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:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vFy7VRR4hS-r0LIL8Fu8YLyreO1xJrt4/view?usp=drivesdk

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Jack and Ana Lucia were such an interesting leadership duo
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Who is your favourite character from lost?
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Was pleasantly surprised to see this while reading The Flash/Green Lantern
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Chills in this scene! Phenomenal acting 👏👏👏

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S4E4 eggtown

Just rewatched and noticed that when clocked gives Ben his breakfast he said they were the last eggs. Then he goes on to kill the chicken. So there could have been more eggs, right?
What does this tell us about Locke at this moment? Is he killing the chicken to provide for his group, trying to be a good leader? Is he showing that he’s so confident that the island won’t let them starve that he can kill the last chicken?

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Not Penny's Podcast New Episodes!

After some time away (life always finds a way, huh?) Rebecca and I are back!! If you're new, Rebecca and I host Not Penny's Podcast, a LOST rewatch podcast with a twist: One of us is a devoted Lostie, and the other is watching for the very first time!

Show is on just about every major podcast platform (Apple, Amazon Music, Pocketcasts), as well as Youtube (Audio only. We don't produce video content)!

We always welcome comments and feedback, but please don't post spoilers. We are currently coming to the end of Season 1, and are getting to a regular weekly schedule. We typically record 1-2 episodes per show, but reserve premieres/finales and standout episodes for solo shows.

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How Desmond feels about pasta
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Episodes that hit you hardest?

Lost is such an awesome show! Every time I rewatch it, I relate to another character depending on what position in life I'm at. What are some of the episodes that hit you the hardest and really made you think about life? For me, it has to be "Greatest Hits" when Charlie was listing the most significant and happy moments in life. I think it's the episode before "Through the Looking Glass" parts 1 and 2.

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Just finished! (spoilers)

Hey everyone. My girlfriend and I just finished Lost for the first time and I wanted to hop in here to share my thoughts immediately after the finale! I’ve longed to interact with this reddit community since we started a few months ago but I have purposely refused to enter until we were done. Here goes!

My favorite character: Desmond. His entire arc of getting to the island and then navigating the afterlife to get everyone back together was done so well. Especially with his connection to the Island, him being the first one to recognize that this “life” was off was great. High honorable mention to John Locke, Sawyer, and Jin. Loved them all as well.

The best character: Jack. Every memory and experience on the island felt like it revolved around Jack, even when it was other character arcs or events. The show starting with him and then ending in the exact same way was amazing. His emotional and unrational decision making had us frustrated at times but it felt like the design of a flawed but pretty perfect character.

My least favorite character: Not necessarily sure I have one to pick but I really wasn’t a huge fan of Charlie. His flashback with Claire and Kate in the afterlife was incredibly emotional but to put it simply, he annoyed me. However, him telling Desmond “Not Pennys Boat” was so unbelievably good that it redeemed him for me. I wasn’t a huge fan of Michael either. Meh.

Best character development: Sawyer. His constant progression as a character was masterfully done. Them opening back up the emotional side that he tried to suppress for so long cause of his trauma was incredible. Also his connection with Juliet and then having their flashes together in the hospital had the floodgates opening up. Perfect.

Favorite moment: The End. I’d heard that the finale was a bit subjective (thanks dad) but never had any spoilers. I could not be more satisfied. The characters returning to each other in the afterlife, especially the ones we lost during the show, was emotional and beautiful. Had me crying but smiling. I loved it.

Some of my other favorite moments off the top of my head include:
The light turning on in the hatch while John was over it. Audible gasp.
Michael typing on the computer and Walt responding “dad?”
Sayid reuniting with Shannon in the afterlife. Especially with him losing her so early into their relationship. Good to see Boone again too!
Ethan “not being on the manifest” was such a incredible.
The initial Jacob reveal and then all the flashbacks of him meeting everyone.
The first flash back in time and then seeing the original Dharma village up and running.
Jin and Sun reuniting on the beach after Sun comes back.
Every time we had a flash forward event and somehow someway Ben was there in the shadows.
So many more but those are my big booms.

