This continues JJ Abrams' triumphant directorial job. We see here much more mystery open up, on all fronts: what happened to the pilot? What the hell is that monster? What's with the polar bear? Who is that French lady saying there's great danger and everyone's dead and that it's been going on for 16 years? What is this place? If this pilot didn't go on for the rest of the series, which is a moot point perhaps but one to raise, it would be such an insane, confounding but endlessly wonderful piece of fantasy-fiction that it would keep everyone wondering. The point in a lot of science fiction is to raise questions, and not always answer then definitely or even at all, and Lost does this on top of doing something that is great in fantasy and mystery lore which is opening up the space of genre to develop characters in a kind of satirical or 'statement' setting. Lost is never too blunt with the preachiness, but it does have its moments where one recognizes "yeah, this is a melting pot", and Abrams, Lindelof and team milk all of the potential elements of mystery, of social statements, and makes it all unique.
This is a great pilot. Check it out if you haven't, or check it out again if you're a 5th season die-hard burn-out on the show who is so wrapped up in the current conundrums that you may have forgotten how it started in the first place. Polar bear, monster screams, freaky radio transmissions, rinse, repeat. At the least, you'll get "You All Everybody" in your head for days on end.
This is a great pilot. Check it out if you haven't, or check it out again if you're a 5th season die-hard burn-out on the show who is so wrapped up in the current conundrums that you may have forgotten how it started in the first place. Polar bear, monster screams, freaky radio transmissions, rinse, repeat. At the least, you'll get "You All Everybody" in your head for days on end.