The Lost Rewatch
"We're going to need to watch that again."
John Locke certainly had a way of speaking for the Lost fans. The line above is from "Orientation," which he said after watching the Swan orientation video. "You might catch something you missed the second time around," is another line from him in "Eggtown."
Now, hopefully, you've seen some episodes of Lost more than two times, but the same principle that Locke spoke of remains: Repetition means comprehension.
Which is why, on June 1, DocArzt & Friends and Lostpedia are sponsoring a web-wide rewatch, titled, appropriately, The Lost Rewatch. Several other Lost websites have agreed to contribute and participate regularly in the rewatch. These include:
- Sledgeweb’s Lost Stuff
- Get Lost with JOpinionated
- Lostaholics
- The Joshmeister
- All About Lost
- Jacob’s Cabin
The Rewatch will be web-wide, and can be followed in a variety of places. The Lost Rewatch Hub can be found on Lostpedia, along with a complete schedule of the rewatch. The hub will have RSS feeds from all participating websites, so that you'll be able to follow the most recent rewatch activity with a click of your mouse.
Lostpedia forums will be hosting the discussion of the rewatched episodes, in this subforum.
The Rewatch can also be followed on Twitter (the account @lostrewatch). A Facebook group has also been created for Facebook users looking to follow the rewatch. I'm a member of the group, as are several of the other participants. It is administrated by DocArzt and JOpinionated, so it should be very up to date.
Also, AstroJones reminds us that "In addition, Docarzt.com has a special RSS feed to allow you to follow all of the Lost Rewatch related posts. We’ve included an email link where you can sign up with your email address, and be sent email alerts anytime Docarzt.com publishes new Lost Rewatch content. As a note, anyone who sent me an email requesting updates on the Rewatch, please use the email link above to sign up for automatic emails about new posts."
The rewatch will begin next Monday when we begin rewatching the first four episodes of the show. Be expecting a blog about "Pilot, Part 1" soon after the rewatch starts. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments section below, or email me. Let us know what you think about the rewatch!
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The Rewatch hits season 5 on November 9th, but the Season 5 DVD set doesn't come out until December 8th. Currently abc.com only has The Variable through the Incident up on their full episode viewer. What's the plan for Season 5?
I was just about to ask gluphokquen's question.
Good to see new re-watch efforts popping up online. Our twitter group has been re-watching for two weeks now, the more the merrier.
this is funny because i've already started to do this...i think everyone needs a refresher course before we start the last season of LOST.! so glad to see the wiki is doing it too. maybe well see more theories and clues about what's to come on LOST
The season five schedule is subject to change, but Hulu should be carrying the episodes by then. If not, changes WILL be made, don't worry.
Let's try to get those episode pages on the wiki from the earlier seasons up to par with the those from the later seasons!
I've got all of season 5 on my DVR.. feel free to stop by.
I like the idea of the ReWatch, but not under the schedule they have provided us. I plan to watch 13 episodes for every month (one month will have to be 12, probably in July (Comic-con)) times the 8 Month hiatus. That way there's no thanksgiving/ christmas breaks and you could watch an episode Every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY. Also, by the time were ready to watch Season 5 it should be near the end of December, and we can enjoy watching Season 5 on Blu-Ray... Anyway Pilot (Parts 1 + 2) June 1st. Hope you all can join me...
I hope by that date to have finished editing Lost in chronological order. I will have my on ChroniLOSTical marathon!
Can Lostpedia make the schedule within Google Calendar? That would make it a lot easier to track for a lot of people.
I have been doing a rewatch on my own for a couple of weeks (I'm on season 2) and there are already a couple of things I have seen that I really didn't pay attention to before. In the pilot, Rose says about the monster, "There's something familiar..." I would be willing to bet money that that statement will apply to the monster in the end. Also Locke's character has a creepier tone to him than I remember (staring at Walt, tying Boone up). I think season one especially, has a lot of important clues in it.
I actually did a rewatch myself before Season 5, but the thing is I did it in five weeks. I don't know how you're going to resist wanting to watch just one more episode each week... three or four episodes per week sure isn't enough for me.
I might rewatch the whole series before Season 6 starts, but I'll wait a few months to do that. It's just like when you want to rewatch a movie you just watched, but you end up bored because you remember everything that happens.
