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"Lost" (2004)

Lost is a serial drama show. Set on a mysterious Island, Lost centers primarily around the adventures of the people who survived the crash of Oceanic Airlines flight 815. The show involves elements of mystery, adventure, and science fiction genres.

The ultimate nature of the monster is not known. Popular fan theory claims that the monster is a cloud of nanotech particles. However, the producers have said that the monster is not nanotechnology. All we know of the monster is that it is described, by Rousseau, as being a "security system" for the Island. The monster appears as a black smoky cloud which apparently has some ability to read minds. It also appears to be vulnerable to sonic waves such as the ones which come from the fence around The Barracks. In season four, it was released by Benjamin Linus and went after members of the freighter crew, implying that it can be controlled.

It has sometimes been implied that it can take the form of someone in someone's past. This theory explains a lot of what we have seen on the island. It has also killed people.

Many theories were thrown around on the internet after the Season 3 finale - such as Walt, Michael, and Ben - but the Season 4 finale confirmed that name of the man was Jeremy Bentham, who turned out to be Locke when the body was finally shown.

As hinted at in Orientation, and confirmed in season 3, the polar bears were part of genetic experiments going on at Dharma. The bears were being trained for increased intelligence and to be able to survive in a non arctic habitat.

Some viewers continue to question how the bears got from Hydra island to the main Island. Obviously, at some point when Dharma shut down the bears either escaped or were released. The question of how they got to the main Island is mainly based on fan ignorance of polar bears. The scientific name of polar bears is Ursus Maritimus, and they are excellent swimmers, probably the best mammalian swimmers other than Dolphins and Whales. Polar bears have been known to swim dozens of miles between ice floes and the relatively short distance between Hydra island and the main island would be a simple matter for them to cover.

In general, the producers have stated that if someone on Lost appears to hae died then they are REALLY dead. This leads one to assume that the appearance of some dead characters (Charlie, Yemi, etc.) is truly the appearance of Jacob or the monster - or ghosts.

Yes, but it had no real significance.

It was revealed on the special features disc in the Season 2 Lost boxset that it was an easter egg.

Lost will end in its 6th season. The fifth and sixth seasons will have 17 episodes each.

Yes. The producers confirmed that the events which we saw off Island in the season 3 finale was a flash forward. This is confirmed by evidence in the episode. The phone and the car which Jack uses were both released after the main action of Lost takes place. A date of April 2007 is also visible on the newspaper clipping which Jack is reading. The producers have confirmed that the upcoming seasons will consist of a mixture of flash forwards and flash backs.

Also one of the clues to hint at it being a flash forward is the name of the funeral parlor jack visits, It's named "Hoffs/Drawler Funeral Home" and Hoffs/Drawler is an anagram for flash forward.

The plane crashed on September 22nd, 2004, the same date that Lost premiered. Each season takes place over the course of roughly a month. The third season finale takes place sometime in late December 2004.

Some fans have remained confused over Alex's lineage. Rousseau says that Alex is her child and that she murdered Alex's father. However, Ben also claims to be Alex's father and Alex refers to him as "Dad." Despite both claiming to be Alex's parents, Ben and Rousseau appear to have never met before the end of season 3.

The explanation, however, is simple. Danielle is the biological mother of Alex, who was conceieved with Danielle's now dead husband. After Alex was taken from Danielle, Ben raised her. Ben is Alex's adoptive father.

Christian Shepard is dead. In the flash forward Jack says "get my father down here" because he is high out of his mind on painkillers. At least momentarily he loses touch with reality and believes that it's years earlier when his father was still alive.

Ben is jealous of Locke and that is seen in season 3 when Ben forces Locke to kill his father so that he can join the others.When Locke fails to kill him, Ben says "I'm sorry, he is not who we think he is". It is clear that Ben wants to maintain his leadership and the belief of the others that he is special but knowing about Locke and how he started walking again when he crashed on the island...that was reason enough for him to shoot Locke but as we can see, he eventually fails to kill him.

