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* The fantasy novel ''[[Howl's Moving Castle]]'', later made into an [[anime]] feature, has a character named Turnip Head, which may have been the origin of the nickname Charlie gave to Claire's baby before she named him Aaron. |
* The fantasy novel ''[[Howl's Moving Castle]]'', later made into an [[anime]] feature, has a character named Turnip Head, which may have been the origin of the nickname Charlie gave to Claire's baby before she named him Aaron. |
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* The last image of the first season finale suggests the horror fiction of [[H.P. Lovecraft]], which often featured strange passageways leading down into the interior of the earth or into large, monolithic artifacts. The entrances and passages were often marked with cryptic symbols, similar to Hurley's numbers. However, the Lovecraft influence may come by way of Lovecrafttian [[Stephen King]] stories, such as the novel [[The Tommyknockers]]. |
* The last image of the first season finale suggests the horror fiction of [[H.P. Lovecraft]], which often featured strange passageways leading down into the interior of the earth or into large, monolithic artifacts. The entrances and passages were often marked with cryptic symbols, similar to Hurley's numbers. However, the Lovecraft influence may come by way of Lovecrafttian [[Stephen King]] stories, such as the novel [[The Tommyknockers]]. |
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* Ethan Rom is an anagram of Other Man. Entering "Other Man" into the prebooking section of the Lost [[Oceanic Airlines]] website results in a short flash movie. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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| Created by | J.J. Abrams Damon Lindelof Jeffrey Lieber |
| Starring | See Cast & characters below |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 25 (plus one special) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC, CTV, Radio-Canada, Channel 4, RTÉ Two, AXN, TV4_AB |
| Release | September 22, 2004 – May 25, 2005 (As of Season 1) |
Lost is an American drama/adventure television series set in the aftermath of a plane crash on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific. The series uniquely tracks two major, interconnected themes: first, the struggles of the 48 survivors of the crash as they cope with living together on the strange island and second, the lives of the 14 main characters before the crash, retold through flashbacks.
The series was developed exclusively by ABC: former studio executive Lloyd Braun pitched an idea about a plane crashing on a remote island to series creator J.J. Abrams in January 2004, after most of the new series for the 2004 fall season had already been selected and begun production. Under significant time pressure from the start, Abrams collaborated with Damon Lindelof to create the show’s unique style and characters, occasionally even creating characters to fit an actor they wished to cast. From this difficult beginning, which included the filming of the most expensive pilot in television history, came one of the biggest critical and commercial successes of the 2004 television season, and Lost, along with fellow freshman series Desperate Housewives, helped reverse the fortunes of the underperforming ABC.
The show is produced by Bad Robot Production and Touchstone Television. The music is composed by Michael Giacchino.
Lost can currently be seen on Wednesdays at 10 pm ET on ABC. It is also broadcasting on the Irish TV channel, RTÉ Two, every Monday at 10pm, and Wednesdays on Channel 4 at 10pm, with the next episode following on E4, in the UK. Season 1 of Lost has recently completed broadcasting on the Seven Network in Australia, where it was seen each Thursday at 8:30pm.
Cast & characters
- Main article at Characters of Lost.
- Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard
- Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austin
- Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace
- Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford
- Harold Perrineau Jr. as Michael Dawson
- Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
- Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford
- Malcolm David Kelley as Walt Lloyd
- Daniel Dae Kim as Jin-Soo Kwon
- Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle (Season 1)
- Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah
- Terry O'Quinn as John Locke
- Yunjin Kim as Sun Paik
- Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton
- L. Scott Caldwell as Rose
- William Mapother as Ethan Rom
- Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau
- Michelle Rodriguez as Anna-Lucia Cortez (Season 2)
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Emeka (Season 2)
- Cynthia Watros as Libby (Season 2)
Episodes
Season 1: 2004-2005
A plane crash strands the surviving passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 on a seemingly deserted tropical island, forcing the group of strangers to work together to stay alive. However, their survival may also ultimately depend on unraveling the mysteries of the island, including the contents of a hatch buried in the ground, the origins of an enormous creature that roams the jungle, and motives of the unknown "others" who may also inhabit the island.
