Did not read this thread (or anything Lost related), just finished S6.

WTF was that ****?

Is it me or most of the weird things werent answered?

it's not you

I thought S6 was better on a rewatch. It's kind of Angel S5 where they just flip the formula enough to make it interesting. I thought the ending was MUCH better the second time too, and have no complaints about the final episode.

1>3>2>4>6=5

I agree with this.

If there was 1 show that I wish they would reboot its this.

I had never watched lost until season 5 ended, then just before season 6 I watched it all back to back.

I was so interested to see where it was all going and how they would answer the millions of questions they had left unanswered through the seasons.

At the end I felt so disappointed that I had wasted so much time to be blown off with the final season and I felt really sorry for anyone who had been waiting 6 years for that terrible pay off.

It felt like such a shame it went out like that, they had something really good and at the end it just felt tainted.

I doubt it will ever happen but if someone remade it and fixed a bunch of stuff including the end I would love to see that.

Alternate timeline in s6 was mehhhh, at best. The other half was great, imo.

I just finished a rewatch a couple weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I thought the vast majority of stuff was adequately explained and it seemed pretty obvious they had the basics outlined from the onset. They absolutely let some stuff get away from them, though.

LOL awesome, made my day.

Ya I saw S6 again when they had aired the whole series on G4 a few months back, and I agree. I did notice a few scenes were cut from the finale though. I've seen that happen to episodes of shows that originally aired as a 2 hr epi but then was broken up into 2 parts for syndication.

I just finished re-watching series. Agree the ending is less tilting the 2nd time around.

Still don't understand why the island is under the water in opening scene of season 6. I've never read a good explanation for that.

Season 5 atom bomb story line still bothers me too. Jack was just completely wrong I guess?

My favorite plot hole is Charlie claiming he can't swim in season 1.

That all said, LOST is easily the goat network show of all time for me. It did mystery very well. Plot was alway engaging and the themes of the show were more interesting than most things you see on network TV

I found on G4 that Lost didn't rewatch very well because so much emphasis was on suspense and plot twists. Since everything gets remade, I'll assume they will do it by 2029 but they would probably use different storylines.

Good post. Island under water, good point never got that either. Its also interesting they can botch something like Charlie saying he cant swim, then have the 2 characters with the white and black backgammon pieces tie in to the final season 6 years later.

Id love to hear peoples take on the atom bomb stuff as well, becuase I really didnt get how that entire season tied in with the finish.

s6 improves with rewatch for sure. once you lose the expectations/hope it will live up to the hype and just watch it for what it is it does much better. show is an all-time great, early season are incredible. s3 finale ending is one of the hardest ive ever marked out at an ending. some others in this show aren't far behind. opening scene of s5 finale is great too.

one thing i never understood- why was 'the constant' such a highly rated episode? i enjoyed it and thought it was really good, but i'm not convinced its even a top 5 episode of lost.

Yea yea, like anyone's falling for that "3'rd time i've wantched it it was good" trap. I'd rather watch Revolution...

It's probably because the people who bother to vote in online polls and rate eps tend to prefer science fiction stories to the more common folk plots of Sawyer and Kate. That ep's plot is also the Star Trek TNG Finale.

I just re-watched the entire series on Blu-Ray with my kids who had never seen it. Everyone loved it and my wife who originally hated the finale loved it upon re-watch.

GOAT series AINEC imo.

I think they could have done a better job with the Flash Sideways, but I have no problem with the concept as a story-telling mechanism. It was a great way to give the show an epilogue while continuing to wrap up the main story at the same time. Without the Flash Sideways the ending of Lost would have been one of the most depressing stories ever told. It would have been, yeah....everyone ended up dying and Hurley and Ben are still trapped on the Island.

Who was shooting at them in the canoe? It's like a splinter in my brain.

That one was definitely left on the table. But I can handle a couple of loose ends when the vast majority of Q's were answered along the way. I think you realize that more the second time around because you find that you know the answers to most of the mysteries that come up.

The island underwater to start s6 is just a pure red herring. It comes back in the penultimate episode when Locke says "I'm going to destroy the island" and then in the finale, keeps teasing how the island is going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. Sure, you can talk about how metaphorically the island doesn't exist in the flash sideways or whatever, but they knew what they were doing in terms of teasing the suspense of the flash sideways until the very end.

Season 5 atom bomb is more straightforward. It didn't work. 'Whatever happened, happened' (can't change the past) is a rule the show follows throughout, afaik. The A-bomb WAS the "incident".

Charlie not swimming is not a plot hole or inconsistentcy.

When the plane crashed, he couldn't yet swim.

After spending time on an island in the middle of the ocean, he learned to swim.

EZ game.

Re: rebooting the show at some point. I think it'd be a spectacular failure. I think it's even more obvious upon rewatch how the success of the show is due in large part to the chemistry within the ensemble cast.

goat series? more like woat series imo

Have to say i'm shocked at the love this show is getting, while conceptually it started out fresh and interesting huge sections of it were just bad.

I'm a big fan of the show but it's def not a top 5 show for me.

Just now on Arizona talk radio:

"The Jodi Arias movie should be out by June and she will be played by that girl from Lost. It was the daughter of the main character guy, what's his name? He's the real important guy and she played his daughter."

Clearly the show made its mark, a vague and blurry mark.

Except for the fact that he says he won swimming championships as a kid (or something to that effect). He could have been lying, of course, to get to be the hero...

Whatever. I think this is clearly a mistake by the writers, but by far not at all even close to what actually bothered me about this show.