15 Years Later

Question

15 Years Later

LOST’s finale aired on May 23, 2010. How did you feel about it when it aired? How do you feel about it 15 years on? What did you like about the show as a whole?

For me, the show does a good job at looking at spiritual aspects of life and exploring them. Fate, destiny, the connections we make with people in our lives, our agency, how our past affects our future, etc. Whether we realize it or not, there are places we are meant to be and people we are meant to meet for reasons that are beyond our present understanding. We should never let ourselves slip into thinking that any one moment or interaction in our lives is completely meaningless or we will miss the opportunity to make an impact on our own selves or others.

It also had a very comfy setting, nearly all of the cast was gorgeous and decent at acting, and the show being a transition from old-school episodic TV into a more plot-driven serial format made it fun to watch as the writers tried to figure it out.

Would have been a better miniseries with a tighter narrative than the long-winded seasons of nothing that go nowhere. Don't regret watching it but not worth a rewatch.

The first three seasons were outstanding. It lost its way later on, but it needed a lot of episodes to tell the story.

It lost its way

lost

I have met people who wrote for the show and there was a big disconnect between the two show runners and the writer team because Damien and the other guy would give the writers these big, grand ideas and the writers themselves didn't really have a grasp on how to properly end the show.

Ultimately I think what they did was good. Shoving a bunch of shit in the last season and making it convoluted with the time skips, showing scenes out of order, having characters act out in ways their character normally wouldn't worked for the ending. It wasn't until a while after the final that talk of how bad the ending was really took off. Having them all move on to heaven really is a cheap way to write off other plot points.

And if you compare lost to Breaking Bad/Sopranos/GOT etc, all those shows have endured and had renewed fan bases with future generations, including new spin off shows. After LOST ended there's been absolutely no big push from fans to demand a new show or to revisit LOST. It's culture currency died when it ended and it's moved to cult status.

I agree, and I say that as someone who absolutely loved the ending. To me, the “flash-sideways” world was not just a place for them to meet and remember, but also all the lives they all thought they should've had, or their dreams, so to speak.

In reality, their time on the island was exactly what all of them needed to experience, and I think that's a powerful message. Far too many people live in their own heads and daydream of what they think their life is supposed to be, and miss out on appreciating what they do have and the chance to make their real life mean something.

However, it totally comes out of left field because the show started off mostly dealing with spiritual topics and deep personal challenges, then went to the sci-fi stuff, then went back to the spiritual content, and save for episodes like The Constant, it kind of comes off like a tonal whiplash.

After LOST ended there's been absolutely no big push from fans to demand a new show or to revisit LOST.

There was that documentary last year but it was dogshit

LOST’s finale aired on May 23, 2010. How did you feel about it when it aired? How do you feel about it 15 years on? What did you like about the show as a whole?

I watched it as a late teen with anhedonia. This show was the biggest source of dopamine for me. But I started to get disappointed after season 4. The finale was unsatisfying but overall this show helped me not kill myself so I appreciate that

I'm rewatching it at the moment with my wife who had never seen it before. Overall it has held up pretty well so far (although we're on season 3, which is before it really went to shit and became polarising). I have unexpectedly grown to detest Kate. I didn't mind her too much as a lad when I first watched (probably because she is attractive), but she is an awful human being and every time she mouths off with her sanctimonious bullshit I groan.

Getting to watch six seasons of prime Evangeline Lilly kept me from killing myself too, so I feel you there, anon.

Same here, first time I’ve rewatched in 12 years, my wife’s first time. She was intimidated by how many episodes there are and was avoiding it but since she had to breast pump 40 minutes before bed it worked out to watch a few episodes. I told her if she didn’t like it by Walkabout that we could stop. Now we’re halfway through season 4, she really got into it. It’s fun hearing where she thinks it’s going to go after each episode and I can provide some extra context or tell her not to care too much about something that doesn’t pay off too well. Sometimes she really misunderstands what was meant but then she surprises by calling something way ahead of time. I understand the issues with season 6 but I felt like 5 was great.

Lost is better than anything currently running.

I watched the whole thing for the first time the other month (only knew shit like penny's boat) and I generally enjoyed it. It's funny how people get so bent out of shape over the ending when all the MIB stuff was far more retarded and gay.

You could pick any random show from this timeframe and say that, and you'd probably be right. Modern TV is a wasteland.

They're not even doing cheap filler scenes anymore, where characters just talk about mundane things. Lost did that a lot.
No, now every second of an episode gets churned through analysts. I'm pretty sure seasons have 6 episodes, because producers are afraid viewers might turn off. The shorter your season, the less chance they have to turn off. It's a devils cycle.

Somehow JJ Abrams returned and destroyed a decent TV show

I watched it as it came out. You'd wait a week between episodes. By the time the season finale came about you'd have forgotten half the things that happened. You had to wait a whole year until the next season, so the series finale and the last few episodes didn't really make sense.

