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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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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Why is Demond there?
So I am rewatching for like the fourth time and I was thinking, why tf should the island bring Desmond there tho?
If he had never arrived there, both Charles and penny widmore wouldn’t find either him or the island
But I think that I’m assuming that Mr widmore searched organized the world trip only to see where the people would miss by maybe…
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So I am rewatching for like the fourth time and I was thinking, why tf should the island bring Desmond there tho?
If he had never arrived there, both Charles and penny widmore wouldn’t find either him or the island
But I think that I’m assuming that Mr widmore searched organized the world trip only to see where the people would miss by maybe…
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Take a shot every time sun gets startled while tending the garden.
How many times does this happen. It's become a joke that my fiancee and I have adopted. We see sun in the garden and we say "here comes a rustle in the leaves".
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How many times does this happen. It's become a joke that my fiancee and I have adopted. We see sun in the garden and we say "here comes a rustle in the leaves".
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First Time Watcher
Hey y’all! I’m a first time watcher. My partner and I have been watching slowly the past few months and we’re on the last few episodes of Season 3. They’ve seen it before when they were younger but forgot almost everything save a few parts. I’ve loved this show so much and being in 2026, I have to ask since I’m a little jaded: Does this show end on an ending better than most modern shows (i.e. GoT, TWD) or does the ending just throw it off? Asking because I’m heavily invested in the character arks and development.
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Hey y’all! I’m a first time watcher. My partner and I have been watching slowly the past few months and we’re on the last few episodes of Season 3. They’ve seen it before when they were younger but forgot almost everything save a few parts. I’ve loved this show so much and being in 2026, I have to ask since I’m a little jaded: Does this show end on an ending better than most modern shows (i.e. GoT, TWD) or does the ending just throw it off? Asking because I’m heavily invested in the character arks and development.
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the main characters are so rude to the other plane crash survivors
Yeah yeah I get it they don’t want to create chaos but come on jack kate locke be showering and sitting on a couch and washing their clothes while the other survivors are in dirty clothes at the beach.
This is the only thing that annoys me on the show lmao.
Edit: i know they don’t probably just show it, but I am rewatching and dont really get the hints that everyone is told about the things in the hatch. Like for an example how did they hide Ben(henry in those episodes) for days out there if everyone on the beach had shifts at the hatch?
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Yeah yeah I get it they don’t want to create chaos but come on jack kate locke be showering and sitting on a couch and washing their clothes while the other survivors are in dirty clothes at the beach.
This is the only thing that annoys me on the show lmao.
Edit: i know they don’t probably just show it, but I am rewatching and dont really get the hints that everyone is told about the things in the hatch. Like for an example how did they hide Ben(henry in those episodes) for days out there if everyone on the beach had shifts at the hatch?
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My 1st thought watching S1E20- They could have gotten Locke to deliver Claire’s baby by telling him he couldn’t possibly do it.
Reverse psychology. Tell Locke he’s no obgyn and he’s not cut out for this kind of thing. He’ll be so incensed at being told what he can’t do that he’ll do it super quick?
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Reverse psychology. Tell Locke he’s no obgyn and he’s not cut out for this kind of thing. He’ll be so incensed at being told what he can’t do that he’ll do it super quick?
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What if the show did continue?
I’ve been wondering about what might have happened if the writers never got the end date of 6 seasons. Without a doubt, the writers getting the end date agreement with ABC back in S3 was one of the best things to happen to the show. You can feel so clearly that, after S3, the writers really felt comfortable to shift everything into the next gear and get the story MOVING. I’ve always loved the change of pace of the latter 3 seasons, and I think it pairs wonderfully with the slower and somewhat quieter (at times) pace of the first 3. What I wonder is, what the hell would have happened if they never got the end date? ABC obviously believed that to end a successful show is a bad idea (such a strange attitude, TV Networks are insane sometimes), so who knows how long it could’ve gone on for? I imagine that Lindelof and Cuse would have left at some point. I imagine it would’ve been a hard decision to abandon the show into monotony until audiences stop caring and ABC cancel it, especially for Lindelof, but I don’t think many of the writers would have been able to stomach letting the show get to a constant ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ level of quality. I think the show would have had new writers come in by the 4th or 5th season (which would likely be longer, although it’s interesting to consider how the writer’s strike would have affected this different version of the show) and it could’ve continued to 8, or maybe 10 or more seasons. I doubt the show would have ended up exploring what we get in S4-6, or at least certainly not in the very thought-out way that Damon and Carlton and the rest of the writing team presented. Personally, I imagine some terrible scenario where Lost would have continued with these new writers, and they probably would have done something like introduce a new plane with new survivors, and have token original characters return. And there would have been more hatches, more Others, etc.
I’m curious to know what other people think would have happened if the writers never got that end date. I’m so grateful that the writers got the chance to end the show in a reasonable time frame, because it gave them the opportunity to properly formulate and have an aim with the story. I think they did such a great job with what they had, especially considering they only wanted 3 seasons originally anyway. I think the show turned out as amazingly as it could have, but it’s definitely fun to imagine what could have happened if things weren’t so lucky, and the terrible grips of TV Network suits had their way!
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I’ve been wondering about what might have happened if the writers never got the end date of 6 seasons. Without a doubt, the writers getting the end date agreement with ABC back in S3 was one of the best things to happen to the show. You can feel so clearly that, after S3, the writers really felt comfortable to shift everything into the next gear and get the story MOVING. I’ve always loved the change of pace of the latter 3 seasons, and I think it pairs wonderfully with the slower and somewhat quieter (at times) pace of the first 3. What I wonder is, what the hell would have happened if they never got the end date? ABC obviously believed that to end a successful show is a bad idea (such a strange attitude, TV Networks are insane sometimes), so who knows how long it could’ve gone on for? I imagine that Lindelof and Cuse would have left at some point. I imagine it would’ve been a hard decision to abandon the show into monotony until audiences stop caring and ABC cancel it, especially for Lindelof, but I don’t think many of the writers would have been able to stomach letting the show get to a constant ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ level of quality. I think the show would have had new writers come in by the 4th or 5th season (which would likely be longer, although it’s interesting to consider how the writer’s strike would have affected this different version of the show) and it could’ve continued to 8, or maybe 10 or more seasons. I doubt the show would have ended up exploring what we get in S4-6, or at least certainly not in the very thought-out way that Damon and Carlton and the rest of the writing team presented. Personally, I imagine some terrible scenario where Lost would have continued with these new writers, and they probably would have done something like introduce a new plane with new survivors, and have token original characters return. And there would have been more hatches, more Others, etc.
I’m curious to know what other people think would have happened if the writers never got that end date. I’m so grateful that the writers got the chance to end the show in a reasonable time frame, because it gave them the opportunity to properly formulate and have an aim with the story. I think they did such a great job with what they had, especially considering they only wanted 3 seasons originally anyway. I think the show turned out as amazingly as it could have, but it’s definitely fun to imagine what could have happened if things weren’t so lucky, and the terrible grips of TV Network suits had their way!
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