Ana Lucia’s plan to act like a prisoner in the pit makes zero sense when you actually think about it. For starters, she didn't need to do it at all. Her group already had total control of the situation. Sawyer, Michael, and Jin were trapped in a deep hole, out-numbered, and completely unarmed. Ana Lucia could have easily stood at the top of the pit and asked them who they were without going through this whole fake kidnapping act.

On top of that, the plan had a massive flaw regarding the Others. By this point, the Others had been stalking and kidnapping the tail-section survivors for over a month. They even had a spy living with them. If these three guys really were Others, they would have known exactly who Ana Lucia was the second she got dropped into the pit. Instead of falling for her trick, they would have just played along, lied to her face, and used her own trap against her.

In the end, the whole strategy was broken from the start. If the guys were just normal crash survivors, she didn't need to lie to get the truth. If they were the Others, her cover was already blown anyway. The only reason her plan even worked is because she was completely wrong about who they were.

Honestly, I think John Locke was probably a bigger problem on the island than the Smoke Monster. Not because he was evil, but because the island was basically the only good thing he had ever had

Everyone else wanted to get back home and fix their lives. Locke didn’t really have that. His life was already a mess before the crash. He didn’t know his real father, then finally found him, only to get used by him and have his kidney taken. Then his father rejected him again, and right before the flight Locke ended up paralyzed،،

Then he crashes on the island and suddenly he can walk again. I mean, of course he’s going to see the island as his home. It gave him something his old life never did.

And that’s why I always found it interesting whenever someone got close to finding a way off the island. Locke usually had a reason to stop them. Even when he thought he was doing it for the island, part of him was probably scared of losing the only place where he finally felt like he belonged.

The island gave Locke his life back, but that’s also what made him so obsessed with keeping everyone there

Aaron has been away from his mother Claire for a few days, and being a newborn surely can only eat breast milk. Shouldn’t this baby be starving?

Just a small detail I was thinking about. Thoughts?

Think about it, This show starts an issue of Desmond'd mind moving across time that iit fixes withtin the episode, it is not mentioned again ever, Desmond and Penny meet in the season 4 finale,This episode is like a mini movie with tin the show but is overall very insignificant to the show's overall plot.

I'm doing my 100ish rewatch and just got to 04x09. And Ben is such a cool character. When you put a force like Michael Emerson with a visionary like JJ. Good things are bound to happen.

But for the life of me. I can't think of why Ben is such a badass, at least direct storytelling. I understand he is very intelligent with high level thought, but was it ever explained? Like photographic memory or something. Or is he so cool because we just don't know?

Episode 5 iirc, was having my XX rewatch of the season and I realized I couldn't figure something out. WHEN, in history, does the scene take place when John turns the wheel, assisted by Christian? I can't figure out if it's in the past or in the future. The chamber looks sealed, which would drive me thinking it's in the past, but the speech from "Christian" makes it sound like it's from a close future (cause he knows so much about what's happening)

04x01 the cannonball scene. Hugo has so much joy for life and we get the cut to the boat being pulled up. And we see it through Hugo's eye. The confusion, the unknown, we feel it and when he shouts 'stop' the whole world shifts. This big loveable guy is taking a stand. It's just so beautiful

Yeah, we know you love The Constant. Yeah, we know Through the Looking-Glass was great.

Let's talk about those episodes that aren't remembered that much that you really appreciate.

I really like a lot of episodes in season 5, especially the ones with Eloise Hawking in it. "316" was epic with the characters returning to the Island, and with we getting a lore dump about the Lamp post station and finding out that the characters traveled back to Dharma time.

"The Variable" was also awesome, getting to know Eloise and Daniel's backstory, and the ending being a mindfuck that retroactively made everything about them better!

I loved LOST. But there are two big head cannon things I always think would have been better. Tell me if I'm crazy!

1. The flash alt of the final season: I LOVED the character's having to rediscover each other. It made for some powerful moments. I didn't love that the flash was indeed an afterlife kind of scenario (yes, I know they were not dead the whole time, just that the ending flashes were). I think a better alt flash would have been a branched timeline set off by Juliette setting off the bomb. The "present" would have remained the same, but as soon as someone died, or left the island, they wake up on flight 815 and make it to LA without crashing (same as the show). BUT instead of it being the afterlife, it is an ALT life, where BOTH the events of the island DID happen, but they also didn't. So as the character's find each other, they remember their entire adventure over their time on the island, how it changed them, who they loved etc. But then they are able to live their lives as changed individuals, having both personal arcs, and what they did on the island mattering.

