LOST - Never saw a single episode, so now that it's over ... can anyone give me a recap?.

[Flaxbee]

:P

Seriesly, though, folks -- I don't even really know what the heck it was about (other than perhaps the hint the title gives).

Anyone wanna take a shot at a recap for a fellow DUer? :hi:

[Orsino]

1. I would also be interested in reading a summary of the series.

I never saw it, but I hear good things.

[SoxFan]

2. 42

[Flaxbee]

3. uh-uh

LOST was the answer to life, the universe and everything?

[SoxFan]

5. Yeah, pretty much

WWJLD?

[LynneSin]

13. I thought that was 42

:shrug:

[petronius]

4. There was a plane crash, then these people had to live on an island

I think it was like the tropical episode of Survivorman, over and over and over. A bit repetitive, but filled with good tips on how to live through a disaster...

[Flaxbee]

10. thanks ...

from the snippets I heard here and there, sounds like there was also some weird metaphysical stuff going on, too...

[petronius]

34. There may have been, but it wasn't really integral to the plot

Most viewers probably didn't even notice it...

[XemaSab]

6. A bunch of seriously messed-up people

crash on an island.

There are already other people living on the island, and more people come to the island after the plane crash.

The plane crash survivors and the others spend 6 years killing each other off, arguing, and hooking up.

In the latter part of the series, their island world begins to disintegrate spatially and temporally, and it turns out they've all been the subjects of a cruel game played by godlike figures.

Each of them tries to find his or her own redemption, and it's revealed that they are redeemed in the love of each other. Two of them become gods and stay behind to protect the island, and the rest of them realize that they are dead and move on to the next world.

[Flaxbee]

11. thanks, XemaSab

I appreciate it. Was it worth watching?

[XemaSab]

19. I thought it was TOTALLY worth watching

The creators of the series did a brilliant job with the characters, just brilliant.

I'm sure the ending will be argued about for years to come, but I thought it was a satisfying resolution.

[Misskittycat]

16. Who were the two gods? I stopped watching after Season 2. Thanks.

[Taverner]

25. Jacob and the Smoke Monster

[Taverner]

24. Yep, that pretty much explains it

[undeterred]

7. Beth dies and goes to a better place.

:hi:

And if the first thing you see after you die is a dog, you're probably in heaven.

[Flaxbee]

12. dogs, yes.

What do the creators say about cats, though? Because if my cats aren't there, I don't wanna go. :D

[undeterred]

15. No idea.

I'm just hoping all the dogs I've had (never had two at once) like each other!

[hlthe2b]

26. if the first thing you see after you die is a dog, you're probably in heaven.

"Ain't that the truth." ;)

[charlie and algernon]

8. it's a sled

[Flaxbee]

9. lol

rosebud, is that you?

[mikeytherat]

30. DId you know that "Rosebud" was William Randolph Hearst's nickname for his wife's clitoris?

Orson Welles was really digging at him!

mikey_the_rat

[ChoralScholar]

14. Well, see, there was this divorced mom who moved to Indianapolis,

who worked in a diner with some lady who said "Kiss My Grits"... then she moved in with another girl and a guy who was pretending to be gay... then she woke up and Patrick Duffy was in the shower, and it was all a dream - except that it all took place inside the snow globe of some kid.

[LeftinOH]

17. You forgot the part about waking up next to Suzanne Pleshette -n/t

[hlthe2b]

18. The Atlantic had a contest to summarize Lost in a 140 character tweet

Here is the winner: ;)

[RadicalTexan]

20. Lost in less than 600 words

(No, I didn't write this. I got it from from a since-deleted post on Lostpedia, where they don't allow critical remarks about the show. ;) )

