What is the best LOST edit you’ve seen online?
There are so many beautiful and cool fan edits posted on Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit ect. of the show. Which one has stuck with you?
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There are so many beautiful and cool fan edits posted on Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit ect. of the show. Which one has stuck with you?
https://redd.it/1w9uilf
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I’m almost certain a lot of the modern gripes and confusion around Lost come from the fact that people now watch TV with a second screen in their hand.
I adore this show. I’ve probably rewatched it six times since it aired, so I’m obviously biased.
I have an attachment to it, and like many of you, I feel an almost irrational need to defend it whenever someone complains about “plot holes”, unanswered questions, or not understanding “the point”.
To me, Lost is the ultimate journey, not the destination series.
The mysteries are brilliant, obviously. They’re the engine of the show. But they’re not really what the show is about.
It’s about people.
Jack learning that he can’t fix everything. Locke needing desperately to believe his suffering meant something. Sawyer slowly becoming the man he spent his entire life pretending not to be. Ben lying and manipulating because control is the only thing that makes him feel safe. Hurley learning that maybe he isn’t cursed. Jin and Sun. Desmond and Penny. Charlie.
The mythology matters because of what it does to those characters.
And, frankly, I think Lost actually ties a pretty neat bow around its mythology than its reputation suggests. Not every microscopic question gets a Wiki page read aloud to the audience, but most of the things that actually matter are answered.
Which brings me to second-screen viewing.
Lost demands that you actually watch it.
A character will say something in episode 7 that completely changes the meaning of something you saw in episode 2. A glance matters. A name matters. Someone telling a story matters. A seemingly throwaway conversation can become devastating twenty episodes later.
It builds this enormous web very slowly.
And if you’re scrolling Reddit, checking your phone, Googling “what is the smoke monster?” halfway through season two, you’re not really experiencing that web being spun. You’re just collecting answers.
And Lost is absolutely terrible if you reduce it to a list of questions and answers.
What is the island?
Who are the Others?
What is the hatch?
Why are there polar bears?
What is the smoke monster?
Were they dead the whole time?
Google those and, of course the whole thing probably sounds completely ridiculous!
But watching Locke banging on the hatch door while Desmond is underneath it contemplating suicide?
That’s Lost.
Watching Sawyer tell Jack about meeting Christian in a bar?
That’s Lost.
Desmond realising Charlie is going to die and repeatedly trying to change fate?
That’s Lost.
“The Constant” works because you have spent years with these people.
“Through the Looking Glass” works because you understand exactly who Charlie has become.
“The End” works because the show has spent six seasons telling you that these people finding one another was more important than any glowing cave or frozen wheel ever could be.
I also think bingeing changes it.
When Lost aired, you had a week between episodes. Months between seasons. You sat with mysteries. You argued about them. You forgot details and then suddenly remembered them when something paid off two years later. Now you can watch three episodes while half-looking at your phone, Google a mystery the second it appears, read a Reddit thread explaining something the show hasn’t explained yet, and finish a season in two evenings.
Of course that changes the experience.
And I reckon it’s partly why we now get so many posts saying things like, “I’m on season three and they still haven’t explained X.”
Yes.
That’s the point.
You’re on season three.
Let the show tell you the story.
Put the phone away.
Stop Googling.
Get lost.
https://redd.it/1wa2mf6
@lostbackup
I adore this show. I’ve probably rewatched it six times since it aired, so I’m obviously biased.
I have an attachment to it, and like many of you, I feel an almost irrational need to defend it whenever someone complains about “plot holes”, unanswered questions, or not understanding “the point”.
To me, Lost is the ultimate journey, not the destination series.
The mysteries are brilliant, obviously. They’re the engine of the show. But they’re not really what the show is about.
It’s about people.
Jack learning that he can’t fix everything. Locke needing desperately to believe his suffering meant something. Sawyer slowly becoming the man he spent his entire life pretending not to be. Ben lying and manipulating because control is the only thing that makes him feel safe. Hurley learning that maybe he isn’t cursed. Jin and Sun. Desmond and Penny. Charlie.
The mythology matters because of what it does to those characters.
And, frankly, I think Lost actually ties a pretty neat bow around its mythology than its reputation suggests. Not every microscopic question gets a Wiki page read aloud to the audience, but most of the things that actually matter are answered.
Which brings me to second-screen viewing.
Lost demands that you actually watch it.
A character will say something in episode 7 that completely changes the meaning of something you saw in episode 2. A glance matters. A name matters. Someone telling a story matters. A seemingly throwaway conversation can become devastating twenty episodes later.
It builds this enormous web very slowly.
And if you’re scrolling Reddit, checking your phone, Googling “what is the smoke monster?” halfway through season two, you’re not really experiencing that web being spun. You’re just collecting answers.
And Lost is absolutely terrible if you reduce it to a list of questions and answers.
What is the island?
Who are the Others?
What is the hatch?
