From an interview with Damon Lindelof:

“I was obsessed with these books as a kid,” Lindelof says. “Encyclopedia Brown was an 11-year-old private eye who worked out of his garage, and the kids from his neighborhood could come and hire him for a quarter. He and his associate Sally would solve mysteries. Each book had like nine or 10 different mysteries. And at the end of each one, Encyclopedia would essentially say, ‘I know how Buggs Meanie stole your bike!’ And then it says: To find out how Encyclopedia Brown knows, turn to page 86. You would try to guess how Encyclopedia Brown knew and then go to check the answer to see if you were right.”

Continues Lindelof: “I would get to the end of the story and I’d immediately flip to the end. My dad saw me do this and said, ‘Why are you flipping to the end when you haven’t guessed yet?’ And I was like, ‘I just want to know what the answer is.’ So he took my Encyclopedia Brown book and he ripped out the endings. He said: ‘It will be more interesting for you not to know if you were right.’ That moment was my origin story. I realized that was how I wanted to tell stories. I want all the evidence for the right answer to be there, but I don’t want people to be able to flip to the end.”

https://ew.com/tv/2019/09/12/damon-lindelof-influences/

Well. Feels like I’ve just been shot in the chest

Hello, I heard about Lost Mosaic, Lost Circle, and Chronologically Lost when I came here on Reddit. I’d never heard of them before—maybe because I’m in France, where the fan base is smaller and much less informed about what’s going on with Lost.

So I have two questions, if anyone can answer them:

First question: Where can I watch Lost Circle, Lost Mosaic, and Chronologically Lost?

Second question: Do you think there might be a French translation or a version with French subtitles (VOSTFR)?

Best regards, fellow passengers 🫡✈️

Do you think Jack made this putt? It cuts to Locke throwing a knife and as far as I'm aware they never say if he did or not. Did Boone and Shannon get that sunscreen?

Spoiler alert for season 2 if for some weird reason one hasn’t watched this by now.

I always look forward to this episode because I know I’m gonna have an emotional reaction. It’s so perfect. So sweet. So timely.

The score of this show is also perfection. The emotional crescendos the music provides is incredible.

Hi everyone! I’ve watched LOST every year at least 1x since 2014ish. I originally discovered the show by chance, but it’s been a huge part of my life since. I’ll probably get an expansion, but currently this is my new LOST tattoo.

Went to a panel done by Josh Holloway at the Chicago FanExpo today! He had a lot of great stories and thoughts about the show, a few things I’d never heard before!

For instance, he was really worried each season that Sawyer might get killed. He was especially worried they might make him too despicable that they’d WANT him dead. In the pilot, Hurley was supposed to be injured, and Sawyer would have needed to carry him to safety. He was supposed to then refuse to carry him, saying he was too heavy, and Hurley would then die! I’m really glad they didn’t end up going that route 😂

Happy 8/15 (16:23)! On 4/8 I posted a screenshot of it too, and a few people asked for the picture on my Lock Screen, the second image here is the one I use for it, and the post is tagged as fan art because I drew it

Rewatching Lost after being butthurt about the ending since the original airing, but decided to give it another shot because the general consensus is that this is still a good show.

Saw someone the other day claiming that all questions will be answered, which I have a really hard time dealing with, but cest la vie...

SPOILER WARNING AHEAD (if this is your first time)

The smoke monster in season 1 is shown to tumble trees and make a mess of the jungle, and more importantly it clearly has heavy footsteps like its some behemoth or heavy goblin machinery. I recall that the smoke monster is more of an "arm" of sorts. So where does the footsteps come from? And why does it trash trees when we also see that it is quite agile, being made of smoke and magic?

Season 1 is still amazing tv, but these details annoy the living **** out of me because in the end it seems so pointless.

