What episode have you rewatched the most?
For me, it's "Flashes Before Your Eyes," with Desmond. It's my emotional support episode 😄
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For me, it's "Flashes Before Your Eyes," with Desmond. It's my emotional support episode 😄
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My top 5 of everything in Lost
Remembering that it’s my opinion.
# Top 5 characters:
Desmond
Ben.
Juliet.
Jack.
Locke
# Top 5 episodes:
The constant
Looking glass p2
Live together, die alone p2
The end
Man of science, man of faith
# Top 5 moments:
Desmond’s call
Church scene
Not penny’s boat
Jack heals Sarah
Sawyer talking about Christian
# Top 5 deaths
Charlie.
Mr. Eko
Ana Lucia and Libby
Jin and Sun
Juliet.
# Top 5 arcs
Time travel (s5)
Desmond backstory
Looking glass (3x21 - 3x23)
Purgatory(s6)
Locke backstory
# Top 5 lores
The survivors caused the plane to crash
Locke’s compass
Juliet caused infertility on the island
The timeline
The connection of the characters before the flight
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Remembering that it’s my opinion.
# Top 5 characters:
Desmond
Ben.
Juliet.
Jack.
Locke
# Top 5 episodes:
The constant
Looking glass p2
Live together, die alone p2
The end
Man of science, man of faith
# Top 5 moments:
Desmond’s call
Church scene
Not penny’s boat
Jack heals Sarah
Sawyer talking about Christian
# Top 5 deaths
Charlie.
Mr. Eko
Ana Lucia and Libby
Jin and Sun
Juliet.
# Top 5 arcs
Time travel (s5)
Desmond backstory
Looking glass (3x21 - 3x23)
Purgatory(s6)
Locke backstory
# Top 5 lores
The survivors caused the plane to crash
Locke’s compass
Juliet caused infertility on the island
The timeline
The connection of the characters before the flight
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Gotta admit
As a first time watcher some of the best things I find in this show are the backstories and how the characters all crossed paths at various points in their lives its such a cool writing choice and how everything is connected its really neat but I have to say the best thing about the show and I mean the BEST are Charlie and Hugo the depiction of each’s individual struggles both throughout the story on the island, in the back stories and even in the flash sideways are done so honest and factual.
I have to say I hold Hugo over Charlie though simply because we get a lot of addiction shows or characters who are addicts but we rarely get a good honest depiction of mental health and depression; there are several moments throughout the show where Hugo drops a little line and the words within it are so true and so hard hitting to those who have struggled, him alone constantly defending how he eats when he’s depressed is rarely even shown in shows that deal with depression. I think Lost handled and created the character of Hugo with such honesty and he is by far my fave on the show, though I have many lol. Watching this show in 2026 and knowing it started in 2004 just tells me how forward thinking they were when it came to Hugo, even with what they did with Charlie and him finally tossing those damn statues to then having them come back when Vincent brings one to him and he was like wtf man really?! But it just shows the all to real fact that if a dealer is making money off ur buys, they will call u when u stop buying believe me I’ve been there -_- not there now thankfully lol bt his arc went thru it all too from fighting it to hiding it to saying f all of it to redeeming to having it find him again all of that was so real without the way it is shown today, today when an addict is in a show more often than not your going to get a graphic depiction of it and the reality is you don’t need to trigger people to be impactful and that applies to more than just drugs in media too.
Anyway I’m babbling and I know my grammar is nil so…
TL:DR: I think Hugo and Charlie, especially Hugo were written extremely well and depicted mental health and drug addiction both accurately and ahead of their time in 2004 and without needing to be graphic and trigger the audience. :)
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As a first time watcher some of the best things I find in this show are the backstories and how the characters all crossed paths at various points in their lives its such a cool writing choice and how everything is connected its really neat but I have to say the best thing about the show and I mean the BEST are Charlie and Hugo the depiction of each’s individual struggles both throughout the story on the island, in the back stories and even in the flash sideways are done so honest and factual.
I have to say I hold Hugo over Charlie though simply because we get a lot of addiction shows or characters who are addicts but we rarely get a good honest depiction of mental health and depression; there are several moments throughout the show where Hugo drops a little line and the words within it are so true and so hard hitting to those who have struggled, him alone constantly defending how he eats when he’s depressed is rarely even shown in shows that deal with depression. I think Lost handled and created the character of Hugo with such honesty and he is by far my fave on the show, though I have many lol. Watching this show in 2026 and knowing it started in 2004 just tells me how forward thinking they were when it came to Hugo, even with what they did with Charlie and him finally tossing those damn statues to then having them come back when Vincent brings one to him and he was like wtf man really?! But it just shows the all to real fact that if a dealer is making money off ur buys, they will call u when u stop buying believe me I’ve been there -_- not there now thankfully lol bt his arc went thru it all too from fighting it to hiding it to saying f all of it to redeeming to having it find him again all of that was so real without the way it is shown today, today when an addict is in a show more often than not your going to get a graphic depiction of it and the reality is you don’t need to trigger people to be impactful and that applies to more than just drugs in media too.
Anyway I’m babbling and I know my grammar is nil so…
TL:DR: I think Hugo and Charlie, especially Hugo were written extremely well and depicted mental health and drug addiction both accurately and ahead of their time in 2004 and without needing to be graphic and trigger the audience. :)
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Hard to pick because they’re all so beautiful, but whose theme is your favorite?
