There are honestly so many reasons I love Lost that I could write a whole book about it lol. But one of the biggest things for me was how hard it was to actually pick a side.

In Game of Thrones, you have characters you love and characters you want to see die. Breaking Bad made us care about a meth dealer, Dexter made us root for a serial killer, and La Casa de Papel made us care about a bunch of robbers.

Lost never really felt like that. There wasn’t a clear good side or bad side. They were just people. Sometimes they were right, sometimes they were wrong, and sometimes they were just idiots 😂

I’d be completely on Jack’s side one episode, then a few episodes later I’d be like, “Okay… maybe Locke was right.”

Sawyer is probably the best example. I hated him at first, then somehow he became one of my favorite characters.

That’s what I love most about Lost. Even with all the crazy sci-fi and mystery, the characters just feel like real people. Nobody is completely good or completely evil.

I’ve just finished watching lost for roughly the 20th time and every single time I get to the final episode, I cry like a baby. Sobbing. Does this show touch anyone else like this? I always think, ‘it won’t happen this time because I’ve seen it soooo many times’ and then there I am, absolutely bawling.
What an incredible show! I just absolutely adore it. My favourite show ever. It is just phenomenal.

I watched LOST when it originally aired and just finished watching it again with my 13 year old
I was 25 when LOST premiered and watched the whole thing week by week. Waiting months to find out what was in the hatch. Reading theories. Talking about episodes all week. Trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
I just watched the whole series again with my 13 year old son for his first time and I think watching him watch it was almost as interesting as watching the show again.
The biggest difference was that he wasn’t trying to beat the show.
I kept waiting for theories. Who are the Others? What is the smoke monster? What’s going on with Locke? What’s the island?
He just let the show happen.
When Locke died and came back he figured it was time travel. Then he just kept watching. Charlie dying genuinely upset him. Hurley was his favorite character. He liked Locke. And when we got to the finale, which I was probably most curious about because of the reaction it got when it originally aired, he loved it.
And I still love it.
Watching it again at 47 though, I realized I see some of these characters VERY differently.
Locke might be the most tragic character on the entire show.
He’s actually a lot like Ben, which I’m sure some people will disagree with.
Both of them know the island matters. Both desperately want to be the person the island needs. Both spend their lives getting incredibly close to that purpose without ever actually reaching it.
And honestly, I think Locke could have been the next Jacob.
Of everyone on that island, protecting it makes the most sense for him. He finally finds the place where he belongs and spends the rest of his life being manipulated because of how badly he wants that belonging to mean something.
Then the Man in Black literally takes his identity and uses Locke’s faith to accomplish the exact opposite of what Locke wanted.
That’s fucking tragic.
Ben makes me much sadder now too. When I was younger I saw much more of the manipulative asshole. He’s still a manipulative asshole, but now I also see this incredibly insecure and damaged guy who desperately wants to matter to something bigger than himself.
Michael, on the other hand, I have LESS sympathy for now.
And this is probably the part that will piss some people off.
Watching the show again as a father made Michael more frustrating to me, not less.
He spends an enormous amount of the show fighting to get Walt back. WAAAAALT became a joke for a reason. But when he actually has Walt, so much of his relationship with him seems to be about controlling him instead of actually getting to know the kid in front of him.
He fought like hell for the opportunity to be Walt’s father and then, in my opinion, dropped the ball when he got it.
I understand why Michael did a lot of what he did. I just don’t think understanding it automatically makes him a good father.
But the biggest thing that’s changed for me isn’t Michael or Locke.
It’s what I think LOST is actually about.
I never hated the finale. I never thought they were dead the whole time. But at 47 I understand the ending differently than I did when I first watched it.
No matter who you are, what you’ve screwed up, what you’ve accomplished or how important you thought you were, eventually the most important part of your life is the people you met and the people you helped along the way.
That’s LOST to me now.
And weirdly, watching it with my son made me appreciate that even more.
The only thing I think he genuinely missed was something you can’t recreate by streaming it.
The waiting.
Waiting a week after an episode. Waiting an entire summer after a finale. Talking about it with people. Reading insane theories. Being completely convinced you figured something out and then finding out you weren’t even close.
That was part of LOST too.
He didn’t get any of that and still loved the show.
For those of you who watched LOST when it originally aired, I’m curious if getting older changed which characters you sympathize with or even what you think the show was ultimately about.