Why are there polar bears?
What is the smoke monster?
Were they dead the whole time?
Google those and, of course the whole thing probably sounds completely ridiculous!
But watching Locke banging on the hatch door while Desmond is underneath it contemplating suicide?
That’s Lost.
Watching Sawyer tell Jack about meeting Christian in a bar?
That’s Lost.
Desmond realising Charlie is going to die and repeatedly trying to change fate?
That’s Lost.
“The Constant” works because you have spent years with these people.
“Through the Looking Glass” works because you understand exactly who Charlie has become.
“The End” works because the show has spent six seasons telling you that these people finding one another was more important than any glowing cave or frozen wheel ever could be.
I also think bingeing changes it.
When Lost aired, you had a week between episodes. Months between seasons. You sat with mysteries. You argued about them. You forgot details and then suddenly remembered them when something paid off two years later. Now you can watch three episodes while half-looking at your phone, Google a mystery the second it appears, read a Reddit thread explaining something the show hasn’t explained yet, and finish a season in two evenings.
Of course that changes the experience.
And I reckon it’s partly why we now get so many posts saying things like, “I’m on season three and they still haven’t explained X.”
Yes.
That’s the point.
You’re on season three.
Let the show tell you the story.
Put the phone away.
Stop Googling.
Get lost.
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You forget how much fun LOST was...
LOST has been my favourite TV show of all time ever since it first aired. Very few shows since have had the sort of complexity and ambition this show did. It was ahead of its time. But my TV experiences of late of also taught me to appreciate how much fun it was to watch.
I have made the deadly mistake of watching FROM for the past four years, and after finally getting to the stage this year where it made me want to lobotomise myself, I decided to look around and see if there were any other mystery box shows that I haven't watched before that might be worth my time. Over the years I've watched many, including REVOLUTION, FRINGE, WESTWORLD, SEVERANCE, etc. But one that I never bothered with at the time was DARK. So I watched it for the first time recently.
Many of you know that the writers of DARK had a luxury that the writers of LOST never had, and nor did the writers of most mystery box shows: They conceived the show as three seasons, planned those three seasons, and made three seasons. As a result, they got to make a tightly plotted show that doesn't leave loose ends and gets to stick to a coherent vision from start to finish.
Now don't get me wrong, DARK is a very well acted, atmospheric show with a lot of complexity and ambition. A lot of the things I like in a TV series. But the thing that really struck me and left me feeling that it was only mid was that it was just NO FUN. It is extremely serious and portentious, completely humourless, and pretty much every character is a bit of an ass.
And this is what sets LOST apart for me. It might have its flaws, but aside from the complex narrative and themes which really gripped me, as someone who watched it week by week when it first aired, it was just damn FUN to watch. It was fun to speculate and theorise each week. It mashed genres together and gave you references and Easter eggs to spot and look out for. It had a sense of humour. And it had villainous characters, but it also had likeable characters you could root for.
It strikes me that this sense of fun is what is missing from most modern mystery box shows that took their cues from LOST. And it's why, although there are lots of very good shows out there that have come out since, it will always be the GOAT for me.
https://redd.it/1wa6pag
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LOST has been my favourite TV show of all time ever since it first aired. Very few shows since have had the sort of complexity and ambition this show did. It was ahead of its time. But my TV experiences of late of also taught me to appreciate how much fun it was to watch.
I have made the deadly mistake of watching FROM for the past four years, and after finally getting to the stage this year where it made me want to lobotomise myself, I decided to look around and see if there were any other mystery box shows that I haven't watched before that might be worth my time. Over the years I've watched many, including REVOLUTION, FRINGE, WESTWORLD, SEVERANCE, etc. But one that I never bothered with at the time was DARK. So I watched it for the first time recently.
Many of you know that the writers of DARK had a luxury that the writers of LOST never had, and nor did the writers of most mystery box shows: They conceived the show as three seasons, planned those three seasons, and made three seasons. As a result, they got to make a tightly plotted show that doesn't leave loose ends and gets to stick to a coherent vision from start to finish.
Now don't get me wrong, DARK is a very well acted, atmospheric show with a lot of complexity and ambition. A lot of the things I like in a TV series. But the thing that really struck me and left me feeling that it was only mid was that it was just NO FUN. It is extremely serious and portentious, completely humourless, and pretty much every character is a bit of an ass.
And this is what sets LOST apart for me. It might have its flaws, but aside from the complex narrative and themes which really gripped me, as someone who watched it week by week when it first aired, it was just damn FUN to watch. It was fun to speculate and theorise each week. It mashed genres together and gave you references and Easter eggs to spot and look out for. It had a sense of humour. And it had villainous characters, but it also had likeable characters you could root for.
It strikes me that this sense of fun is what is missing from most modern mystery box shows that took their cues from LOST. And it's why, although there are lots of very good shows out there that have come out since, it will always be the GOAT for me.
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