According to Ben, Jacob knows all the secrets of the island.

He does appear (briefly) in the cabin scene in Season 3.

Firstly when Ben grabs hold of the chair and says: "That's enough, you've had your fun!" Jacob "pushes" Ben against the wall and the camera quickly pans back and we can see a shadowy figure in the chair.

Secondly, before Locke runs out of the cabin, there is a close up of Jacob's eye. He looks from Ben over to Locke.

The Lost Mobisodes, called "Missing Pieces," are mini-episodes that are supposed to "fill in the gaps" for us until the fourth season premiere. They are NOT deleted scenes and they were written and produced by the people who write and produce Lost. So far, there is 13 of them and they can be seen on ABC.com.

Link to the Mobisodes - http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/missingpieces/index

In the episode "Cabin Fever" it is revealed that Richard Alpert visited Locke as a child. Yet Locke doesn't recognize Richard when they first meet on the Island. The answer is simple: Locke only met Richard for a few minutes, when he was a young child and never met him again until he landed on the Island. Do you remember everyone you ever met as a child?

If you have the new windows vista, just go to the windows media center. all three seasons are on there for free. Just go into Internet Tv, go to tv, Under tv go to series, and you will see all four seasons available for free. The shows only have two 30 second commercial in between.

You can also go to hulu.com, which has some up with a couple of commercials. TVShack.net has all the seasons, without commercials.

Try www.surfthechannel.com

Many fans believe that there is a "lost DUI curse". Specifically they believe that the producers, whether intentionally or not, punish actors who receive Driving Under the Influence convictions by killing off their characters. The theory was started after Ana Lucia and Libby were killed in a single incident months after the actors who portrayed them were both arrested for DUI in a single incident. Similarly Mr Ecko was killed after the actor who portrays him had a moving violation, and Jin was apparently killed after he received a DUI. However, it should be noted that many Lost actors have received moving violations without having their characters killed.

It is not known for sure. As whispers are heard as a precursor to the black smoke, they are also at times heard when the others appear, characters that have died reappear, when Hurley finds Jacob's cabin, and as an ominous warning whenever some other action is about to place -- surprise attack on the survivors, etc. In a recent interview at Lostpedia, David Fury, a writer for Lost's first season, and the man who wrote the episode "Solitary" where we first here the whispers, commented that at the time the whispers were meant to be The Others, but that this has likely changed.

When Lost was in pre-production Jack was originally supposed to be played by Michael Keaton. In this scenario Jack would have been killed by the monster when he, Kate, and Charlie went to the cockpit. Afterwards Kate would become the leader of the group. ABC disliked this idea since they felt it was a waste to get viewers emotionally involved with Jack only to kill him off in the first episode. So the producers agreed to keep Jack on permanently. However, Michael Keaton was not interested in doing a series full time. He had only wanted to appear in the pilot. When he backed out they recast the part with Matthew Fox.

In the s4 finale Daniel is piloting a zodiac towards the freighter with a number of people on it. He is last seen as the Island begins to move. The ultimate fate of Daniel and the other people on the raft will be revealed next season. However, it seems likely that Daniel and the raft were within the area of effect when the Island moved. If he had been outside of that area then presumably the Oceanic Six would have seen him while they were floating in the ocean.

Ji Yeon is unusual in that it involves BOTH a flash back and a flash forward. The scenes of Sun giving birth to her daughter are a flash forward. The scenes of Jin trying to buy a stuffed panda are a flash back. This can be seen at the end of both segments. When Jin finally gets to the hospital it turns out that he is not rushing to his own child's birth but is giving a present to the Chinese ambassador. When leaving the hospital Jin comments that he's only been married for a few months. At the end of the flash forward Sun travels to Jin's grave. At this point Jin is dead, or at least is believed to be dead by the members of the Oceanic Six.

Remember that the Oceanic Six is lying about what happened. They maintain that only three people besides themselves survived the crash: Charlie, Boone, and Libby. As part of their charade they would pretend that everyone else, including Jin, died on the date of the crash.