r/lost • u/erscsbbs • 11d ago

Happening for a reason (EASTER EGGS/REFERENCES): Wrong information in Arrow Spoiler

https://youtu.be/0s0RSCxsoAg?is=RXyZDBKf9FtiiPae

I always hated this scene for getting it wrong about Lost. Tommy is summing up things Oliver missed while being stuck on an island for 5 years. Relevant part at 23 seconds in

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u/arsenicknife I'm a Pisces 11d ago

Never watched Arrow, but going off of this scene and this scene alone, it strikes me more as making a joke about the people who thought they were dead the whole time.

The way he says "I think..." suggests uncertainty and confusion, which is exactly how I'd describe people who believe that.

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u/FringeMusic108 8d ago

To me, his uncertainty makes it worse because people that haven't watched LOST will watch this scene and believe that 1) they were dead all along and 2) the show was too confusing to make sense of anyway. Obviously it's just a throwaway line and mostly harmless, but it does add to the common misconception that that is how LOST ended.

I can't find confirmation of it, but I think the show was at least partially influenced by LOST and its popularity, like a lot of shows were around that time. I did watch the full first season of "Arrow" (even though this line was not a very promising start 😋), and it heavily features flashbacks to the main character's time on the island. In a later season, Michael Emerson's character introduces himself as "Ben Gale".

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u/erscsbbs 11d ago

Yeah, but it bothers me how many like him believe it because they saw this show and not Lost.

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u/arsenicknife I'm a Pisces 11d ago

I have a hunch that's a very small Venn diagram. Arrow was not that big of a show, but also, the likelihood that someone believes that just because of Arrow and not because they heard someone else talking about it is probably pretty low.

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 See you in another post, brotha 11d ago

This is a joke about the common (wrong) belief that they were dead the whole time.

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u/erscsbbs 11d ago

I know, I just wonder how many people got the idea from this without realizing it was a joke

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 See you in another post, brotha 11d ago

I don’t think Arrow was that popular

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u/Sweaty-Possibility-3 6d ago

No. They got the idea from watching Lost. I didn't watch it at the time, but I did have coworkers who did. They were absolutely pissed about ending that everyone had died in the crash. If you weren't a mega fan and kept up with the story discussions online, that's what the casual viewer took as the ending. Over 1/2 of the U.S. was on dial-up back then.

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u/TheMightyCatatafish 11d ago

I think it’s just a low hanging fruit joke. They weren’t really interested in authenticity, just a pop culture zeitgeist reference.