Season 5 finale cliffhanger is one of the best endings of the series

I'm currently on my fifth rewatch of the series. The last time I watched it all the way through was back in 2018.

Aside from the iconic "We have to go back!" scene in Season 3, the Season 5 finale remains one of the most jaw-dropping moments. When Juliet bangs on the bomb and the entire screen turns white.BOOM. LOST. My goodness.

I remember watching Season 5 live, week by week, in 2009. That moment in the finale hit me like a punch to the gut. I vividly recall my jaw dropping, and I remember seeing a teaser that said "the final season, January 2010" which meant waiting from May to January was torture.

Now that I think about it, Season 5 might be one of the best seasons of the show.

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Rewatch and I just noticed this

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Death of Spoilers

Hey so on the podcast this week we arrived at the shocking death of Mr Eko. Every time I watch the show it gets me blubbing, he was such a wonderful character who felt like he had so much more story left to tell. Obviously Adewale wanted out so we lost him before they planned to, how do you think Mr Ekos story goes from The Cost of Living onwards if he didn't die there?

Would really love and appreciate any support on the podcast and any feedback, we're putting a lot of effort into it it's just so tough trying to get noticed. Give us a shot were good eggs ☺️❤️

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This subreddit

Is going to have me rewatching this show again just two months after a recent rewatch.

Watched the show live when it was airing and it quickly became my fave show of all time.

I have since rewatched it maybe 6-7 times and recently completing a rewatch about a couple months back.

I stopped using Reddit for almost 5 years and even when I was using it heavily back in the day, I never thought about joining TV show subreddits.

So I come across the Lost sub after my recent rewatch and seeing all the Easter eggs, discussions and what not, I am so tempted to rewatch this show AGAIN and so SOON!!!

I have a huge backlog in movies and tv shows so I'm trying my hardest to refrain but this sub doesn't make that easy.

Kudos to the community, and welcome to all the new watchers!!!

Cheers!

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Why do all of the DHARMA guns have short magazines?

All of the AK style rifles seem to have low capacity magazines? Any reason for this?

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Film vs Digital

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Does anyone else find it hilarious that jack took the time to make a model plane out of a leaf in the pilot episode?

I always laugh during that expository scene where jack tries to explain the plane crash in the pilot episode. In the midst of all the trauma and chaos, jack painstakingly makes a model plane to explain to the losties. "My presentation needs some visual aids, better sit down and make this leaf while all of us are struggling to survive and multiple people are dying."

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Irony of Hatch Button

I can’t wrap my head around the hatch button. It needed to be pressed every 108 minutes for years but it didn’t need to be pressed after all. Not pressing the button made Desmond use the failsafe key and gain special electromagnetic ability.

Was it “free will” to press the button all those years only to turn the failsafe in the end? Was it “fate” the button didn’t need to be pressed and make Desmond to be a weapon against MiB?

A lot of characters argued whether the button should be pressed or not. I guess everyone was right and wrong at the same time?



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So close and yet so far away
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The Rules

What’s the deal with “the rules”?

Were they something that had actual power, or just an agreement between Jacob and The Man in Black? If The Man in Black really wanted to, could he have killed Jacob and the candidates himself or left the Island without them?

And what was the deal with Ben saying, “you changed the rules” when Keamy killed Alex? Who changed the rules? What rule got changed?

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Is this the "real" Charlie?

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>!In season 4 episode 1 when Charlie visits Hurley at the mental hospital, is that supposed to be the actual spirit of Charlie that he is seeing from after he moved on, or is the island just using the form of Charlie to deliver a message? Is this supposed to be an implication that the people in the church might still have a tangible form wherever they moved on to, or is the Charlie that Hurley is seeing only a temporary projection from the source and nothing more. Personally, I’d like to believe the former because my head cannon is that they all still exist in some sort of concrete form, but I’m not sure if that is the way we are supposed to read into it. !<

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What if they let ben go?

When sayid and danielle found ben in a trap, what if sayid let him go unharmed? Would he still try to intervene with the oceanic 815 survivors?

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Darlton Explain the Smoke Monster
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To most, it’s a map of an island, but to the few who know, it’s THE Island.
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You get full creative control of a LOST remake, what would you change? (Spoilers)

I love the show as it is obviously and I don't even want a remake, but assume there was one and YOU were in full creative control, what would you change?

Personally I would extend Eko's story and try to keep Walt main cast throughout, which would be the most challenging part. Alternatively Walt could just come back in Season 6 and replace another character, and perhaps Eko only appears in the Flash Sideways again.

I would also add a singular line to the submarine where Jin or Sun tell Kate, Hurley or anyone else that they should please watch over Ji-Yeon.

Also, the writers talked about how they needed an ending to properly pace the show, which is a main reason S3 starts with so much filler. In hindsight and with knowledge of where the show is going, I think the first 3 seasons could likely all be shortened to 16-18 episodes easily. No need for 20+

Would love to hear your guy's suggestions! And please, provide some detail, don't just say "Remove Zoe" because that's a boring answer we've heard 1000 times. Come up with alternatives!

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Great ending. They were not dead the whole time.

I really like the ending. It’s clear they were not dead the whole time. Different people died at different times.
It was the most significant time in everyone’s lives and so they meet up after death. Time is irrelevant.
Jack died in the bamboo. Hurley and Ben took care of the island, dying much later.
Kate, James and others made it off the island, dying at some point.
Others died earlier.

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First timer, watched the whole thing in a few weeks.

So, I’m sure “heaven” or wherever everyone moved onto is great and all that. I can’t speak for certain because I don’t know what kind of spiritual or mental things everyone experiences in the final episode, but I’m on team Ben. If I could “move on,” from whatever place the side story of season 6 is, I would hang out a while. It seemed like the place where if you try you get what you want, similar to the island. They all may be ready to move on but so many of them just got their memories back. And to us the audience at least, it was only memories of the island or island adjecent story.

Also I know Ben is staying because he has to work thru some stuff where everyone else seems pretty actualized from their afterlife experience. I’m just saying like Eloise for instance is choosing to stay in this limbo place. Which is my point, you don’t know what lies waiting beyond the church doors so why leave when this place seems good for a while.

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Sun, Jin, and Sayid (SPOILER)

If sawyer hadn't pulled the wires on that bomb the show would have ended there and they wouldn't have died which is what made their deaths so painful. There's no reason to have believed Jack so it makes sense what happened but still so tragic. :((

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