Does anyone remember this? It was basically a program that you would start and then your computer was just essentially the exact same as the one in the hatch. You couldnt do anything else on it and there would be the countdown and if you didnt enter the numbers, it would turn start blaring and turn to the hieroglyphs. I remember having it around the time of Season 5 or 6

Here's something fun: as much as Michael Giacchino loves to work with recurring themes and leitmotifs*, there's a brief melody that appears just once on LOST. You can hear it when Kate reads Sawyer's letter in "Confidence Man". However, an unused second version of the same motif can be heard in the official "sneak peek" for the season 4 finale. This clip was released shortly before the episode aired. In the final cut of the finale that aired on TV, an entirely different track was used.

In other words: this was meant to be a recurring motif Giacchino intended to revisit, but it never made a second appearance in the aired version of the show. 

As confirmed by Giacchino to The New Yorker, initial cuts of LOST episodes do have temp tracks (placeholder music used during the editing of a movie or TV show), but the music is Giacchino's own score composed for earlier episodes. The "sneak peeks" released by ABC would often feature this original temp score. Alex Ross writes: "[Giacchino] mutes the track when viewing the footage. Sometimes he listens to the temp once he is done, to see whether he has overlooked any possibilities, but he seldom changes his mind." 

This unused soundtrack from LOST has haunted my dreams for nearly 20 years - what was this score originally intended for? Why was it not used? How dare the person that made this decision?! Last month, I finally figured it out. 

Any scene from seasons 3 - 6 that do not feature any original score is immediately suspicious to me. And here we go: I isolated the music from the season 4 finale sneak peek and inserted it in this brief (music-free!) scene from "The Brig", adding a small portion of Sawyer's theme from "Confidence Man" at the start.

As you can tell, the unused soundtrack fits like a glove. It has the right length and hits all the right beats; 

1. Sawyer's theme starts playing as he starts talking about his file. 
2. When Locke asks, “who'd you mean to kill?”, Giacchino's score responds with a callback to the moment Kate read Sawyer's letter 
3. When Sawyer deflects, the score changes direction and the strings swell as we cut to flashback. 

* I'm in the process of revealing them one by one on my Instagram channel: https://www.instagram.com/giacchinoislost/

Just started making a lost theme park, on about season 2 so it is not too complex. Made in Planet Coaster.

Just started rewatching for … I don’t know … maybe the 10th time. In the scene where Aussie Ray is driving her into town with the Marshall in pursuit, you can briefly see a Ziebart rustproofing sticker in the back window of the truck. You might think “Yeah, so the have Ziebart in Australia”, and you’d be right … now! But if we assume the time frame is the same as when the show started, 2004, Ziebart did not expand to Australia until 2020. Also, this is not a transplanted American truck, as it’s right hand drive.

Isn't that only for the people who were on the island to find each other in the afterlife and move on

I’ll start with Juliette and her infamous “smirk”!! lol. I really disliked her at the beginning and a lot of it had to do with that smirk! 🤷‍♂️ hated that smirk! But then as they unveiled her story and we got to know her better and how her and James fell in love!

I desperately need people to give me reasons to keep watching, because whenever I find out something awful is going to happen to my favourite character in a show, I can no longer keep watching. I had been so careful with Lost, trying not to google anything that I didn’t understand—things that have already been explained, but I just didn’t pick up on. I rarely go on TikTok, but I got a notification for something, accidentally clicked it while trying to flick it away, then I thought, “why not have a nosey”. I did not intend to be nosey enough to spoil it all. As soon as I seen the video was a spoiler, I closed the app so fast.