It's funny how many little side-stories you don't remember when you first rewatch it, and how all the characters' stories were told in previous seasons (not so much in Season 5).
At least now, when Locke says, "We were brought here for a reason," and Jack says that there's no such thing as destiny, people will be able to think about the whole story in another way. Thinking back, maybe both of them were half-right, half-wrong?
Speaking of the rewatch, look for this line from Expose (yes i watched that one again,don't ask me why).
"No way," Hurley says while looking at the script, "Mr. LaShade was The Cobra?"
"Is that supposed to mean something?" Charlie says.
"Dude, The Cobra's this big bad guy. He's been shrouded in mystery for four seasons."
Will be fun finding more hints like this we missed the first time around.
Will the planned re-watch co-incide with the start of season 6, so you can roll right on...?
Watch for the differences between Jack's story of "counting to 5" in the Pilot episode vs. what we now know happened in the season 5 finale. I'm guessing he didn't want to admit to the pretty girl he just met that he nearly screwed up his first surgery... :)
Already on it. You get a very different point of view at what's happening by taking in account all those time shifts. Especially Richards knowledge, and what of it he might have shared with Ben.
Started my own rewatch the other day (much to the chagrin of my roommate).
Favorite Easter Egg I only just found:
In Walkabout (S1E4) the sound of Locke's adding machine is the same sound that Smokey makes.
Managed to rewatch the whole of Season 1 in three days last weekend :D
My boyfriend and my best friend had never watched LOST before 2 months ago, and we're just coming up to "Through the Looking Glass," the season 3 finale! They're in love and sad that they've missed out on all the fun speculating and watercooling. I, however, am all up to date and can't wait to read along with the rewatch... even in the middle of season 3, there are things referenced directly from season 5, pointing back to season 2, foreshadowing things that have happened/will happen in season 2, or in 1977, etc... I LOVE THIS SHOW!
Am I weird? Because I rewatch on a regular basis. Seasons 1-4 only takes me a few weeks.. But then I am a bit of an insomniac.
Just in case anyone else is interested, I'm putting a twist in my own personal Lost Rewatch -- re-editing the entirety of all five seasons in chronological order so that my wife and I can sit down and watch it before Season Six begins.
If that kind of thing sounds appealing to you, I'm documenting the process at chronolost.com.
I actually just finished re-editing the entire series in chronological order. It was a lot tougher than it sounds.
I edit for a broadcaster during the day, so I have i spent my nights for the last 6 months, re-editing lost.
I've been using Final Cut Pro to do the re-edit, and I compressed everything down to H.264 to save some hard drive space.
so were do you watch the re watch to?, and do you need to sign up or anything?
When the episodes are posted up , will they be taken down ? BECAUSE I LOVE THIS IDEA BUT I HAVE TO GO ON A DANG SCHOOL TRIP !
thanks :D
[PS . I own the seasons...but I wanna watch them with my fellow LOST friends!]
Already way ahead 'a ya. I've watched the pilot and eps 1-5 already.
Oh man, I wish I had known this was going on. I was bedridden for a while, and so I watched all five seasons last week. (Yes, I watched the whole series in less than a week.) I guess I can start over again. It will be cool to get other peoples' theories with what we know now.
Anyone who said they've rewatched the entire series (all 103 hours) in a week or less is lying. That'd take about 11 hours of watching per day for a whole week! You'd barely be able to eat, sleep or do anything else, even if you were ill! Plus you wouldn't be able to take it all in and it would be near-pointless.
All the questions about Season 5 here is the answer: iTunes and DVR. You know there are many ways to find the episodes. Plus, most DVD players play AVI files and you can always find a friend who downloads stuff, get him/her to download it for you.
No, I wasn't lying. The only reason I did it was because I literally could not get out of bed for a week. That was all I did, and I agree that it was a lot to take in, which is why I am glad we have this rewatch because now I will really be able to appreciate the series and take in the nuances.
for those of you with an xbox 360, you can download any episode from the first 5 seasons. I basically have season five on my 360's hard drive so i can watch it until the blu-ray comes out
Aw, I did this a couple months ago. =[
It will be interesting to see all the previous episodes with all the information we have now. I just started posting my re-watch blog, but I'm anxious to see what everyone else notices.
What happened? Did this just tank?
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