Overall, it was the best TV show I’ve ever watched. We was so attached to (almost) every character and the thought put into the development of their arcs. Continuity eggs throughout every season were so well done. The uniqueness of it was unlike any show I’ve ever watched. What do I do now?!

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S5E1 - my FAVORITE first episode of a season since S1

that was so good, like I was hyped from the start to the end and the way they introduced the storylines that we will follow was soooo good too.

first off the intro being set in the past with Dr Chang and him filming the tapes, then we see the Orchard being built and then encountering the energy thing, THEN WE BUMP into DANIEL 🔥 🔥 that was so good.

I absolutely love the way they’re jumping to different periods in time throughout this episode and i love that Sawyer is here, the absolute perfect character to be here 😭

Man and Locke, his journey is about to be CRAZY because every scene with him is just super intriguing especially with Richard later telling him stuff that will happen.

Him encountering Ethan as well and Richard saying what comes around goes around 💀

On top of the Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hugo, Sun storyline too its all super peak.

But my favorite part is when Daniel goes to Bunker Desmond and implants that memory in him to let current Desmond know what to do, it’s just so good i love it.

I have a feeling this will be my favorite season yet.

Now I wonder how far in the future they went when they saw the imploded hatch.

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Sayid always gave me hope.

I’m rewatching for the first time since the original run. I left it long enough that so much of it feels fresh again, almost like I’m watching for the first time.

I'm currently on S3 E15 and I forgot how good a character Sayid is.

Sayid should have been the leader from DAY ONE. Every time Sayid says, "Something isn’t right" nobody listens to him especially Jack and then three episodes later everyone finds out that, shockingly, SAYID WAS RIGHT AGAIN.

He’s intelligent, observant, calm under pressure, understands strategy, can read people, knows when someone is lying, and actually thinks about the consequences before running headfirst into danger.

He has literally proved Jack wrong multiple times, yet somehow everyone still turns around and goes:

“Okay, what does Jack think?”

Jack is a doctor! A pretty good doctor sure.

But if we’re stranded on a mysterious island where people are kidnapping us, manipulating us and lying to our faces, maybe we should listen to the trained intelligence officer and interrogator?

Sayid deserved better.

Sayid is genuinely the best character and I will die on this hill

Now back to Jack telling Sayid that juliet is coming back to the camp with them "because the others left her behind too" after Sayid said shes not coming back with them 😭 pain..

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Why do you find it so hard to believe?

John: Why do you find it so hard to believe?
Jack: Why do you find it so easy?!
John: It’s never been easy!

I was just thinking about this and it’s kind of silly. John is asking why it’s so hard, but if it’s never been easy for him then he should know why.

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Rewatching Season 2 and the moment where Eko Knocks out the Rafties.. there was another tail survivor and Libby‘s hair looks weird lol
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The amount of skull fractures and CTE for the characters on lost must be insane with how often they’re knocked out by being hit in the head with guns.

From my view as an engineer.

It’s my first time watching and I’m midway through S4. Started noticing how often people were getting knocked out by being hit in the head with a gun. People seem to do it so casually too; sometimes when a friendly character doesn’t want to be followed by another.

A loaded 1911 in the show is made of steel and weighs close to 3lbs. My personal CZ Shadow 2 is 3.5 lbs. According to google the force needed to cause a skull fracture is 73 Newton. At a weight of 3lbs a person would need to swing their arm at 53.6 m/s\^2. Google also says that an average human can accelerate at over 100 m/s\^2 while pro ball players would be 500-1000 m/s\^2. So safe to say people would have some serious immediate and long term brain issues.

If Aroldis Chapman were in lost (fastest recorded pitch in mlb), he’d be liquifying peoples brains on the regular lol.

Anyhow just some useless info I picked up on while watching. It’s a great show. Couldn’t imagine watching it in real time when it first released and waiting a week between episodes though haha.

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