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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The "Galaga" Submarine integrated into the Lost inspired DayZ mod

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Random, but how old is everyone here?

I'm 28 and the past few weeks I've been watching Lost for the first time! I'm literally sitting back right now and kicking my feet up to begin the finale, I was stoked to see it's 1h45m long, it's like a whole movie

Anyways, I was curious how old everyone is and how many times you've watched the show just because since it ran from 2004-2010, that means I was 7 (born 1997) when it premiered and I grew up hearing all about it, the older kids watching it, etc. Remember, back when people watched TV and cable and before everything was smartphones and streaming omg. I knew how popular it was but literally never saw a second of it until a few weeks ago. I really like it a lot and am glad I watched, I'm sure I'll rewatch it again in the future 👍🏻👍🏻

I don't know why I'm asking this lol I'm just surprised I never got around to watching it sooner! How old were you when you first saw it?! Maybe that's a better question haha


cheers

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Thrift store finds!
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Why was Sawyer so worried about “his stuff”?

What about his background makes him obsessive about his stash of possessions?

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My printer
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These episode summaries are giving a little too much away tbh
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Just finished watching this series
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The Dead Zone (from Entertainment Weekly)

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