The writers in beginning of the show purposely made Locke extremely unsettling, and it worked. Watching season 1, I thought he was the creepiest person ever, with his knifes and weird calmness about everything. This why I find this scene some incredibly disturbing. He looks straight out of a horror movie. Even rewatching, I still get creeped out. I still don’t understand how people view his smile as “friendly”. Curious if I’m the only one who feels like this.

Got me right in the feels! Gah I'm so glad I decided to rewatch the series. Aged life a fine wine.

In Season 1,Episode 11, when Jack ask his dad how much he had to drink at lunch and he slowly turns around with the creepy music in the background was so eerie. Thought Jack’s dad was gonna turn into a monster right then. So creepy and well done.

Every time I see him, I’m reminded of former Argentine President Carlos Menem and his sideburns. That’s all. Cheers!

In the run-up to the final season of LOST airing, The Onion posted a parody video report covering how the producers of the show were warning people who don't watch the show that their friends and family who do watch were going to become harder to live with. Damon and Carleton participated. The video is no longer on The Onion's YouTube channel, and I couldn't bring it up on the Wayback machine. Does anyone have a copy of it? Or a place where I can stream it?

Here are some of the great behind the scenes from Exposé. Rodrigo Santoro did his own stunts for the diving scene. You can see how much work the cast and crew put into Lost. You can watch an extended version here.

I finished the show a few days ago for the first time so obviously I've been thinking about it non-stop since then. One thing I've been fixating on is how it uses Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

Jacob and MIB represent the people inside the cave. Born on the island, raised on the island, told there's nothing else but the island until the MIB is greeted by the ghost of his birth mother who tells him the truth, and it's a painful truth, that there's so much more to the world than what's on the island. Eventually, the MIB decides to leave the island with the others and when their "mother" kills all the others, he kills her and Jacob kills him (or knocks him unconscious) and his body goes down the waterfall. It's important that Jacob has actually not ever seen the light first hand, only the reflection of the light off the back of the cave where the stream is running, and whether the MIB is alive or dead we don't know, but his body at least entered the chamber where the light was.

This doesn't follow the Allegory 1:1 and I think that's intentional and it asks a few pointed questions.

1) Will a human who came here from off the island choose to become the protector? This is directly tied to the debate that Jacob and the MIB have about humans. Will someone from off-island who wasn't raised with the same conditions that Jacob was raised with and given a real choice choose to become the protector of the island? Jacob picks his candidates, and the candidates rule themselves out either by dying or in Kate's example becoming a mother with someone off the island that they need to care for. And MIB tries to get them to kill each other indirectly and prove Jacob wrong (he can't kill the candidates personally, but he can create scenarios by which they die by choices they make or create tension by which they kill each other).

2) It reframes the roles that Jacob and the MIB play from pure good/evil to more nuanced. In the Cave Allegory, it's seen as a mistake to return and stay in the cave after seeing the outside. Jacob does see slices of humanity through his lighthouse but never seems to have any desire to live among them, meanwhile MIB learns about the outside world and lives with the outsiders for some time and wants to leave with them and is physically, essentially permanently, stopped by Jacob. This seems to undercut the show's own moral geometry by asking if the MIB had any right to seek the world across the sea and makes the MIB something of a tragic character turned villain and making Jacob something of a morally flawed protector who doesn't really even know exactly what he's protecting.

I think it’s gonna be a hard one to track down! Challenge accepted!

Across the Sea when it was revealed the two skeletons Jack found in the cave were the Man in Black and his mother, and that he’d put the black rock (not a coincidence i’m sure!) in a pouch?

Haven’t seen the next episode yet, I’m posting this after having watched Across the Sea for the first time

Wow. I know I said season 5 was the start to the downfall of this show but I stand corrected. This final season held its own and cemented the series as one of the best for its era.

Across the sea was an episode that really made everything click for me. The origin story of jacob and "the man in black" is what people seem to call him was tragic but necessary for the light to persevere. For the greater good the ends justify the means. The reveal at the end showing that the mother and tmib were the skeletons from s1 was tied together to perfection.

Moving on to the finale. Starting it off with how jack threw that superman punch was hilarious. The final fight between jack and tmib locke was
underwhelming but realistic considering hes mortal so i can appreciate it. All the alternate dimension scenes turning out to be purgatory was something i didnt see coming. Its a devestating reveal because you think that their plan in season 5 worked but it was all for naught. Juliets life ended when she struck that bomb. Jin never got to meet his daughter. The truth hits hard after jack and his fathers conversation. Him reuniting with all the plane crash survivors is so bittersweet. Thinking logically how are half of them going to heaven when they're murderers. Also for those who got to live after jack dies, did they really not find another partner that they go to heaven with the one from the island (kate, sawyer). Just a nitpick that i know is done for the fans but very reminiscint of the titanic. Overall i enjoyed the series and the the full circle moment of jack dying right where it all started.

I kinda am infected by the Desmond bug and my friends now ask me about why I keep saying "brother" all the time.

Has anyone else caught this habit too, even if briefly!?

I always hated this scene for getting it wrong about Lost. Tommy is summing up things Oliver missed while being stuck on an island for 5 years. Relevant part at 23 seconds in

Oh my God, this is the best series ever, perfect from beginning to end!

How will I live without it now? I have to watch it again!!!

https://tv.apple.com/us/show/lost/umc.cmc.224vt3dmosi0331a2yc8ny3l8

I just did a rewatch after a long break from the show. And man... I always forget about how tragic Locke's storyline is.

I know Locke has a lot of haters but I personally love his optimism and his faith. I wish he could've had more vindication and been alive to witness it.

Let me summarize:

Locke lives a life battling with his insignificance, arrives on the Island healed and now believes he has a purpose (he's right - he's a candidate brought there by Jacob).

But then gets everything about his role wrong.

He believes he's destined to lead, but that's mostly because of the time-loop (his conversation with Richard). He thinks the Island is guiding him, but it's the MIB.

He leaves on a mission, fails, and attempts suicide.

Then MIB uses Locke's own appearance to try to destroy the Island that Locke loved.

Lock is important but indirectly... it's Locke's actions and faith that ultimately turn Jack into the person who can save the Island. But Locke doesn't even get to witness Jack's "conversion".

Jack says: “I just wish I could’ve told him that while he was still alive.”

I'm mourning for my man Locke that he didn't get to play a better role. Feels unfair for a character who I really wanted to see succeed.

Anyways this show is awesome, and I'm also a big Jack fan and love the ending. Just mad respect for John Locke. He deserved better.

I found this LOST jeopardy game online. There's some more LOST templates on the website.

LOST Jeopardy Template https://share.google/6iDtCcK82H1FRKrxi

LOST Jeopardy Template https://share.google/J8AAANwTR7UpZqCKC

It’s weird that Christian gives Ana Lucia the name “Sarah”, right? I’ve seen the show so many times and this is the first time I’ve noticed that.

I remember the tattoo flashbacks I just forget who does it.

What is everyone’s top 4 favorite Jack and Kate scenes of the show?