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A subreddit for the fans and critics of the ABC television show Lost. Discussion of the show, pictures from the show, and anything else Lost related.


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LOST FAQ (Spoilers) - Archive

Not long after this subreddit began there was an Incident, and since that time the following protocol has been observed;

Do not post spoilers in the title.

  • Posts that refer to an episode should contain the season+episode# in the title (e.g [6x03])

  • Please be considerate and use logic when discussing key plot elements - Nobody is required to use spoiler-tags anymore.


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Are they stupid? S3E18

I just realized they had access to the baby hatch they took claire too and did not decide to use it as shelter?? Most of the characters are so stupid sometimes its funny

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2024/12/12
16:48 UTC

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Ben in the hatch

Did he really didn't know what he button is doing? We know he is a lier but later when it's explodes the others were shocked how their communication with the outside world was down and talked about "the sky was puprule".

So did he know or didn't?

4 Comments
2024/12/12
16:27 UTC

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the benefit concert

can we talk about how weird that concert was? like to a regular non-island person attending, some wealthy donor's son wants to play classical piano with his favorite rock band? my husband who was not paying enough attention asked me if it was a self-indulgent birthday party for daniel.

4 Comments
2024/12/12
15:16 UTC

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WHAT A SHOT!

4 Comments
2024/12/12
14:37 UTC

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Airplanes have tarps - It's not a mystery

My wife is a flight attendant, and she found nothing weird about all the tarps on the island.

I don't really know why people get so stumped on them having lots of tarps.

Most cargo areas of planes don't use tarps exclusively, but they are used. Instead, most will use some kind of netting. We can just assume flight 815 does use tarps.

This is an example of a plane being used to hold cargo in the passenger area. You can see that these large boxes are held down with netting, and many are wrapped in tarps.

Under normal circumstances on a passenger plane, you could have wrapping on large items and boxes like this. Example 2. Example 3. You get the point.

Also, if you've ever flown to Mexico, you'll see tons personal of luggage wrapped in tarps lol. Maybe it's just the Cancun area, but both times I went there, I saw families transporting boxes and boxes all wrapped up in tarps. Some of them didn't even have boxes, they were just tarps taped together.

Beyond that, there can be other uses for tarps on airplanes. Granted, other tarp uses may typically have the tarps kept in the hangar. But there may be a time when it's beneficial to transport them with the plane.

Can we drop the tarp thing now? I get that it's a funny meme, but I'm personally a meme accuracy enjoyer.

34 Comments
2024/12/12
14:32 UTC

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SPOILER - Ethan

rewatching for the first time in nearly twenty years.

my jaw is on the floor with what happens to Ethan, I totally forgot that Charlie did that!

1 Comment
2024/12/12
13:02 UTC

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Dynamites won't be enough

When I rewatched LOST, I found it kinda funny that in Season 2 EP 24:

DESMOND: It would take an atom bomb, brother. Tell him not to bother.

LOCKE: You’re sure it’ll hold?
DESMOND: Aye, I’m sure.

This was when they wanted to blow up the wall in the Swan Hatch. Funny enough, a few seasons later, it was a nuke that blew it all up. Like he already knew it is going to happen.

1 Comment
2024/12/12
11:09 UTC

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Question about "The Constant" S4 E5

This is something that truly perplexes me.

I see that when Desmond goes back and forth trying to find his constant and how to get to her, he seems to travel to different areas that would take hours if not longer when he is back in the UK.

What I don't understand is how he so quickly goes from standing on the boat in the med room to going catatonic and back, yet he takes hours if not more back in time. Most importantly, he only took a few minutes to go catatonic when he is with Faraday discussing at the university.

5 Comments
2024/12/12
10:56 UTC

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I finished watching the show about a month ago (maybe spoiler, it's more of an after you've finished watching typa discussion I think)

I have watched a scattering of few episodes when it first aired on tv when I was a kid, but never really followed the plotline, I didn't even know there was a hatch and what came after it.

so now that I have binge watched it, I gotta say, it's quit the show, I loved it, from the pilot episode till the mind blowing ending, that thank god, through all these years, was kept unspoiled for me, I needed sometime to process it. 😅

now my reasoning behind this post:

by the end of the first season, I had already theorized a couple of options as to what path the show will be taking on forward, yet, neither happened, but I still think they would have made quit the story, and maybe it would have allowed the writers to be a little more confined in how they handled bringing the new elements to the story, cuz frankly, at some point I felt they were more consumed with creating more knots to the storyline, that when the time came for these to get solved and things to get right on track, it seemed that some of these details got unsolved and much was left to the imagination, but still at the edge of my seat, there I was.

anyways, these are my imagined plotlines:

  1. it was something of an alien abduction; these selected few, where to be teleported on this alien island to play "who would survive against the monster?" something like (predators 2010).

