Official Lost Season 1 Trailers

[Hollywood Heidi]

Hello my fellow Losties and first time viewers!  Even though we're months away from the Online Lost Viewing Party, I thought we'd get a few conversations started, starting with the promos advertising a new show starting for the Fall 2004 television season.

Here is the official promo for the show.  Return viewers, what were your thoughts when you first saw this show advertised?  Were you interested right away or did you join in later?  First-time viewers, what are your thoughts, whether you saw the promo back in 2004 or just now for the first time and what stopped you from watching the show when it first aired?




Here is the promo they played in the UK.  It's odd and original and doesn't show you what the show is about but I actually enjoyed it when fans from the UK posted it for everyone else to see.

[Hollywood Heidi]

My first impression upon reading about a new show about plane survivors was that I was intrigued but also curious how they'd pull that off. Then I saw the trailer. I decided against watching it because I thought it might be too scary for me. I know, I'm a total wimp but I have an evil imagination that gives me vivid nightmares, not to mention I'm not very fond of that feeling of being scared out of your wits.

It was the couple of scenes with the howl of something in the jungle... something big enough to knock around groups of trees, that scared me. It felt kinda Jurassic Park-ish and I remember coming out of that movie shaking like a leaf, lol! In fact, I had to step out of the theater a couple times, lol. I really get absorbed in what I'm watching.

When the show started, it was an immediate water cooler hit. Everyone around me was talking about it and couldn't stop talking about it. I was very intrigued and every Thursday morning (the show aired on Wednesdays), one of my co-workers would be at my cubicle filling me in on what happened. I found myself looking forward to her getting to my cubicle so I could hear what happened next and she assured me it wasn't scary. At least not all the time. Only a couple of small moments which I could handle. So I finally decided to check it out.

The first episode I actually watched was 1x10 Raised by Another. Now normally, I cannot stand watching something out of order and would go back to the first ep but during that time, it wasn't as easy to get a hold of episodes of a TV show but with my co-worker filling me in every Thursday, I felt I wasn't too much in the dark. Oh my gosh, I fell instantly in love with the show and not only did I hunt down the first nine episodes, but I made my mom, dad, and sister watch with me. We were all instantly hooked!

I remained an obsessed Lostie from then on, searching the interwebs for information and for things other people may have noticed that I didn't. The show is so amazingly jam packed with details that you catch new things every time you watch an episode. I started a Lost forum which was very active and had gotten up to 712 members where we discussed each episode, shared easter eggs, picked apart the mysteries, posted all kinds of wild theories, and even had an RPG.

During the run of Lost, I lost count of how many people I converted into Losties. I would take my DVD set, however many seasons there already were at the time, from friend's house to friend's house, rewatching with them and everyone became hooked. I converted co-workers, letting them borrow my DVDs. I converted almost my entire family. Aunts, uncles, cousins. Even friends of friends approached me when I saw them again saying they checked it out because I talked so passionately about it when I'd met them before and told me they were now hooked. I could make a really long list of people I converted and those would only be the people I know about because I'm pretty sure I converted a lot of strangers and had the people I converted go on to convert others into Losties.

It's absolutely amazing how this show reached people. I've never found a show that reached so many people so passionately. Whenever I was out to dinner with friends and we'd be talking about the latest episode, we'd have people from other tables joining in. "'Scuse me, are you guys talking about Lost?" "Yes!" "Oh my gosh can you believe...." etc., etc. Total strangers, all barriers and all ice completely broken in a time when people who don't know each other usually ignore each other. Even still today, when I wear one of my Lost t-shirts to Disneyland, I have people stopping me to talk about the show.

I'm so excited for the re-watch in June and I'm so excited about the fact that we have at least one first-time viewer that I can attempt to live through vicariously.

[Zizhun]

This will be my first time watching lost. The reason why I didn't start in 2004 was because I didn't know anything about it, and I was probably too young for it. Now, though, I'm really excited for it. the concept of people being stuck on an island and having to work together to find a way home and survive is intriguing, and I can't wait to see what happens.

[DarkSideCookie]

I'm on board! Though I've once already seen some episodes of the show (and also totally fell in love with it!), I would call myself a first-time viewer. I had recorded it from tv a while ago (don't know why I never started watching it before. Actually I didn't heard much about it and everything I've heard didn't really get me in front of the tv. When I started watching my recorded episodes, I was like: "Damn! Why you waited years?" xD). The reason I ended up watching after some episodes, was not the show itself, it was because my records weren't complete, as the times on tv weren't the same as in my tv magazine... so the episodes were half. And I decided to buy someday the DVDs, as I don't wanted to risk miss something!
I probably will order the DVD box soon to make it easier for me to watch with you guys, but for now I search for it in the internet I think.
I'm excited watching with you together! It's a cool idea and maybe we should do that with other shows someday either!

[Hollywood Heidi]

Yay, so glad to see you're on board! Are you going to be watching it in English or German? I'm guessing you're gonna go with English. I wonder if there are any differences?

For example, since my mom's side of the family is from Hungary, we had fun looking up the Hungarian promos and there, the title of the show translates to "They disappeared." Interesting but I wonder why the felt the need to change the title.

[DarkSideCookie]

And I'm glad you wrote to me because of it! I heard about you're going to do this, but actually didn't read about the details. It's a cool way to finally get me completely into the show!
Oh I'm sorry have to disappoint you, but I go with the german translation. I don't wanna miss anything because of language problems, as I sometimes do with Once Upon A Time...
Usually the translated versions do have only little differences like changing a joke a little. Though I hate those changes.
Oh you watched the Hungarian Promos? Do you understand a little bit of Hungarian too?
In Germany they luckily didn't change the show's title. It's Lost either. Well, just the episode titles are translated into german or changed.

[Hollywood Heidi]

Not a disappointment at all! There's such important little details if you're wanting a fuller experience so fully understanding what's being said is important. I'm so glad that you're joining us for this! You guys have no idea how happy I am to share this rewatch with other people. It's so fun and exciting this way.

Yes, I totally understand Hungarian. It's just speaking it is hard cuz it's hard to remember the words you want to use but if someone is speaking to me in Hungarian, I understand everything there saying.

I'm definitely interested in hearing how they chance certain dialogs and jokes!! If you could include that in your posts in the Official Discussion threads for each ep, I would totally love you for it!!

[DarkSideCookie]

Yah, I thought so! With Ouat I've no other option, when I want to be up-to-date (I'm still not btw. I should watch the last episodes of the latest season. I just lost interest in it.. But that's not for the Lost talk lol), but as Lost already is on DVD in Germany, I can do that to make me understand everything. ARRIVED btw!!! Haha, sent you a picture on fb!
And I'm glad to be able watch such an old show with someone still being crazy about it! It's so much more fun watching together and discussing, as I'm used to become a fangirl of movies and shows, when they are worth it!

That's cool! I love learning other languages, just wish to have more time to do so. I once started with chinese, russian and with japanese even for some months. I should continue with japanese, as I've forgotten a lot sadly.
Did your mom teach you Hungarian? Actually I never heard someone speaking it, so I'm not sure about if it's hard to speak. But to understand everything is a start! It was so cool, when we were visiting you at your parent's home and your mom was like: "Ahh your name! It's Hungarian!" Normally nobody knows!

Well, I would tell you of course, but I don't know what dialogs and jokes were changed, when not watching the english version at the same time. But I can tell you from your thread comments, if I remember something different from the german version. But I could tell you if they've changed the episode title. The "Pilot" has changed into "Gestrandet" (translation: "stranded").