I've always liked to think that the Man in Black needed to leave the Island after killing the candidates and destroying It cuz It'd be always trying to getting him back. We know that the candidates' will is like the Island's cuz of the connection between them and the Source, so, for example, Jack could create a rule that'd prevent the Monster from leaving or that'd get him back, it was a matter of time. So he needed them all dead to exterminate the rules and needed the Island destroyed cuz It'd probably be bringing new candidates that could do the same thing

24:30 technically wasn’t the first group the MIB was with growing up the original “others”? I swear I remember Mother referring to them as “the others” maybe it’s just semantics and connecting things based on nothing

i’ve been a fan since season 5 aired but only in the last couple years found the fandom and was genuinely so surprised by the amount of hate she got! she’s not my favourite character but the hate ppl have for her is so unfounded and so rooted in misogyny whether they realise or not 🥲 she’s such an interesting character and Lilly plays her so well, thank you for the deep dive !!

Absolutely love this show and thank you for all your videos that have only enhanced what was a truly magical watching experience of the series. I have a big question though - if man in black wasn't actually dead when Jack put the cork back in....would he have reverted back to his old self with smoke powers etc??? Is man in black still on the island?

Wow... what an edit! 👏👏👏

What would your top 3 episodes be if you had to choose?

Darkness isn’t a separate force. It’s the absence of light.

I really think the Dharma Initiative was the biggest let down of the show. I was really hoping for a secret society/cult type plot for the rest of the show. I enjoyed the time travel and magic stuff, but I think it could’ve been much better if it went elsewhere.

Libby Said she was a clinical psychologist, we don't know if that was actually true or not. We know only that she was under the care of clinical psychologists. She could have just been faking it. Then again we all know that half of all psych majors are just trying to figure out their own problems.

I just finish whatch the entire show and I don't remember this mother scene WTF. Did i skip this episode?

Imagine being stuck in limbo for millenia, solely to fulfill your purpose of aiding in causing a whispering sound to nudge a person into doing something...

Anyone flying sydney to LAX getting jitters they might crash on LOST island

Was Jesus a smoke monster? He died, and then his likeness was seen later,and you know, that boulder didn’t move itself.

I watched it all back in 2004-10; and again last Aug-Sep on Netflix. Generally, I absolutely love it, although some arcs and some characters are better than others. Ultimately, Lost has to go down as one of the most epic tv shows in history.

Question. If Widmore and Eloise understood time travel to the point that whatever happens, happened and the future cannot be changed. Why did they feel the need to get involved and make things go the way they should? Wouldn't they have thought that things will work themselves out.

Smokey definitely did it he can't risk if any of those Ajira passengers are candidates or will become candidates.

Wow your analysis is top notch. You're Very consistent at considering all angles when dissecting something. Amazing!

The Constant is not only the best episode of LOST, but the best single episode of any TV show period.

Why do you think Ben in season two said “God doesn’t know how long we’ve been here, John. He can’t see this island any better than the rest of the world.”?

After I watched the series for the second time, I understood the man in black. Dude just wanted to leave and explore

When Jack recorks the island and then uses physical touch to "start" it up again, he's not actually the protector tho. He passed that on to Hurley already before he went down. Maybe it doesn't matter? Maybe he still has the spark of a protector? Curious on your thoughts.

I'm still not buying that immortality is a curse even though reams of literature try to convince me otherwise. Smoke monster should have gone to therapy.

I know that I'm commenting on a year-old video, but I just wanted to say that I really love your channel. I love LOST, and this channel really keeps that interest alive. So, what you're saying is that the Island sits on a magical energy source that essentially 'powers' the universe itself. This source is located beneath the crust of the earth and emits strong electromagnetic radiation that radiates to certain places, including the Island? I don't understand completely what this all means. Is the Source electromagnetic, or does it emit electromagnetic radiation? And is this the only concentration of this energy in the universe? Are there spots like the Island on other planets? Or am I understanding this wrong, because it seems strange to me that this energy would be concentrated inside the Earth. Not trying to prove you wrong, just trying to understand.