I binged it about two years ago. It was my first rewatch. Watched the whole series in like three weeks. It was awesome, start to finish. The finale was great. Just a good TV show. No wonder it changed the format.

It's a great series, especially if you can skip the flashbacks you don't care about.

youtube.com/watch?v=iggE4ImYwyc

This
My heart still aches

I didn’t like the ending much at the time but it’s a lot better now. I like that the final season was still introducing new ideas because a lot of final seasons feel empty due to them being so focused on tying everything up.
I think people were confused by the ending because there were no prior hints about the church at the end, they just completely dumped a new concept on the audience when the show was almost over and had to explain what it was, it didn’t really give people much time to think about it.

Got up at 4am to watch it with friends at university, they were showing it live on TV at the same time as they were airing it in USA.
Then at breakfast and lectures in the morning it turned out half the campus had done the same thing and everyone was talking about it
No other TV (that isn't sports) has come close

why didn't the smoke monster just go over them

I didn’t like the ending much at the time but it’s a lot better now.

I'm pretty sure it's next to impossible to end a long running show with a complex story in a way everyone likes.

Why didn't the smoke monster just jump over the water?

Don't regret watching it but not worth a rewatch

That's what taints it's legacy tbqh.
The first 3 seasons are magic but then it's so much wheel spinning it's unreal. And the ending is the biggest case of blue balls ever committed to film.

They lost the plot when there was a wooden wheel, lodged in a slab of granite, that could turn time.

It would be against the arbitrary rules Jacob made for him

15? So I've been here 19 years? FUCK

How do you feel about it 15 years on?

Still one of the greatest shows of all time and always will be. Haters gonna hate. Jackfaces gonna jackface. No, they weren't dead and/or in purgatory at the end. L O S T

There was a smoke monster in the pilot episode, this show never stood a chance, it would never make sense

There was a smoke monster in the pilot episode

There wasn't. You don't see it, only a silhouette passing over. It could have been anything.

She seems super chill in real life. She always interacts with people on social media. Always posts a throwback to Lost pictures on them and always still mentions Matthew Fox with pictures of them back in the show.

Her getting backlash from fat npc pedo redditors etc because she was against the covid vaxx was fucking ridiuclous. Where are all those faggots now it's just magically disappeared and noone needs it.

I watched it from beginning to end on live TV every episode with my mum. Always be a nice little memory.

goth claire

im busting

I think it's one of the best shows ever. Ya season 6 feels a bit lazy but the ride is so enjoyable that it doesn't even matter

no, we're not already dead!

everyone's actually dead and they move to the afterlife in the finale

They had no plot. They just filmed people saying things by the end. If you cant figure out the issue, you're a diehard contrarian

It ate the pilot

They didn't even plan who was in the fucking casket until after it aired. Just literally filming people saying things with no clue or concept of what they were doing

watched every episode, was really into the whole thing, then we got that shit ending.

Fast forward years later and im watching LOST retrospectives on youtube, people explaining the ending and the mystery. How hurly was the new owner of the island.
i also saw the epilogue.

some youtuber suggested they could make a follow up to lost with the kids of the people who were formerly there.

always loved this song from the soundtrack

youtube.com/watch?v=InC_T2FjvL0

Why reddit spacing?

why autistically mad at inane thing?

Yeah and the only thing you see is a silhouette, so the "monster" being the black smoke was not yet established. Only in the season 1 finale it's finally revealed

You are a dumb underage cunt who is trying too hard to fit in.

I watched it as a late teen with anhedonia. This show was the biggest source of dopamine for me. But I started to get disappointed after season 4. The finale was unsatisfying but overall this show helped me not kill myself so I appreciate that

can relate.
the finale kinda made me want to kill myself again though.
i sort of realized that everything will disappoint you eventually.

Cu I don't like stupid faggots. They're obnoxious. They should go back to where they came from

Still there actively effecting the world. Can't see the wind, either, but its still there

hur dur dur you can see the effects of the wind

And we saw the effects of the man in black. He was constantly present since the pilot. He was there

Cry more cuz you got a light shone on you. No one can tell your need for updoots, seriously

This was probably my favorite scene in the whole episode.

tfw when you realize JJ ripped the whole thing off the videogame myst

myst

lost

2 magic wizard brothers trying to outwit eachother by playing a game with visitors to a mystery island

But he wasn't established yet, which means they *could* have made it to be anything, it could have been a kaiju, or a mecha-kaiju, or an attack helicopter. Anything

The final shot was okay and maybe that single moment softened my reception of it.
Eventually I did not like it. All their explanations sucked. The emotional conclusions were... decent sometimes, but coupled with the dumb mystery reveals I didn't like it as a whole.

The final shot was okay and maybe that single moment softened my reception of it.

it was a good idea, but i was in such shock & disbelief that i just felt numb to it. the ending was so bad, it broke my ability to trust.