#Just like lost (2004)

[fist-of-vengeance]

last night for my birthday i forced my friends to listen to an hour and a half long powerpoint explaining the entire lost timeline in chronological order. i know lost is a pretty zany show but nothing makes you realize this more than trying to verbally explain time travel and the sideways universe to three people who've never seen it

[bowie-pills]

David Bowie gets distracted during an interview, 2004

[stripesysheaven]

does anyone know where to watch the getting LOST doc? like is it going to be on streaming or what’s the deal with it

[greasydumbfuck]

watched the 2004 punisher movie yesterday with pixie and honestly i had fun 👍 some stuff was good some stuff was eh some completely irrelevant stuff made me mildly annoyed. but most of all it was funny and they had frank hang around with his tits out for multiple scenes so i mean how could i not have a great time tbh

[sleazyjanet]

i understand why alex had to die (to push ben's narrative), and understand less why danielle had to die (the streets are saying her arc was done? oh ok fuck that) and i know none of the characters get what they deserve, not really, but it really makes me sad that after all she went through, after so many years of being so utterly alone, and terrified, danielle just died like that? not even an interesting death, just a bullet (dart? arrow? what the fuck was that) to some imprecise part of the body and she's dead

and her arc wasn't complete, not to ME. she and alex were not close. alex never reacts much to danielle's affection, which makes so much sense of course, because she doesn't know this woman who loves her so much. it's as danielle herself said, she spent 16 years missing and loving this girl who never knew she existed, who never knew how much she'd been loved by her

so i understand alex had to die. but you know how the mib loves haunting people? danielle being haunted, regularly, by alex, being told what to do, and DOING it, because it's alex telling her to do it, being manipulated into doing things... and then learning the truth. that this was not really alex. idk, chefs kiss (+ danielle being visited by alex's actual ghost, too, like hugo with his ghosts)

(also the contrast of ben only seeing alex once, when mib needs him to do everything he says, preys on his guilt vs danielle not even being guilty at all for alex's death but still feeling responsible, being haunted by her regularly, seeing her everywhere, trying to grasp at straws, trying to build a relationship with a ghost of a person who never had the chance to really love her)

[inejqhafa]

I’ve been bingeing Lost for the last few weeks and just watched 4x05. holy shit. that was one of the best episodes of television I have ever watched.

[otogariado]

LOST mention⁉️

also it wasn't entirely purgatory. fuck you fight me.

[twomystdunstans]

Kian and Rand are in a fucking episode of Lost (2004) and Rolan is running around his house like this

[sibelin]

this is all i could think about in that Lost Highway scene the other day. they are cosplaying each other

[ants-personal]

why was billy only used in adams apartment? Like was amanda at some point just yeah you know what would super funny? If i scared him using John's lil puppet before i drug him :p. And then adam beat the crap out of it with a bat and john never allowed it again.

[natjennie]

I don't know why season 4 like screeched my lost-watching to a halt but it really kind of fell off for me. ever since they've been doing the little off the island flash-forwards it's been losing me. I'm sure there's an interesting compelling storytelling reason for all of it, but from where I'm sitting it changed the whole vibe in a direction I'm not enjoying. I will continue to watch I guess, but it's slow going.

[fist-of-vengeance]

thinking about how essentially every relationship john locke formed in the early seasons of lost has completely disintegrated by the time of his death.

of course there's his relationship with jack, which starts tense but manageable and culminates in jack pointing a gun at john's head and pulling the trigger. but even his smaller, less narratively prominent relationships either implode or drift apart. he bonds with walt in season one but then walt leaves the island, which is itself a severing of their bond since it was mainly based on being the only two people who wanted to stay. still, he goes and visits walt off the island so this is probably john's most successful relationship. I dont think i need to explain how he fucked up with boone, "the sacrifice that the island demanded." charlie viewed john as a mentor and claimed to trust him more than anyone on the island, but after the events of fire and water, that trust is destroyed and charlie despises him. at the same time we get john bonding with claire and having a pseudo-paternal dynamic with her, but their closeness basically drops off the face of the earth as he gets less and less involved with the other survivors.