Love this channel

شكرا جزيلا لك على هذا الشرح . وسأستمر في مشاهدة كل مقاطعك . ابق ضائعا . Thank you very much for this explanation. I will continue to watch all of your videos. stay lost. 🌼

The haters of the ending are the Jacks of the world. Takes some of us longer to let ourselves believe. For me, this show put all my inner questions and wonderings into such a brilliant format. I will never forget waking up an hour earlier than I needed to before school to binge as much as I could of the DVD’s me and my friends were sharing around and the way I sat and sobbed with a smile on my face at the ending. It perfectly showed the experience of finally letting yourself believe in something. After all of Jacks dismissing anything not based in science, he was healed by the realisation that we all matter. All of us.

Personally, I think the series will remain timeless and watchable for another two decades, although it's up to the new generation to judge that. I touched on older and new productions, but I can't compare any of them to Lost - is it the sentiment of those years or am I just a huge fan of this series? Waiting for the next episode and the conversations at school about what and how could happen was so wonderful that it gave me additional emotions. Each of the mentioned actors had to be this character and not another. The plot and the way it was presented was very appropriate. For me, the ending was contrived and the entire series did not deserve such an ending… To sum up, to this day I consider the LOST series to be my favorite and often recommended to those who have not had any contact with it. Right after it, after many years, I put the series Breaking Bad and its entire universe with Better Call Saul and El Camino - this is for analysis of my taste. Personally, I would like the story of Lost to come alive again and create something for long-time fans of this story, but I know that it will not be as hot as LOST at that time. I was counting on some interesting teasers for the 20th anniversary, but apart from a few materials, nothing else was created, so it probably won't happen again. We had to reheat the whole thing every few years, but believe me... it's not a microwave dish... every time it's a wonderful journey and one hell of an exciting adventure. I rarely comment, but in this case I allowed myself to vent so much that I wrote a slightly longer statement, which shows the power of the series or the island is calling me... ⛰️🛖🗿

Everytime we see walt's apparition, it was almost like he was trying to warn people. Part of his powers appeared to be sensing danger with precognition, hence he always seemed to show up before something important or bad was going to happen. I think he was trying to save Shannon, but her fate on the island was likely to die. Apparently Walt's character was intended to be able to communicate with animals through telepathy, maybe that's why he has such a good relationship with Vincent. His warning to Locke to not open the hatch could of simply been him forseeing his father murder Ana lucia & Libby which we know was part of the reason michael could not move on from the island from the guilt. Also playing backgammon, walt predicted double 6s, or he wished for it and it happened. We know Walt has some sort of electromagnetic ability from the birds dying and the knife throw. My guess is the light on the island especially the energy emitted from the swan station magnified Walt's powers on the island which helped him bi-locate, and we already know the light on the island can teleport people to different locations. I actually thought that Walt telling locke he had 'work to do', sounded like something MIB would say, because MIB would need Locke to still be alive to be able to time travel back in time to plant the seed of him being special to Richard for the loophole plot. (sidenote: would the island even let locke shoot himself? Jack couldn't blow himself up with dynamite). since Walt was mostly written off the show a lot of these questions around him are never fully answered and we are just left with the notion that walt is "special" with no clear explanation for these early plot mysteries. In regards to Dave, the showrunners def stated an intentional connection between imaginary Dave and Hurley's issues with his dad. I thought it was pretty clear Hurley off island suffered from mental illness & depression, and the Dave hallucination was a result of that illness. But coming to the island Hurley was mostly healed. I believe the writer for the lost encyclopedia stated on island Dave was MIB, whom scanned Hurley at some point to take advantage of that imaginary person from Hurely's past to make him jump off the cliff, even trying to convince him he never left Santa Rosa, a very MIB type of thing to do. Most importantly, I'd like to point out the significance of the Red flowers used throughout the show. They always seem to appear when smokie/MIB are around. In 'cost of living' When 'Yemi' talks to Eko we see the red flowers very clearly as Eko is kneeling. A scene when smokie attacks our losties in the jungle we see the red flowers, when smokie is randomly ripping trees in the jungle we see red flowers. In "Dave' we see Dave lead Hurley through a patch of those red flowers before jumping off the cliff. In my opinion, a very clear relationship to MIB. Even though Damon L. had mentioned that on island Dave was more a figment of Hurley's imagination, the showrunners have said many contradictory things over the course of the show.

Bravo!

