LOST; which are the essential Jin & Sun episodes?

[Good Will Riker]

Answer: I am Korean American.


Question: As I am new to "Lost" (Having only viewed the first 4 episodes of season 1 so far.), without any spoilers, can you please list all of the essential Jin & Sun episodes of "Lost" to date? I want to watch those episodes first before working through the rest of the series before the season 5 premiere. Thanks.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Thanks anyways, guys. I found the following on Wikipedia:


Jin episodes:

"…In Translation"
"Exodus, Part 2"
"...And Found"
"The Glass Ballerina"
"Ji Yeon"


Sun episodes:

House of the Rising Sun"
"Exodus, Part 1"
"...And Found"
"The Whole Truth"
"The Glass Ballerina"
"D.O.C."
"Ji Yeon"
"There's No Place Like Home

I plan to watch all of these episodes plus all of the season openers and finales to all of the seasons leading up to the season 5 debut.

 

[Starbreaker]

You're really going to be ruining the whole show for yourself if you do this.

 

[SlyCardie]

It's going to not make much sense out of date, I wouldn't recommend spoiling the mystery by watching the episodes out of order. Especially not those that are so out of order that they are in different seasons.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Answer: I am Korean American.

WHAT!?!?!? You've never mentioned it before! Next you'll be telling us you're a Christian!

 

[Good Will Riker]

You know how during your formative years when you tried getting some of your friends into watching Star Trek, but some of them had a tough time getting into it because "there is too much of it?"

I seem to be in the sameboat with "Lost," and it is a show that I want to get into (A lot of my friends and my younger sister are into it.), but I just do not have the time to watch all of the episodes between seasons 1-4 before the season 5 premiere?

What are the 24 essential episodes to watch up to this point?

Since I have already seen episodes 1-4, any 24 episodes between Seasons 1-4 will do.

It is analogous to someone wanting to get into DS9 before its season 5 premiere, and I recommending them a list like this:

1. & 2.) Emiissary
3.) A Man Alone
4.) Past Prologue
5.) In the Hands of the Prophets
6.) The Homecoming
7.) The Circle
8.) The Siege
9.) The Wire
10.) The Collaborator
11.) The Jem'Hadar
12.) The Search, Part I
13.) The Search, Part II
14.) Improbable Cause
15.) The Die is Cast
16.) Family Business
17.) The Adversary
18. & 19.) The Way of the Warrior
20.) Hippocratic Oath
21.) The Visitor
22.) Homefront
23.) Paradise Lost
24.) Broken Link


Thanks.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

If you have what amount to a free week over time between now and January 21, you can catch up entirely. You can watch a season in about two days tops. I know I watched season 3 in under 48 hours.

I really, really would not recommend watching the show the way you seem to be going about it. It would be like reading the first and last scene of every act of Othello, and then just reading the parts that focus on Cassio or Rodrigo. It should not even be tried.

 

[Starbreaker]

Lost is not like Star Trek. Each episode depends on the previous one. There's no rush in watching the 5th season premiere on time is there? Sit back and enjoy the ride. Jin and Sun feature heavily in episodes that aren't their own as well. Some very good ones.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Would the show still make sense for a newbie if I were to watch just season 4 before the season 5 premiere?

 

[DeafPoet]

Watch it from the start in sequence. You'll kick yourself if you don't.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Watch it from the start in sequence. You'll kick yourself if you don't.

So, in otherwords:

"Lost" is a form of metafiction with interweaving threads and plotlines that go back-and-forth and intercuts with unexpected twists and turns...

I understand.

From the sound of it, this is a non-linear show, and...

I got it now.

Thanks.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

Watch it from the start in sequence. You'll kick yourself if you don't.

So, in otherwords:

"Lost" is a form of metafiction

Lost is not a "form" of anything. It's a television show. However, television shows are a "form" of entertainment.

Lost is also not metafiction, but has certain tropes that can be construed as belonging to metafiction, such as the audience surrogate (Sawyer in, among other episodes, "Expose"). Grant Morrison's Animal Man, on the other hand, is metafiction, as is John Bryne's She-Hulk.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Watch it from the start in sequence. You'll kick yourself if you don't.