The first season was broadcast on Wednesdays at 8pm EST on ABC, but has now concluded. The first season will be available on DVD from Buena Vista Home Entertainment on September 6, 2005, titled Lost: The Complete First Season. The second season is scheduled to debut on ABC on September 21.
Season 2: 2005-2006
Lost was renewed for a second season by ABC and will continue to air on Wednesdays, but will move to a new timeslot at 9pm EST.
Michelle Rodriguez will be joining the cast of Lost for season two, reprising the role of Ana-Lucia Cortez. She had a drink with Jack in the airport bar in Sydney, in "Exodus Part 1." According to the show, Cortez was seated in the rear section of the plane that broke off, so this cast addition seems to validate the theory that the tail section also landed on the island. Adewale Akkinuoye-Agbaje will play Emeka, a mysterious man whose intentions on the island are not yet known. Cynthia Watros will play Libby, another mysterious person.
| # | Title | Flashbacks | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Man of Science, Man of Faith" | Jack | September 21 2005 |
| 2 | "Adrift" | Unknown | September 28 2005 |
| 3 | "Orientation" | Locke | October 5 2005 |
| 4 | Hurley | October 12 2005 |
Notes and Trivia
The Pilot
- Filmed on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, USA, in the secluded Kualoa Ranch. This has, however, proven expensive, and there was speculation during the first season about moving locations to offset the high cost of filming. However, it was eventually announced that the second season of Lost, which ABC ordered on April 5, 2005, will continue production in Hawaii.
- The pilot episode was the most expensive in history, exceeding $11 million for the two-hour series opener. Over $1 million of that was to purchase, chop, and ship the Lockheed L-1011 passenger jet pieces to Hawaii.
- J.J. Abrams has used Greg Grunberg, childhood friend and frequent collaborator, as an actor and good luck charm in Abrams’ other creations, Felicity and Alias. He appears in Lost as the pilot of Flight 815.
Themes
- Counting the pilot episode as a single story, the first five successive episodes begin with a close-up of someone’s eye opening. The eye close-up motif resumed later on in the season. The first part of the finale "Exodus" began with an opening of a hotel room’s curtains, while the second part began with a close-up of Claire’s baby’s eye.
- Except for the pilot and finale, each episode then focuses on a specific character and includes flashbacks from that character’s point of view, explaining why they were on the plane and providing insight to the viewer about the character’s secrets and motivations.
- Various strange and mysterious things happen during the show, and it is unclear whether the show is going to explain them using science fiction, mysticism or some other approach. Examples include the characters being attacked by (and fighting off) a polar bear, which would normally be unable to survive the tropical heat; former paraplegic John Locke regaining the use of his legs; the presence of some sort of creature that knocks down trees as it moves. Additionally, a set of numbers have been revealed (in the episode "Numbers") which Hurley believes are "cursed" and keep reappearing in unusual ways, indicating some sort of numerology at work.
- The November 17, 2004, issue of USA Today listed several fan theories as to the nature of the show: that the characters are in purgatory, that Locke is working for the genetic engineers and social scientists using the island as an experiment, and that the island is a sort of dreamworld Fantasy Island. The December 3, 2004 issue of Entertainment Weekly touched upon some of those theories and a few more: that a catastrophe has killed everyone on the planet except for the islanders; that aliens crashed the plane and have placed the survivors in some kind of habitat; and that all the events exist in a dream had by the crash’s sole survivor (possibly Jack). However, it should be noted that the latter two EW theories were deemed fairly implausible by members of the cast and crew.
- In a later interview on Lost.tv, Damon Lindelof said "Here’s something that it is NOT... This is not a fictional reality that is playing out in someone’s brain. Like I’ve heard that they’re all different personalities inside Locke, or something. To this I say, "Yes. I saw Identity, too. And I did not like it." Also, according to Zap2It, during a recent cast and crew forum at the William S. Paley Television Festival, co-creator J. J. Abrams ruled out the purgatory theory.