his arc in the series is essentially a gradual distancing from everyone around him. it starts when he abandons hunting (providing for the others) in favor of trying to get the hatch open (it's extremely clear his primary motive isn't any survival applications but getting answers to the mystery). when they do open the hatch, he spends more and more time inside, underground, cut off from other people. he spends more and more time interacting with ben, a human mystery box that he's obsessed with cracking even if it gets him killed. he follows the proverbial white rabbit deeper down the hole and leaves his connection to humanity behind. the island and its mysteries become more important to john than anything or anyone else.

then in season three we get him claiming to go undercover with the others only to unceremoniously tell sawyer that he's actually going to join them. and it doesn't feel shocking, it feels inevitable. because john has spent the entire series becoming less and less connected with the people he arrived with. in that sense he actually makes a fascinating foil to juliet, who is introduced as one of the others and yet never really fits, she's increasingly sympathetic and kind in a way the rest of them aren't, her redemption arc feels so natural that she actually starts referring to her old people as "the others" like she's been one of the crash survivors from the beginning. her and john basically have inverse arcs, which is probably accidental but very neat.

in season five john tries to convince everyone to go back to the island, and fails spectacularly. and of course he does, because he was so consumed by obsession that he stopped maintaining his relationships, and in many cases actively alienated people (this is also basically what happened with helen) and now he can't wrap his head around why they're all so hostile to him. i am forever obsessed with the scene where he confronts kate and she brutally calls him out for wanting to return to the island because he doesn't love anyone. it actually struck me on rewatch how well the two of them got along in season one, and how badly their relationship has degraded by this point. john repeatedly casts aside interpersonal relationships in favor of his obsession with destiny, so when said destiny actually involves persuading the people he once shunned, he's at a loss. this is because john treats purpose as a supplement for connection, destiny as an alternative to love.

as an aside, this aspect of john's character kinda ties into my opinion that several lost characters can be read as allegorically neurdivergent under a certain lens. i know this was absolutely not intended, but as an adhd former gifted kid who struggles socially, there is something uncomfortably familiar about a character who allows their relationships to burn around them because of a single-minded obsession, especially as a result of being promised the fickle status of "special."

tl/dr: john locke is a doomed idiot and i love him

[discododging]

Genuinely going to be so pissed if anyone other then Vicki Vale shows up in the next episode. Like we're already on thin ice by just having a batman character (like i made a comment about the same thing: really hoping this stays a Superman show and that Vicki is all we get, less then 5 minutes after that i get a comment about how batman is better, like good for you, then go watch one of the 3 multi season batman animated series and leave me to my first animated Superman show in a decade.)

Like we have ONE, COUNT IT ONE, Batman comics character and I saw 3 different fucking comments about stupid shit like "my adventures with the justice league" or "my adventures with batman"

[sillimancer]

I hate that there are entire slices of the internet that are no longer accessible because Flash is dead

[maxanor]

in honor of stucky losing to of/md have me and the besties genuine reactions to watching that kiss for the first time

[aroceu]

no like kate austen wanted to save her mom by killing her dad and when her mom found out she considered it such a betrayal that she wanted her own daughter in jail for it so all kate could do was run and have a bunch of relationships she could never truly be honest in and yet she tried to trust and love people the whole time anyway until she got scared and ran away but even on the island she was paying attention and kind and helped claire during her pregnancy and afterward she noticed that sun reacted to what she said that she deduced that sun knew english before sun even told her she always wanted to help and keep everyone alive even when she didn't have to she ditched jack when she realized that he was bad for her son and as soon as she realized that she was overprotective of aaron only for herself she made it her mission to get claire back. and the vast majority of lost fans just dismiss her as annoying because she's not a girlboss like juliet