. As I polish off each DVD, I’ll post my thoughts on the episodes contained therein. “…In Translation” SYNOPSIS: A misunderstanding between Jin and Michael leads to more fisticuffs, and Sun slaps Michael. She tells him later that she did it to protect him against Jin. When Michael’s raft goes up in flames, he blames Jin. (Jin even has burns on his hands.) Sawyer, having already bought a seat on the raft, attacks Jin. Later, Jin is almost attacked by Michael, as well, but Sun yells for him to stop… in English. Everyone is shocked by this revelation, no one more so than Jin, who feels irreparably betrayed. Sun convinces the others that Jin was burned trying to put out the fire. Locke diverts the conflict by saying that the biggest threat comes from the people without their camp, not within. Michael decides to...

I’m on a quest to re-watch every episode of Lost, one per day. As I polish off each DVD, I’ll post my thoughts on the episodes contained therein. “Hearts and Minds” SYNOPSIS: Locke and Boone continue unearthing the metal plate, now revealed to be a handleless hatch, amidst concerns that they’re not bringing back any boar on their “hunting excursions.” When Boone tells Locke that he has to tell Shannon the truth, Locke clocks him on the head. When Boone wakes up, he’s bound by rope, and Locke rubs some sort of paste on his wound before leaving. Boone hears Shannon screaming and the monster approaching, so he frees himself and finds and unbinds Shannon. They seem to outrun the monster, but it catches up to them and kills Shannon. He attacks Locke for putting them in that position, but Locke reveals that it was all just a paste-induced hallucination designed to...

I’m on a quest to re-watch every episode of Lost, one per day. As I polish off each DVD, I’ll post my thoughts on the episodes contained therein. “Solitary” SYNOPSIS: On his sojourn, Sayid finds a cable in the sand. But it leads him to a trap, and when he regains consciousness, he’s tied to a bed frame in a hut, which somehow has power. A woman electrocutes him, demanding to know where someone named Alex is. Sayid realizes that this is the French woman from the distress call. When he finally convinces her that he is innocent and not one of “the Others,” she tells him that her name is Danielle Rousseau and she came when her scientific expedition was shipwrecked on the Island. But her colleagues, including her lover Robert, were infected by a “sickness,” and she had to kill them. When Sayid tries to escape, but Danielle corners him with a gun. She tells him...

I’m on a quest to re-watch every episode of Lost, one per day. As I polish off each DVD, I’ll post my thoughts on the episodes contained therein. “White Rabbit” SYNOPSIS: After Jack fails to rescue a survivor swept out to sea, he becomes frustrated with how everyone is looking to him for leadership. He chases the hallucination of his father into the jungle and narrowly avoids death when Locke saves him from plunging off a cliff. Locke tells him that maybe the hallucination of his father means something and tells Jack to continue on his quest. The hallucination leads Jack to a source of freshwater, where he also finds his father’s coffin—empty. Meanwhile, the survivors turn on one another when the water supply gets critically low. Jack returns just in time to quell the conflict and to tell people that they need to start living together or else they’ll...

I’m on a quest to re-watch every episode of Lost, one per day. As I polish off each DVD, I’ll post my thoughts on the episodes contained therein. “Pilot, Part 1” SYNOPSIS: In the aftermath of the horrific crash of Oceanic 815, the survivors recuperate while wondering both about the possibility of rescue and about the ruckus in the jungle. Jack, Kate, and Charlie set out to find the cockpit. They find the pilot, miraculously alive, who tells them that they were a thousand miles off-course at the time of the crash. The monster comes back and kills the pilot, while the three other survivors escape with their lives. THOUGHTS: A hell of a way to start a series. In the beginning, everything was so simple: it was just a survival show. Who at the time could have conceived the scope of the drama, mystery, and emotion to come? J.J. Abram directs with tautness and...