Just finished Lost. I sobbed through the entire finale.

Absolute kudos to the writers of this show for handling so many themes, storylines, and characters while still wrapping it up in a way that made sense. All the way down to the small details, like Vincent lying down next to Jack as he died. I LOST it for that part!!!!!

Charlie being the first to remember because he had been waiting for them. “Desmond Hume is my constant.” Ben staying outside the church to move on with Alex. And HURLEY. If we could all strive to have as big of a heart as Hurley, the world would be a better place.

Not to mention Sawyer’s endless arsenal of nicknames. One minute I was crying over the pure emotion being showcased and next scene Sawyer walks past Hurley and calls him Big Foot. It’s hard to strike gold like this for one season of a show, let alone six straight. Bravo, Lost. Bravo.

We have to go back!!!!! 🥲💔

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Greatest Show Off All Time

I finished 6x16 last night and didn’t want to watch the last episode till the next day with sum snacks. Tonight I just finished the last episode.

It’s the greatest show I have ever watched all the different characters not only being side characters but having such detailed back stories and why they were on the island. Amazing.

Jack being the man of science to becoming the man of faith like Locke and understanding that Locke was right was amazing. And when the man in black tried to reminisce with Jack acting like Locke and Jack stood up for Locke. Hurley being the islands protected after Jacks death amazing.

I have seen a lot of people in this sub Reddit rewatching Lost and I will one day.

Locke, Jack, Hurley, Sawyer, Desmond, Sayid, Jin are my favourite characters. Actually all the characters are amazing show.

It was good being a passenger, I’m no longer LOST.

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Jack and Kate
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The birthday present i got
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Just finished Lost… still processing 😭

Just wrapped up Lost for the first time… and yeah, I’m still processing it.

That finale? Broke me. Vincent just lying next to Jack in his last moments… no words, just pure loyalty. That hit hard.

Charlie being the first to remember? Of course. “Not Penny’s Boat” still gives chills.

Desmond and Penny… constant, always.

Hurley... honestly, if the world had more people like him, we’d be sorted.

Ben choosing to stay back… quiet redemption, no drama.

And Sawyer… still throwing nicknames like “Bigfoot” in the middle of emotional chaos 😂 classic.

What really got me though..the show starts with Jack opening his eye in chaos… and ends with him closing it in peace. Full circle.

Six seasons of going from tears to laughter in seconds… not many shows pull that off.

In the end, it wasn’t really about the island or the mystery… it was always about the people.

We have to go back. 🥺💔

See you in another life, brother.

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Forethought by the writers? (S4 & 6)

Was it implied if Jack hadn’t had his appendix removed he would have died sooner when MiB stabbed him during their last fight? If so that is wonderful forethought. I didn’t really understand what purpose his appendicitis served way back in season 4, but if it allowed Jack to survive long enough to defeat MiB at the cliffs I think that is a brilliant little detail.

I don’t actually know if an appendix stab wound would kill someone faster, but I thought it had to be meaningful somehow since they show exactly where he was stabbed after the fight.

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Charlie Pace

So I have a question.

" I am dead. But I'm also here."

Charlie says this to Hurley when he visits him at Santa Rosa and tells Hurley he needs to do something and they need him. He also tells Charlie that he's dead but he's also here.

In the flash sideways, we see a completely different Charlie who doesn't know who Hurley is and needs to be awakened. We also know that before the awakening,bthe person hasn't realized yet that he has died.

I know there is no "now, here" but how do you explain the scene in season 4?

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Lost Explained Easter Egg

Could anyone DM me to help out with the Easter Egg for the Lost Explained channel? I have found the clue, but I am stumped on how to find the actual link to the secret video. Of course I won’t spoil the clue itself! But if anyone could message me and tell me where the actual link is I’d be very grateful.

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No tapes in the Swan

One thing I noticed recently is that there’s no tape player in the Swan. Locke mentions it when he’s talking about the Pearl Orientation tape and says there’s no way to play it down in the Swan; instead they have a film projector. I have no idea if it was intentional, but I think it’s incredible attention to detail since the high magnetism of the Swan’s energy pocket would interfere with magnetic tape, and so they cant have that format down there. Again, not sure if that was intentional, but it works really well!

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COMMUNICATION IS KEY

Am I the only one gets slightly annoyed cuz I swear a lot of issues wouldn’t happen if they just communicate all the information they each know. Instead of I’m the leader now so we do this now 😭

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Craziest Smoke Monster theories?

I just started my 6th rewatch. I didn’t get to watch as the show was airing on tv, so I don’t know any of the discourse at the time.

>!Before seeing the smoke monster for the first time, what were some of the crazy theories fans were coming up with based off the noises, the pilot getting shredded, etc.!<

Also any other crazy theories as the show was originally airing will be welcome as well

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Songs in Pop Culture That Remind You of Lost.

I was just listening to a song by Talking Heads, "Heaven".

"There is a party. Everyone is there. Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.

When this party's over, it will start again. It won't be any different. It will be exactly the same. "

I don't know if anyone is familiar with that song, but it reminded me of the ending of Lost so much.

