The American programme “Lost” was one of those unique shows which people talk and think about. I don’t know what it was really about, as so much is surreal that I can’t be sure if this ‘really’ happened on the show or if it was more an illusion, or what it means.
At the very mundane, it is the story of survivors of a plane crash. The plane crashes on a remote unknown island. Over the episodes we come to know each one of them, in what can be called flashbacks or side flashes or fast forwards; time is a peculiar concept on Lost.
As each episode of Lost is kind of linked to the past episode it isn’t really an episodic show, so you have to watch in sequence.
The show began in 2004 and ended in 2010. There are 121 episodes.
The core story is that people got on a plane in Australia to go to Los Angeles. All different sorts of people, traveling for different reasons. For all of them, the plane ride isn’t important. Where they are going is. But they don’t go to Los Angeles.
The plane comes down, and many are killed.
As scary and dramatic as a plane crash can be, the supernatural effects of the island tend to override that tragedy. There are monsters, a strange group of previous inhabitants, odd scientific equipment and as the story progresses we learn of peculiar personal connections between the characters, none of whom knew each other before boarding, yet, we learn some have met before, some have links to their past of which they are often unaware.
We follow their interactions, with many flashbacks so as to ‘flesh’ out the characters. Some, like ‘Sawyer’ become a kind of icon of what he represents, the long con man. Others, like John Locke change remarkably because of the island. In the first episode, John Locke, who is confined to a wheel chair, suddenly being able to walk.
Lost is considered one of the greatest television series of all time. Many critics indicate that it seemed to be a character-driven drama but is a cryptography, that is a puzzle, the viewers had to solve.
No one is sure whether the plane actually crashed and had survivors, if the ‘survivors’ were actually dead and in purgatory, working through their issues, or what.
Still, you have to watch it, at least some of it.
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I have tried to watch this series so many times, and I can't seem to get past episode 5 in the first season. I've been told by so many friends and family that the series ends very strange, but luckily no one has spoiled it for me by telling me the ending.
I keep telling myself that I'm going to start watching Season 1 from the beginning again, because it's definitely a series where you can't get up and go do something in the kitchen, or fix yourself a quick bite to eat while watching it, and be able to keep up on what's going on. I think that's what I did when I watched it the first few times.
Maybe I'll try watching it again soon, because I heard it was a good series, but just the ending was bad.
When you watch online, you can start, stop, and rewind. So you can see something... 'what?' and go back, see it again, stop, think, 'get it' then go on. It is a specifically puzzling series made to be puzzling....made to force you to think.