Your genuine response to something that happened in S01E11 All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues

Put yourself in your December 2004 shoes. Life is good - you're twenty years younger, after all!

You're watching the episode where Charlie and Claire have been kidnapped and we're up to the part where Jack and Kate find Charlie, hung, apparently already dead.

Did you find the attempt to save Charlie disingenuous in a 'this is cringe/bad/trope-y' way? Bear in mind, there were solid rumours/spoilers that one main character will die in season 1 floating around -- and then we get this scene.

Did you go along with the scene up until Jack gives up and the scene plays for a moment as if Charlie really was dead before Jack begins again, punching the crap out of Dominic Monaghan until he 'came back'? And at that point, did you think it was a "COP OUT"?

Personally, I've always loved the scene up to and including Charlie's eventual revival. I think that the scene plays out very genuinely in how it handles character. The editing, acting, and direction evokes the right emotions of loss, then hope mingled with disgust (Jack is maddeningly beating a 'corpse' after all), then relief and joy when one of the initial trio of the pilot is revived and might be a-OK.

Anyway. Yarp. Just wondering what you thought of the scene when you first watched it.

For context: I'm reading message boards from back when this episode aired and I'd say that the loudest voice is definitely those calling bullshit and saying that not killing Charlie was a cop out.

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LOST official podcast

I know the Lost podcast started in Nov 2005, and was wondering whether anyone knows if it was the first "official" TV podcast to appear?

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Still haven't found a show like LOST.

After all these years, ever since I first watched this beautiful show about a decade ago
I still have never found a show that gives me the feels like this.

Im not asking for any recommendations, I've seen pretty much most of the usual ones! From, Severance, Twin Peaks, Dark, Fringe, Stranger Things, The Good Place, Wayward Pines etc.
Haven't seen Westworld or The Leftovers yet.

I just want to say it's the best show of all time and nothing compares. Nothing will ever fill the whole that LOST has made and filled with endless rewatches!!!!


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Which Animal Do you think is Sawyer's Worst Enemy

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The TV Guide preview for Lost from September 12 2004 + outtakes from the photoshoot

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It took me 21 years to watch this show.

I was there in 2004, a 15 year old who thought the creepy island show with the maybe dinosaur smoke monster thing was interesting looking, and I was starting to get real invested in Pop Culture. I watched the Pilot and I was absolutely hooked. There was another show released around the same time with similar vibes, called Invasion about some extraterrestrial happenings after a hurricans in South Florida and another called Jericho about the folks of a small rural town dealing with the collapse of society. Even though it wasn't long before Invasion and Jericho were cancelled, I was feasting.

I watched LOST religiously through S3 and caught most of S4 before my young adult priorities were directed elsewhere, but the show stuck in the back of my mind. The show advanced as I advanced in my own life, and as I was able, I picked up the DVD box sets with the intention of watching the show through. Clearly I did not get that far, again only getting through S3 before being the victim of a B&E and getting distracted by other things in my life.

Then the Series Finale came, and of course there was that stupid rumor that everyone was dead the whole time. Seeing as how I was involved from the beginning, I vividly remembered the producers vehemently denying that they were already dead, or in some sort of purgatory with the start of those rumors in S1. I thought it was a lazy cop out by the creators, and kind of went about my life, not giving the show much thought for quite a while.

As the years went by, LOST remained somewhat pervasive in Pop Culture as one of those shows that stayed in the zeitgeist for longer than it's run, at least in my mind. I always had the intention of finally watching it through but my limited appetite for television stunted my progress with any television show I watched.

A couple months ago, my girlfriend and I were trying to decide what our next show would be. I had suggested LOST a few times previously and she shut the idea down without any thought. This time I decided to try a different method. I put on the Pilot episode and told her as it was starting "Watch this one episode, and if you don't want to watch any more, I'll never push it again."

My friends, she was instantly hooked. We burned through the show, watching two or three or four episodes a night until it was done. It was a bit strenuous of a pace for my liking, but she could not get enough. We would get "Lost in the Sauce" as we started to say, for hours at a time until the show was completed.

As I was a loyal fan for the first half of the show's run, I remembered a lot of the major plot points, and it was so much fun to watch her reactions to some of the cliffhangers and shocking moments. And then as we got into S4, it became more of a shared adventure for the two of us, as we felt our way through the end of the show. We finished a couple days ago.

Can I just say... What a wild ride!

I don't know that the show could have ended any better than it did. I was happy with most of the resolutions, and we both spent about 50% of the uncut finale in tears. I don't know how many people had the same experience with this show that I did, but the closure I've received from finally completing this show has been overwhelming. The work done by the actors and writers of this show truly humanize the characters in a way where they feel like more than fictional beings, but people that you truly know (and I don't say that lightly as someone who is exceedingly critical of media). After more than two decades, it feels like my friends were finally able to find their way home.

We'll definitely be watching again, but we've got to give it some space first.

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Did they have a live show with the cast and writers talking after the finale aired originally and if so, where can I find it?

Can’t see anything on a YouTube search.

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Every time I think of a mythological lost (no pun intended) island or continent, this track by Michael Giacchino plays in my head. To me, it fits so well with the feeling of a mysterious place that vanished a long time ago. The part I'm thinking about is from 0:29 to 2:05:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8jgVF18o0

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Why ?Explanations?

Finished S6E17 few mins ago..been watching for 3 months.
Obviously like most where I can find all the answers and explanation?

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