Lost - Some Hardcore Nerd Questions (Paley Center Interview)

[@DEE-305]

"They didn't answer any questions, it makes no sense" Most of these same people think they were dead all along from the start when actually they weren't​. I recently watched Lost after 14 years of it's release. And in my opinion it's a great series. I really had so much fun watching it. And they answered most of the questions, all most all important ones. Some people don't know that the questions they are asking are actually answered in the show, they just need to use their brains. And sometimes you don't need to answer everything, but leave them out for interpretation or let them remain as mysteries. They did leave a few questions unanswered but it's fine. It's just a Tv series.

[@Blood0cean]

First 2 seasons are stellar. 3 is pretty bad. Mostly cus Julie and her bad acting. 4 is above avg. 5 is eh. 6 is horrendous except for a few scenes like the mirror thing. Which is quickly made fucking uninteresting and useless cus jack has a temper tantrum. These guys didn't answer any questions except ones that had to be answered. A friend of mine ruined my expectation from season 2. He said he doesn't watch it cus they make the story up as they go along. Meaning they will fuck up cus they aren't smart enough to cover their multiple tracks they just throw out for drama. That said it's one of my fav shows that I'm rewatching. Albeit skipping all the nonsense, mostly flash backs and lame drama.

[@mattd9881]

@@Blood0cean You're reaching for the stars.

[@Wolfgame30]

They intentionally not answer some things because they want the fans of the show to keep debating and talk about it.. I mean its now 2020 and I still see forums where people discuss all the nuances of the show.. that is remarkable.

[@briankregg6329]

@@Blood0cean agree! season 2 got me hooked/obsessed up until the finale, I was stunned at how bad it was. Then season 3 episode 1, and I realized the show was gonna suck going forward and it did big time! Frozen donkey wheel, Adam and Eve revealed , smoke monster explanation , Locke being neutered , living in the 70's, the stupid temple, Jacob and man in black just appear even though they have been there the whole time , oceanic 6 storyline , season 6 is horrendous as well as its ending, and the island was....?

[@marsbars6869]

@@Wolfgame30 Or maybe they're just plotholes

[@Daemon1995_]

John locke would make a perfect Hitman

[@matthiasmoylan4815]

Epiphany he’s too nice but I’m sure he could

[@richardmcnee1255]

the bird called the final candidate

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

LOL)

[@OliverHenaineOficial]

Wow..

[@CosmicUndeadElf]

Anyone wondering about the Hurley Bird, watch the bonus episode "The New Man In Charge". It was a Dharma experiment.

[@matthiasmoylan4815]

CosmicUndeadElf exactly

[@matthiasmoylan4815]

A gift for the fans

[@fransta2165]

But.... it literally did not even adress that question. How was it answered.?

[@TheAudioCGMan]

I feel like "Dharma did it" is a bit overused

[@jamiealong]

I disagree that saying, "That's my interpretation of it" is some kind of cop out. In interviews, the writers have always encouraged fans to draw their own conclusions, and I think that's more of what he's getting at. He also said that the basis of that scene depended on if Ben was telling the truth or not, and given Ben's track record at that point...he probably wasn't.

[@davidberko9379]

a great show with a lot of Greek/Egyptian mythology, philosophical differences and a lot of deeper mysteries than we think, a lot of religious overtones as well as balancing stuff like time travel and sci-fi leanings, almost seems like too much for a tv show, but multiple watchings will satisfy you eventually on all the mysteries.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Yes, yes, yes! What a wonderful, beautiful comment!

[@Damon242]

This is at the beginning of season 6. What did you expect, for them to just spill the beans on everything?

[@Damon242]

I like to think that Libby in the mental hospital has ties to her husband's death. She did seem a little abnormal when she offered Desmond her late husband's ship. Thankfully, like a lot of the questions that weren't directly answered, it is of little significance in regards to the series as a whole. Apart from Walt, nothing else prevents the narrative from functioning cleanly.

[@KingdomHeartsMusicHQ]

Aww...looks like someone was disappointed by a few unanswered questions. Really? Everything important was explained.

[@hanburgundy4317]

Sure it was. Jesus was the reason and they meant it all along. *rolls eyes*

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Fuck you, stupid moron. There was nothing about Jesus, idiot. If you don't have brains to understand - your fucking problem.

[@Chickenwingdoctor]

Oh good, I'm so glad I watched them answer zero of the questions put to them! I feel so satisfied! :D

[@NostalgiNorden]

Did you really want them to spoil future episodes?