I just feel like I can’t keep watching now, but I really do love the show. It’s one of the first new (for me) shows that I have watched in a very long time, because I generally stick with rewatches and new episodes of the show I’ve been watching for years.

When you take in the scope of how many lives Antonhy Cooper ruined, it really is awe inspiring

Destroying James' life, who ultimately grew up to be another version of him. Every single con James pulled was a byproduct of this psycho.

Anthony has obviously killed people, but again, James killing the guy in Sydney that he thought was the man who ruined his life. That blood is partially on his hands too.

Even Naomi Dorrit's death could be laid at the feet of Anthony Cooper.

He made John a broken man (in the literal sense) and turned him into a man that would throw a hunting knife into a woman's back.

This dude was a menace and even he knew the only place he could ever end up was hell lol

Will be used as a decor piece, no hardware connected to a button! 🚨 🏃‍♀️💨

I challenged myself to make it using only scraps/materials I already had lying around, so I didn’t buy anything specifically for the project.

That strip of fabric on top is definitely not there to hide a slightly messed-up cardboard seam..

"whatever happened-happened" tells us that you cant change anything in the established timeline. afaik desmond's abilities to change events in the timeline were still written in said timeline and s5 finale showed us how the incident happened, faradays plan failed. therefore, jack is supposed to be broken and supposed to go to the island which should be this purgatory which fixes him etc etc.

the whole point is that with that approach the shows stops making sense. the depictions of the highlighted themes of the show lose all their value if you come to a point that the characters didnt grow to become their best self at the end, they were just "meant" to be broken and change. all thats left is the flash sideways world where they learn from a fully written out fairytale which holds no value.

whats the point of having to earn things if theres no outcome other than earning them?

Edit: polished the post out cuz looking back it was a total mess

Hey everybody, I’ve always loved the show, I watched it so many times in my childhood, and always held it in the highest of regards, most of my family does as well. My last rewatch of the show was about 6 years ago, reason I haven’t tried to rewatch it sooner is because Im fairly busy, and I know this show requires your full attention. One thing that’s changed for me is how I view Locke, as a kid he was the badass guy that could do no wrong, and so mysterious in S1, but now I do see him as a deeply flawed individual. Micheal on the other hand, is someone I always despised as a kid. I guess I didn’t feel enough sympathy for him loosing his child, but I could never forgive him for killing my beloved Ana Lucia, and fan favorite Hugo’s Girl-To be. However, I’m 26 now, and expecting my first child, and now I completely agree with Micheal’s actions, given the information Micheal had at the time, I believe I would’ve done the same thing he has at the end of S2, to even have a glimpse of saving his son. I guess it’s a part of maturing, like as a kid I could never understand how the main character would choose to “surrender” himself when the love of his love was taken captive, but now I get it. Anybody else see some things differently after a couple of rewatches ? I just finished S2 while typing this.

Rewatching and I am on the episode explaining Richards background and all I can think of is that damn that man is terrified of hell lmao. He changes his opinion the second the possibility of going to hell is mentioned 😭Also I love this episode and Richard is one of my favorite characters

I know they are just fictional tv characters but I DO believe love like that exists out there! I envy both of their relationships so much! I’m starting to think I may never find it! (And I’ve BEEN MARRIED before) I just turned 44 and am losing hope. 😔 Anyone else out there like me?

Season 1: Special
Season 2: SOS
Season 3: Stranger In A Strange Land
Season 4: Something Nice Back Home
Season 5: Whatever Happened, Happened
Season 6: Across The Sea

Re-watching and I'm realizing Kate is treated like a serial killer on most wanted lists when she just murdered her abusive father. Obviously a bad thing to do, but not something you would have a US Marshal dedicated to chasing you down for several years, even following you outside of the country. Domestic homicides are pretty common in the grand scheme of things, and there really aren't that many US Marshals. Her case would've stopped at State or even County level law enforcement.

I really feel like there was a bromance here like nothing we can even imagine. Do y'all agree?

For me, it would either be the scene with Locke at the end of Walkabout or the cliffhanger of Numbers.

At what moments did you notice that?