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[VulcanRaven]

They releasing an independed documentary for the 20th anniversary of the show:


Looks great. It was fully financed by crowdfinding on Indiegogo. It has interviews with a lot of the cast and crew including Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Terry O'Quinn, Jorge Garcia, Damon Lindelof and J. J. Abrams. Many others too. It doesn't seem to be officially authorized because the trailer doesn't use any footage from the show.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

No Matthew Fox?

 

[VulcanRaven]

No Matthew Fox?

Would have been great to hear what he thinks about the show now. I don't think he has done too much acting recently. At least not in anything big.

 

[Shaki12345]

Would have been great to hear what he thinks about the show now. I don't think he has done too much acting recently. At least not in anything big.

Matthew Fox is seriously ine of the best actors of the last few decades. Dude is so intense. The scene in the first episode where he tells Kate the spaghetti story is simply insane acting.

 

[Just_one]

Best tv show ever!

Re watching it now and it still holds up so perfectly

 

[MujkicHaris]

Oh look, it's a documentary about one of the greatest TV shows ever made.

One of the rare TV shows out there where I had to find screenplays of episodes online and read them, just to see "the engine" that makes the show run so well. It's that good. Such a good, impulsive writing.

 

[RavenSan]

Still mad about the ending. Up there with Game of Thrones level of bad.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Still mad about the ending. Up there with Game of Thrones level of bad.

The final episode itself was fine. Especially the final scene. The final battle was sorta dumb though.

The finale season as a whole should have been workshopped a bit more though.

 

[Klosshufvud]

This show is legendary. The way characters interacted and the way the drama developed throughout the seasons was just exceptional. A lot of internet discourse is about the mysteries and whatnot but people seem to miss just how well made the characters and the drama was. This type of Television doesn't exist anymore. It's part of a bygone era. Part of me miss that time when fandom wasn't so intense and developers just created whatever they thought was right. The type of audience awareness that exists today limits creativity IMO.



The music also has a special place for me.

 

[RavenSan]

The final episode itself was fine. Especially the final scene. The final battle was sorta dumb though.

The finale season as a whole should have been workshopped a bit more though.

Agree to disagree. They specifically said it wasn't purgatory and then it ends up oh yeah it was so we're not gonna bother explaining any of the sci-fi shit because magic.

I wanted a cool mystery/sci-fi show. And they kept people strung along with the hope for answers -- and then ultimately said 'no'

I get that people who loved the characters / viewed it as a character drama tend to be happier with the ending. I couldn't care less about the characters -- I wanted answers on the wacky sci-fi shit.

 

[Just_one]

Agree to disagree. They specifically said it wasn't purgatory and then it ends up oh yeah it was so we're not gonna bother explaining any of the sci-fi shit because magic.

I wanted a cool mystery/sci-fi show. And they kept people strung along with the hope for answers -- and then ultimately said 'no'

I get that people who loved the characters / viewed it as a character drama tend to be happier with the ending. I couldn't care less about the characters -- I wanted answers on the wacky sci-fi shit.

The final season with the flash side ways is purgatory but the rest of the show isnt. They were alive on the island. It seems u didnt understood the show if that is what u ended up understanding.

They answered all the questions as far as i can remember

 

[ManaByte]

Agree to disagree. They specifically said it wasn't purgatory and then it ends up oh yeah it was so we're not gonna bother explaining any of the sci-fi shit because magic.

I wanted a cool mystery/sci-fi show. And they kept people strung along with the hope for answers -- and then ultimately said 'no'

I get that people who loved the characters / viewed it as a character drama tend to be happier with the ending. I couldn't care less about the characters -- I wanted answers on the wacky sci-fi shit.

Agree with this 100%.

 

[ManaByte]

They answered all the questions as far as i can remember

No they didn’t. They didn’t explain anything. Nothing about the island.

 

[Dev1lXYZ]

The success of Lost indirectly led to the destruction of two franchises not associated with the show.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

The success of Lost indirectly led to the destruction of two franchises not associated with the show.

Which two franchises?

 

[RavenSan]

The final season with the flash side ways is purgatory but the rest of the show isnt. They were alive on the island. It seems u didnt understood the show if that is what u ended up understanding.

They answered all the questions as far as i can remember

They answered nothing that was important to me. What was the Dharma Imitative? Who formed them? Why was there a polar bear? What exactly was the smoke monster? And then the other dude? Was that God and the Devil? Angel and demon? Two failed Dharma experiments? Why did John Locke randomly get the ability to walk again after the plane crash? How exactly did the time travel work, other than turning a fucking donkey wheel? Those are questions that off the top of my head, they never answered.

