![]() ![]() In retrospect, it's easier to see that "Lost" had been building up to some sort of release of pent-up energy for quite some time before the final season debuted - for better or worse. As Jack, John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Kate Austin (Evangeline Lilly), James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway), Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), Hugo Reyes (Jorge Garcia), and the rest of the survivors scrambled to make sense of their unfriendly surroundings, this became the narrative driving force behind the first season(s) of "Lost." That implicit promise came with expectations of answering tantalizing questions like: what makes the island so special? Will the survivors could find a way off of it? And would they even survive long enough to do so? Polar bears, smoke monsters, the possibility of sinister "Others" inhabiting the island, and the group's ever-present suspicions of one another all combined to turn "Lost" into the weekly must-watch phenomenon that helped set the template for future pop culture hits like "Stranger Things" or "Game of Thrones." The unsettling question above, posed by Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan) at the end of the two-part pilot episode, set the tone for the rest of the series. The question isn't an unfair one, however, as a revisit of the finale makes it clear that - in classic "Lost" fashion - the characters hadn't truly been living until the very last moments of the series anyway. and I'm here to reiterate that they most definitely weren't. ![]() Well over a decade and a half later, the ending to "Lost" still comes with confusing baggage over whether the cast of characters had been "dead all along". To its credit, however, creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse made their intentions emphatically clear on that front and chose the far better option in the divisive finale. ![]() The uneven final season tried to have it both ways by throwing in some unsatisfying and last-minute answers to questions that had long since become irrelevant. By the time the show wrapped up its run, the fanbase ended up severely split over what "Lost" had even been about all along - the characters, or the never-ending stream of mysteries. "Lost" stands tall as a game-changer in serialized broadcast TV, serving as perhaps one of the most effective trailblazers in making full use of the internet's affinity for encouraging fan theories and obsessing over dense mythology. Seventeen years ago today, Doctor Jack Shepard (Matthew Fox) opened his eyes in the middle of a bamboo forest on a mysterious island and jumped into action in the aftermath of a horrific plane crash, and television was never the same again. ![]()
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