Excellent

I found your channel on the 20th anniversary. I've been a fan since the original airing. I've seen this series several times and still learned a lot. Amazing work, thanks for sharing

“HEY THERE'S A RESCUE PLANE WE'RE SAVED YAY!”

Arst, got more play then Vincent the unknown variable.

I think, all things aside, its safe to say that a man like Keamy, who is more maniac than professional, is not the right dude to be sent to a place like THIS. Widmore knew the Island. He knew what mysteries wait there and what weird shit can happen there. He should have also known that he can not send anyone and expect good results. So to the weird Island stuff on top, comes a crazy, egoistic money driven killer. That works like a catalyst. To me, its almost like it was predetermined that he takes the freighter in the uprise, if the slightest thing doesnt go as he imagined.

This video doesn’t seem necessary at all, I realized it was the Others and not Walt the very first time I saw the scene where Michael and “Walt” communicate on the hatch computer. If you didn’t realize that wasn’t Walt, I’m just puzzled by your thought process

Something my wife realized when watching Catch-22 (on her first viewing). There is another inaccuracy with Desmond's flashes' about Charlie's death. The actions of Desmond in that episode make us to believe he needs Charlie to be shot by the arrow in order for him to find "Penny". Since Desmond kept reiterating everything must be exactly like his flashes. So the entire episode we are thinking "will Desmond allow Charlie to be shot?". But if Desmond did actually let Charlie get shot, the team would of had to abandon their trek on finding "Penny" to try and rescue Charlie or simply bring his dead body back to camp. I don't think Hurley and Jin would allow Desmond to continue on and leave a dead Charlie behind. So if Charlie died by the arrow, they never would have found Naomi. Or even if they did, they wouldn't have had the resources to try and save both. Just another example of how Desmond's flashes show him things that aren't necessarily "telling an accurate future". I think this is a great addition to the complexity of his flashes. It shows how good of a character he is. That even in the face of possibly ruining the search for "Penny". Desmond still decided to go against his flashes and save Charlie.

Hieroglyphs were used simultaneously with cuneiform for some time. If I'm not mistaken later Egypt. Cuneiform was more for daily use, and Hieroglyphs were more for decorative and ritualistic uses. So it could be the same people who wrote both. I don't why they would do the switch in the middle of a register, tho

a good prequel would be best would be about egiptians running to the island , maybe a pharaoh that had to run being overthrown by a brother and building a huge city on the island and fighting a new totally manifestation of the man in black . for example some lightings instead of smoke etc

Don’t understand the cork. Why does removing it end the world, if there was a point in time that it was never there. What stopped the collapse of the island before the cork. Why doesn’t removing it let the light shine bright as it did before.

Not sure if this has been covered already as I've only just discovered your channel and have subscribed due to now rewatching through Lost again at 43. John Locks very specific SCAR on his right eye. It appears very deliberate and wondered if this is purely just a wound from the crash or something more deep meaning? I mean he became the MIB so wondered if this was written in to be a way of relating him to being bad? Thanks 😊

Would you say the characters that drove the story are Jack and John?

Hi, one of my friends is watching Lost for the first time and he is theorizing about the ? written on the wall, do you know if by any chance somebody ever translated the whole wall?

So in a way the island is God. That's pretty cool. It also reminds me of the old Jewish belief that we always existed and that our souls came from heaven and when we die we go back to heaven. As a man of God myself I am actually terrified of the thought of an afterlife even if it's supposed to be a good and happy one

I just finished Lost and have just been binging your channel. Please carry on because they are great. I feel now I want to make my own Lost fan fic sequel

They should have got Willem Dafoe to play the Marshall lol

I just realised the man in black in theory could turn into a dinosaur like Hurley said 😂 as if he can only turn into dead things then he might be able to become a dinosaur

They went to the next stage of consciousness. It would make no sense for them to keep experiencing reincarnation. They most likely completed the alchemical process and have escaped the second death. So samsara would be punishment in my eyes.

I honestly thought John was gonna be some creepy pervert, because of the orange smile and how he loved talking and telling secrets to Walt. Thankfully that didn’t happen

I watched all of lost over the past 2 months and it feels like 10 years ago that I watched episode 1. This show really changes and develops

How are so many of these actors getting DUIs