[@mattd9881]

@@NostalgiNorden What future episodes? The only episodes not filmed during the time of this interview were the last 3-4 episodes & none of those explained anything asked in this segment.

[@Damon242]

If you rewatch the series, there might be more to that episode than first thought. Could Hurley's "Dave" be Libby's deceased husband, "Dave"? And could the monster be taking the form of Hurley's Dave while on the island? Trying to convince Hurley to jump off of the cliff would certainly compliment the monster's intention to have all of the candidates killed, and would share similarities with when the monster as Christian led Jack off of a cliff in 'White Rabbit'. Interesting ideas to chew on...

[@Tehui1974]

A lot of Lost's mysteries should just be left to interpretation. They show had a few glitches, but it was still a damn good show. My only criticism would be that it could have been a bit more structured from the beginning.

[@nolanhenshall2655]

they never explained the hurley bird, and they definitely could have. i can come up with an explanation now: hurley got a pet bird when he enlisted in the dharma initiative in 1977, and it learned his name, and it encounters him again in 2004. simple.

[@Herbu21]

It was answered in the epilogue. It's an hybrid designed by the Dharla initiative

[@crowrebirth]

Often a guru will mislead his/her pupil so they can find their path on their own, just as Jacob wanted- to have them help themselves. I understand the difficulty westerners have with these eastern ideas.

[@hanburgundy4317]

Often a writer will make things up as they go, their entire premise being mystery; many times, the writer has no real answers to these mysteries and just wings it.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Hans Ollo Just shut up and try to become wiser.

[@MrAllintowin]

"If you play it backwards it says locke is dead."

[@Marylost12]

Yes, they're were some unanswered questions but for the overall picture, i understood it. As did many others, Im sorry that you couldn't see that.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Exactly!

[@styxman09]

They did. Season 6 epilogue

[@dangeradams58240]

4:22 HoW's AnNiE?!

[@alexparty2002]

She is good, Bob.

[@ntotheaomi1]

What didn't you understand? I didn't really get it but you had to stop thinking about the obvious, like you actually had to get into it. So by the end everything made sense to me.

[@zcsman7878]

Most questions are up for your interpretation

[@Damon242]

A network television series is generally burdened by having to produce longer seasons, have restrictions in terms of the content they can present, and are susceptible to market changes that either affect the show or the network it exists on. Network television is designed around having large numbers in order to attract advertising, whereas cable attracts subscriptions.

[@Damon242]

I would say that it's the issue with being on network television, as opposed to cable.

[@benadams1959]

I think that Jacob gave everybody their powers, like how he made Richard immortal.

[@najmfouad553]

How did he get any power and Jack and hurly wen they been the leaders nothing happens?

[@joyfulsoul2011]

+hurya syria right. The writers forgot that Jacob had a family off of the island and he was just a regular guy. Bottom line the writer just were clueless from start to finish and I watched it knowing I should have stopped at season 3.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Bottom lime is that you are stupid, Kay Sweetie

[@widehalk]

If you want answers to every little detail then the show seizes to be a mystery.

[@dordor147sback]

everything made sense, apart from walt.

[@Volvagia0slayer]

They explained the Hurley Bird in the epilogue.

[@styxman09]

you haven't seen the episode. It was on the season six dvd. It was an epilogue episode.

[@Damon242]

A cable series has shorter seasons (making it easier to control what happens, in regards to narrative), freedom of content, and the environment the shows exist in is less precarious. Quality-wise, it goes on record that shows existing on cable perform better than those on network television.

[@MaddocHarrison]

I’m surprised the bird isn’t saying 4 8 15 16 23 42

[@lastpme]

That was my frustration with Walt…they made him a key theme of show and didn’t close that loophole….

[@cath246]

Why does Charlotte speak Korean? That's what I wanna know

[@floydhuxtable3152]

She could speak a lot of languages other than English. Her first appearance was her in (I think Egypt) speaking a foreign language. All part of her quest to find the island.

[@matthiasmoylan4815]

She’s an cultural anthropologist

[@23igna]

Cause she's a freak

[@Damon242]

It's better after you rewatch it all. A lot of it nicely meshes together, but you can see where the writers had a little issue (the cabin is clear example of them coming up with a better idea). I'm sure that if LOST was on cable, with a smaller amount of episodes per season, instead of network television with initially 25-episode seasons, it would have been a lot easier for them to control the flow of information. Thankfully a lot of what is left to interpret has little significance, minus Walt

[@newmessage8558]

They haven't answered any damn questions !

