Numbers, hatches, smoke monsters, polar bears, visions and logo'd sharks. Lost presented viewers with a pirate assaulted rafts worth of questions and whether satisfactorily or not it managed to answer a chunk of them by the time its final episode aired. It remains one of TV's biggest yet most infuriatingly discussed puzzle box drama's as fans debated whether it was the characters, the viewers or indeed the writers that where the ones who were truly...
Lost
Ran: 6 Seasons (2004 till 2010)
Episodes: 121 plus epilogue
A plane full of passengers find their aircraft falling out the sky and when they awake after the ground collision they emerge on a tropical beach amidst the burning wreckage. Dazed and struggling to work out what happened and how to come to terms with the crash they find themselves stopped in their tracks when a strange mechanically sounding creature stalks them amidst the treeline. And thus, the saga of Lost began. With a sprawling multi-character approach the show utilised cut away sequences to explain and tease character arcs and to present hints as to the secrets of the island. Unafraid to end characters lives it tried to keep threats tense though many viewers struggled with the shows mid-point where it came to a head between wanting to see it out and the show increasingly showing how unplanned it was. The result was the last three seasons being created to re-aim the show to an ending with shorter, more focused runs. The ending was a controversy in of itself.
Share your thoughts and memories of Lost!
Lost
Ran: 6 Seasons (2004 till 2010)
Episodes: 121 plus epilogue
A plane full of passengers find their aircraft falling out the sky and when they awake after the ground collision they emerge on a tropical beach amidst the burning wreckage. Dazed and struggling to work out what happened and how to come to terms with the crash they find themselves stopped in their tracks when a strange mechanically sounding creature stalks them amidst the treeline. And thus, the saga of Lost began. With a sprawling multi-character approach the show utilised cut away sequences to explain and tease character arcs and to present hints as to the secrets of the island. Unafraid to end characters lives it tried to keep threats tense though many viewers struggled with the shows mid-point where it came to a head between wanting to see it out and the show increasingly showing how unplanned it was. The result was the last three seasons being created to re-aim the show to an ending with shorter, more focused runs. The ending was a controversy in of itself.
Share your thoughts and memories of Lost!
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