“Lost completely takes over your life, and that’s how you know it’s a good show. When sometimes you pretend you’re on the Island, and have been happily dating Sayid for a month, it’s a good show. Every character has so much to offer and the plots are well done and mind bending. It’s an amazingly well thought out and performed show. It’s themes are universal and exciting. There should be college classes on the show, it can be studied like anything else, and that’s what keeps us nerdy/quirky people going.”

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It’s a show and a fan base that has grown with the internet. When “Lost” debuted there was no YouTube, no Twitter, podcasting was practically unheard of, and Facebook was well before it’s prime. While other shows hope that viewers discuss and create an online phenomenon, and try and push it into happening, “Lost” didn’t start out asking fans for that level of involvement. Part of it is because the show naturally causes discussion and the internet is a great place to turn to for that discourse, but these fans often seem connected by their inspired creative abilities.

I think that there was a large group of creative people out there that wanted to tap into these new forms of social interaction online, and that for many of these people “Lost” was a catalyst. It’s not just wanting to chat about “Lost” that connects many of these fans, it’s who they are as individuals. The bands, podcasters, YouTube movie makers, fan fiction writers and artists are largely a very creative bunch that have been collectively inspired by the show, as well as each other.

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“Stop thinking how ridiculous it is, and start asking yourself whether or not you believe it’s going to work,” she said. “That’s why it’s called a leap of faith, Jack.” Now, Mrs. Hawking was talking about the mission she sent Jack on to bring Locke back to the island with his father’s shoes on, of course, but at the same time, she could’ve been talking about the show itself. Yes, smoke monsters and resurrections and underground bunkers that save the world are kind of ridiculous, but is it all going to make sense in the end? Isn’t that what really matters anyway? I think the writers were daring us to stick with them for the rest of season 5 (and the series) with that statement. Are you ready to take that leap? I sure am.”

“My name is Jamie, and I’m now a freshman in college, started watching LOST as a mere 8th grader. I guess the title of the show is fitting to my experiences at the time it started, because I felt completely lost. For no reason whatsoever, my friends turned their back on me, saying our friendship no longer worked for them. I was left shattered and completely alone. Conveniently enough, this show started days after my “friends” turned their back on me. I got so lost in LOST that I was able to forget all the pain I had. I thank this show every day for helping me through the hardest time of my life. Never will I have such a strong attachment to a show as I have with LOST. Even if it confuses the hell out of me sometimes, I owe it to this show to respectfully finish the series as my own life journey begins.”

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“Siiiiiii—-eeeeed / Why you gotta make these people die-eee / Since when are you a secret agent spy-eee / Making all the pretty women cry-eee, Siiiii-eeeed!”

“If I slipped and hit my head my love would still remain the same / In a minute I’ll be dead from aneurysms in my head / Now it’s plain to see, Oh! won’t you be, my COOOOOOOOOONSTAAANT.”

“WAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLTTTTTT!!!!!!!!”

“Locke seems to know when the storm’s gonna halt / But he gets all his secrets from Taller Ghost Walt.”

“I once was found, but now I’m lost, and all my friends are dead.”

“No matter how hard you try, the island won’t let you die!!!! No sir!”

“CRASH on to a land with a random band of friends demanding answers for the crazy things we’ve seen / But we’ll be fine a pregnant woman, two Koreans, failed musician / Fugitive, a heavy-weight, a former cripple on a mission / Brother, sister, southern grifter, torturer and dooooooooggggg!!”

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“He said, “No thanks, I’ve already seen Cast Away.” Determined, I replied, “No no, trust me, it’s so much more than that.” Skeptically, he agreed. He watched as John Locke wiggled his toes. He watched as Jack Shephard chased his dead father through the jungle. He watched as they found the hatch. He watched as Walt got kidnapped. In the end he said, “Thank you.”

“Lost has always been a celebration of storytelling, from the arcane to the archetypal. It’s a genre-hopping story that pays direct homage to nearly every text that’s ever influenced its creators. It’s one long story, made up of a bunch of little stories. It’s a story about how backstories encroach and affect the main narrative, whether it be via time-travel or flashbacks (which are a kind of time travel). And, finally, it’s a story about the repetition of stories, and about which elements can be altered and which can’t. If the characters behave inexplicably at times, well, don’t hold it against them. They’re trapped in a story, and stories have their own demands.”

“Lately, I have been dubbing my LOST-watching friends “honorary original watchers.” To them, this is the ultimate compliment. Based on the opinions of my friends, “original watchers” top the hierarchy of television viewers. We are intelligent, aware of every happenstance, and our opinions are superior. When my friends have a theory and I dispute it, more times than not they will concede to what I believe—that is the power I hold above them simply because I have tuned in since the very start. It truly made me realize how rare of a bread original watchers are! And that is something I will always brag about. Not only does an original watcher signify everything I stated above, but it also exemplifies patience and good taste. To stick through a show so obsessively, even when it was the taboo thing to do (ahem, yes I point to you, majority of season 3) shows true loyalty—something not many shows can boast about their fan base.”

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I love Lost. The story is brilliant and all the lead actors are amazing.

The majority of extras, however, are horrible. My girlfriend and I are constantly rewinding and laughing at the terrible over-acting of the extras (her particular favorite moment was the ‘Hurley’s birthday party’ scene, where all of the background extras had to wear pointy birthday party hats. How humiliating; you audition for the biggest show on television and are forced to wear an idiotic hat during your big moment).

I also love the terrible wigs the actors wear for the age regression scenes. Especially Locke, who looks like a Lego person when they try to make him younger. Kate’s hairpieces are also fairly hideous, and Ben’s ‘ten-years-ago’ wigs are so bad the director would be better off just spraying Michael Emerson’s head with ‘Hair in a Can.’

As far as what’s really going on, I believe the final episode will reveal that the entire time they’ve actually been on Staten Island, stuck in line at Motor Vehicles.

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“The question I’ve been asking every LOST fan I know is: “Team Jacob or Team Smoky?” It’s the new “Invisibility or flight?”; it reveals more about the person answering than they realize. I had been leaning towards Team Smoky since Season 5’s finale, but with every episode of Season 6 that passes, I now feel like: Fuck both of those manipulative, lying bastards! I’ve become convinced that LOST is the ultimate argument against religion. You’re comfortable with the idea of an all-powerful, all-knowing being guiding your destiny? You think that you have free will, when really no matter how you adjust the tiny details in your life, he ends up controlling the endgame? You’re at peace with that?”