I originally planned to do my LOST rewatch in 2024, or at least, the idea kept popping into my head over and over again. My last rewatch was around 2020, and I still vividly remember how all the Oceanic passengers helped me through a really tough valley in my life, back then when the show originally was released.
That wasn’t the first time, though! Another very vivid memory of LOST is from when I was sitting on the bus on my way to work and received a message saying the season box set of the final season was on its way to me and would be arriving later that day. That helped me get through the day and kept me from doing anything reckless at work. I’m not sure when this was, maybe around 2011.
Over the years, I’ve read many comments about how LOST is good, but you have to slog through the first season to get to the good stuff. The same goes for people saying the ending wasn’t very good.
Both of these opinions are, of course, very subjective, and neither applies to me. Did I fully understand the ending the first time I watched it? Not at all. I had to look up quite a bit afterward, especially with the whole time travel and alternate timeline themes, which weren’t exactly straightforward. But with some series, that’s also one of the more interesting aspects. Because they manage to package what you don’t immediately understand so well that you still feel like delving a little further and longer into the subject and the series. The same applies to the whole story of the island, Jacob and the statue, of which only a plinth and base remain. My first thought at the time was the Colossus of Rhodes, but I can’t remember whether that’s true or not.
As for the first season, I absolutely don’t agree with the criticism. The first season is essential because it lays the groundwork for so many of the characters and starts developing them before the second season really kicks things into high gear. It’s like a roller coaster, the first season is the slow climb to the top, and starting in season two, you drop into free fall at 120 kilometers per hour straight into the unknown.
J.J. Abrams was still in his most creative phase at the time, though much of the credit also goes to Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber. All three of them came up with the concept for the show, but Lindelof and Lieber were the showrunners and thus primarily responsible.
I also had Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci in mind, along with J.J. Abrams, but my brain was stuck on Fringe. That’s an entirely different topic we might get to another time. We’ll see!
Some other stuff is still running, but I wanted to finish this and send it out, so it doesn’t end up languishing somewhere as a forgotten draft.
On to a deserted tropical island that can’t, or doesn’t want to, be found. Add a heavy dose of mystery, thriller, and suspense. I’m really looking forward to it and hope I’ll make it all the way to the end, but I’m not too worried about that.
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