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Man I miss tuning in to watch this show each week, nice break from reality during those unbearable years of high school when I had no bills or responsibilities

 

The show is driven by character arcs so certain things, like Charlie in season two or Jack in season four, are necessary but hard to get through. Jin, Sayid, Desmond, and Faraday interested me the most and are the ones I still think about these days.

I love all the last minute changes they made (adding in Jin/Sun, Hurley, changing Charlie, etc...) but the one I wish they stuck with was killing Jack halfway through the pilot. I like his character a lot but the show would've been far more interesting if they went with their initial plan of it being led by Kate/Rose.

 

Not sure if I agree with the idea of killing off Jack. As tough as he was to deal with at times, it's tough to imagine the show without him. I don't just mean the same show without him, because obviously it would have to change, but I just can't picture it having the same momentum.

I think Desmond, Hurley and Faraday were the only characters that weren't insufferable at at least one point.

I'd love to hear how you think the show might have gone with Kate and Rose at the front, if you have any ideas

 

Jack is by far my favourite character so I'm glad they didn't kill him off. This show is basically perfect to me so I wouldn't change anything too drastically, but I do wish season 6 was stronger. I absolutely love the finale and some other things that happen in season 6 but there's a lot that feels a little rushed/half-baked.

 

I think it'd largely be the same, but with Sawyer having a bigger focus earlier on. Kate would pretty much be the same, just without the love triangle shit. Rose would essentially be the same personality as Jack, though I think their idea was initially a bit younger. Just spitballing at work rn haha

 

LOST was so integral to my high school years. Probably the only show I've ever watched religiously with my family all the way through. I'm afraid to rewatch it with my adult brain lol

Edit: "We have to go back!" Is one of my all time favorite TV moments

 

It's insane how the show changed itself over the seasons, from adventure/survival to sci-fi to fantasy... I can't think of another one that did the same during its run. Person Of Interest did shift from a procedural drama/crime show to a sci-fi and super-hero one as well, but it never discarded its roots.

 

Rewatching this has ignited questions again, e.g., why are the time flashes specific to the Locke's group and were the flashes/time travel engineered by MIB from the outset?

 

MIB's long-term goal was to kill Jacob, and any possible successors (the candidates), in order to get off the island. He had to find a "loophole" to do so as he was unable to kill Jacob himself because of the rules. MIB, in the form of Locke, eventually manipulates Ben into killing Jacob at the end of season 5.

In the Season 5 episode This Place Is Death, just before Locke turns the frozen wheel to stop the flashes, MIB appears (in the form of Christian Shephard) and tells him in order to bring Jack and friends back, he will have to sacrifice himself. Without the flashes, Locke never would've left, died and begun the chain of events that brought the candidates back to the island. How did MIB know for sure that Locke would die when he left the island? Idk. Maybe he thought planting the idea in Locke's head would be enough. I'm guessing MIB sent Locke off the island for the main purpose of bringing the candidates (Jack, Kate, Hurley, etc) back so that he could kill them. His dialogue to Locke during this scene suggests that he actually wanted Locke to turn the wheel earlier back at the end of season 4, not Ben ("when you came to see me in the Cabin you asked me how to save the island and I told you you had to move it. I said *you* had to move it, John"). This changes the question because then you have go back further and ask if MIB engineered the arrival of the freighter to the island, because without that, Locke/Ben never would've taken steps to move the island in the first place.

I personally think it's not so much about MIB specifically engineering everything, and it's more him taking advantage of events as they happen. I don't think the show ever really makes any of this explicitly clear so I guess at the end of the day it really is open to interpretation. It just seems like too much of a stretch for me to believe that he planned this all out from the start. I don't really think I answered your question but tbh the more I type, the more I confuse myself, so I'll stop there lol.

 

I've been tweeting this for years but, HOW DID MIB APPEAR AS CHRISTIAN TO MICHAEL IN THE FREIGHTER IF HE CANNOT TRAVEL IN WATER

 

He took a plane

 

I wrote a song about Lost for one of my senior projects in high school. I wonder if it still exists.

 

Here's hoping the chorus was like the chorus of Sowing Season except instead of yelling "yeah" you yelled "WALT"

 

Oh my god. I have to go back!!! That would have been incredible.

 

Been losin' all my friends. Been losin' them to drinkin' and to drownin'

 

So the original plan was to have the volcano be the place where the smoke monster was created rather than the cave. It was also going to be the setting for the final battle between Jack and The Man in Black amidst spewing magma.

'Lost': How a Volcano Would Have Changed the Ending

 

I think I'm more of a cave guy

 

The volcano made sense, it seems like they mentioned it a few times, at least visually.

 

I'm good with the cave.

 

How haven't I been in this thread yet.

 

TEAM JACK

 

I just miss this show so damn much.

 

There was a period of eight years when LOST existed and I didn't know about it. I can only hope that there's something out there right now that carries the same magic and I just don't know about it yet

 

Have you seen Fringe?

 

I haven't! is that the one??