- Sawyer was initially seen reading Boone’s copy of Watership Down by Richard Adams, which is about a warren of rabbits who escaped from certain death, and battle against another more sinister warren in order to find peace. Sawyer says that the book washed up on shore, although Boone believed it had been stolen. In "Numbers," Sawyer moved on to reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle, a science fiction/fantasy novel about three children who travel through time to rescue a father from an impending evil force. Also, the precocious Walt is seen reading a Spanish translation of issue #1 of the comic book mini-series Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends, in which an alien spacecraft has fallen to Earth, and the citizens of Earth are punished for attacking the alien without first verifying the visitor’s intentions, which were actually peaceful in nature; several of the events from the comic book have come to pass, including the bizarre appearance of a polar bear. It is later revealed that this comic book originally belonged to Hurley.
- The colors black and white, which traditionally reflect good or positive forces versus evil or negative forces, have featured a number times, particularly in regards to John Locke. In "Pilot," Locke shows Walt a black and a white backgammon piece and says "two players, two sides, one is light, one is dark." In "House of the Rising Sun," Jack finds a pouch on a pair of mummified corpses, nicknamed "Adam and Eve" by the survivors, containing one white stone and one black stone, which he then hides from Locke. In the opening sequence of "Raised by Another," Claire has a nightmare in which Locke has one black eyeball and one white eyeball. In "Deus Ex Machina," a pair of mismatched eyeglasses that Jack and Sayid construct for Sawyer to wear have black rims on one side and white rims on the other side.
- Several of the major characters have fathers in their lives who are either absent, reluctant, or destructive (Locke, Jack, Sawyer, Walt being the most particular examples). Locke in particular is the victim of a wretched betrayal ("Deus Ex Machina") by his absent father. Likewise, Claire was abandoned by the father of her baby, Kate's father is possibly dead, Hurley's father is not around, and Sun's father is a particularly destructive force.
- Some of the characters in one way or another are finding redemption and second chances as a result of being on the island. This refers to Kate most of all (given her past), but it can also refer to Charlie, Jin, Sun, Claire, Sawyer, and Walt. Locke seems to be the one who seems to be drawing everyone else into this theme given the miracle that happened to him immediately after crashing onto the island.
The Island
- Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 was en route from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles, California in the United States. It carried passengers from those countries as well as the United Kingdom, Iraq, South Korea, Canada, and possibly others. Before the crash, the plane ran into trouble and tried to change course for Fiji. As far as the characters can tell, they are thousands of miles off-course and, presumably, no-one knows where to look for them.
- In "Hearts and Minds" Locke gives his compass to Sayid, who figures it must be faulty because its magnetic north does not align with true north. Magnetic compasses generally do not line up with true north, because of the difference between magnetic north and true north. In Iraq, where Sayid is from, the deviation is small, whereas in the South Pacific it is generally larger, and can approach 20 degrees.
- Furthermore, when Boone tried to send a Mayday radio message in "Deus Ex Machina", he identified himself as a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815, but a garbled voice on the radio stated, in a surprised tone, that "there were no survivors of Oceanic Flight 815" (according to the closed-captioning). This would help explain the absence of a search and rescue mission. Why outsiders believe there were no survivors, and whether or not Boone may have changed their opinion, remains to be seen.
- It is important to note, however, that this single line has caused considerable debate. Some people have claimed that the voice on the radio says "we’re the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815", even though the closed-captions do not support this. The problem rests with the audio of the line itself. In the episode, as originally aired, the voice seems to say "there were no survivors of Oceanic Flight 815." Later, in a recap video clip on the ABC.com website posted on April 1st (April’s fools day) and in subsequent show previews on the ABC network, the audio clearly says "we’re the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815." However, the audio from ABC seems to have been reedited and possibly redubbed, as the voice in the previews sounds markedly different from that heard in the episode. Consequently, the question of what the voice on the radio actually said is currently a matter of some debate among Lost fans.
- In a recent interview with TV Guide (May 29, 2005), Damon Lindelof stated that the line heard on the radio was in fact "We’re the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815." Lindelof also reminded readers that this was also what Boone radioed over, "so it's up to extrapolation as to whether or not his own words were being bounced back to him." It should be noted that none of the previous lines that Boone said bounced back.
- Regardless of what was said, Boone's radio conversation in "Deus Ex Machina" makes clear that there is at least one person within the radio's range who can communicate over radio. It is unknown whether this transmission came from survivors from the tail-end of the plane, a member of "The Others," or someone else, since the radio's range is not known.
