crashing the plane

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In regard to what I said about Lost and nonlinear storytelling: this Flight 815 Crash in Real Time compilation is brilliant. Partly because it brings footage from so many episodes into a coherent whole, but also because it illustrates how integral the story is despite being told all out of order. There are plenty of shows with complicated chronologies, with flashbacks and unreliable narration, but here it's the same moment (which is a very important moment, at the core of the whole show) being experienced by a whole bunch of different characters in different places, shown at widely spaced points in the series. Viewed separately, they tell one person's story at a time, and that's not invalidated but added to when you see them all together and understand cause and effect.

Spoilers, natch. And unless I'm hallucinating, there's some deleted footage in here. (I suppose someday I should own my obsession and buy the DVDs.)