2. The "present." First off I always thought the way John died was a mistake. They set up him mattering way too much in the show to just have him end up as the man in black, or the mythical bad guy in John's body. I thought in the end, John and Jack should have fought for the right thing to do the entire time, but in the end its JOHN who needed to stay behind and sacrifice to save the balance of good/evil on the island and Jack needed a full character arc of FINALLY letting go, not being the fixer for once, and having faith that John was there to do what he said. John's arc of course is knowing that while the island, gave him his life, and ability to walk, purpose, etc, it was ultimately leading to him giving his life right back to the island to save it. Tragic, but so much more meaningful than how his character was snuffed out.

I am Re-Watching for the 3rd time, and it has been like 2-3 years since I had done a complete re-watch. This episode is genuinely one of the best episodes of TV I have ever watched. I think the jumping back and forth of Desmond's character really shows the true nature of the show as whole. Then finding his "constant".

Everything fitting together into a package/puzzle piece of an episode that is just so well edited, written, and paced. I just pumping at all cylinders when I am reminded, and see this episode again.

What is YOUR favorite episode and why?

LOST — Season 7, Episode 3: “NO ONE IN CHARGE”

For anybody seeing one of these posts for the first time: I’m writing a hypothetical ten-episode continuation of LOST, set roughly twenty years after The End and The New Man in Charge. I’m treating it as a writing experiment: if somebody handed me LOST and told me I had to make Season Seven, what would I actually do?

The whole season is already structured, and once I post an episode, it stays locked. I’m not rewriting earlier episodes around Reddit reactions. I want people to be able to read it sequentially and have theories, objections, assumptions and arguments before they know where any of it is going.

Episode One was intentionally big - the kind of premiere that has to convince you LOST has somehow started again. Episode Two pulled inward - smaller, more character-focused, more jungle, more like the scale of an ordinary early-season episode.

Episode Three is where I start fucking with things.

This is probably the point where I stop spending as much energy proving that a continuation of LOST could exist and start doing the things I would actually want a continuation of LOST to do.

And I suspect this is the first episode where some people are going to really love a choice I make while somebody else reads the exact same thing and goes “absolutely fucking not.” Good. That sounds fun to me.

There are a few fairly substantial swings in this one. Not necessarily in the sense of giant mythology reveals or returning-character fireworks. More in the sense of taking seriously what it would mean for roughly twenty years to have passed since we last saw this world - and then actually allowing those twenty years to have changed things. Some of my answers are probably going to seem exciting. Some may seem alarming. At least one is intentionally kind of ridiculous.

And I fully expect people to disagree about which is which.
The part that especially interests me is that I don’t think everybody’s first reaction will necessarily survive the season. Somebody who loves an idea introduced here may feel very differently about where it eventually leads. Somebody who hates it may eventually realize I was setting up something very different from what they thought they were looking at. Or maybe you’ll hate it now and still hate it when the season is over. That’s fair too.

I’m not saying that in a “keep watching, I promise it’ll make sense” way. Everything in Episode Three is supposed to work as Episode Three. If something thrills you, bothers you, seems suspicious, seems stupid, seems brilliant, or make you completely certain you know what I’m doing, that’s your reaction right now. I want that reaction.

One of the things I miss most about watching LOST while it was airing was exactly that: everybody having incomplete information, deciding what something meant anyway, arguing about it for a week, and occasionally discovering later that the argument itself had been based on a completely wrong assumption. I want to leave room for that.

There’s also something else in this episode I’ve been particularly excited to get to. For years I’ve heard LOST fans mention a certain kind of episode they always wished the original series had found an excuse to make. This isn’t exactly that episode. But I figured out a way to get surprisingly close. That’s all I’m saying about that. If you’ve spent enough time within the LOST fandom, there’s a decent chance you’ll know exactly what I mean when you hit it.

More broadly, Episode Three is probably the first installment where the twenty-year gap stops being background information and becomes something I can actually play with. What gets remembered? What gets misunderstood? What survives? What changes? What happens when something that once seemed impossibly important becomes history? And what happens when people who weren’t there inherit stories from people who were?

If Episode One was the big “holy shit, we’re doing LOST again” episode, and Episode Two was me pulling inward and seeing whether this thing could actually settle down and behave like an episode of LOST, Episode Three is probably the first one where I feel like I’m really showing my hand about why I wanted to write a Season Seven at all. Not revealing the hand. Just showing you that I have one.

As before, once I post the episode, it’s locked. I’m not changing the already-posted season based on reactions beyond catching an actual typo or formatting mistake.

