a fictional take on how people still don't understand the ending of lost with ned of the paper misrepresenting josh's character and the ending
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Ending

For those who weren’t happy with the ending, how would you have liked it to end? I’m not entirely sure, but I know I wanted Jack to survive and live happily ever with Kate.

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What is the saddest moment of the series for you?

For me, that's when I realized that >!Jin never met Ji Yeon!<.

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Was Boone actually in love with Shannon?

Rewatching “Do No Harm” right now and Shannon tells Sayid Boone is in love with her. I think he was kind of obsessive over her but he said a lot of really mean things to her the first couple episodes and didn’t seem to respect her at all, I think he felt a weird kind of ownership over her but was not in love with her.

What’s everyone think?

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Watching Lost for the first time

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The most tragic ending of Lost

Am I the only one who thinks Sawyer had the worst ending in a tragic sense?? In the last season, his life didn’t really make much sense anymore, he was just going through the motions at that point.

Now imagine his post-island life. What would he live off of?? What would he do?? Before the island, he used to con people, but it’s hard to picture him doing that after everything he went through — his life had simply lost its meaning.

Not to mention that life in Dharmaville was the only period when he had a decent life. Imagine the emptiness after returning to harsh reality — he lost Juliet and everything he had all at once. How do you go on living normally after that??


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Who were the Hanso’s?

And how did they get a journal from the Black Rock?

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Support Vent Lost my partner, then my job, then the person I thought was my rebound. I'm so lost.

I don't even know where to start or why I'm typing this out. I guess I just need to scream into the void where maybe someone will understand. My life has completely fallen apart in the span of a few months and I feel like I'm free-falling with no ground in sight.

It started when my long-term partner of 7 years left me. Out of the blue. Said they weren't happy anymore and needed to "find themselves." Our entire future, our home, our plans... just gone. I was devastated, but I tried to keep it together.

Then, two weeks later, my job did a round of layoffs. My name was on the list. I was so numb from the breakup I could barely even process it. The one thing that was supposed to be a stable distraction—my career—vanished. Now I had no partner and no income. The panic started to set in.

In my complete loneliness and desperation, I met someone new. I know, I know, classic rebound. But they were kind, they listened, and they made me feel wanted for the first time in months. It was a flicker of light in all this darkness. I knew it was probably too fast, but I clung to it. I clung to them.

And then last night, they ended it. Said it was too much, that I was too damaged, that they couldn't handle my baggage. The one thing that was keeping me afloat just... let me go.

So now I'm here. I have lost my best friend, my financial security, and the new person I foolishly let myself hope for. I feel like a complete failure. I'm stressed beyond belief—about money, about being alone forever, about everything. I can't sleep, I can't eat, and just getting out of bed feels like a monumental task.

I have nothing. I am nothing. I'm just so incredibly lost and I don't know how to start picking up the pieces when it feels like there's nothing left to pick up.

Has anyone ever come back from everything falling apart at once? How do you even begin?

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On my current rewatch I imagined how would it go if John tried to use the same tactic on Sawyer as he did with Charlie.
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John Locke

Does anyone here have please that edit (YouTube shorts), where Lockes father throwed John from a window and then Richard opened the door and Locke met his father on the island with memory reboot soundtrack? It was great edit, but was removed. Thanks!

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Some of annoying little things in Lost

I’ve recently finished watching Lost and I truly enjoyed it. Moreover, it’s probably become my favorite series of all time.

However, just like with any movie/series, there are many small things that really bothered me in Lost :D

One of the things that always bugged me was the amount of times characters say something like “Do I have your word?” Or “You have my word.”

Like bruh… it happens SO MANY TIMES
- Jack to Locke.
- Locke to Jack.
- Ben to literally everyone.
- Even Sawyer throws it out once or twice.

Another thing was Jack’s trip to Thailand. I mean, they really didn’t have to explain where those tattoos had come from xD
I don’t think people really cared about that..

Let’s also not forget (even though it was only at the beginning) the repetitiveness of Sawyer always having/stealing stuff.. it happened so many times that it expectedly became super boring.

These are probably the most obvious ones 😁
What other small things drove you insane (or cracked you up)?

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Jacob

I think maturity is realising that Jacob is the main villain of Lost. Here is my reasoning:

Yes it's true he didn't pluck any of the survivors of oceanic 815 from a happy existence but he also didn't necessarily make their life better either. None of those survivors had a happy ending bar Rose and Bernard( at least in the world that we live in). All that happened is that he gave the survivors something to love and care about, only to later lose it all in the end. I wouldn't even say the survivors of Oceanic that left on the Ajira plane had a happy ending. Kate for example had literally no one to go back to once she gave Aaron to Claire. In my opinion they all went through too much misery and loss in the name of being candidates for a job they knew nothing about. Yes most of them were miserable in the real world but at least they were alive. Thoughts?