[@Volvagia0slayer]

The answer to the question with all the jargon was a simple "no"... Not sure why no one thought they could give that answer.

[@TemeculaValleyLapse]

Jacob's lighthouse was weird...

[@adamjoseph6122]

Personally, I always thought the bird sounded almost like Walt's voice calling for Hurley.

[@styxman09]

It's an entire episode of lost you haven't seen, i ain't gonna ruin it for you.

[@sigalig]

i think if kurt vonnegut was on the writing staff for lost, this shit would have been explained a hell of a lot better.

[@fahmm001]

as much as i was facinated with walt, things happen for a reason, maybe thats just how it was meant to be, wether it be eko dying, or walt leaving, to be honest i have only found out recently that walt was taken out cause his actor aged fast, but i wouldnt his writing out felt naturally, unlike ekos

[@Marylost12]

I understood the show completely. You are just so simple-minded you didn't understood.

[@CosmicUndeadElf]

I don't expect them to explain everything, it's good to have a bit of mystery left. I just thought that there would be more answers (or at least more clues) than what was provided. Certain things were hinted at being more important to the story than they were (Like the cabin, the Egyptian statue, or the Hurley bird), so it that felt like a tease. Aside from that it is still a classic show with an over brilliant story behind it.

[@TheAudioCGMan]

I revive this 7yo comment. The statue is the egyptian goddess Taweret, responsible for "childbirth and fertility". Some Egyptians were on the island and also couldn't give birth, so they built the statue in the hope that the goddess is pleased and helps them. It's connected to the story to show that it's a very old problem.

[@ArcisBlade]

@polarbearhero And Jacob being who he was, and not wanting to step in, didn't do anything to stop the attacks on the candidates.

[@Tehui1974]

I still don't understand how the differences between network & cable affect the product of the TV show. Do you know?

[@ArcisBlade]

@polarbearhero Unfortunately, that can't be true. Even Richard didn't know about the Candidates, as is made very clear in season 6. I believe the lists that Jacob handed out where for the Others to take the people that weren't candidates so that they would be safe from the MIB. Now, the attacks on the beach group were initiated by Ben, only because he wanted Claire for experimentation on the baby (The Others didn't know that she was a candidate as well)... continue on to next

[@abiferreira3833]

Could someone translate this? PLEASE I speak português

[@Nflguy4949]

Speaking of birds...Rather then reveal in anyway why the Others took Walt or what made him so special the writers decided instead to flip the audience a big old bird.

[@HorizontalShuffle]

@jamiealong Exactly ive been telling people all along that Bens list, was not Jacobs list.

[@mazinais31]

i woulda asked if that email came from UK :D since that hurleybird libby in the mental hospital wasn't quite explained in the series... seemed almost like they intended that hurley made her up as well as his cliff jumping friend

[@bleunt]

The actors and writers should switch seats.

[@theclawyaww3740]

well well its looks that we have a troll

[@soonsims]

I think I have seen all the episodes. I finished watching LOST when it ended. i dont think I would be doing a re-run any time soon. So if you don't mind enlighten me about the bird.

[@thadailyifx]

Kind of strange when you don’t have the answers to questions on your own product

[@Mrs.Currie]

The writers for the x files said the same thing...they lost track of their own convoluted narrative.

[@Damon242]

Be careful to not phrase your opinion in such a way that it could be read as fact. Whether the ending of the series works or not depends on the individual, and the same goes for the last few seasons.

[@Damon242]

The more he talks during that though, the more he infers that Ben was just making it up.

[@soonsims]

they did not answer the bird :(

[@tsundoku6819]

Walt!!!!!!!!

[@soonsims]

yes i saw it. it was titled 06x00

[@justthebestgolfer]

@jamiealong I agree:) Basically the writers FUCKED UP the last few seasons of LOST especially the ending:(

[@Bak3dB3an]

2:14 is the one on the right, a giant?

[@soonsims]

I don't remember that. so what is it?

[@Marylost12]

They never explained the bird though Dx

[@Ahiru77]

Indeed, what IS up with Walt? It's a relevant question ripe for study.

[@CosmicUndeadElf]

Basically, he was special, that's what it comes down to. He was destined to become the guardian of the light and he had a spiritual connection to the island. There's not meant to be any rational explanation, it's the same reason Hurley could speak to the dead, or how Desmond could survive electromagnetic radiation or defy the rules of time travel.