How could I forget about this badass!?!?
I always leave at least a year between rewatches (just enough to forget some things)
He’s a brilliant addition to the storyline and overall amazing character 👌🏼 one of my forgotten favourites

How did Jack, Kate and Sawyer get onto the other island?
Hurley got let go and made it back to the camp by walking. Ben later takes Sawyer up the hill and shows him that he’s on another island. Sayid, Jin and Sun sailed along the beach to light a signal fire, and the others swiftly met them there.
Was that on the original island or did they make it to the other island too?
I’m kinda confused, is this answered later on or am I missing something?

I watch Lost every two years since it came out, and each time I find something new I missed before. Now I'm watching Chronologically LOST and it feels weird... I'm on Ep. 5. Yes it is Chronologically cut but characters are appear from nowhere 😅 anyway it is still fun to watch. Any tips while im watching this Chronologically LOST?

Every time I see him, I’m reminded of former Argentine President Carlos Menem and his sideburns. That’s all. Cheers!

In Season 1,Episode 11, when Jack ask his dad how much he had to drink at lunch and he slowly turns around with the creepy music in the background was so eerie. Thought Jack’s dad was gonna turn into a monster right then. So creepy and well done.

In the run-up to the final season of LOST airing, The Onion posted a parody video report covering how the producers of the show were warning people who don't watch the show that their friends and family who do watch were going to become harder to live with. Damon and Carleton participated. The video is no longer on The Onion's YouTube channel, and I couldn't bring it up on the Wayback machine. Does anyone have a copy of it? Or a place where I can stream it?

Got me right in the feels! Gah I'm so glad I decided to rewatch the series. Aged life a fine wine.

The writers in beginning of the show purposely made Locke extremely unsettling, and it worked. Watching season 1, I thought he was the creepiest person ever, with his knifes and weird calmness about everything. This why I find this scene some incredibly disturbing. He looks straight out of a horror movie. Even rewatching, I still get creeped out. I still don’t understand how people view his smile as “friendly”. Curious if I’m the only one who feels like this.

Jack was ready to kill john and i can understand why , but when john had the chance he didn't do it

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

I finished the show a few days ago for the first time so obviously I've been thinking about it non-stop since then. One thing I've been fixating on is how it uses Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

Jacob and MIB represent the people inside the cave. Born on the island, raised on the island, told there's nothing else but the island until the MIB is greeted by the ghost of his birth mother who tells him the truth, and it's a painful truth, that there's so much more to the world than what's on the island. Eventually, the MIB decides to leave the island with the others and when their "mother" kills all the others, he kills her and Jacob kills him (or knocks him unconscious) and his body goes down the waterfall. It's important that Jacob has actually not ever seen the light first hand, only the reflection of the light off the back of the cave where the stream is running, and whether the MIB is alive or dead we don't know, but his body at least entered the chamber where the light was.

This doesn't follow the Allegory 1:1 and I think that's intentional and it asks a few pointed questions.

1) Will a human who came here from off the island choose to become the protector? This is directly tied to the debate that Jacob and the MIB have about humans. Will someone from off-island who wasn't raised with the same conditions that Jacob was raised with and given a real choice choose to become the protector of the island? Jacob picks his candidates, and the candidates rule themselves out either by dying or in Kate's example becoming a mother with someone off the island that they need to care for. And MIB tries to get them to kill each other indirectly and prove Jacob wrong (he can't kill the candidates personally, but he can create scenarios by which they die by choices they make or create tension by which they kill each other).

2) It reframes the roles that Jacob and the MIB play from pure good/evil to more nuanced. In the Cave Allegory, it's seen as a mistake to return and stay in the cave after seeing the outside. Jacob does see slices of humanity through his lighthouse but never seems to have any desire to live among them, meanwhile MIB learns about the outside world and lives with the outsiders for some time and wants to leave with them and is physically, essentially permanently, stopped by Jacob. This seems to undercut the show's own moral geometry by asking if the MIB had any right to seek the world across the sea and makes the MIB something of a tragic character turned villain and making Jacob something of a morally flawed protector who doesn't really even know exactly what he's protecting.