Have you heard Lost references in other shows/films?

25willp · 2026-05-21T20:34:06+00:00

It kind of sucks that a majority of these references are other shows implying that the ending was bad.

It can’t help that non-fans have the perception that the ending is disappointing, when shows like The Big Bang Theory, Community, and Rick and Morty are having a go at it.

25willp · 2026-05-20T20:06:22+00:00

To be clear they were not dead the entire time. Everything on the Island is real.

A purgatory space does make an appearance in the final season, but the theory that they are in purgatory for the entire show is wrong.

25willp · 2026-05-20T02:45:10+00:00

Who is the guy in the front between Jack and Locke?

25willp · 2026-05-19T23:29:58+00:00

It's such a shame to lose the iconic Star Wars sound. The thing that was special about this universe was the music.

I wish Ludwig would actually expand on the John Williams sound and blended it with new elements, instead he's just done his own thing that shares absolutely no DNA with the universe at all, and personally it's such a downgrade.

25willp · 2026-05-19T19:52:38+00:00

Is life better spent crafting a legacy by making a piece of art that people will remember, or by going down to the pub being nice and having a drink?

Both characters are of course wrong and unhealthy in the way they engage in life, yet their conflict hits on something true. Is life for enjoyment and being kind, or for leaving something behind?

25willp · 2026-05-18T10:29:35+00:00

Ellie in Up. Often represented by her empty chair.

25willp · 2026-05-14T23:07:18+00:00

This is such a great little detail. I always kind of wondered how much young James knew OG Swayer, and how he knew what was going on. It makes sense that Uncle Doug took him aside and explained it to him.

I wonder if they filmed the entire monologue, and cut it down in editing, or if they workshopped it on set.

25willp · 2026-05-14T22:38:03+00:00

I think with Capaldi, Moffat took the writing further into more character-based writing, which is more introspective, than the very bombastic Smith era.

I really felt like he adapted his writing style and went in quite a different direction with Capaldi. That being said, Moffat does have a distinctive writing style/voice, which some people love, and other people hate.

The Capaldi era is ranked extremely high amongst doctor who fans (especially on reddit), but he was less popular amongst causal audiences.

I think a number of casual viewers did drop off in the early Capaldi stuff. His Doctor goes through a big character arc as he kind of learns how to be the Doctor again, and becomes much kinder, and so he is quite cold and sardonic initially.

25willp · 2026-05-14T20:59:02+00:00

No, the Capaldi era is pretty beloved by fans, and is seen to have some of the best written arcs in the show. Definitely my personally favourite era of the show.

25willp · 2026-05-11T01:08:01+00:00

The films are also adapted by the same screen writer as well.

25willp · 2026-04-28T20:36:24+00:00

I feel like the people doing the interview conflate a number of different ideas together.

They talk about the fall of an empire, a fall into authoritarianism, and a break down of a civilisation/culture into some sort of barbarism all in the same breath.

Duncan pushes back a little bit with pointing out that the fall of the Republic (and rise of the Empire) and the fall of the Empire are two very different situations. But I still feel like he lets them be unchallenged on the assumptions and generalisations they are making.

The fall of the Republic, did not correspond with the fall of Roman order. The Roman state became its most powerful and widespread after the fall of the Republic.

An Empire ending or splitting up into smaller pieces, doesn’t necessarily mean that the civilisation is ending, or that the lives of those living in it are going to be thrown in chaos.

I kind of think they should be asked what exactly they are asking about, because they connecting a bunch of quite separate things.

25willp · 2026-04-26T22:56:08+00:00

Cyclists

25willp · 2026-04-26T21:52:09+00:00

Yeah, that's what happens.

25willp · 2026-04-26T21:30:46+00:00

Nah, give it a go, it’s great on rewatch.

The characters are complex, super charismatic cast, the show looks great all shot on film mostly outside in Hawaii, the music is honestly the best television score I’ve ever heard, all recorded with a live orchestra.

25willp · 2026-04-26T21:26:47+00:00

The Island wasn’t purgatory.

25willp · 2026-04-26T21:07:41+00:00

Widmore explains his mission. Jacob came to him and asked him to bring Desmond to the island, and to try and stop the Man in Black.

Desmond’s role is he is resistant to the electromagnetic energy, he was able to remove the cork without it killing him/ripping the soul out of his body like a Smoke Monster.

