Mystery/Thriller LOST - But Not Forgotten...Except by the Emmys - Part 1

[Brother Jack]

I've been doing a rewatch myself this summer. Almost finished with season 4. I'll probably stop at season 5 though. I don't exactly hate season 6 but it has become very frustrating for me to watch personally. It's hard for me to see it for what it is without thinking about what could have been.

 

[antsman41]

I still say season 6 should have been laid out like this...

1. Jacob/MIB flashback episode as normal
2. Richard Alpert flashback episode as normal
3 - 12. The whole island battle, culminating in episode 11/12 with the end of the real time line

-mini airing break-

13. Hurley/Ben flash forward and followup with the survivors episode (the most we'd need for reshoots and such)
14 - 19. We open up like we did in the real season 6, making it a mind **** that Jack is still alive (not from an A-Bomb, but from dying on the island). Over the course of the 8 episodes [all of which are the purgatory or whatever scenes from season 6...
20. Desmond culminating as the constant and saving the day, which leads to the church.

This would have made the purgatory stuff more worthwhile and a throwback to the overall series instead of being weird and wasted like it felt during and after the revelation since most of us knew it right away anyways. I know it's not perfect and would need heavy editing with what we have but this would have been my dream layout with basically what we were given.

 

[Brother Jack]

Sequestering the flash-sideways completely to the back chunk of the season would not have been a good move in my opinion. The off-island stories were always intertwined with the island narrative and separating them like that would have probably made both plot lines in season 6 harder to contend with. The juxtaposition of the two running threads was one of the most important aspects of the flashback/forward/sideways narrative device.

 

[DyeLorean]

I like season 6. What I like about it is that they kept doing new stuff. Even if it didn't completely work, I still admire the craftsmanship of everything they did. Not only in S6 but on the series overall. Such a complex work.

 

[John Locke]

Update on the Phineas and Ferb Lost tribute episode. It will air on September 29 and is written by Damon Lindelof with Terry O'Quinn guest starring as the villain.

 

[Hyde]

They're doing a tribute episode? That's awesome!

 

[Hyde]

Happy 10th Birthday LOST!

 

[Bim]

Wow, 10 years already!? geez, time flies. This show was starting the other day

Happy bday, LOST! Thank you for 6 seasons of confusion, surprises and awesomeness

 

[Prison Mike]

I was just watching season 6 on Netflix the other day. I totally forgot that the show premiered 10 years ago today!

 

[John Locke]

I started my rematch today to commemorate.

 

[Spider-Gnome]

I've been catching up on a lot a great shows this year that I've never seen, but this is STILL my favorite show of all time!

I plan to do my next rewatch in the summer. Right now, in addition to the new seasons starting I'm trying to get through Breaking Bad (currently season 3) and Buffy (currently season 2). For my next LOST rewatch, I'm debating watching it in chronological order.


"We gotta go back, Kate...!!!"

 

[Daltonio]

Happy birthday to what will always be one of my favorite shows ever!

 

[Marvolo]

Im about done with my yearly rewatch of Lost. Ive only got to get through season 6. Happy Birthday Lost.

 

[Donut]

Good times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_62e455O0U

 

[hobo123]

IGN ranked every episode of LOST

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/22/ranking-lost

 

[John Locke]

How could they rank Tricia Tanaka is Dead as the second worst? It's the funniest episode of the show.

 

[Brother Jack]

How could they rank Tricia Tanaka is Dead as the second worst? It's the funniest episode of the show.

I love that episode. One of the most uplifting and genuinely happy of the show.

Happy Birthday, Lost. I may never be into another show like I was with this. It was truly one of a kind and I doubt there will be any other quite like it. It's a complicated relationship much like the show itself. I was satisfied and disappointed by it, sometimes at once, but it was all because I was so enamored with it, so invested in the characters and the story. I still am.

 

[Marvolo]

Lost Sequel

During a recent appearance on ABC in America, Cuse was asked about the lasting legacy of LOST and whether or not we may see a return to the island in the future.

“Disney owns the franchise, it made them a lot of money, it's hard to imagine it will just sit there idly forever.

“Damon (Lindelof) and I told our story in that world and I assume someone will come along, hopefully having been inspired by our story, or our version of the story, and want to tell their own story.

“It's like the Narnia chronicles. There are seen books, they were all written by CS Lewis, but they all visit Narnia at different times and different configurations and different ways.

“Someone is going to come up with a way to tell another Lost story. I think it's inevitable. I don't know what it is or how it would work, but I can't imagine something else won't be done with the franchise.”

In his novel UNDER THE DOME (now a series created by former LOST writer Brian K. Vaughan), Stephen King theorized a future sequel series called THE HUNTED ONES. Many have thought about the child characters from the series ending up on the island and enduring their own mysterious journey. The concept is broad enough that any number of ideas could work. The question remains: would anyone watch it?

http://m.joblo.com/joblo/news/56138

If the story was good I would welcome a return to the island with different characters.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I wouldn't be surprised. Given how awful network television is now, and seeing as how the end of Lost was the end of an era for quality network content, it's very possible this could happen. Will it be as good? I doubt it. It has great potential, but with the state of network, it probably won't be very good. I'd say leave it alone for now.

 

[psylockolussus]

I miss this show so much!

 

[DyeLorean]

I love Lost. Probably my favorite tv show ever. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in another trip the island. But part of what made the show so awesome, was Cuse and Lindelof's input. Those guys really knew how to top themselves from one season to the other, trying new things right up to the last episode. I don't know if there's another team of writers than could come up with something as intriguing.
There are certainly a lot of potential good stories left to tell, that's for sure. But for something so complex like Lost was, it's gonna take a lot of hard work to match that.

 

[Brother Jack]

I'd love for Telltale to make a video game based on LOST. The island itself looms so large in the show and there are significant gaps in its history before and after Oceanic 815 that I feel there is some great story potential there.

 

[Hyde]

I absolutely adored Lost but I don't want to see a sequel. I can't really think of a story that would keep it fresh and new and exciting; the show already threw in nearly every story convention possible (time travel, gods, alternate dimensions etc...) that anything else would seem like a rehash. I think it should just be left alone and respected as this big network television behemoth.

Now, more shows like Lost? Yes-****ing-please. I love shows like this and The X Files where they acknowledge that it's insane and throw in a ton of different concepts and ideas, while retaining big complex mysterious and underlying themes. Take inspiration from this great show and make something new, don't rehash it with a sequel.

 

[Sawyer]

Almost five years since the finale, and I still get furious when I hear people completely and totally misinterpret the finale.

Dear TMZ,

THEY WEREN'T DEAD THE WHOLE F***ING TIME!!!!!

...And the polar bear thing also wasn't as confusing as you make it.

 

[Sawyer]

23 Things You Probably Never Noticed In LOST

Nice try, Buzzfeed, but I was already well aware of about 18-20 of those.