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Lost - John Locke's Theme
John's Soundtrack
Lost Theme
Lost Theme
Looking for some contemporaneous materials
Back when the show aired, one of the best parts of the experience was leaping up from the couch after an episode, scurrying to the computer room [i know\], and booting up msn messenger [i knowww\] to excitedly speculate with my best friend, the only person i ever met more into the show than me. A big part of the weekly ritual around that involved a sort of semi-official blog associated with the tv channel [we're Australian so i guess it would be channel 7?\] that would update soon after the airtime. whoever wrote it knew a lot more of The Lore than you could from just watching and would reference auxiliary stuff like the Hanso Foundation and so on as well as literary and scientific references in the show, but always with an air that they didn't know where it was going and were speculating right along with us.
Anyway i'm finally going to get to share Lost with someone new for the first time since it aired. I thought it could be fun to share that blog with them as we go. If it's been archived anywhere. I feel like a decade or so ago that would be a no-brainer and it would have a dedicated website but these days? who knows. Anyone got a lead?
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Back when the show aired, one of the best parts of the experience was leaping up from the couch after an episode, scurrying to the computer room [i know\], and booting up msn messenger [i knowww\] to excitedly speculate with my best friend, the only person i ever met more into the show than me. A big part of the weekly ritual around that involved a sort of semi-official blog associated with the tv channel [we're Australian so i guess it would be channel 7?\] that would update soon after the airtime. whoever wrote it knew a lot more of The Lore than you could from just watching and would reference auxiliary stuff like the Hanso Foundation and so on as well as literary and scientific references in the show, but always with an air that they didn't know where it was going and were speculating right along with us.
Anyway i'm finally going to get to share Lost with someone new for the first time since it aired. I thought it could be fun to share that blog with them as we go. If it's been archived anywhere. I feel like a decade or so ago that would be a no-brainer and it would have a dedicated website but these days? who knows. Anyone got a lead?
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Question about Nikki and Paolo
What was all the outrage with their characters? I’d read online that they were hated and their episode was hated.
I honestly didn’t think it was that bad. For those of you who watched it when it was live, what was the general feedback on it?
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What was all the outrage with their characters? I’d read online that they were hated and their episode was hated.
I honestly didn’t think it was that bad. For those of you who watched it when it was live, what was the general feedback on it?
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Is there any HD rip of the smoke monster sound effects?
All I've ever been able to find is sound clips from the show that include background noise and music. I was wondering if the isolated SFX have ever been leaked or anything like that, I'd like to use them for sampling purposes
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All I've ever been able to find is sound clips from the show that include background noise and music. I was wondering if the isolated SFX have ever been leaked or anything like that, I'd like to use them for sampling purposes
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I wonder…
…if any episodes have their most important moment at the 4th minute, 8th minute, 5th minute etc? That would be a very cool Easter egg
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…if any episodes have their most important moment at the 4th minute, 8th minute, 5th minute etc? That would be a very cool Easter egg
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Walt's offer isn't
Walt's offer from Hurley in the epilogue isn't to be the Island's protector, it's to be the new Smoke Monster/support system.
I like to believe that Mother was both or that a split in the roles didn't exist until the events of Across the Sea. So if the energy of the Man in Black was returned to the Island or Hurley, i think it works well if Walt is the recipient. And Hurley maybe doesn't have to throw him down the cave, Walt can shapeshift but still keep himself intact.
A couple fun connections and reasons this could be true:
\- Hurley has barely had any time as the protector, it's a weird turn around from the finale to give up the job right away
\- Hurley is pretty uncomfortable with combat and confrontation, Walt has a lot of bite back in arguments and is interested in knife throwing (also mirroring the Man in Black). I can see Hurley wanting to delegate the more intense role to someone he trusts
\- Walt has some amount of control over animals, the birds in Special and the missing piece Room 23. The Smoke Monster can do this with much more control, Vincent in his missing piece and the medusa spiders in Expose
\- Walt has some form of translocation in Abandoned. The monster does similar stuff like teleporting in Dead is Dead
\- Black smoke is used to signal Walt's kidnapping
\- It's cool if Danielle's quote about the monster being a security system has a kinder truth in the future
\- Hurley and Walt play backgammon several times in season 1, a fun mirror to the brothers favorite past time
And this is the two sides finally clicking into place. Mother was corrupt, possessive, and creepy, isolating the powers of the Island. The brothers were in a war for centuries, the Island at odds. And now two of the most kind hearted people take the helm, Hurley the Island’s keeper and Walt its guardian.
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Walt's offer from Hurley in the epilogue isn't to be the Island's protector, it's to be the new Smoke Monster/support system.
I like to believe that Mother was both or that a split in the roles didn't exist until the events of Across the Sea. So if the energy of the Man in Black was returned to the Island or Hurley, i think it works well if Walt is the recipient. And Hurley maybe doesn't have to throw him down the cave, Walt can shapeshift but still keep himself intact.
A couple fun connections and reasons this could be true:
\- Hurley has barely had any time as the protector, it's a weird turn around from the finale to give up the job right away
\- Hurley is pretty uncomfortable with combat and confrontation, Walt has a lot of bite back in arguments and is interested in knife throwing (also mirroring the Man in Black). I can see Hurley wanting to delegate the more intense role to someone he trusts
\- Walt has some amount of control over animals, the birds in Special and the missing piece Room 23. The Smoke Monster can do this with much more control, Vincent in his missing piece and the medusa spiders in Expose
\- Walt has some form of translocation in Abandoned. The monster does similar stuff like teleporting in Dead is Dead
\- Black smoke is used to signal Walt's kidnapping
\- It's cool if Danielle's quote about the monster being a security system has a kinder truth in the future
\- Hurley and Walt play backgammon several times in season 1, a fun mirror to the brothers favorite past time
And this is the two sides finally clicking into place. Mother was corrupt, possessive, and creepy, isolating the powers of the Island. The brothers were in a war for centuries, the Island at odds. And now two of the most kind hearted people take the helm, Hurley the Island’s keeper and Walt its guardian.
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