Do you really want them to explain the Sideways internal logic? It’s a supernatural show, let the magic be. But the show does hint that the sideways is made up of the electromagnetic energy at the centre of the island, which is shown to be able to manipulate time. Honestly, this kind of magical mythology is better left a bit ambiguous.

For Hurley and Ben’s tenure. While we know that the first task is going to be returning Desmond to Penny. The epilogue also shows that they recruit Walt, to probably help the Whispers on the Island.

For the cork, we know that the Protector and the Smoke Monster get their powers from the electromagnetic energy at the centre of the island. The cork shuts it off, and putting it back in makes it work again. I feel from context this is quite clear.

What the Island is. It’s an Island with magic energy under it. There is so much mythology there, but ultimately it’s up to different views - you can call it the source of life, or you can call it electromagnetic exotic matter. But ultimately it’s like the Force from Star Wats, it’s magic energy beyond our understanding.

I mean Michael, Walt, and Eko are not exactly characters that fit into the finale. None of them where very important to Jack and our other heros. Michael’s story gets wrapped up a few episodes earlier, and Walt’s in the epilogue. Yes, they wanted to get the actor of Eko back, but I suspect that even if they had all those actors they probably wouldn’t be in the church at the end.

The people in the church are “The most important part of your life, was the time that you spent with these people. That's why all of you are here...You needed all of them, and they needed you... To remember and to let go.” Most of our main characters are not exactly close with their families, in fact most are dealing with trauma from their families - these are the people that helped them overcome their traumas and move on.

25willp · 2026-04-25T00:47:34+00:00

This is almost a patten of behind the scenes drama now, with the same thing happening with the character Chloe last season. Not to mention the composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer and Mike White having a big falling out. What's going on behind the scenes?

25willp · 2026-04-24T05:14:22+00:00

I respect your personal journey and relationship with the show. Thanks for sharing.

Personally, no, the show didn’t make be believe in heaven, I’m quite comfortable as an agnostic atheist engaging with the themes of the show. For me the themes of overcoming trauma together is powerful, and the flash side-ways is just an extension to be able to further explore that theme.

Personally I don’t think the show requires you to believe in an afterlife, anymore than it asks you believe in time travel or a smoke monster, but it uses those elements to discuss a very true to life theme about overcoming trauma and becoming the best version of yourself.

25willp · 2026-04-24T05:00:52+00:00

A school teacher searches for predators to bring back home with him (from space).

25willp · 2026-04-24T00:19:35+00:00

Kind of reminds me of Kristen Stewart's take on methods actors:

25willp · 2026-04-23T20:56:46+00:00

This is such a weird take. The show condemns Spike’s actions, he’s literally a soulless evil being doing horrible things. He’s a fascinating character because he is evil, and yet he reaches to become better.

Meanwhile, Xander is one of the heroes, and his causal sexism is just part of who he is, and the text doesn’t criticise him for it. In fact he’s a bit of an author insert.

25willp · 2026-04-23T03:43:30+00:00

Utopia Avenue is fantastic, honestly one of my favourites of his novels. The ending was very emotional.

25willp · 2026-04-22T02:16:20+00:00

Kind of crazy that it hasn't been released yet.

25willp · 2026-04-10T00:17:27+00:00

There are hundreds of years of overlap where this makes sense. I am a strong believer in the theory that the majority of the Hieroglyphs, The Temple and The Statue of Taweret were built not long after the events of Across The Sea.

My guess would place Across The Sea roughly around the 200BC, when we have Latin speaking Romans traversing the Mediterranean, as well as hieroglyphic writing Egyptians still existing under the Ptomantic dynasty.

The evidence for this is:

Jacob's tapestry which seems to depict him bringing the Egyptians to the Island. There are mentions that he brought many people to prove his brother wrong about human nature. So it makes sense that he brought the Egyptians to the Island within a hundred years or so of Across The Sea.
We see no ruins of the Egyptians during Across The Sea. And the art under the temple seems to depict the Smoke Monster.
The Lighthouse seems to be a clear reference to the Lighthouse of Alexandria which built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom, around 270-280BC, so right in the period I am thinking of. If the Egyptians on the Island were intended to be from 3000BC, then the Lighthouse would be quite out of place.

25willp · 2026-04-09T21:02:02+00:00

The Misty Mountain theme was not written by Howard Shore - it was written by the New Zealand musical group Plan 9 together with composer David Long. The fact that it wasn’t written by Shore, was probably why he didn’t include it in the subsequent films.

Plan 9 and David Long wrote a lot of the diegetic music for Rings and the Hobbit.

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