- At least 16 years ago, Danielle Rousseau was on a ship that ran aground on the island at least "three days out" from Tahiti. This would ostensibly indicate that the island is in the southeastern Pacific, near French Polynesia.
The Numbers
- In the episode "Numbers," 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, sometimes referred to as "Hurley's numbers" by fans, are revealed to be significant. The transmitter on the island apparently had broadcast the numbers as far back as World War II; the message also drew Rousseau's expedition to the island, and she later changed the message after the deaths of her team. The numbers are also engraved on the hatch, and Hurley won the lottery using them. After a string of misfortunes happening to those around him after winning the lottery, Hurley comes to believe the numbers are cursed. His search for answers leads him to Australia and, eventually, through the crash, to the original source of the numbers, the island itself. Major references or connections to these numbers include:
- 4:
- The number of guns in the Marshal's case.
- Number of times Jack hits Charlie’s chest before Charlie regains consciousness.
- Shannon asks for a 4 letter word for "I don't care" in "Walkabout"
- Number of refills that Shannon had for her inhaler.
- Locke reveals he’s had leg problems for 4 years in "Walkabout"
- The number of months between Claire’s two visits to the psychic in "Raised by Another"
- The number of people on the raft
- The number of times Charlie shoots Ethan in the chest
- 8:
- Part of the flight number of the crashed plane (Flight 815)
- Months that Claire is pregnant on day of crash
- Number of times Jack banged the cockpit door with a fire extinguisher before it opened.
- Walt Lloyd is born in August, the 8th month of the year
- Months between Ray Mullen's wife dying, and Kate showing up on his farm
- Number of months Locke has been talking to Helen in "Walkabout"
- Number of weeks Charlie has booked for DriveShaft's comeback tour opening for MeatCoat
- Number of hours Kate spent with her dad one day tracking in the woods
- TV Station that interviews Hurley is KSVU-8 (channel 8) in "Numbers"
- Number of people that died in Hurley's shoe factory fire in Canada in "Numbers"
- Kilometers from secretary of environment's house to riverbank where Jin is to dump car in "...In Translation"
- Number of days Claire was missing when Ethan took her
- Age of Shannon when parent remarried
- Age of Sawyer when his father committed suicide
- The man who sold Hurley his Scooter In "Exodus Part 3" wore a hat that said "Crazy 8's Casino"
- Aisle number for regulation football in the department store where John used to work in "Deus Ex Machina"
- 15:
- Part of the flight number of the crashed plane (Flight 815)
- According to Oceanic-Air.com[1], a website based on the fictional Oceanic Air airline and Flight 815, Flight 815 left from Gate 15, yet Hurley boarded from Gate 23, paving the way for a "Two Planes" theory (though Hurley is shown boarding the plane and making eye-contact with Walt, thus confirming he was, in fact, on the same flight as everybody else; so either everyone is on the wrong plane, or the information on Oceanic-Air.com is simply erroneous)
- When Kate is found in the sheep pen in "Tabula Rasa," Ray Mullen says the nearest town is 15 km away
- In the game of backgammon, which appears in several episodes, each side begins with 15 pieces
- The number of years since Kate made the time capsule tape with her friend Tom in "Born to Run"
- In Exodus Part 3, Michael mentioned that the raft was 15 miles away from the island when the radar detected the boat.
- Aisle number for nerf football in the department store where John used to work in "Deus Ex Machina"
- 16:
- The backgammon die in "Pilot, part 2" is showing 16
- Jack says he needs to land in LAX in 16 hours in "White Rabbit"
- The number of years Danielle has been stranded on the island, and the number of years the distress call has been playing.
- Number of weeks the lottery had gone without a winner before Hurley wins in "Numbers"
- The number of hours since the crash at the time they met the pilot.
- Hurley buys a scooter from an old man in the airport for $1600.
- In Hurley's note, for the bottle, on the raft, he leaves his mother 160 million.
- Sawyer needs 160 grand to buy one share of the oil platform in "Confidence Man".
- 23:
- Flight 815 boarded at gate 23
- On the flight, Jack and Rose are sitting in row 23. Jack was assigned seat 23B.
