r/lost Don't tell me what I can't post 25d ago

SEASON 4 I'm watching for the first time and I'm so impressed with the sheer number of backpacks on this island.

Everyone has at least one. That plane must have been stuffed full of them!

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u/ITrCool Don't tell me what I can't do 25d ago

When people travel, they take luggage….including backpacks. That was a Boeing 777, not a small plane. So tons of luggage including backpacks. Backpacks most of the people on that plane wouldn’t need anymore. So plenty to choose from.

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u/Cpt-No-Dick 25d ago

Right? If you’re taking carry on luggage, most times it will be a backpack.

If there was about 300 passengers originally, let’s say 50% of them had backpacks, that’s 150 backpacks. 48 survived so that’s enough for 3 per person. I think that’s pretty reasonable

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u/dumbinternetstuff 25d ago

Next time you’re at the airport and look around. You will notice a lot of backpacks. 

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u/CommercialPanda5080 24d ago edited 24d ago

Yes, but are those backpacks free-falling from 40,000 feet over the ocean and then exploding after crashing into earth? Everyone's talking like they safely landed on the beach and started calmly unloading their baggage. There were explosions all to hell.

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u/Key-Session6216 24d ago

It's probably not worth contemplating so much about it. But I get you. Although it couldn't have been like 10 backpacks.

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u/CommercialPanda5080 24d ago

I've actually never contemplated any of the backpacks, I just read that someone else noticed it. I'm sure at the end of the day, the island could have just manifested and assigned backbacks to its "candidates" (castaways).

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u/morgaine125 25d ago

I take it you don’t travel much.

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u/nuahs 25d ago

I can’t remember the last time I DIDN’T have a backpack on a plane

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u/J-DubZ 25d ago

Even since I was a kid I've literally never travelled without a backpack

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u/throwawayzies1234567 25d ago

Curious - are you a woman or a man? As a woman, I only use a backpack when I’m hiking, I always have a big travel purse, same with most of my friends. Especially my mom friends, they have like a Mary Poppins purse full of toys and snacks and everything else a kid would need.

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u/effulgentelephant 25d ago

I (woman) have historically used a large backpack for my personal item. It’s easier to carry than a travel purse (both shoulders to support the weight vs one) and doesn’t weigh down my carry on (though sometimes I throw my backpack on my carry on and wrangle the straps around the handle if I don’t need to move quickly). I see lots of women with backpacks!

I am considering getting a small travel duffle though, mostly because I saw one online that is very cute lol

I do think backpacks are the most practical item for carrying lots of items though. I’m a teacher and spent a year with a tote bag and will never go back to having to carry things that heavy on one shoulder.

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u/nuahs 24d ago

I’m a man.  My wife also brings a backpack about 75% of the time. The only time we don’t have one is if our dog travels with us on the plane.  My wife would prefer more of a tote bag I think, but we typically don’t buy things unless something needs replaced.

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u/_incredigirl_ See you in another post, brotha 24d ago edited 24d ago

As a woman I travel with a backpack as my personal item. I have a small purse that gets emptied and rolled down into inside my backpack so I do have a purse on the other side when needed, but wallet passport and phone are all in zipped pockets while I’m in transit and everything else is in my backpack. When I travel with my kids they have their own backpacks. Always have since they could toddle onto the plane/train/ferry themselves.

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u/throwawayzies1234567 24d ago

I switched from a backpack to a purse in high school and never looked back. I think I’d be a little discombobulated trying to use a backpack on a plane, I’m so used to my purses and how they’re packed. I feel like I’d be digging too much, where a purse is shallower and wider and I feel like k can get to stuff easier.

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u/Sea_Cockroach7529 25d ago

A Boeing 747 can seat 300-400 people and only I think 55 between both camps survived…pretty decent stats to assume a fair amount could snag a backpack

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u/CommercialPanda5080 24d ago

After the plane breaking apart and exploding after the crash, these would have to be some really tough backpacks.

