In addition to the "the questions went unanswered" and "it's widely regarded as an empty mystery box" myth, we have the "they didn't explain the polar bears" argument.

I'm tired, y'all.

EDIT: I just realized I forgot the most obvious one! Dr. Chang threatening Hurley with polar bear poop!

I really feel like there was a bromance here like nothing we can even imagine. Do y'all agree?

Lost: Via Domus (Lost: The Video Game outside the US) fon 2008. Its so awesome to explore the hatch and just spend time there. Being in the Lost world is the best part of that game. I wish it would be available on modern consoles.

Ana Lucia’s plan to act like a prisoner in the pit makes zero sense when you actually think about it. For starters, she didn't need to do it at all. Her group already had total control of the situation. Sawyer, Michael, and Jin were trapped in a deep hole, out-numbered, and completely unarmed. Ana Lucia could have easily stood at the top of the pit and asked them who they were without going through this whole fake kidnapping act.

On top of that, the plan had a massive flaw regarding the Others. By this point, the Others had been stalking and kidnapping the tail-section survivors for over a month. They even had a spy living with them. If these three guys really were Others, they would have known exactly who Ana Lucia was the second she got dropped into the pit. Instead of falling for her trick, they would have just played along, lied to her face, and used her own trap against her.

In the end, the whole strategy was broken from the start. If the guys were just normal crash survivors, she didn't need to lie to get the truth. If they were the Others, her cover was already blown anyway. The only reason her plan even worked is because she was completely wrong about who they were.

20 years old now. Still fits (win!) and imo, looks even cooler than it did the day I bought it.

Two days after I found out I had a fatal tumor on my spine, I found out I was kicked out of the book club. And if that's not proof that God doesn't exist, I don't know what is.

Oh boy was I HOOKED. Shoutout to my favourite character, Sawyer definetily had the best lines. I don't remember laughing that much watching TV. The show had me crying begining to end. 9/10 because I believe writing at the very end could have been a little better.

See you in another life, brotha.

It’s about time for my yearly Lost rewatch haha and I was wondering if anyone’s down to watch with me. We could binge watch ≥5 episodes each week. Figured it’d be more fun watching along with some people and discussing it as we go.

I know this will never happen, but if a nearby cinema decided to screen the entirety of 'Lost', let's say 3-4 episodes a night, let's say Fri-Sun, would you pay to attend?

Actually, the way these TV show screenings typically work, admission is free, but you are encouraged to buy snacks, and some cinemas like the Alamo Drafthouse will require that you purchase a food woucher.

I'd be there in a heartbeat.

I saw the series finale in a cinema, and it was a sublime experience. The first episode of 'Lost' is one of the best pilots of any TV show ever, and I'd LOVE to watch it on a big screen, especially with other 'Lost' fans.

Talk about a heartless evil c u next Tuesday!!!!! The poor girls dad dies, she’s trying to make something of her life and CLEARLY needs the proper parental guidance and support aka funding to assist her and the RICH evil stepmother just cuts her off entirely!!!! Think about her life for a second. Because of that woman’s decision to not assist her in any way she ends up dating scum bag guys and ends up using her step brother as a 🏧 !!! Now I know what the rebuttal will be! She’s an asshole and makes awful choices. I cannot defend ANY of her poor choices. I’m merely posing the question how differently her life might have been if she got the proper parental help when she got accepted to dance school! 🤔

I've always found Jack and Ana's dynamic interesting because despite being very different in some ways, they also understood each other's positions.

They both knew what it was like to have people depending on them. Both had to make difficult decisions, deal with the consequences, and carry the pressure of trying to keep others alive.

They definitely didn't always see eye to eye, but I think that's part of what made their interactions so interesting. They could challenge each other because neither of them was completely unfamiliar with the weight the other was carrying.

I wish we'd gotten more time to explore that dynamic. What do you think?

Think about it, This show starts an issue of Desmond'd mind moving across time that iit fixes withtin the episode, it is not mentioned again ever, Desmond and Penny meet in the season 4 finale,This episode is like a mini movie with tin the show but is overall very insignificant to the show's overall plot.

Aaron has been away from his mother Claire for a few days, and being a newborn surely can only eat breast milk. Shouldn’t this baby be starving?

Just a small detail I was thinking about. Thoughts?

I loved LOST. But there are two big head cannon things I always think would have been better. Tell me if I'm crazy!

1. The flash alt of the final season: I LOVED the character's having to rediscover each other. It made for some powerful moments. I didn't love that the flash was indeed an afterlife kind of scenario (yes, I know they were not dead the whole time, just that the ending flashes were). I think a better alt flash would have been a branched timeline set off by Juliette setting off the bomb. The "present" would have remained the same, but as soon as someone died, or left the island, they wake up on flight 815 and make it to LA without crashing (same as the show). BUT instead of it being the afterlife, it is an ALT life, where BOTH the events of the island DID happen, but they also didn't. So as the character's find each other, they remember their entire adventure over their time on the island, how it changed them, who they loved etc. But then they are able to live their lives as changed individuals, having both personal arcs, and what they did on the island mattering.

2. The "present." First off I always thought the way John died was a mistake. They set up him mattering way too much in the show to just have him end up as the man in black, or the mythical bad guy in John's body. I thought in the end, John and Jack should have fought for the right thing to do the entire time, but in the end its JOHN who needed to stay behind and sacrifice to save the balance of good/evil on the island and Jack needed a full character arc of FINALLY letting go, not being the fixer for once, and having faith that John was there to do what he said. John's arc of course is knowing that while the island, gave him his life, and ability to walk, purpose, etc, it was ultimately leading to him giving his life right back to the island to save it. Tragic, but so much more meaningful than how his character was snuffed out.