- Kate’s reward is 23 thousand dollars in "Tabula Rasa"
- Jack says 46 people need to drink 1/2 gallon a day each, which makes 23 gallons of water to take to the beach each day in "House of the Rising Sun"
- 42:
- The number of circles on a game of Connect Four, which Lenny is playing in "Numbers"
- Anna Lucia, a passenger on Flight 815 who met and spoke with Jack prior to boarding the plane in episode "Exodus" Part 1, had a ticket for seat 42F.
- The number of rows on the plane.
- 4:
- There have been references to other numbers besides this string of six.
- The most prominent has been 815, which is a concatenation of two of the hatch numbers, 8 and 15.
- The flight number
- In "Whatever the Case May Be," Kate’s objective in the bank robbery is to get access to safe deposit box #815
- In "Homecoming," Charlie is doing a sales pitch for the model C815 copier
- In "The Greater Good," Sayid walks out of a building with the number 815 on the door before he gets picked up for the suicide bombing mission
- Locke points out aisles 8 & 15 to his mother in "Deus ex Machina"
- There were statues of the Virgin Mary, whose Feast of Assumption is celebrated on August 15 (the fifteenth day of the eighth month), on the plane found by Boone and Locke in "Deus ex Machina"
- August 15 is also the date on which Kate and her friend Tom made their time capsule audio recording in 1989 (which was 15 years previous in 2004) in "Born to Run".
- In an interesting coincidence, unrelated to the numbers' meaning on the show, several of the male members of the cast appeared on the cover of the April 15, 2005 (4/15) issue of Entertainment Weekly, which happened to be issue number 815 of that magazine.
- Also, the numbers 8 and 4 feature prominently in Chinese characters on a shirt that Boone wore frequently; it was also the shirt he wore in Locke’s vision, and the shirt he was wearing at the time of his fall and death. Shannon is folding this shirt when Walt gives her custody of Vincent. [The number on the shirt reads, from top to bottom, "84".]
- The most prominent has been 815, which is a concatenation of two of the hatch numbers, 8 and 15.
- All the numbers feature prominently in Hurley's flashback during "Exodus: Parts 2 & 3". Hurley is at a hotel in Sydney in room 2342 on the morning of the flight. When Hurley is driving to the airport, he is shown to be going 42 kilometers, and the temperature is 23 degrees Celsius. When he gets a flat tire, he immediately slows to 16, then 15, then 8 and 4 before the display cuts out altogether. As he is running to his gate, he runs past a team of soccer players, wearing jerseys with the numbers in numerical order.
- It is important to note that the numbers could be significant to the overall storyline, or have some other purpose. One such purpose is an inside joke, similar to the use of A113 in many animated films. Another purpose is that the numbers are a writer's "trademark," as happens in another JJ Abrams series, Alias. This series has many references to the number 47, which continues a long tradition in television writing, begun with Star Trek.
The Survivors
- As far as we know, one dog and 50 humans survived the plane crash. To date, however, there have been a series of events that have changed the number of survivors, and, at present, there are 40 humans and one dog remaining, with a further three stranded in the ocean after their raft was destroyed, and one, Walt, abducted by four people at sea.
- Death: A man is sucked into a spinning jet engine in "Pilot"
- Count: Jack says "at least 48" to the co-pilot in "Pilot"; his count does not include the co-pilot
- Death: The co-pilot is killed by the creature roaming the island in "Pilot"
- Death: The US Marshal, Edward Mars is killed in a "mercy killing" at the end of "Tabula Rasa"
- Death: A woman named Joanna drowns at the beginning of "White Rabbit"
- Count: Jack says "There were 47 of us..." in the episode "White Rabbit"
- Count: Hurley says "... the names of everyone who survived, all 46 of us." at the end of "Raised by Another"
- Death: Scott Jackson is killed by Ethan Rom in "Homecoming"
- Death: Ethan Rom is killed by Charlie in "Homecoming" However, it has been confirmed by the show's creators that Ethan was not part of the "original 48".
- Birth: Claire’s baby, Aaron, is born in "Do No Harm".
- Death: Boone dies from various internal injuries in "Do No Harm".
- Leaving: In Exodus: Part 1, Walt, Michael, Sawyer and Jin leave on a raft.
- Death: Arzt in Exodus: Part 2 while trying to handle dynamite.
- All of the human survivors are adults except for Walt (Michael's son) and Claire’s baby. The one canine survivor is Vincent, Walt's dog.