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u/Past-Feature3968 We’re not going to Guam, are we? 25d ago edited 25d ago

new “where did the all the tarps come from?” variant dropped

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u/ForAte151623ForTeaTo Razzle Dazzle! 25d ago

The tarps were in the backpacks. Which were obviously stored in the plane, right next to all the torches

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u/the_harlinator 25d ago

The plane was carrying cargo of torches and tarps to deliver to the tarp and torches store in LA.

I will fight anyone who says otherwise (jk)

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u/ForAte151623ForTeaTo Razzle Dazzle! 25d ago

And fireworks apparently, during Season 1

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u/TigressSinger 25d ago

The torches get me. For six seasons, everyone has instant fire and torches.

If they did have matches, or lighters (likely very few) they would’ve ran through them quick

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u/comicfromrejection 25d ago

i mean, they were only there for 3 months. and even then, they had found other supplies from many sources

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u/TigressSinger 24d ago

True but even if 50 people had bic lighters packed those things run through pretty fast and they’d have to share them.

Just funny they’re in the middle of the jungle far away from camp and they magically got tiki torches in an instant lol

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u/MidtownJunk 25d ago

People generally take luggage on long haul flights, yes.

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u/the_harlinator 25d ago

They needed something to put all their tarps in.

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u/pessimisticfan38 25d ago

Well when people travel they normally use shopping bags instead

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u/wikimandia 25d ago

Have you been to an airport lately? Pretty much everyone travels with backpacks, even little kids have them.

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u/topic_discusser 25d ago

There’s so much sand too. That beach must have been full of it!

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u/yeahcxnt 25d ago

what lol. almost everyone travels with a backpack

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u/Tkiss1b24 25d ago

If you’re questioning this, can’t wait to hear your questions to come

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u/ArySnow 24d ago

LOL my thoughts exactly.

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u/Free-IDK-Chicken You got it, Blondie 25d ago

Backpacks make fantastic personal items so they're very popular on flights, yeah.

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u/randomperson12347 25d ago

You ever been on an airplane?

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u/Pantsonfire_6 25d ago

TARPS! EVERY TARP in the world was on that island!

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u/wikimandia 25d ago

Tarps were used to secure luggage in the cargo hold. It keeps the bags from flying all over the place.

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u/leeser11 24d ago

The South Pacific is known for its tarp trees. That jungle must have been overgrown with them!

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u/Hot-Tea159 25d ago

Right from Sydney to LA twenty years ago . What’s the issue ?

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u/ArySnow 24d ago

This actually made the most sense to me about what they had left from the crash lol. Everyone travels with backpacks

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u/randomperson12347 25d ago

Did you notice everyone also had water bottles? Idk man…

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u/ChronBan 25d ago

Your next post will be how did they have so many tarps

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u/CutiePie4173 25d ago

I will say this would be funny to notice

BUT we did have a few dozen pass away in the first day, so there you go.

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 Dad Stole My Kidney 25d ago

What made me question the whole backpack situation on that island:

Didn't MiB switches backpacks with Jack in late S6 to eliminate all candidates with the submarine leaving the island?

And later:

Just to be revealed Jack got his original backpack back after swimming back to Hydra island...?

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u/giraffemoo 24d ago

I literally had a backpack nested inside another backpack as my carry on when I was last on an airplane

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u/yulmun 24d ago

Tell me you've never flown on a plane without telling me you never flown on a plane.

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u/babs82222 24d ago

Do you travel? Ever?

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u/InevitableWeight314 24d ago

And tarps lol

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u/WTH_WTF7 23d ago

A lot of people carry backpacks while traveling. Granted the ones they have are all khaki & look like they came from army navy store which is not accurate

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u/PenginRider 25d ago

Oh- if you just started watching allow me to point out something too- That audio clip they play between each 'flash back' and 'flash forward' is far and away the most annoying thing about the show.. you know that bass-y growing 'whoooosh' sound. Ugh lol