Are there any songs you've heard that reminds you of the show at all?

Nirvana "Scentless Apprentice" of course reminds me of Jack all drugged out but of course that's the actual song in the scene. Haha

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the end
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a cynical take i’ve never voiced out loud. SPOILERS :)

i’ve seen lost fully through 10 times as of last month, and seasons 1-3 probably 5 more times due to all of the times i’ve started it with people that didn’t finish it.

in my 8th watch, it hit me: this show is fucking depressing. the TLDR is that two demigods bent on proving each other wrong manipulated a bunch of people and got them all killed.

locke found his destiny - which was the island’s pull on him, not just jacob’s - and was manipulated into choosing his own death rather than properly leading the island. it could have gone countless different ways - he could have had jack leave through the orchid, promising him that he would actually be able to leave and persuading him that he could send help for everyone else once he did. and it wasn’t even a meaningful death; ben killing him was stupid and sad. his death only meant anything because ben manipulated jack into thinking it did.

and then the real puppetmaster - the man in black - wore his body around to kill off jacob, and eventually, RIGHT after jack finally accepted his own “destiny,” he died. which would never have happened if locke hadn’t died. jack was a stubborn idiot and his bad choices directly led to the deaths of countless people he swore to protect, most of whom he showed no remorse over.

every character that died but managed to do anything meaningful in the show, their actions were only meaningful within the subplot of the jacob-MiB feud. they were literally all pawns that died for nothing.

juliet’s death was absurd, based on faraday’s wildly incorrect notion that the incident would solve all of their problems. she was wrong when she said “it worked;” it didn’t, she was just on the edge of death and seeing into her afterlife. she just died, plain and simple, and never got to leave the island, never got to see her sister or her baby, she just died. that’s it.

sun and jin… jin never even got to meet ji yeon. it’s just sad as shit.

LOST is just sad. it’s grief. it’s a bunch of people being coerced into finding meaning in things that had no meaning. the only thing that actually had meaning was their relationships that led to them being connected in the afterlife. but their lives were sad, pathetic, problematic, or otherwise just wasted. the whole show is sad as shit.

the obvious exception is hugo. he chose to be the island’s protector and he was the one person good enough to have been able to do it well. that’s the one saving grace of the entirety of the main narrative in my opinion.

anyways, rant over. LOST is my favorite show, and i doubt i’ve watched it half as many times as i will by the time i die. i feel less cynical now when i watch it, but certain moments always enrage me - most notably, jack calling the freighter, and locke dying. stupid shit.

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Why did Sawyer attack Kate?

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Deleted scene 'Desert Stash' - Second Ben

Just been watching the deleted scenes on one of the blu rays.

There is a deleted scene where after being transported to the desert Ben visits a stash of money and passports. Whilst visiting it he seems to look over to another version of himself lying on the floor. I wonder what the purpose of this would have been

Any thoughts?

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Episode Two of my hypothetical LOST Season 7 is done - “Because You Stayed”

Episode Two of my hypothetical LOST Season 7 is finished.
It’s been almost two weeks since I posted the premiere. I kept working on the season, and Episode One is still locked. If you missed that post and want the whole original premise/rules/whatever, it’s here.

I was a little bummed the first post mostly sank, because I’d hoped to get thoughts from similarly-minded people who have spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about LOST. I also think I buried something important under way too much explanation the first time:

I don’t really want LOST to come back either.
I think “The End” is a perfect ending. I’m not campaigning for Disney to make Season 7, and if the show stayed untouched forever I would be more than fine with that.

I also don’t especially trust Hollywood to leave a beloved thing alone forever. That’s the hypothetical I’m playing with: if somebody eventually decides to bring LOST back whether I want them to or not, what would the best possible version of that look like to me? More specifically: what would it take for somebody whose first reaction is “please don’t fuck up LOST” to watch a revival and be pleasantly surprised that it was actually good? Because that’s essentially my own starting point.

So if anyone here says LOST should be left alone, I’m not trying to convince you you’re wrong. Those are pretty much the people I’m imagining reading/“watching” this thing.

I’m still going to keep writing it because I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of my life thinking about this show, I like writing, and brainstorming the season I’ve plotted out has been incredibly fun. There’s also something appealing to me about putting a genuinely new LOST thing into the world for other fans to poke at instead of having another argument about Kate or restating that they weren’t dead the whole time.

Anyway.

LOST - Season 7, Episode 2: “**Because You Stayed**”

Episode One was intentionally pretty big. Episode Two pulls inward - smaller, more character-focused, more jungle, a centric story, and generally something closer to the scale of early LOST.

The second this post is live, Episode Two is locked. If you read it, feel free to engage. You can love something, hate something, call bullshit on something, predict where I’m going, or point out something that looks like a mistake. Other than the possibility of any of you catching a typo, I won’t be going back and rewriting the posted episodes around the reaction.

I’m just going to keep making the season.

PDF:
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Jack and Ana Lucia were such an interesting leadership duo
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