  2. it would be a human scientific experiment; basically some sadistic scientists, crash planes on this island and watch how these people would build a society from scratch, how the leader would be appointed, developing a sense of community with all the drama, past lives that would unfold and stir up the dynamics between them, what made me almost sure that would be it, is the crane sounds of the monster, it sounded very mechanical.

so how did you guys think it would have gone? and what other theories did you visualize about the show?

2 Comments
2024/12/12
09:09 UTC

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Last Episode!

I’m about to watch the very last episode. I don’t think I’m ready for it to end…

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2024/12/12
08:52 UTC

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2024/12/12
08:02 UTC

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Why there was never a sequel or prequel or anything else?

Apologies if this has been discussed before, I’m new here.

Given that the show is so iconic and left the fans wishing for more why nothing else has been created? Is it for fear of not achieving the same level of success?

21 Comments
2024/12/12
07:26 UTC

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Is Vincent (the dog) going to be okay?? It’s my first time watching the show and I’m almost to the end of the first season. If the dog dies please tell me now so that I can skip that episode lol

26 Comments
2024/12/12
06:50 UTC

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Unexpected easter egg in SOKO Leipzig

I was watching this show on TV, "SOKO Lepzig". The team of investigators decided to spend christmas evening together at work and during that time a loterry ran on their TV. Their TV started go announce the numbers, and it went like "4, 8, 15..." At this point I was already like "wtf??? It could not be this". The final numbers are in the picture. None of the main characters had the lucky ticket. However, the scene changed to some family from earlier in the episode, and a they had the lucky ticket. However, right after it was annouced, young woman in that family went into labour. I sure hope it was not a premature birth!

It is so weird to see this easter egg in a german tv show, but it made my day :)

13 Comments
2024/12/12
06:25 UTC

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Why am I even watching a show full of plot holes

I’m almost done with season 6 i’m at ep 5… honestly, this was the greatest show ever up to season 3… if only I listened to all the complaints, but it started so strong I couldn’t believe the hate. So many plot holes but this one is so annoying to me I had to come on reddit to ask since I didn’t see anyone talking about it online…

When we first see Locke, isn’t he a loner talking to women he pays on the phone? Then, after the plane never crashes, he’s with Helen… what did I miss, should I finish the show to get that explanation? I feel like they don’t explain crap and just forget about any mystery they bring up. I feel the whole show is just “I’ll explain later but first come with us” or “there’s no time to explain” and then they just never explain anything. I have so many other questions but I’ll finish all the episodes before exploring old reddit threads. But this one detail just annoyed me too much.

TL:DR wasn’t Locke a loner in season 1 and now he’s with Helen like he was never a loner??

16 Comments
2024/12/12
05:45 UTC

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Rediscovering Lost TV Show A Journey Through Timeless Beauty and TV Nostalgia

Recently, I decided to rewatch the TV show Lost with my 20-year-old niece. At first, she didn’t want to watch it because she doesn’t like older movies and TV shows. However, she ended up loving it so much that we now spend all our weekends watching it. When I asked her why she changed her mind and what she liked about the show, her answer surprised me. She said that everyone in the show is so beautiful and handsome. She even asked if all people were that beautiful in the 2000s. Her question made me think, and I realized she had a point. Back in the 2000s and 2010s, movies and TV shows often featured actors who were not only beautiful but also had vibrant personalities. Shows like Lost, The Vampire Diaries, and Supernatural were filled with stunning actors, which made them enjoyable to watch. Nowadays, it seems like actors are chosen to look more ordinary and less glamorous. This might be to avoid promoting extreme diets or surgical changes, or perhaps to prevent people from feeling bad about themselves. I don’t want to upset anyone, but I believe an actor’s appearance is important. When I look at new TV shows, I find the actors quite boring and similar, as if they are following some template. The only character cast I’ve liked in the last 10 years is Beth from Yellowstone. And that’s it 🤷‍♀️.

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2024/12/12
05:40 UTC

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What’s the connection?

Season 3, E17 or 18 when Desmond is leaving the abbey - the monk has a picture on his desk of himself and Eloise. Was Desmond manipulated to that location in order to meet Penny? It’s so convoluted, I can’t make sense of it.

