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The finale of Lost aired 10 years ago this week. Were you a fan?

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  • #92
    pjohnson
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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    I always assumed it was people who stopped watching after the first or second season, then came back for the series finale to see what the "answer" was and were unsurprisingly left completely confused and reverted to the popular theory from first season. (ABC inadvertently encouraged this theory by playing b-roll from the pilot episode over the end credits.)

    The show really wasn't difficult to follow. I mean the characters spend almost no time actually talking about the island or its mythology - a rule set by Abrams at the beginning. The show's plotting was extremely simple compared to the puzzlebox incoherence of Westworld. You don't actually need to understand the mythological stuff to follow Lost, which was always far more about whether Kate would choose Jack or Sawyer than it was ever about polar bears or hatches.

    A lot also gave up around the "timey wimey stuff" (love you Hurley) and just lurched in at the end not really with a notion and just defaulted to "everyone died"


  • #93
    ShineOn7
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    Basq wrote: »
    The ending wasn't that complex..

    ... why do people keep stating "they were dead along"? Really frustrates me!

    They even shoehorned in Jack's father talking to Kate when he explained it for the simpletons. It was in one of the very last scenes of the final episode

    One of the very first Google searches:

    The explanation given in "The End" is that they all died at different times, some way back in season one, and others many years after the end of season six. ... The only thing they all had in common was that none of the characters in the flash-sideways died during the plane crash.


  • #94
    pjohnson
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    The Hurley Ben scene at the end was great.



    Fùcking AAA not going back for the finale to be Mr. Eko was super annoying however.


  • #95
    JeffKenna
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    Basq wrote: »
    The ending wasn't that complex..

    ... why do people keep stating "they were dead along"? Really frustrates me!

    I can't understand why they gave an overshot of the initial plane crash at the end with everyone lying motionless?


  • #96
    Sad Professor
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    Fùcking AAA not going back for the finale to be Mr. Eko was super annoying however.

    They did even invite him back?


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  • #97
    pjohnson
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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    They did even invite him back?

    Yep. He was supposedly invited back for one last scene and offered a solid wedge of money but he demanded 3x more so they said no thanks.

    I know he hated Hawaii but that was a dick move for one damn scene. They accomadated him leaving when he wanted yet he couldn't do ONE scene?


  • #98
    Basq
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    Oh, and Giacchino's music was sublime!

    This music in this scene is just incredible.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKcJDMXqh2c


  • #99
    The White Wolf
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    I was an avid fan, obsessed with theory sites and literally wasted hours of college thinking about the show.

    But here's the thing....I actually tried a rewatch early on in this lockdown but stopped after about 7 episodes. It hasn't aged all that well. For one the 22 episode season is just woefully exposed as bloat for the sake of it and was probably the reason Cuse and Lindelof ended up in a hole narratively.

    I'll always give the show its due for the concept and the mystery it threw at the audience that encouraged thought and debate but to be honest, when I tried to watch that first season again I suddenly saw the inspiration for the dime a dozen ****e hawk shows you'd see on the CW and other network these days.


  • #100
    ED E
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  • #101
    rapul
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    I remember being at a huge house party and there was genuinely a room set aside for most of the party to watch it haha madness, had totally forgot about that till now but no dragged on far too long wasn't a fan


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  • #102
    ShineOn7
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    Fùcking AAA not going back for the finale to be Mr. Eko was super annoying however.


    Don't think he was well liked on set
    hence his sudden death

    From what I read back then, Terry O'Quinn (Locke) got into some rows with him. In that situation the Producers are only going to fire one person


  • #103
    ShineOn7
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    The White Wolf wrote: »
    For one the 22 episode season is just woefully exposed as bloat for the sake of it and was probably the reason Cuse and Lindelof ended up in a hole narratively.


    22/24 episodes was the norm back then. There's no way it'd work today with seasons that long

    It was dragged out because ABC wanted more and more seasons. They had to be talked down from 10 seasons to 6


  • #104
    ozmo
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    I dont get all the hate for the ending- there was actually sort of two different endings -
    A perfectly clear explanation of the island and its purpose second to last episode.

    Going try explain with no spollers....

    The final episodes ending was a separate story about the events AFTER the main story and so had its own ending- this ending would have sucked if it applied to the whole 6 series, but it didnt- and I think thats where the confusion lies?

    “Roll it back”



  • #105
    JTMan
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    Lost is one of my favourite TV shows of all time.

    I see the finale is getting a lot of discussion here. There is a 106 page Boards.ie thread on the finale at the time here.

    I see some posts above say the show is on Amazon Prime. Does that include Ireland? When I click here it says "Some videos may not be available to watch from your location".

    In terms of the best of Lost ... The Constant is one of my favourite TV episodes of all time.


  • #106
    JTMan
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    Basq wrote: »
    Oh, and Giacchino's music was sublime!

    This music in this scene is just incredible.

    I went to see the Lost Concert in the National Concert Hall last year entitled "We Have to Go Back". Amazing unique evening. The show had wonderful music.


  • #107
    Polar101
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    Really liked the second and third seasons, after that it started to feel like they didn't plan it out very well. I didn't enjoy it once they started doing flash-forwards instead of flashbacks. And I guess they "off-island" stuff wasn't very interesting.

    I feel like it was a show that was great at the time, but one that I have never felt an urge to re-watch.


  • #108
    Penn
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    JeffKenna wrote: »
    I can't understand why they gave an overshot of the initial plane crash at the end with everyone lying motionless?

    There were no people. It was just the plane wreckage on the empty beach. Just as a "Heres where it all started" over the end credits. It wasn't part of the story or significant at all.


