I watched LOST at 25. I just watched it again at 47 with my son. I see almost everyone differently now.
I watched LOST when it originally aired and just finished watching it again with my 13 year old
I was 25 when LOST premiered and watched the whole thing week by week. Waiting months to find out what was in the hatch. Reading theories. Talking about episodes all week. Trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
I just watched the whole series again with my 13 year old son for his first time and I think watching him watch it was almost as interesting as watching the show again.
The biggest difference was that he wasn’t trying to beat the show.
I kept waiting for theories. Who are the Others? What is the smoke monster? What’s going on with Locke? What’s the island?
He just let the show happen.
When Locke died and came back he figured it was time travel. Then he just kept watching. Charlie dying genuinely upset him. Hurley was his favorite character. He liked Locke. And when we got to the finale, which I was probably most curious about because of the reaction it got when it originally aired, he loved it.
And I still love it.
Watching it again at 47 though, I realized I see some of these characters VERY differently.
Locke might be the most tragic character on the entire show.
He’s actually a lot like Ben, which I’m sure some people will disagree with.
Both of them know the island matters. Both desperately want to be the person the island needs. Both spend their lives getting incredibly close to that purpose without ever actually reaching it.
And honestly, I think Locke could have been the next Jacob.
Of everyone on that island, protecting it makes the most sense for him. He finally finds the place where he belongs and spends the rest of his life being manipulated because of how badly he wants that belonging to mean something.
Then the Man in Black literally takes his identity and uses Locke’s faith to accomplish the exact opposite of what Locke wanted.
That’s fucking tragic.
Ben makes me much sadder now too. When I was younger I saw much more of the manipulative asshole. He’s still a manipulative asshole, but now I also see this incredibly insecure and damaged guy who desperately wants to matter to something bigger than himself.
Michael, on the other hand, I have LESS sympathy for now.
And this is probably the part that will piss some people off.
Watching the show again as a father made Michael more frustrating to me, not less.
He spends an enormous amount of the show fighting to get Walt back. WAAAAALT became a joke for a reason. But when he actually has Walt, so much of his relationship with him seems to be about controlling him instead of actually getting to know the kid in front of him.
He fought like hell for the opportunity to be Walt’s father and then, in my opinion, dropped the ball when he got it.
I understand why Michael did a lot of what he did. I just don’t think understanding it automatically makes him a good father.
But the biggest thing that’s changed for me isn’t Michael or Locke.
It’s what I think LOST is actually about.
I never hated the finale. I never thought they were dead the whole time. But at 47 I understand the ending differently than I did when I first watched it.
No matter who you are, what you’ve screwed up, what you’ve accomplished or how important you thought you were, eventually the most important part of your life is the people you met and the people you helped along the way.
That’s LOST to me now.
And weirdly, watching it with my son made me appreciate that even more.
The only thing I think he genuinely missed was something you can’t recreate by streaming it.
The waiting.
Waiting a week after an episode. Waiting an entire summer after a finale. Talking about it with people. Reading insane theories. Being completely convinced you figured something out and then finding out you weren’t even close.
That was part of LOST too.
He didn’t get any of that and still loved the show.
For those of you who watched LOST when it
I watched LOST when it originally aired and just finished watching it again with my 13 year old
I was 25 when LOST premiered and watched the whole thing week by week. Waiting months to find out what was in the hatch. Reading theories. Talking about episodes all week. Trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
I just watched the whole series again with my 13 year old son for his first time and I think watching him watch it was almost as interesting as watching the show again.
The biggest difference was that he wasn’t trying to beat the show.
I kept waiting for theories. Who are the Others? What is the smoke monster? What’s going on with Locke? What’s the island?
He just let the show happen.
When Locke died and came back he figured it was time travel. Then he just kept watching. Charlie dying genuinely upset him. Hurley was his favorite character. He liked Locke. And when we got to the finale, which I was probably most curious about because of the reaction it got when it originally aired, he loved it.
And I still love it.
Watching it again at 47 though, I realized I see some of these characters VERY differently.
Locke might be the most tragic character on the entire show.
He’s actually a lot like Ben, which I’m sure some people will disagree with.
Both of them know the island matters. Both desperately want to be the person the island needs. Both spend their lives getting incredibly close to that purpose without ever actually reaching it.
And honestly, I think Locke could have been the next Jacob.
Of everyone on that island, protecting it makes the most sense for him. He finally finds the place where he belongs and spends the rest of his life being manipulated because of how badly he wants that belonging to mean something.
Then the Man in Black literally takes his identity and uses Locke’s faith to accomplish the exact opposite of what Locke wanted.
That’s fucking tragic.
Ben makes me much sadder now too. When I was younger I saw much more of the manipulative asshole. He’s still a manipulative asshole, but now I also see this incredibly insecure and damaged guy who desperately wants to matter to something bigger than himself.
Michael, on the other hand, I have LESS sympathy for now.
And this is probably the part that will piss some people off.
Watching the show again as a father made Michael more frustrating to me, not less.
He spends an enormous amount of the show fighting to get Walt back. WAAAAALT became a joke for a reason. But when he actually has Walt, so much of his relationship with him seems to be about controlling him instead of actually getting to know the kid in front of him.
He fought like hell for the opportunity to be Walt’s father and then, in my opinion, dropped the ball when he got it.
I understand why Michael did a lot of what he did. I just don’t think understanding it automatically makes him a good father.
But the biggest thing that’s changed for me isn’t Michael or Locke.
It’s what I think LOST is actually about.
I never hated the finale. I never thought they were dead the whole time. But at 47 I understand the ending differently than I did when I first watched it.
No matter who you are, what you’ve screwed up, what you’ve accomplished or how important you thought you were, eventually the most important part of your life is the people you met and the people you helped along the way.
That’s LOST to me now.
And weirdly, watching it with my son made me appreciate that even more.
The only thing I think he genuinely missed was something you can’t recreate by streaming it.
The waiting.
Waiting a week after an episode. Waiting an entire summer after a finale. Talking about it with people. Reading insane theories. Being completely convinced you figured something out and then finding out you weren’t even close.
That was part of LOST too.
He didn’t get any of that and still loved the show.
For those of you who watched LOST when it
originally aired, I’m curious if getting older changed which characters you sympathize with or even what you think the show was ultimately about.
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Tears, so many tears!
I’ve just finished watching lost for roughly the 20th time and every single time I get to the final episode, I cry like a baby. Sobbing. Does this show touch anyone else like this? I always think, ‘it won’t happen this time because I’ve seen it soooo many times’ and then there I am, absolutely bawling.
What an incredible show! I just absolutely adore it. My favourite show ever. It is just phenomenal.
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I’ve just finished watching lost for roughly the 20th time and every single time I get to the final episode, I cry like a baby. Sobbing. Does this show touch anyone else like this? I always think, ‘it won’t happen this time because I’ve seen it soooo many times’ and then there I am, absolutely bawling.
What an incredible show! I just absolutely adore it. My favourite show ever. It is just phenomenal.
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