LOST: The Ultimate Explanation Compilation

I stopped watching after awhile. Show went down hill pretty quick. But it's first 5 seasons are phenomenal

Check out the PDF dudes!

cant wait for the "didn't read" gifs

But yeah, I highly doubt anyone here took the time to click that link and actually read what you wrote about it. For the future, it's much better to re-write that here as its own article.

I love LOST, I watched it all in 6 months, and it was amazing to see how many emotions I experienced with it. The characters were so well developed, that I felt I knew each one of them. I suffered when they did and I enjoyed seeing them having a good time. I even have to admit that I cried in Charlie's and Jack's death. I think that "Greatest hits" was one of the best chapters in the whole series cause you really get to know who Charlie is, making his death more painfull. I even liked season 6. I felt that everything about this show is perfect, from the characters, to the drama, to the amazing score by michael giaccino, everything just fitted.
Lost is JJ Abrams beautiful masterpiece

Thanks so much guys, and I totally agree. Unfortunately, this show is apparently not for everyone. It's for people who think, contemplate, use their imaginations, feel for others, and are patient enough to hold out for the amazing instead of settling for the mediocre. In other words, not for people that show up just to say "shit show" without bothering to invest a few minutes of time or give a damn about anything of value. And that's what makes it great. It's honestly a miracle this show even existed, let alone got to tell its story in its entirety.

I would argue anyone who says Season 6 flat out sucked doesn't understand the point of the show or put it into proper context and I know it must be frustrating as an artist to have people dismiss your work without understanding it. Unfortunately, this guide is way too long to paste on here, and I'm sure 90% of people won't bother to read it either way. But I like that it's here for people that want something more out of art or are open to pushing their form of thinking.

Thanks again for reading guys! :)

@Starjammer

I think it's too bad that the finale in particular got so much flack for not solving the mysteries. Hey, if you were frustrated by the fact that Walt, or the pregnancy issue, or the Egyptian buildings were never explained, that's legitimate (even if I can get over it more easily), but it's a little unfair to put that all on one episode. The series generally, sure, maybe even the last season, but not the finale. If you really thought that the finale was going to make Walt suddenly relevant after 5 seasons of occasional cameos, I don't know what to tell you. They answered every question they would in the two episodes previously, with a massive flashback with Jacob and MIB, and the ghost of Jacob literally coming up just to answer questions that the characters had. Take away the expectations of the finale solving the mysteries, I think you've got an episode with more than a handful of powerful, emotional moments, a great climax with the villain of the series, a better juggling of (remaining) characters than other finales of Lost were able to accomplish, and one of the best deaths on the show.

I'm also kind of a fan of Season 6. It's pretty inconsistent, but loved evil Locke, Jack's redemptive story arc, Sayid's spiral into darkness, Richard's backstory, the sideways universe, and really all of the climactic beats it was hitting in the last few episodes. Oh well. Different strokes for different folks.

@SauronsBane
Really? I didnt know that, thanks man. Charlie's theme is beautiful and he is a great character
@Starjammer
You're right, LOST is a character driven show, it's not for everyone because it needs you to care more about the characters than the mysteries, but if you can do that, you'll have a hell of an experience in the 6 seasons. Lost is the only show or movie where i've cried haha. And no problem man, it was a fantastic read :)

"I stopped watching after awhile. Show went down hill pretty quick. But it's first 5 seasons are phenomenal"

Since there was only one more season that you didn't feel was phenomenal, that seems like the show went down hill very slowly.

I have a few minor issues with the series, but the finale was so immensely satisfying that it's hard for me to seriously fault the producers. After reading some of Lindelof's comments and thoughts in retrospect in The Revolution Was Televised, I decided what would have been best for the last season was to not have them time jump to present day from The Incident, but rather to Jacob's time. Start the season with his birth, and have Jack etc arrive once he's grown. They'd get to witness a lot of answers to the island's mysteries, and it'd also echo the first season as far as them being completely unaware of what's going on. They'd also get to see the creation of the monster, and then somehow timejump to present in time to deal with Locke. This would have been much better than spending so much time with the temple hippies.

Like I said though, the finale was ...just one of the best things I've ever watched, television or anything. Really struck a MAJOR chord with me.

Really good article, I was incredibly disappointed with the final season but it doesn't change how great everything before that was.

I didn't need everything explained but I felt like they took the easy way out with the alternate timeline and spiritual ending. I wish they would have showed us more of the Island's past and explained some of those rules to us. The rules between Jacob/MIB as well as Ben/Widmore.

A little more on the monster would have been nice too. Seemed like the mother was the first monster, cause how else did she take out that entire group so fast? And then I've read theories saying Jack becomes the new monster at the end, which would make sense on why it took him so long to come around in the alt.

The big thing for me though was when we realized that Locke was really dead, cause he was always the star of the show to me. It made total sense why they did it, but that was my favorite character by far so I thought it sucked.

And the part that made me the craziest was how everyone kept calling him Locke! Maybe I'm nuts but if my friend died, and I knew someone was impersonating him I would def not be calling him my dead friend's name.

I bet there's even some people that stopped watching at some point then went back for the final season, and think Locke was the bad guy all along.

Still though, it shows how incredible the show was that I can still get crazy thinking about it.

"I didn't need everything explained but I felt like they took the easy way out with the alternate timeline and spiritual ending."

I can see that, but in the end I didn't care. Of all my friends who watched the show, my wife and I were easily the most passionate as far as trying to come up with theories and even doing our best to read up on the science the show seemed to be employing. Ultimately though, the last moments of the series made me completely not care about any of that. A spiritual ending was an utter shock to me, and I actually felt it took some guts to go there on a show like this.

At the same time though, again, the chapter about Lost in The Revolution Was Televised is REALLY worth reading for any fan of the series. Lindelof admits how much was planned out in the beginning (extremely little), and what his hopes were for the series (basically...he assumed, and then came to kinda hope that the show wouldn't find or at least maintain an audience, thus get cancelled and save him from having to solve all these things he and Abrams dreamed up in a "wouldn't it be neat" session).

And I'm not mentioning all that to beat it down and say "see?! They never had a plan," because...they kinda did. They did and they didn't, but I still think it was an incredibly entertaining and engaging series while it aired. There will never be anything even close to what Lost was ever again.

@JaySin420 Check out the PDF man, I think you will really enjoy it. I go over some of those points and theories you're saying and a lot of it will leave you very surprised. A few in particular, including Christian's true nature.