  • #109
    ArmaniJeanss
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    Me shouting 'pick up the fcuking phone Penny' at the end of The Constant. What an episode, probably the best.

    I'd have a theory it killed the show though - it was so well received that they went down the time travel route in the following season and it just stopped working.

    ****
    Loved 'We have to go back' as well, spine-chilling moment to end a season.
    ****
    Season 1 - the reveal that John Locke had been in a wheelchair before the flight was done superbly - it was his first flashback ep and they hid his paralysis until the last flashback scene. That got me hooked.
    *****
    Poor old Nikki and Paulo never get a mention in these best of Lost talks :)


  • #110
    pjohnson
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    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    Me shouting 'pick up the fcuking phone Penny' at the end of The Constant. What an episode, probably the best.

    I'd have a theory it killed the show though - it was so well received that they went down the time travel route in the following season and it just stopped working.

    ****
    Loved 'We have to go back' as well, spine-chilling moment to end a season.
    ****
    Season 1 - the reveal that John Locke had been in a wheelchair before the flight was done superbly - it was his first flashback ep and they hid his paralysis until the last flashback scene. That got me hooked.
    *****
    Poor old Nikki and Paulo never get a mention in these best of Lost talks :)

    Walkabout episode 3 :)


  • #111
    ziedth
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    The Hurley Ben scene at the end was great.



    Fùcking AAA not going back for the finale to be Mr. Eko was super annoying however.


    If you rewatch Mr. Eko's "confession" scene knowing what we know now it does track very well with what the island was, who he was actually talking too etc.

    Makes me wonder did they half at least half an idea where they were going with it at that stage.....

    I must try find my post from the finale


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  • #112
    geecee
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    Interesting after all these years that Lost can still manage to spawn an 8 page thread in just 48 hours.

    I vividly remember the fights in work when people spoke out of turn and spoiled something for someone that hadn't yet seen the most recent episode.

    Desmond was always my favourite character, despite being a latecomer.

    Michael Giacchino is a legend his Lost, Star Trek and Rogue One soundtracks are amongst my favourites


  • #113
    Unearthly
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    I have great time and respect for the show. It was the first time I ventured to other areas of the internet to watch stuff as channel 4 was literally 1 year behind

    So many great characters. I didn't hate the last season or finale like others.

    It kind of started my love for tv dramas as I then quickly went looking for other shows and found the likes of 24, prison break and Battlestar Galactica.


  • #114
    S.M.B.
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    Unearthly wrote: »
    I have great time and respect for the show. It was the first time I ventured to other areas of the internet to watch stuff as channel 4 was literally 1 year behind.
    This is another reason why it's such a pivotal TV show for me. I remember the buzz around the pilot and seeking it out. It was probably the first show to bridge what was a common 1 year gap between being televised in the states and being broadcast on this side of the Atlantic which we all probably take for granted now.


  • #115
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
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    S.M.B. wrote: »
    This is another reason why it's such a pivotal TV show for me. I remember the buzz around the pilot and seeking it out. It was probably the first show to bridge what was a common 1 year gap between being televised in the states and being broadcast on this side of the Atlantic which we all probably take for granted now.

    It was actually because of LOST that the gap no longer exists. By season 4 or 5 new episodes were broadcast in other countries around the world within 48 hours of it airing in the states, to try and stop people from torrenting it.

    48 hours was unheard of back then, and to think today some of the HBO stuff simulcasts on Sky Atlantic at the same time it airs in the US. If someone had told be that at 17/18 years old when LOST was first starting that such a thing was possible I would've thought they were winding me up.


  • #116
    Basq
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    Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »
    It was actually because of LOST that the gap no longer exists. By season 4 or 5 new episodes were broadcast in other countries around the world within 48 hours of it airing in the states, to try and stop people from torrenting it.

    48 hours was unheard of back then, and to think today some of the HBO stuff simulcasts on Sky Atlantic at the same time it airs in the US. If someone had told be that at 17/18 years old when LOST was first starting that such a thing was possible I would've thought they were winding me up.
    Didn't Sky simulcast the Lost finale? Must've been one of the first times it was done.

    Edit: Yup!


  • #117
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
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    Basq wrote: »
    Didn't Sky simulcast the Lost finale? Must've been one of the first times it was done.

    Edit: Yup!

    Edit: Nevermind


  • #118
    S.M.B.
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    Yeah, I threw a probably in there as I wasn't sure if there was another show around the same time that also shortened the gap and part of me thinks that if it wasn't Lost that changed the game it would have been something else, maybe not though.

    I don't think as many people had American friends helping them out so much back then so it was quite difficult in the early years to not spoil the show for a large cohort of people.


  • #119
    Unearthly
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    I remember on forums, not so much boards as I don't think I read boards back then that it was an absolute disaster to avoid spoilers for people watching UK pace. It was a bit like the game of thrones forum on here that had non book and book threads. You always had someone go into the UK pace thread and say something that only US pace would know about


  • #120
    geecee
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    I just realized that Lost was the first TV series that I ever binged. A work colleague gave me a loan of his HDD over the weekend and I watched the first 10 episodes back to back over a weekend, after that I was hooked!

    Of course I have binged on probably 100 series since then, but it was Lost that stole my Binginity


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  • #121
    XsApollo
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    I’ve never watched this , is it worth it?
    I remember at the time all the talk of it but I never watched tv.
    Only started watching series after I binged on GOT after season 5 finished.
    Nothing has matched Game of Thrones since for me.
    It’s like GOT ruined tv for me as nothing has come close to that experience.


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