- At least two other people were already on the island, alive, at the time of the crash. Both are introduced in "Solitary". First is Danielle Rousseau, the Frenchwoman responsible for the distress call heard in "Pilot". Second is Ethan Rom, who is first seen hunting with Locke as one of the survivors. However, in "Raised by Another", Hurley discovers that Ethan is not one of the survivors of the plane crash.
- In Exodus: Part 3, Walt is kidnapped by the crew of a mysterious ship while out at sea. His condition is unknown. Similarly, a gunshot is heard and Sawyer falls into the water. While in the episode it is unclear whether or not he was shot, and whether or not he survived, the producers have since said that he was shot, but will survive.. Although Michael is shown surviving the explosion, it is also unclear whether Jin survived the attack as their raft has been destroyed.
- Michelle Rodriguez, who played another passenger Jack became acquainted with shortly before the plane lifted off, has been added to the cast for season 2. After making a point of mentioning that she was seated in the tail section of the aircraft, this unofficially confirms that the tail section is intact and has yielded another group of survivors, presumably also including Rose’s husband Bernard. This also offers a possible explanation for the receiving end of Boone’s transmission.
Stephen King references
Damon Lindelof is a self-professed Stephen King fan, and many elements of the show reflect this, particularly the Dark Tower series.
- The Stand
- A group of survivors having to survive away from the trappings of modern society, as well as the division of the survivors into two "groups" (Jack/Las Vegas/Science&Tech VS Locke/Boulder/Faith&Spirituality, Locke makes this distinction to Jack by saying that Jack is a "man of science", whereas he (Locke) is a "man of faith")
- The character Charlie in Lost is a washed up musician with one hit song similar to the Larry Underwood character in The Stand. Larry is killed during the book's climax in Las Vegas when the Hand of God comes down and touches/detonates a nuclear bomb, brought back by one of the Las Vegas residents as a weapon to use against the Boulder survivors.
- The Dark Tower series
- Special numbers that seem to be tied into the very fabric of time and space. In the book's case, it was 19. In the series, they are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42.
- Lost and Wolves of the Calla both feature mysterious raiders, presumed to be highly dangerous, with a propensity toward stealing children.
- A feeling of fate and destiny guiding the characters along their paths to reach a certain point in time.
- A scene in which a character (Eddie Dean/Charlie Pace) on board an airplane runs into a bathroom with drugs to escape from an inquisitive flight attendant. In the books, this happened in The Drawing of the Three.
- A story arc in which Eddie Dean, after having been drawn into the alternate reality central to the Dark Tower books, must go through heroin withdrawal, a process described much like the one Charlie goes through in the episode "The Moth". His past involves an older brother, whom he thinks of as a 'great sage and eminent junkie,' and is partly responsible for Eddie’s heroin addiction, which is very similar to Charlie’s 'brother' Liam, the frontman of Drive Shaft (Charlie’s band).
- An exploration of the issue of antibiotics and their scarcity in a savage world
- A giant monster living on the edges of a forest, stalking the humans. In the book The Waste Lands, it turned out to be a giant cyborg bear.
- A child who, despite his young age, has special warrior-like abilities; Jake Chambers of New York, Walt of Lost.
- The Shining and Firestarter
- A young child with psychic powers who is constantly fought over.
- The Tommyknockers
- A buried object becomes a source of secrecy, obsession, and eventually possession for a group of people trying to dig it up.
- The Talisman and Black House
- The protagonist in the two novels is named Jack Sawyer. Jack and Sawyer are also the first names of two of the main male characters on the show.
- The Langoliers (from Four Past Midnight)
- A plane mysteriously arrives at an otherworldly locale, leaving the survivors to figure out what has happened and why.
Miscellaneous
- John Locke and Rousseau were both famous social contract philosophers who dealth with the relationship between Nature and Civilization. Locke believed that, in the state of nature, all men had equal right to punish transgressors; to ensure fair judgment for all, governments were formed to better administrate the laws. Rousseau, on the other hand, argued that man was born weak and ignorant--but virtuous. Only after man develops society does he become wicked. This is interesting, as it is paralleled by the characters on Lost: Locke embraces both nature and the need for organization among the survivors, while Rousseau prefers nature and appears to abhor joining the survivors in their village.
