Finding out about the “hidden episode”

Still thinking about that time I found out about the epilogue called The New Man In Charge. Almost brought me to tears. It was like discovering LOST again. I couldn’t believe I was watching a whole new episode (even though it was just 12 mins or something) that I’ve never seen before. How I wish I could remove LOST from my memories and watch it again for the first time… maybe in another life, brotha.

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My thoughts on a common David Shepherd theory

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4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 (white balls 4-8-15-16-23 + red Powerball 42) Texas Lottery
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Wtf is going on in S4???

So I am a first time watcher, and on S4 now. What in the hell is going on here? It’s all over the place. Flashbacks, flash forwards, present, and time travel??? Seems too unorganized and jumping the gun a bit. Like Kate raising Aaron while they still show Claire alive on the island, and Sun visiting Jin’s grave? And WHY is Ben still alive? Will someone explain this to me please?? As of right now I’m the one who is lost.

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First time watcherrrrrr halfway through s2!!!

I avoid long shows (anything more than 3 seasons) like the PLAGUE, I just get overwhelmed with how many episodes etc…

But my god does Lost change it all for me. I love the pacing currently (though I heard it drags after s3…) and all the character development is amazing and I’m so so invested

I binged all of season 1 in a week ~2 months ago, decided to just pick it back up last night after finishing another show and once again sucked back in.

I love the mystery of it all, and EVERYTHING TIES TOGETHER SO WELL

Okay I need to stop gushing but super excited after finishing “the 23rd psalm”

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Favorite minor character who deserved more screen time?

Mine's Mr. Eko-that storyline had so much potential. He brought such a different energy to the show, and his scenes were always intense. Who else do you wish we'd gotten more of?

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Issue #45 of the Lost comic book ("Two for the Road")
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"Strand and Deliver" - the Lost pilot review from Entertainment Weekly [September 24 2004]

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My Take on Why the Lost Finale Was Never Going to Satisfy Fans

Full of spoilers - please don't read on if you haven't watched the entire series. >!I watched Lost from the pilot through the entire run. !<>!I wish something like Reddit had existed at that time. I mainly just talked about it with friends and I think maybe Facebook was the place you went if you wanted to talk to strangers about it? I know there were forums, but I have no idea where they were. This is me writing something I wish I could have written back when the series ended. Appreciate anyone reading it. I love this show, think it took big risks that paid off, there hasn't been anything like it since, and can't be held to the same standards as limited series shows with only 10 episodes where everything can be planned perfectly.!<

Lost was about as big as Game of Thrones through season 3. About somewhere in season 4, a lot of people stopped watching and Nielsen ratings went down. When I've watched it all back, it reminded me why. The characters were the focus of the first 3 seasons, culminating with Charlie getting one of the best character send offs in TV history - it's hard for me to square such a loving send off with Sayid just sacrificing himself in a split second and Sun and Jin drowning and the show having no time to mourn those deaths. Anyway, a lot of the fan base at the time was vocal about how annoyed there were that none of the big questions had been answered. Season 4 is when the showrunners started answering all the questions, but the show shifted to being more of a science fiction show and the characters' arcs took a backseat while the sci-fi elements took over and moved the characters around as needed for the plot. It's like season 1-3 were about strangers shipped wrecked on a magic island, while seasons 4-6 were about a magic island with some strangers on it.

When we all started watching Lost, I think our big questions were what will happen to these people who are literally and metaphorically lost? Who will make it off the island and who will die? Will these broken people fix themselves? And where is this island and why hasn't anyone found them?

Well... midway through season 6, we had these answers. Most of the characters we came to care about over 6 years were dead. We had long since learned who would get off the island, who would die, where the island was, and why no one could find it. The big, important, meaningful questions were already answered.

I really like the finale. I think it was a love letter to the fans - that even though most of these people died, their time on the island was the most important of their lives, they grew as people, and the time you spent watching this show was not wasted.

But - did anyone watch season 1 and think "Is there a purgatory these characters will go to in order to meet up with each other after they die?"

I think the finale answered a question that was not that important to viewers and that's why it was so hated. For context, millions of people who bailed sometime around season 4 came back to watch just the finale and realized nearly everyone was dead and only Kate, Sawyer, Claire, and Miles would get off this island after all these years and all that they characters went through. And that John Locke, after all he went through, would have one of the most tragic character fates in TV history. I also think the show is a cautionary tale about killing off too many of your main characters to where the finale stops having stakes because so many fan favorites are dead. And yes, I am still bitter about deaths of Sun, Jin, and Sayid. I don't buy that they were necessary. If you haven't read the excerpts about the racism in the Lost writers room from a book published a few years ago, read it and see if you still think about their deaths, with only a few episodes to go, in the same way.

Just my opinion and would love to hear others. Basically, I think the finale could not work because the people and things viewers really cared about were either dead or answered, so all that was left for the showrunners was

to take a big creative risk. For fans who really loved the characters and wanted to see these lost people find themselves and not die a horrible death on the island, this show destroyed us.

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Finally started lost

At 27 im finally checking it out after years of people saying its bad. All i knew was a plane crashed on a magic island and there is time travel stuff. I am 8 episodes in and im loving it!! Like charlie the most so far!

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A moment of appreciation

I just have to take a moment to appreciate how emotional the series is and how much each of the characters truly care about each other. They share so much pain and anguish with each other but also so much love and joy. I've watched the series 3 times and currently on the 4th. One of the things I really liked esp at the end us when they changed rhe time line and became strangers again. That moment they saw each other and all those flashbacks that followed gets me everytime. I hope I can make friends with the same kind of bond that they had one day.

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Hawaii 5.0

Forgive my ignorance and the just getting caught up with reality, but Hawaii 5.0 has an incredible amount of Lost cast in it, has anyone ever watched it before?

It’s not terrible

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