Looking back on the series from the first season is strange. It almost makes me feel old seeing all of the characters in the beginning and how they changed so much. Especially when my little nerd Eliza Doolittle proclaims her hatred for Jin, who became one of my favorite characters (who am I kidding? I love them all except for Dr. Cries too Much and Stalker Kate.) and I was aghast at this. Then I tried to remember my first impressions of the characters. Thankfully, I never liked Kate. Her story may have seemed interesting at first, but there was just something about her where I was like "Ehhh... not going to like her" and Jack cried so much in the first season alone, I'm still not convinced they were on an island and not the top of a mountain surrounded by a flood of Jack's tears. From the get go, Hobbit Charlie was one of my favorite characters, but that was mostly because of my small Lord of the Rings obsession. I loved him and Lego You're Prego girl together. I didn't like Sawyer until they started revealing his backstory, then he started growing on me. Locke was kickass from the get go, his episode is what enthralled me with the series. Looking at it now though, his first impression is almost a caricature of what he actually is/ was. Vincent, of course, won my heart right away and Hurley because I'm a sucker for the chunk... and the rest I was just kind of "meh." However, just from my little prodigies picking out their favorite characters from the first few episodes, it does remind me that this show DID start out to be about the characters (helping my Eko/ Desmond/ Season 3 church theory) and somehow they all became buried with the massive amounts of mythos surrounding the show. It's sad, I didn't realize how much I missed them...
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