- The role of Hurley was created specifically for Jorge Garcia, who had originally auditioned for the role of Sawyer.
- The role of Sun was created specifically for Yoon-Jin Kim, who had originally auditioned for the role of Kate. Jin was also created as Sun's husband.
- Although they share the same last name, Yoon-Jin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim are in no way related.
- At one point, producers considered having Michael Keaton play Jack in the pilot episode, in which he would have been killed.
- Drive Shaft's hit song "You All, Everybody" took its name from an audience member's rant on The Maury Povich Show. Singer-songwriter Jude performed the version heard in "The Moth."
- The Drive Shaft song can also can be heard in the background during a party scene in the Alias episode "The Awful Truth." Furthermore, in "A Clean Conscience," when Sydney goes to the airport, there is an announcement for an "Oceanic Airlines" flight to Sydney. Because of the two references to Lost, many fans believe that the two shows may share a continuity. However, they may just be clever in-jokes by the shows' producers.
- Originally, Claire was to die in the first episode--but it was later decided that they needed to recast to have an actress play the character all the way through.
- When it was still planned for Jack to die at the end of the pilot episode, Kate was going to assume the role of the main character; evidence of Kate being "trained" as Jack's apprentice can be seen when she is sewing his wound, and when he teaches her to count to 5 to quell her fear (and she does).
- Even though parts of Shannon's backstory are shown through Boone’s eyes in Heart and Minds, Shannon is the only character during the first season to not have a flashback of her own until the finale; Walt, who also isn't given his own flashback episode, still managed to have a flashback from his point of view during Special.
- In the first season finale, on the raft, Sawyer sings some of Bob Marley’s "Redemption Song," which opens with the lyrics:
"Old pirates, yes they robbed I/Sold I to the merchant ships/minutes after they took I/From the bottomless pit." Soon afterwards, the raft was attacked, Walt was taken by "The Others," and Jack, Locke, Hurley, and Kate blow open the hatch on the island to reveal an extremely deep shaft (a seemingly "bottomless pit"). - The fantasy novel Howl's Moving Castle, later made into an anime feature, has a character named Turnip Head, which may have been the origin of the nickname Charlie gave to Claire's baby before she named him Aaron.
- The last image of the first season finale suggests the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, which often featured strange passageways leading down into the interior of the earth or into large, monolithic artifacts. The entrances and passages were often marked with cryptic symbols, similar to Hurley's numbers. However, the Lovecraft influence may come by way of Lovecrafttian Stephen King stories, such as the novel The Tommyknockers.
- Ethan Rom is an anagram of Other Man. Entering "Other Man" into the prebooking section of the Lost Oceanic Airlines website results in a short flash movie.
See also
External links
- Lost (2004-present) at IMDb
- Channel 4 (UK) Lost page Official Site for the UK broadcasts of Lost (starting August 10th 2005)
- The Lost Hungary Fan
- ABC’s Lost homepage; includes Flash game based on the show
- CTV’s Lost homepage
- The Fuselage, forum sponsored by J.J. Abrams and the show's creative team
- Oceanic Airlines mock site; contains many hidden easter eggs about characters on the show
- Preview site for Season 2; also links to ABC message forums about the show
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- Lost Video Island; Your one-stop site for fan-made videos related to ABC's hit television show LOST!
- Episode Reviews
- Television Without Pity (show recaps and discussion)
- DAH TV - Lost (episode and character information)
- Lost Links Everything ‘Lost’
- Lost-Media
- Radio-Canada’s Lost homepage
- Lost TV site
- UK Lost fansite
- Fan site
- Lost-Norge.net A norwegian fan site
- French Fan site A french fan site
- Lost ... stuff, Timelines, Numbers, Survivor Count, Survivor Connections
- Google Video index for Lost
- Driveshaft: Second Tour of Finland - website about character Charlie Pace’s band
- The Lost Notebook - a virtual notebook of artifacts and information
- The Lost Directory - a comprehensive links collection for the TV show Lost.
- LostHatch.com - complete database of all characters and character profiles (including supporting), relationships/connections, nicknames, numbers, quotes, songs, books and transcripts, all searchable.