{"id":2241,"date":"2013-04-22T10:23:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T17:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2013-04-22T10:23:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T17:23:23","slug":"mark-watches-lost-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/04\/mark-watches-lost-one-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches &#8216;Lost&#8217;: One of Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to my new friend Megan, who I had the pleasure of meeting whilst on tour in Texas. After many\u00c2\u00a0<em>LOST<\/em> discussions, it was clear I needed to revisit the very first episode of this show that I&#8217;d ever seen: &#8220;One of Them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/rdaiu001388o1t8\/lost2x14.mov\" target=\"_blank\"><!--more-->The video file for &#8220;One of Them&#8221; is available for download here<\/a>, and all Mark Watches videos are indexed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/xx9l6nxutvo9mo3\/1IyIM77u_L\" target=\"_blank\">my Dropbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Sorry that this is late! I had a ton of errands to run this morning, including trying to find a new water filter. Apparently the greater Bay Area is COMPLETELY OUT OF THEM EVERYWHERE. What the hell?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Anyway, I also wanted to remind y&#8217;all that two unscheduled commissions went up this weekend! One was for the <a href=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/04\/mark-watches-dollhouse-unaired-pilot\/\" target=\"_blank\">unaired pilot of\u00c2\u00a0<em>Dollhouse<\/em><\/a>, and the other was for the independent fantasy thriller\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/04\/mark-watches-ink\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ink<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>NOW, ON TO <em>LOST<\/em>. So, if you don&#8217;t watch the video for this, I&#8217;ll repeat what I said there. In 2005, my roommates were\u00c2\u00a0<em>obsessed<\/em> with this show. I routinely heard them say that it was the greatest show currently airing. One of my roommates was a\u00c2\u00a0<em>huge<\/em> fan of\u00c2\u00a0<em>The X-Files<\/em> as well, and when she compared it to my holy gospel of television, I didn&#8217;t get interested.\u00c2\u00a0<em>I got mad<\/em>. HOW DARE SHE COMPARE ANYTHING TO THE BEST SHOW OF ALL TIME.\u00c2\u00a0<em>HOW DARE SHE<\/em>. It got to a point where I&#8217;d refuse to listen to them talk about the show, and I&#8217;d make a point to not be home when a new episode aired.<\/li>\n<li>(This was during a particular period in my life where I assumed all television shows were evil cesspools of mediocrity, which is a terrible thing that I am glad I grew out of.)<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the other roommate sat me down and said that I could not talk shit on a show I hadn&#8217;t seen. I conceded the point and agreed to watch the next episode just to get a taste of it.\u00c2\u00a0<em>This<\/em> was the episode that aired that night. OH MY GOD, IT WAS THE BEST POSSIBLE ONE TO WATCH.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My name is Sayid Jarrah, and I am a torturer.&#8221; WELL, SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.<\/li>\n<li>Truthfully, there were multiple moments that drew me in. Michael Emerson&#8217;s performance. That countdown with the Egyptian symbols. The use of flashbacks as a storytelling device\u00c2\u00a0<em>and<\/em> as a way to build character. The acknowledgment of the tropes and stereotypes assumed because of who Sayid was. <i>Sayid<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll always have a lot of affection for this show because it made me realize my opinions of television were\u00c2\u00a0<em>awful.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>I got into\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Sopranos<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0<em>Six Feet Under<\/em>, and\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Prisoner<\/em> not long after starting\u00c2\u00a0<em>LOST<\/em>, and it helped me find some fantastic writing in the medium.<\/li>\n<li>F E E L I N G S<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to my new friend Megan, who I had the pleasure of meeting whilst on tour in Texas. After many\u00c2\u00a0LOST discussions, it was clear I needed to revisit the very first episode of this show that I&#8217;d ever seen: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/04\/mark-watches-lost-one-of-them\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[433,439,432,400],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-does-stuff-2","tag-commissions","tag-lost","tag-mark-watches-lost","tag-rewatches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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