The man without a name wanted to get off the magical island he was born on to see the real world he was told didn't exist with the help of a wooden wheel that was built by visiting Romans to harness exotic matter and send the person who turns it to the desert in Tunisia while creating a spherical purple dome that sends the other people on the island back in time but he was turned into a smoke monster because his twin brother threw him into a cave filled with magical light a little of which exists in every man for killing their mother who wasn't really their mother but did kill their real mother which eliminated the protector of the island so the slow brother that threw him into the light then became the new protector and vowed never to let his evil brother leave the island and that he would prove to him not all people are bad people so for 2000 years he kept that vow with the help of an immortal Latin man from the Canary islands whose slave ship crashed into an Egyptian statue and a group of people he led there by touching them when they were children, using magic numbers, and corralling them all into a plane which was destined to crash that was comprised of a spinal surgeon, a murderous criminal, and a con man all engaged in an endless love quadrangle with a fertility specialist and an Iraqi torturer who falls for a spoiled diva, her incestuous step brother who was the chief operating officer of a wedding clothing subsidiary, a junkie British rock star, a pissed off female Latino cop, a pregnant Australian woman who wants to give her baby up for adoption, a wealthy Korean heiress and her corporate hitman husband, a white dentist and his African American cancer patient wife, a teacher, a priest who formerly dealt drugs in the Africa, a TV star and her chef lover, a lottery winning fat dude, and some black guy and his son but after mingling with a crazy French woman and a one eyed Russian with his cohorts that consisted of a gay guy, a compulsive liar, and the aforementioned fertility specialist for 108 days and pushing a button every 108 minutes some of them decided to leave the island on a helicopter because mercenaries from a freighter were trying to kill them but they eventually decided to come back by crashing on another plane using coordinates to locate the mysterious moving land mass that they got from an old omniscient woman with a pendulum in the basement of a church and they wound up time traveling to 1977 where they worked for hippy scientists when a physicist whose brain had been damaged by radiation recommended they detonate a hydrogen bomb built by the American military which they did and it sent them back to the future where the no name brother monster took the form of a dead paraplegic and systematically manipulated them all along into to killing each other by getting them to set off plastic explosives hidden in a backpack while submerged in a submarine so that he could use a Scottish man who is immune to electromagnetism that was brought there by his rich father in law that also used to live there and his team of geologists to destroy the source and sink the island but he'll wind up failing and everyone will go to a concert before meeting up in an interdenominational universalist church, realizing they are all in purgatory, and walking into the light.

[charlie and algernon]

21. LOL!!!

:rofl:

[The2ndWheel]

22. Which is how you know they had it planned out the whole time

That shouldn't make sense, but it does.

[Mojambo]

27. Oh yeah. They TOTALLY had it planned out the whole way.

:eyes:

[RadicalTexan]

31. Right?

Not a chance.

[dr.strangelove]

23. Here Goes

Obviously a spoiler, so if yo want to see it all, don;t read this.

Plane crashes on island with a disproportionate number of attractive americans, along with an attractive brit, ausie and a sexy little former iraqi republican guard. They find out the island has a monster and all sorts of strange things going on. (Like polar bears on a tropical island and sharks with strange tattoos.) The castaways have a couple of cool characters and the story is really about the interaction of these people. Through a cool narrative device, we are taken thru flashbacks into the pasts of all the main players and they are surprisingly intertwined and all had really messed up lives. We then find out that there are "others" living on the island, and they don;t like or heroes. The rest of the first act is about the heroes trying to get off the island. Then in a stunning reversal of the flash back, we learn thru a flash forward that a small group does get off the island. Then this group is tasked with getting back on the island to save the others they left behind, and possibly save the world. The island itself is revealed to be extremely powerful and empowered with incredible almost magical properties. We are introduced to a man named Jacob, who seems to run the island. Then we find out that the monster mentioned above is an ancient entity that wants to escape the island, but first he needs to kill our heroes and Jacob. Turns out our heroes were all brought here for a purpose, which was essentially top save the world from the monster and the evil that spawned it. Thru all this, it is revealed that the characters, who mostly appeared flawed, are actually likable and interesting. Their stories drove the series, and all the magic island mumbo jumbo was the backdrop for some very well written and developed characters. And the heroes carry the day in the end.

[Mojambo]

28. "the characters, who mostly appeared flawed, are actually likable and interesting."

Except for Kate, of course.

[Touchdown]

29. The killer turns into his mother at the end.

;)

[last_texas_dem]

32. I've never seen a single episode, but this seems believable enough...

The Entire Series of Lost Re-Enacted by Cats in One Minute

http://tremendousnews.com/2010/05/21/the-entire-series-of-lost-re-enacted-by-cats-in-1-minute/

[MilesColtrane]

33. A man was born. He lived and died. The End.

[Initech]

35. It'd be damn near impossible to summarize in a paragraph.

Hell it'd take an entire fucking textbook just to explain the point of the Dharma Initiative, and the significance of Hurley's winning lottery numbers.

[struggle4progress]

36. They got lost. eom