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The 'Lost' Episode That Got Us Hooked
https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/hooked/2025/09/10/the-lost-episode-that-got-us-hooked

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This doesn’t deserve a whole post but I just wanted to express

I wish we could relive the time when LOST first aired. The mystery. The suspense. The drama. The DHARMA. The theories. The forums. The agonizing waits. The discussions. The excitement. I recently read a comment on https://www.reddit.com/r/lost/comments/1nffzf8/comment/ndw76ji/?utmsource=share&utmmedium=mweb3x&utmname=mweb3xcss&utmterm=1&utmcontent=sharebutton as well as https://www.reddit.com/r/lost/comments/1nffzf8/comment/ndwr5a6/?utmsource=share&utmmedium=mweb3x&utmname=mweb3xcss&utmterm=1&utmcontent=sharebutton below it and those comments had me reminiscing of the good ol’ days in 2004. LOST was truly one off a kind.

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Checked my cash owed after a night serving and had to do a double take
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Has anyone pointed out the similarity between Lost and Troma’s War?

It’s pretty similar IMO

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Links to OG Message Boards

I've been making a video series where I rewatch Lost recently and I have been enjoying diving once again into the message boards of the time. Due to another post talking about nostalgia, I felt inspired to share those links.

Fan Forum (this one seems the most OG - though it's difficult to track episodes in the site, if you ask Chat GPT to give you a specific episode thread, it can find it fast).

Television Without Pity (nice insights, people writing in paragraphs)

NeoGAF (this one's the funniest one because people are UNHINGED and don't hold back on language).

An Irish message board (a bit of griping from time to time but still some good comments)

If anyone has any more links to others, feel free to add them below - I'm always looking for more OG comment boards (by that I mean links, not just saying "go to DarkUFO" etc).

It might be worth it for the MODS to consider putting a post like this together with the other ancillary topics on the right side of the homepage, such as noscripts, screencaps etc.

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For the past 15 years, I’ve had this TV show all wrong

That’s because I decided to rewatch it. Back then, I thought the show ended with season five. I was younger, I had to leave my country, and life took a completely different turn. It never crossed my mind to go back and check if that really was the final season.

Just recently, I was pleasantly surprised to discover it wasn’t. For years, I believed the last episode made no sense, but that was only because I hadn’t seen the true ending. Now, after watching the real finale, I realize the show was much better than I ever gave it credit for.

It’s a brilliant series. The twists of life, the struggles, hopes, dreams, and regrets all strike a chord with me. I can’t help but wish things had turned out better, for the characters, and for me.

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I watched Lost with the totally wrong belief, but now warrants a re-watch.

(Spoilers for whole show)

TLDR: I loved the show, but I went in with the belief the island was purgatory and that everyone was already "dead". Glad it was not, and now I need to re-watch it again!



So when I was in HS around 2014 I watched a WatchMojo video "top 10 disappointing tv finales" and Lost was one of them (I wholeheartedly disagree though). At the time, I did not watch TV that much. I really only watched sports or the occasional cartoon or comedy like The Office or Always Sunny. So I watched the video just for fun but did not think I'd (mis)remember something said about Lost that changed how I watched the show now as an adult.

The narrator of the video was talking about season 6, and how the sideways timeline was "the entire cast in limbo, seeing what could have been".

Idk if I misunderstood then, or just ended up remembering wrong over time but for the last decade and the entire time watching it last month I was under the impression that the "big twist" of the show was that the Island was purgatory, and that they were all dead already one way or another. I also didn't want to look for clarification until after I finished. Link to the video starts at 11:38 This false belief was backed up by the fact that I remember it was a "disappointing finale" list, so i thought sure if we find out at the very end that everything we saw was "not real", I could see how people would be disappointed by that. I still went in with high hopes though. It always seemed like my type of show.

I still really loved the show and stories about who they were, who they want to be and who they could've been. Really the only real thing this belief changed was the survival stakes. When someone died, I guess I'll be honest and say it didn't hit as me as hard because I thought, well you know. But I still feared for them, I still did not want any of our people to die because it was "real" for them.

There was a scene where I believe Richard says "we're already dead, this is hell". And I was like "ok here we go, this is where the real twists starts". Early in the show we get news that the entire plane and all the passengers were found dead underwater, but then Lapidus shows up and he throws a wrench in that. lol

Don't get me wrong, there were times where I didnt know what to believe. The most obvious example is, well people DO go off and on the island. Even our people. How would that work if it was purgatory? Are they flat lining? Is this some magic simulator stuff going on? When they "leave" the island, are they literally being brought back to life? Lol but I didn't really question it that much and really waited until I had all the answers by the end. There's so much magic, ghosts, time traveling, fake outs, and twists that I was just soaking it all in.

Anyway, when the final credits started to roll after the close-up on Jack, I was relieved that the island itself was not purgatory. I really waited until the very end and still expected Cristian's final speech to reveal it. But I thought the show was amazing and I'm still sort of processing everything. I only finished 2 days ago.

I definitely need to do a re-watch knowing what I know now, and i'm hyped for that.

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In defence of the cages…
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Desmond’s Sleep Schedule
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