2 Comments
2024/12/12
05:05 UTC

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Benjamin Linus

I am on my 1st rewatch. S06 E07. Dr. Linus.

What do you all think is the writer's intentions with Benjamin Linus?

I take it it's not just me that feels sorry for and internally forgives Ben for all that he's done. I think by this point majority watchers think he deserves a break.

I don't normally tear up when watching shows. It is very rare for my waterworks to open up. The tears that were gently trickling down my cheeks were a surprise for me. The scene where Ben Linus holds gun in hand and instead chooses to talk to Ilana instead of shooting her and running off with MIB-Locke.

And the way the conversations ends... "I'll have you...".

Good Lord! What a great actor!!

If at all most of you are like me and decide that all Ben needs is a hug. Do you think that's what the writers intended? Or is it just Michael Emerson?

32 Comments
2024/12/12
04:50 UTC

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Faraday’s actions in The Variable

When Faraday tells Jack that he can detonate Jughead to change the future - do you think that Faraday actually believed that? Or was he purposefully lying to Jack to get him to do what had to be done?

3 Comments
2024/12/12
04:42 UTC

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Unlimited Amount of Tarps

How is it that the Losties have a unlimited number of perfect blue tarps? Where did they come from?

22 Comments
2024/12/12
03:27 UTC

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Anyone else not like Jack?

I’m currently watching S3 right now, and I just don’t like Jack’s character ever since he went with the others. Jack was peak in season 1, but even in season 2 I found him to be unreasonable and selfish. Jack doesn’t listen to whatever Sayid or John have to say, he is bipolar with Kate, bro clearly has daddy issues.

John Locke also is slightly overrated so far, I mean I found characters such as Sayid, Mr. Eko, Desmond and Sawyer more vital for the plot.

16 Comments
2024/12/12
03:22 UTC

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S6

SPOILER ALERT I’m on S6E7 and the alternate timeline is just so confusing to me.

Also I think I missed something with how some of the island timelines converge? I thought the Ajira flight people were ahead of time and those that “flashed” during the ajira flight were in 1977? Sorry if that’s dumb.

Also Frank Lapidus might be my favorite. And glad I have this sub to help me figure everything out lol. That is all.

4 Comments
2024/12/12
02:46 UTC

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Because no one else but y’all will appreciate.

11 Comments
2024/12/12
00:24 UTC

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New to the series, do the flashbacks stop after season 1?

I love the show so far but have a small thing I don't like: Which is that every episode so far has a 10 mins backstory of the people that are stuck on the Island. I guess the first season is the introduction of the people and what led to them taking that flight which I'm okay with but I'm sick off a backstory in EVERY EPISODE so far. I'm 18 episodes into season 1.

Do they continue in every episode in season 2 and most of the show? After 18 episodes I hope they focus less on backstories and more on the Island, escaping, hunting, Island natives, new arrivals to the Island and so on..

12 Comments
2024/12/11
22:48 UTC

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Oh to be Lost

I (50m) know I can’t be alone in my true desire to be on that island. I’m 17 years behind on watching it for the first time and am on S4:E14.

I remember it clearly, it was around 1985, sitting at the dining room table doing my history homework on Egypt, I can even picture the image on the page. I would have been about 11. I remember thinking in that moment that my dream “job” was to be a hermit. To disappear into a solitary existence free of expectations and societal burdens. I grew up and followed the norm rather than what I knew was my true desire. Now, almost 40 years later Lost rips open that feeling yet again and I just wish I were “Lost”.

2 Comments
2024/12/11
22:44 UTC

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Though shall not kill

So totally not a religious post it just recently occurred to me how much to zero and no remorse just about everyone left and right has with killing people.

One exception, Ricardus, who had this one line about murdering and says “but that would be wrong!” and then I’m pretty sure he proceeds to murder anyway

There must be a kill count compiled somewhere right?

4 Comments
2024/12/11
22:04 UTC

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people keep complaining about plot armors across media but this is the only true instance (spoilers)

lapidus isnt even selected for nothing he just gotta live to fly that stupid ass plane lmao its killing me hes being dragged across islands, surviving a dozen changes in leadership just cuz hes gotta fly the plane. which is hilarious because there is IN UNIVERSE explanation for a "plot armor" but nooo, he doesnt have that one, he has the meta one. im laughing cuz he doesnt even change out of his pilots uniform the whole time. god this show cracks me up

7 Comments
2024/12/11
21:58 UTC

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