Granted, I watched the show when it aired, and then never went back. So if this was explained in interviews, or a book, or a comic series, or a web series, or anything like that, it's still a failure to me.

Feel free to be more condescending about the show, though. I understood plenty, they just focused entirely on the characters and left all the cool sci-fi mystery shit unexplained.

 

[mitch1971]

They answered all the questions as far as i can remember

They answered one over arcing question, which was answered by the viewers pretty much straight away after the first few episodes. Purgutory. None of the weird shit on the island was explained.

 

[AJUMP23]

What was the smoke monster?

 

[VulcanRaven]

They answered one over arcing question, which was answered by the viewers pretty much straight away after the first few episodes. Purgutory. None of the weird shit on the island was explained.

The island wasn't purgatory.

 

[analog_future]

Agree to disagree. They specifically said it wasn't purgatory and then it ends up oh yeah it was so we're not gonna bother explaining any of the sci-fi shit because magic.

I wanted a cool mystery/sci-fi show. And they kept people strung along with the hope for answers -- and then ultimately said 'no'

I get that people who loved the characters / viewed it as a character drama tend to be happier with the ending. I couldn't care less about the characters -- I wanted answers on the wacky sci-fi shit.

The final season with the flash side ways is purgatory but the rest of the show isnt. They were alive on the island. It seems u didnt understood the show if that is what u ended up understanding.

They answered all the questions as far as i can remember

Agree with this 100%.

They answered one over arcing question, which was answered by the viewers pretty much straight away after the first few episodes. Purgutory. None of the weird shit on the island was explained.

The island wasn't purgatory.

The finale aired almost 15 years ago and people still think the island was purgatory. ffs

 

[Just_one]

The finale aired almost 15 years ago and people still think the island was purgatory. ffs

Thats either dumb people who didnt pay attention to the show or dumb people who just want to talk trash just because its cool.

 

[adamsapple]

Just in time. Finished my re-run of the show since it landed on Netflix a little while ago.

Minus a few things, it has mostly held up remarkably well.

 

[ManaByte]

The finale aired almost 15 years ago and people still think the island was purgatory. ffs

I don’t think it’s purgatory. Maybe if they bothered to explain the island mystery people wouldn’t think that.

 

[Dev1lXYZ]

Which two franchises?

Star Trek then Star Wars

 

[mitch1971]

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[mitch1971]

The finale aired almost 15 years ago and people still think the island was purgatory. ffs

So what was it?

 

[ManaByte]

So what was it?

 

[Davesky]

For me nothing really needed explaining. The entire show was an analogy of a spiritual awakening, the island being a metaphor for three dimensional space-time, karmic return by having to return there, being chosen by a higher power for specific purpose and eventual enlightment through experiences such as precognition and synchronicity.

 

[Fbh]

I might watch this.
Despite hating the ending and how it retroactively sort of ruins the show, it was still such a huge cultural phenomenon back in the day that I have fond memories about eagerly anticipating every new chapter and talking theories with friends.

To this day though it has made me skeptical about mystery box type shows. Aside from Dark I can't think of many that have actually managed to end in a relatively satisfying manner

 

[Doom85]

I don’t think it’s purgatory. Maybe if they bothered to explain the island mystery people wouldn’t think that.

But that doesn’t make sense. The finale makes it abundantly clear, like Christian flat out spells it out for his son Jack, that the flash-sideways place is the afterlife. He also flat out says Jack had died (which we see him at the end on the Island in his final living moments). Last time I checked, people don’t die in Purgatory, LOL. Also not to mention the Oceanic Six storyline proves the outside world exists just like normal, so what, do viewers who think the Island is Purgatory think Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun, Desmond, and Frank died, came back to life, and then died again? Or Michael for that matter? Once again, I’m sorry, but LOL. Also Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Frank, and Richard escape the Island at the end on the plane, how do the “Island is Purgatory” viewers think that works?

It’s one thing to say that the mystery of the Island could have been further elaborated, but that’s doesn’t justify coming to such a nonsensical conclusion that blatantly contradicts multiple events in the show plus the finale making it quite clear it was specifically the flash-sideways place that was the afterlife.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

The peak of J j Abrams. I did like the first few seasons of fringe too, fell off that though.

 

[dorkimoe]

Im in for this, cant wait

 

[Celcius]

This was my favorite TV show of all time. Hard to believe 20 years has gone by. I used to watch this show with my sister every week.