So, in otherwords:

"Lost" is a form of metafiction

Lost is not a "form" of anything. It's a television show. However, television shows are a "form" of entertainment.

Lost is also not metafiction, but has certain tropes that can be construed as belonging to metafiction, such as the audience surrogate (Sawyer in, among other episodes, "Expose"). Grant Morrison's Animal Man, on the other hand, is metafiction, as is John Bryne's She-Hulk.

Since "Lost" is not a form of metafiction as you have illustrated, then why is it essential to view all of the episodes, rather than just viewing 25% of the essential episodes in a given season?

Personally speaking, it would not bother me in the slightest if I viewed an episode or episodes that are post-crisis resolution episodes. If someone was about to die of an injury or about to fall off a cliff, but is saved or dies in the following episode, I personally would not mind just viewing those essential episodes after the crises in question have already passed.

If fans recommended me 5-6 post-crisis resolution episodes per season so that I can still follow with the story up to the season 5 premiere, I am fine with that.

Of course, if there are certain "revelation episodes," of course I would want to watch 1 episode prior to those in order to appreciate the build up and surprise.

I may come to regret it later, but I care more about catch up at this point rather than being a completist in my viewing.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

Since "Lost" is not a form of metafiction as you have illustrated, then why is it essential to view all of the episodes, rather than just viewing 25% of the essential episodes in a given season?

Do you even know what metafiction is? No? Let me break it down for ya.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Metafiction

Personally speaking, it would not bother me in the slightest if I viewed an episode or episodes that are post-crisis resolution episodes. If someone was about to die of an injury or about to fall off a cliff, but is saved or dies in the following episode, I personally would not mind just viewing those essential episodes after the crises in question have already passed.

Honestly? The show doesn't always work like that. Neither does life. Your best bet is to just watch the show. What's the rush?

 

[Spot's Meow]

Well, the problem with watching Lost in bits and pieces is that nearly every episode is a "revelation episode." The mystery builds slowly over time, with questions continually being answered and new ones popping up. So it's really hard to think of an episode that isn't really important to the whole story.

However, if you are really stuck on just watching a few, I would say watch the entire first season, the beginning and end of the second season, the second half of the third season, and all of the fourth. I know, this is still way more episodes than you desired, but it's as much as I felt comfortable cutting out. And even then I feel like you'd be missing a lot.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Since "Lost" is not a form of metafiction as you have illustrated, then why is it essential to view all of the episodes, rather than just viewing 25% of the essential episodes in a given season?

Do you even know what metafiction is? No? Let me break it down for ya.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Metafiction

Personally speaking, it would not bother me in the slightest if I viewed an episode or episodes that are post-crisis resolution episodes. If someone was about to die of an injury or about to fall off a cliff, but is saved or dies in the following episode, I personally would not mind just viewing those essential episodes after the crises in question have already passed.

Honestly? The show doesn't always work like that. Neither does life. Your best bet is to just watch the show. What's the rush?

Yes, I know what metafiction is, and from having seen only the first 4 episodes of "Lost" it uses:

-"non-linear" storytelling.
-a story that anticipates the viewers' reaction to the story.
-a parallel story that is told from a different perspective.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Well, the problem with watching Lost in bits and pieces is that nearly every episode is a "revelation episode." The mystery builds slowly over time, with questions continually being answered and new ones popping up. So it's really hard to think of an episode that isn't really important to the whole story.

However, if you are really stuck on just watching a few, I would say watch the entire first season, the beginning and end of the second season, the second half of the third season, and all of the fourth. I know, this is still way more episodes than you desired, but it's as much as I felt comfortable cutting out. And even then I feel like you'd be missing a lot.

Thanks, man.

I will give that a try.

 

[sidious618]

You really need to watch all of the episodes. Skipping around is a terrible idea and the Jin and Sun episodes are never really all that good so you're doing yourself a disservice by watching only them.

 

[Starbreaker]

Blashphemy...

Their story is one of the best.

 

[Good Will Riker]

I will try watching it all from the beginning...

So, what's my prize?