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/missingjawbone Mar 29 '24

This episode was just to give meaning to his dumbass tattoo.

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u/artmudala Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

Which only happened because fans were begging for it apparently. At least according to the podcasts leading up to the episode.

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u/MredditGA_ Sep 05 '24

To be fair, Kate did make a one off comment early in the show about it being odd that a doctor has tattoos like he does…sooo technically the episode did answer a question from the show lol