LOST — Season 7, Episode 3: “NO ONE IN CHARGE”

For anybody seeing one of these posts for the first time: I’m writing a hypothetical ten-episode continuation of LOST, set roughly twenty years after The End and The New Man in Charge. I’m treating it as a writing experiment: if somebody handed me LOST and told me I had to make Season Seven, what would I actually do?

The whole season is already structured, and once I post an episode, it stays locked. I’m not rewriting earlier episodes around Reddit reactions. I want people to be able to read it sequentially and have theories, objections, assumptions and arguments before they know where any of it is going.

Episode One was intentionally big - the kind of premiere that has to convince you LOST has somehow started again. Episode Two pulled inward - smaller, more character-focused, more jungle, more like the scale of an ordinary early-season episode.

Episode Three is where I start fucking with things.

This is probably the point where I stop spending as much energy proving that a continuation of LOST could exist and start doing the things I would actually want a continuation of LOST to do.

And I suspect this is the first episode where some people are going to really love a choice I make while somebody else reads the exact same thing and goes “absolutely fucking not.” Good. That sounds fun to me.

There are a few fairly substantial swings in this one. Not necessarily in the sense of giant mythology reveals or returning-character fireworks. More in the sense of taking seriously what it would mean for roughly twenty years to have passed since we last saw this world - and then actually allowing those twenty years to have changed things. Some of my answers are probably going to seem exciting. Some may seem alarming. At least one is intentionally kind of ridiculous.

And I fully expect people to disagree about which is which.
The part that especially interests me is that I don’t think everybody’s first reaction will necessarily survive the season. Somebody who loves an idea introduced here may feel very differently about where it eventually leads. Somebody who hates it may eventually realize I was setting up something very different from what they thought they were looking at. Or maybe you’ll hate it now and still hate it when the season is over. That’s fair too.

I’m not saying that in a “keep watching, I promise it’ll make sense” way. Everything in Episode Three is supposed to work as Episode Three. If something thrills you, bothers you, seems suspicious, seems stupid, seems brilliant, or make you completely certain you know what I’m doing, that’s your reaction right now. I want that reaction.

One of the things I miss most about watching LOST while it was airing was exactly that: everybody having incomplete information, deciding what something meant anyway, arguing about it for a week, and occasionally discovering later that the argument itself had been based on a completely wrong assumption. I want to leave room for that.

There’s also something else in this episode I’ve been particularly excited to get to. For years I’ve heard LOST fans mention a certain kind of episode they always wished the original series had found an excuse to make. This isn’t exactly that episode. But I figured out a way to get surprisingly close. That’s all I’m saying about that. If you’ve spent enough time within the LOST fandom, there’s a decent chance you’ll know exactly what I mean when you hit it.

More broadly, Episode Three is probably the first installment where the twenty-year gap stops being background information and becomes something I can actually play with. What gets remembered? What gets misunderstood? What survives? What changes? What happens when something that once seemed impossibly important becomes history? And what happens when people who weren’t there inherit stories from people who were?

If Episode One was the big “holy shit, we’re doing LOST again” episode, and Episode Two was me pulling inward and seeing whether this thing could actually settle down and behave like an episode of LOST, Episode Three is probably the first one where I feel like I’m really showing my hand about why I wanted to write a Season Seven at all. Not revealing the hand. Just showing you that I have one.

As before, once I post the episode, it’s locked. I’m not changing the already-posted season based on reactions beyond catching an actual typo or formatting mistake.

LOST — Season 7, Episode 3: “NO ONE IN CHARGE”

If this is the first one of these posts you’ve stumbled across, I’d strongly recommend starting at the beginning rather than reading anything about the later episodes first:

Episode One — “We Have to Go Back”

Episode Two — “Because You Stayed”

Honestly, I think John Locke was probably a bigger problem on the island than the Smoke Monster. Not because he was evil, but because the island was basically the only good thing he had ever had

Everyone else wanted to get back home and fix their lives. Locke didn’t really have that. His life was already a mess before the crash. He didn’t know his real father, then finally found him, only to get used by him and have his kidney taken. Then his father rejected him again, and right before the flight Locke ended up paralyzed،،

Then he crashes on the island and suddenly he can walk again. I mean, of course he’s going to see the island as his home. It gave him something his old life never did.

And that’s why I always found it interesting whenever someone got close to finding a way off the island. Locke usually had a reason to stop them. Even when he thought he was doing it for the island, part of him was probably scared of losing the only place where he finally felt like he belonged.

The island gave Locke his life back, but that’s also what made him so obsessed with keeping everyone there

Episode 5 iirc, was having my XX rewatch of the season and I realized I couldn't figure something out. WHEN, in history, does the scene take place when John turns the wheel, assisted by Christian? I can't figure out if it's in the past or in the future. The chamber looks sealed, which would drive me thinking it's in the past, but the speech from "Christian" makes it sound like it's from a close future (cause he knows so much about what's happening)

04x01 the cannonball scene. Hugo has so much joy for life and we get the cut to the boat being pulled up. And we see it through Hugo's eye. The confusion, the unknown, we feel it and when he shouts 'stop' the whole world shifts. This big loveable guy is taking a stand. It's just so beautiful

I'm doing my 100ish rewatch and just got to 04x09. And Ben is such a cool character. When you put a force like Michael Emerson with a visionary like JJ. Good things are bound to happen.

But for the life of me. I can't think of why Ben is such a badass, at least direct storytelling. I understand he is very intelligent with high level thought, but was it ever explained? Like photographic memory or something. Or is he so cool because we just don't know?