"Across the Sea" after "The Substitute?"

To start, I understand all the arguments for showing a newcomer the series in its original episodic order and respecting authorial intent. Putting that aside for a moment:

I've been taking my parents and my partner through Lost all this past year, and looking ahead to season six, I'm thinking about Across the Sea. I never got the complaints some have with it. I think it's a very satisfying parable and lore dump. But I do jibe to the arguments that its original placement as the third-to-last episode of the series is very strange, and less than optimal.

I think season six probably works better if you have the additional clarity and character motivation this episode brings filled in earlier; I don't see much reason to keep some of this stuff in the dark until such a late date.

I've heard of some people (Down the Hatch podcast) slotting it in at the top of season six, but that doesn't feel quite right to me either. It's too much of a speedbump between The Incident and LAX, and I also don't want to spoil the >!MiB == Smokey!< reveal, which I think is more dramatic if it comes about as it does in the series' intention.

Having reviewed the episode summaries on Lostpedia, I'm considering that the optimal place to stick it might be between 6x04 The Substitute and 6x05 Lighthouse. 6x04 gives us the scenes of Flocke being haunted/unnerved by a certain young blonde-haired specter, as well as him removing the white rock from Jacob's scale and casting it into the sea, telling Sawyer the colored rocks are an "inside joke" between him and Jacob. I think both of these elements work as elegant setups to Across the Sea's deeper dive into their relationship and the white/black rocks Jacob buries with "Adam and Eve."

We're also past the initial narrative hustle of the season finale/season opener and settling into the regular flow of the season at this point, so it is perhaps more appropriate to take a bit of a breather here and get a mythology dump. Likewise, removing Across the Sea from its spot between The Candidate and What the Died For keeps a fairly breathless pace as we head into the climax.

Am I overlooking any major issues with things getting spoiled or any reasons why this is actually a dumb idea? The only thing I can think of it it might very slightly diminish Jacob's "wine bottle" conversation with Richard in Ab Aeterno, but that seems a small trade-off.

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Ive been watching 'Lost on The Couch' a lot recently and they got off the couch and studied the hatch diagram. I think this is my most favorite scene from the entire show. It filled me with wonder and intrigue and I was completely hooked from that point on. Anyone else feel the same?
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The biggest unsolved mystery of Lost

How did someone as ruthless and cunning as Widmore go from hiring super badasses such as Keamy and Omar in Season 4 to employing the likes of Zoe and Seamus in Season 6? And this at a time when the stakes were apparently higher than ever.

In fact I think the whole Widmore-subplot would have worked much better in Season 6 if he had, indeed, brought some hard-core commandos with him instead of the boring NPCs we ended up with. At the very least, this subplot would then have carried a greater sense of threat and urgency.

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The Island map 🗺️✈️🌴
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How do you get the rewards you can gft for free?

I often see people giting rewards that say that they are free, does anyone know how to get them?

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Netflix is pulling LOST on December 31

Finally finished the show with my wife on her first run through, and when we finished the finale last night, a special warning screen came on that the series was being removed end of this year.

Netflix upping costs only to remove the best show is kinda ass not gunna lie

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Lost moments made me mad

1) Micheal shot Ana Lucia & Libby

2) Nikki & Paulo got buried alive

3) Ben faked talking to Jacob in a cabin

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Who’s watched Chronologically Lost?

I’ve watched lost 4 times and now I’m watching Chronologically Lost and it’s a cool new way to watch the show. I’m enjoying watching everything in the order of which it happened

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certified LOST fan?

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A song that seems to embody the whole show
https://youtu.be/6AhhcZBfnBc?si=iDox2aE-4Z3XgTlN

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Any other shows like Lost?

Watched Lost for the first time recently and couldn’t put it down. First show where my wife didn’t fall asleep at least once!

Any other similar shows out there? Doesn’t have to be on an island but just that level of captivating mystery….

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Hi guys! I’ve been a fan since the show first aired, and today while going through a box of stuff I found my best piece of Lost merch: a Driveshaft Tour T-shirt. I thought I would share it with you all, cause it’s fun!

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My LOST Rewatch: Whatever The Case May Be
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Is there a tougher character than Ben Linus? Guy gets the shit kicked out of him every other episode lol



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My first rewatch since the finale back in 2010
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I assume the actual reason is set budgets but did the show ever say why they left the caves?

Between season 1 and 2 everyone just moves back to the beach offscreen and so far at the end of season 2 the only mention of it I saw was Hurley saying nobody lives there anymore in one episode.

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Jack's half smile when Kate tells him she is coming with him to look for the cockpit .

His slight smile and then shyly says " i don't even know your name "

Its cute.

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