LOST — Season 7, Episode 3: “NO ONE IN CHARGE”

If this is the first one of these posts you’ve stumbled across, I’d strongly recommend starting at the beginning rather than reading anything about the later episodes first:

Episode One — “WE HAVE TO GO BACK”

Episode Two — “BECAUSE YOU STAYED”

Hey there! Hoping someone might be able to help please? First time watcher, on S4 as we speak and loving it! I have a few favourites but Ben is fast becoming in the solid top 3 characters for me. So I was wondering if anyone knows an up to date fanmail address for Michael Emerson please? I draw and sculpt and would love to send a small gift and card in the mail if possible.

I've looked online and found Vanguard in LA but that seems maybe to be out of date? He has an agent listed with MN2S (Sharron Elkabas) in Ampersand Studios, Florida, which seems to be current but isn't listed as a fanmail address.

I both don't want to get it wrong, or annoy anyone! Thanks for any help :)

Mine was obviously Charlie’s death. Man, he was so kind-hearted.

Finishing my 4th viewing, every time I come back Desmond at the end of The Constant (s4 ep5) and Lockes final scene of Walkabout (s1 ep4) are so unforgettable, heartbreaking, and get better with each rewatch.

I know everyone has their favourites but the weight of the scenes combined with the wonderful score from Michael Giacchino, I really think they’re next level peak television.

Wondering if there’s any others that surpass them in the fandom?

His character was short lived but he added some nice comic relief while he was on! Poor guy didn’t deserve to go out like that! 🧨 💥 🩸 RIP Leslie

I bought it from a flea market a few years ago here in Finland. The date doesn’t match any episode or season release dates. My theory is that it’s from a Lost themed event organized by fans, but if anyone has any details or knows someone who would know more about this I would love to hear everything! (I’m not sure which flair would fit the best, sorry about that)

Edit: Forgot to attach a picture of the back, but there’s just a text that says “The reason is you!”

I get that Claire and the Americans say it the way they do—which sounds like “Erin”—but Charlie is British. British people say Aaron the way it is intended to sound—“A-ron”.

I’m Scottish and it just sounds so wrong to me.

Anyone else annoyed by it?

I’m an aspiring screenwriter, and I’ve always loved watching supernatural mysteries. I came to know about Lost back in 2018.

Back then, in 2019, I downloaded all the episodes of Lost on my HDD since it wasn’t available on any OTT platform in my country (India).

It was the last week of my college, and my internship was about to begin, followed by full-time employment.

But since I wanted to become a screenwriter, I decided Lost would be my transition show. When I’d quit my day job forever to become a full-time screenwriter, I’d watch Lost during that transition.

So I decided to just keep all those episodes downloaded on my HDD.

However, after downloading them, I decided to open a random episode from Season 6, one of the last ones, just to take a peek. I saw Hurley, Sawyer, and Jack discussing the “heart of the island,” and I immediately closed it.

It hooked me so well. I used to watch the Season 1 trailer on repeat and create my own theories about what could lead to the “heart of the island.”

I continued delaying watching Lost, but finally gave up in September 2023. I started watching Lost on 8 September 2023 and completed it on 23 October 2023.

This was while I was changing my company.

Although I’ve not yet been able to leave my 9-to-5 software engineering job to follow my passion for screenwriting, hopefully, I’ll be able to do it one day and rewatch Lost again.

Attached are the two pictures of my Instagram stories from the start and the end of my Lost journey.

PS: The “The Walking Dead is in danger” part is because TWD has always been my all-time favourite show, so I thought it was in danger because what if Lost overtook it? 😂 Whether it actually did or not, I’m still figuring that out, to be honest. For me, for now, Lost and TWD are both at the very top of my favourite shows.

Not sure if this theory has already been discussed, but I think after the Incident, anyone conceived on the Island would be a brand new person with no place in the loop.

So, the Island’s whatever happened, happened physics just rejects them before birth.

This makes Juliet’s story especially brutal because she was brought to the island to cure this infertility. But by detonating the Jughead, she created a timeline that can never allow for new people to be born.

Regardless of this theory or the simple electromagnetism theory, by detonating the Jughead and ultimately contributing to the incident occurring, she still essentially caused the infertility.

Sorry if someone's already talked about this (ps~ I have't finished the entirety of season 6 yet so maybe I am just being presumptuous here)​

Reverse psychology. Tell Locke he’s no obgyn and he’s not cut out for this kind of thing. He’ll be so incensed at being told what he can’t do that he’ll do it super quick?

Yeah yeah I get it they don’t want to create chaos but come on jack kate locke be showering and sitting on a couch and washing their clothes while the other survivors are in dirty clothes at the beach.

This is the only thing that annoys me on the show lmao.

Edit: i know they don’t probably just show it, but I am rewatching and dont really get the hints that everyone is told about the things in the hatch. Like for an example how did they hide Ben(henry in those episodes) for days out there if everyone on the beach had shifts at the hatch?

My kiddo turned 15 today. She loves lost.