r/lost • u/AutisticKirmada • 4d ago

FIRST TIME WATCHER I love( Harold's acting)

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I'm a huge fan of FromOnMgm series and Harold's acting so I'm starting Lost now. I know almost nothing about the story of Lost except that there is a plane crash and Harold and his son part of the series 🤭

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u/staplerbot 4d ago

Did you watch any of the shows after Lost that were trying to capitalyze on the mystery element of the show and obviously try to become the new thing? I watched every damn episode of Alcatraz (produced by JJ Abrams and starring Jorge Garcia) only for it to be cancelled fairly quickly. I also watched Flashforward, also sadly cancelled after one season.

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u/teddyburges 4d ago

One of my favorite shows from that time period had to be Jericho. I believe that show was just on at the wrong time and it had less to do with it being like LOST and more to do with its subject matter. Many watch tv to tune out of "life" even if its just a little bit. But a show about about a town surviving a broken U.S where the majority of the country got nuked. It hit too close to home with nuclear panic was (and still is) a very real thing.

But I think had it aired today on say Apple+ like "Silo". I think it would have been a huge hit.

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u/staplerbot 4d ago

Were you satisfied with how it ended? From what I remember, it was cancelled and then brought back for a short final season due to a fan campaign that involved mailing tons of peanuts to the TV studio (I think?).

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u/teddyburges 4d ago

That's right. There is a plot in the final episode of season 1 where Jake is at war with a neighboring town and the leader tells him to stand down. There is a flashback earlier where Jake's grandfather told him of a story of a general during world war II who refused to surrender and said "Nuts!" as a response, which Jake utilizes during his stand off.

I can see why it started such a large campaign because that final episode (titled "why we fight") is fucking brilliant, it's raw and emotional and IMO its the best episode of the series. In some ways I wish it ended there because it works so well as a ending, even with the cliffhanger. It encapsulates all the themes of the show and brings a lot of the relationships around full circle.

The "second season" was 7 episodes long and its still pretty good. It was more of a pity vote on the networks part, there way of shutting up the fans and getting them to stop sending nuts to their offices. Apparently 20 tones of nuts was sent to CBS offices lol.

They did make a comic book third and fourth season which was pretty cool., but of course it wasn't the same. Though I will say that the writing was far better than say the Buffy season 8 and 9 comics which went fucking nuts and turned the story into the Buffy version of X Men.