into different animals as they moved around the island of Ireland. He then establishes himself as the protector of Ireland. He later retires to a cave somewhere apparently not dead just taking a rest. His son Oisin continues his legacy, but Oisin didn’t actually have magic power although he was a great warrior, he had no connection to the magic island. He meets Niamh however, she is one of the Tuatha Dé Danann fairy people and she sometimes visits Ireland. She falls in love with him and promises to take him to the magic Island of Tír na Nog. They travel to the Island, she has a magic horse that can run on water and can find the island. It should be noted though that this isn’t the only way the fairies come and go from the island. They also have portals which spring them up in random places in Ireland when they visit. Much like Ben travelling from the Island by turning the wheel. These places are said to be the fairy forts in Ireland which people to this day avoid and farmers often will not disturb for fear of being avenged upon.

On the island anyway Oisin as the first mortal to ever visit soon discovers that no-one gets sick, no-one gets old. It is essentially a paradise with no winter and the Tuatha Dé Danann or fairy people live forever in a sort of Jacob way in harmony with nature and love to study and play music. Oisin however grows homesick and pleads with Niamh to let him return to Ireland for a few days to see his friends. She lets him take the magic horse but warns him not to touch the ground in Ireland. She tries to explain that the island exists in its own time bubble (sound familiar?) she claims that time for them does not operate like it does back in Ireland. When he arrives then back in Ireland after what he calculated to be 3 years he finds that everyone he knew is dead. He discovers that actually 300 years had passed back in Ireland and he had essentially time travelled when going to and back from the Island. He accidentally touches the ground while trying to help a man move a boulder and instantly becomes over 300 years old and dies soon after of old age.

The island still exists in the mythology of Ireland, and the Jacob style inhabitants never visit anymore as I guess modern industrial society would repulse them. I think the writers of Lost must of taken some inspiration or maybe its just a whole bunch of co-incidences with things like magic wells, shape-shifting, portals, time travel. That said many ancient cultures had similar stories. I have also heard of the Japanese myth of Urashima Taro which involves a time travelling Island too.

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How different would lost be if it aired today?

The actors, plot lines, etc.

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Why didn’t The Others have any interest in recruiting Desmond?

Obviously they knew he was in the hatch since they could watch him from the Pearl. We also know Desmond was very “special” with how he experiences time. Did Jacob not care either?

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I need HELP! I want to access to good source of data for foot statue of LOST series. Or just share whatever important thing you know about it. I'll appreciate that.

Of course I know it's >!Taweret, the goddess of fertility!<. But I want to gather all I need to know about its relationship with LOST series

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Jorge Garcia on the set of the season 4 finale

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What was Ben’s ultimate goal? Was he really following Jacob’s orders?

Obviously Ben lied ALOT about his motives. He was manipulative and deceitful about what he was doing. But to what end was he doing it?

I can see his motivations at certain points. Especially in his revenge against Widmore. But that came a little later.

He seemed to be pretty genuine when he confronted Jacob “all those lists!”

And Jacob didn’t seem to contradict that. (Side note, did Jacob ask Ben to kidnap our Losties? Did he ask Ben to kidnap Walt?)

I’m guessing it was ultimately all in service of the island. He was trying to protect it. But did he have to do all that lying and killing to achieve this?




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Ben was a terrible spy

So, in "One of them" the captured man identifies himself as a Henry Gale. In "Lockdown", Sayid calls his bluff by digging the grave of the real Henry Gale, as proved by ID with a photo that doesn't match the prisoner's appearance.

I've always wondered - this clashed with a spycraft rule of thumb: say truth anytime you can, only ever lie once you have to. Ben could have made up literally any other name. There was no point in stealing the late balloonist's identity anyway and it only created risk of uncloacking, as it eventually happened. I mean, I took my lessons from a couple spy books and I already knew better than supposed seasoned master of scheming Ben.

Some possible answers:

1. Ben played "four-dimensional chess" and he actually wanted his intrigue debunked. I myself fail to see reason in that.

2. Ben was a pathological liar, he lied just for the sake of it.

At the end of the day, he could have tried and lied his way out of it. He could have explained, "well, I actually travelled with my husband but I'd rather stay in the closet, so I told you it was a wife. Also, funnily enough, we shared the first name Henry, and I adopted his last name when we married. No, what kind of trouble could it cause to share exact name with my spouse?". It's an explanation as stupid as it gets, but it's still better then getting tortured by Sayid (which IIRC had already happened to Ben before, or ar least he was threatened with it).

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REwatching after 20 years.

watching as a 41 year old vs a 21 year old, with all the ways society has changed... i have so many thoughts. Especially surviving so many things over the years. Anyone want to chat?



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How did the Hatch actually get built given…

OK, so at the end of Season 5 we witness the incident, which happens before the whole Swan Site can be built. By the time Kelvin gets there, the Hatch has been built, and a button has to be pushed every 108 minutes or the after effects of The Incident will cause…what we see happen at the end of Season 2.

So here’s my question: did the 108 minutes thing start right away? And if so, how the hell did they keep it at bay long enough to build the Hatch? Did they have to do something manually?

For that matter, what is the mechanism The Button controls? What does The Button actually do?? Did we learn that on the show, or elsewhere?

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I have one episode of Lost left but my girlfriend like just dumped me. Should I not watch this yet

I am not making this up. Will I be incredibly depressed and want to call her (we are toxic lol) or will it make me feel capable of beating the men in black.

I am actually quite sad so if you were me let me know what you would do. Like watching these characters die rips my heart out of my chest.

PS. Huge fan of the show and love all these characters so please don’t spoil it

Cheers

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Jack was cold AF to his dad during that council

I know it’s random AF, but randomly threw on S1E11, (first time in about 2 years), and the way he was ice cold, I.e., ‘I need to revise my statement…’
….Straight up SMOKED em

Also long time fan, just wanted to run here and say this episode reminded me of how awesome this universe is, how great/unique the pacing was, and just overall love this damn show!!!!

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Question

When Locke and co found the little boats during the flashes through time and they saw the bottle from Ajira airways and the they leave and get shot at by what I assume are the ajira passengers do we just not see that because it already happened? Because the ajira passengers never even mention that

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I have never cried while watching a TV show until this shows finale

I just finished lost today and it has one of the most beautiful series finale I've ever seen. It was sad enough from when jack has a conversation with Christian and he realises he's in afterlife, but when jack laid down in the bamboo forest and Vincent came rushing to him is when I couldn't stop the tears. Putting Vincent there was such a diabolical yet brilliant move. Breaking bad used to my all time favourite show but I think lost has taken that crown now. I'm so glad I didn't listen to all the fuckers who told me the ending sucked because it's a masterpiece

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