workingmom
10-31-2006, 10:29 PM
The first two episodes of Season 3 are very reminiscent of the structure of the first 2 epis of Season 2.
A Tale of Two Cities, like Man of Science/Man of Faith (S2,ep1) opens with the eye of an unknown person in their living quarters as they go about preparing food, doing things around their apartment. They put on a female singer from the 60's. A beeper goes off and summons them to tend to something -- a computer, in MosMof, or burning muffins, in ATOTC. As an audience we are led to believe it's probably a flashback. (And this time, we didn't fall for it, only to find out it was a flashback, of a new character. Who knew.) Later the room shakes to portend the arrival of the Losties (with the hatch blowing in S2, and the magnetic anamoly that presumably brought the plane down in S3).
The rest of the epi focuses on only one group of Losties -- Jack, whose flashback episode it is in both seasons, and the people around him. The other contingents of Losties are not dealt with in the opening episode of either season.
Episode 2 of both seasons (Adrift and Glass Ballerina) adds into the storyline of the three Losties who are at sea when we last saw them in the previous season finale: Michael, Sawyer, and Jin in Adrift, and Sayid, Sun, and Jin in GB. It mixes their storyline with the group that the first episode focused on -- what's going on in the hatch in Adrift, and Jack/Sawyer/Kate as captives at the Hydra station. The flashback is of one of the characters who were at sea (Michael and Sun & Jin.)
Episode 3 of S3, Further Instructions, starts out mirroring the series Pilot, as is well illustrated in the thread here (http://www.thefuselage.com/Threaded/showthread.php?t=61070) in the FI episode section. Eye of Jack/Locke lying in the jungle, looking up at trees, seeing a creature rustle by, being Vincent or Desmond(!).
Any other parallels? This is structured beautifully!
A Tale of Two Cities, like Man of Science/Man of Faith (S2,ep1) opens with the eye of an unknown person in their living quarters as they go about preparing food, doing things around their apartment. They put on a female singer from the 60's. A beeper goes off and summons them to tend to something -- a computer, in MosMof, or burning muffins, in ATOTC. As an audience we are led to believe it's probably a flashback. (And this time, we didn't fall for it, only to find out it was a flashback, of a new character. Who knew.) Later the room shakes to portend the arrival of the Losties (with the hatch blowing in S2, and the magnetic anamoly that presumably brought the plane down in S3).
The rest of the epi focuses on only one group of Losties -- Jack, whose flashback episode it is in both seasons, and the people around him. The other contingents of Losties are not dealt with in the opening episode of either season.
Episode 2 of both seasons (Adrift and Glass Ballerina) adds into the storyline of the three Losties who are at sea when we last saw them in the previous season finale: Michael, Sawyer, and Jin in Adrift, and Sayid, Sun, and Jin in GB. It mixes their storyline with the group that the first episode focused on -- what's going on in the hatch in Adrift, and Jack/Sawyer/Kate as captives at the Hydra station. The flashback is of one of the characters who were at sea (Michael and Sun & Jin.)
Episode 3 of S3, Further Instructions, starts out mirroring the series Pilot, as is well illustrated in the thread here (http://www.thefuselage.com/Threaded/showthread.php?t=61070) in the FI episode section. Eye of Jack/Locke lying in the jungle, looking up at trees, seeing a creature rustle by, being Vincent or Desmond(!).
Any other parallels? This is structured beautifully!