[@hanburgundy4317]

lol "The things that weren't explained didn't need to be". Yeah, okay.

[@CosmicUndeadElf]

War Machine That's not quite I said, just that the writers didn't feel the need to explain it. I don't think they need to explain every little detail but I think they went too far the other way by not explaining enough. Walt's story makes a bit more sense if you watch the bonus episode 'The new man in charge'

[@hanburgundy4317]

CosmicUndeadElf But it's a cop-out; it wasn't the story they had in mind from the get go. Everything in season six was made up on the fly - they switched from a strictly sci-fi premise to fantasy and used the new story to try to tie everything together. Telling us "everything happened for a reason" when the only reason is that Jacob was looking for a successor is a cop-out; nothing has any real significance that way. I guarantee when they came up with the smoke monster it was just that: a smoke monster. It wasn't until they tried to find a reason for all of their BS that they came up with the two brothers.

[@CosmicUndeadElf]

War Machine How do you know this for a fact? Also this show saw a previously crippled man suddenly able to walk because the island fixed him. There was even a scene where Locke described the island as "magic" when talking to Jack. The story was a mix of sci fi and fantasy, and the writers said that they knew how it would end since the first series. That said, I agree that they could have explained some things more clearly. The average TV watching audience isn't going to take the time to analyse it all, so it's the writers own fault for all the negative feedback.

[@andrewhowden6198]

4:32, just imagine, that was actually part of a megaplan for the show's finale, and what you're watching is the moment they scrapped that whole plan because this guy was the first guy ever to ask a question about Annie... Idk Im stoned af man Idek if I heard half of that correctly, he said Annie right? Im just thinking about the little redhead girl, the one that sings all those songs, she sings all those songs about the corruption of power in the hierarchies that be! Songs about anti-establishment! Annie's anti-establishment, and so am I darn be it! Now I sound like Joe Biden... I'm 114 years old and I GOT HAIRY LEGS, I also served as the vice-president of the United States under the great, Abraham Lincoln, and let me tell you about my cousin's nephew's son, uh I mean he was a nephew to my cousin's son, uh no, shoot, what was it he was again darn it, anyway, I will be the first black president when you text the word UNITED, to the number 30330, no, 3030330, wait.... 3303330... oH *turns around for help, they write something down for him to read off a whiteboard, it takes him a few moments to decipher the writings on the whiteboard, it says LAUGH, so he laughs, about 20 seconds later*

[@ihaveacar]

Some live much longer

[@cath246]

These videos just prove to me that the writers had no idea what they were doing with the show or where they were going and for me, the ending just wasn't good enough

[@joyfulsoul2011]

+Cee Lay I agree with you completely girl! At first I was mad but now I'm starting to feel bad for them. The ending left me even more confused than I was before the show ended. I feel like the writer said let's just kill them all and call it a day.

[@hanburgundy4317]

lol My head canon is that there was no season six. At least season five sets up the time loop/paradox and brings the story full circle; it leaves the questions unanswered but it gives the impression that there are answers and we can figure them out if we try. Season six just threw all that out the window, changed from sci-fi to fantasy, had the gall to claim the questions were answered when none of them were, and was just a big stupid mess. I still love the show and tell everyone to watch up until the end of season five :P

[@oompie815]

Kay Sweetie They didn't die, you moron.

[@ChyeHeng17]

Yeah. The show was damn awesome because of these great actors and actresses who pulled them off despite bad planning by the writers

[@NostalgiNorden]

No it only proves that you are an idiot.

[@HorizontalShuffle]

@CosmicUndeadElf Like what? If you wanted everythin "Explained" CSI style Lost wasnt the show for you, However its a complete MYTH that the show didnt answer its questions, they gave more than enough info to answer every single question.

[@ChrisDSingh87]

good old Stoner B

[@09Chelsh]

ok, i was like a lost fan for the longest time. i literally even bought a "numbers" t-shirt off the internet lol, but seriously, there was so much things that didnt make sense in this show. which really sucks, because i was really into it. I was hoping to have so much more explained.

[@Rude666]

Thats fucking hilarious because the reality is the exact opposite. They didnt start planning ahead until AFTER season 1.

[@itsfriday9139]

He lied about the bird hurley thing

[@superj561]

+Mia Walker Nope, they explained it in the New Man In Charge video. You can find it here on youtube

[@kdizzle901]

Superj561 they didn’t explain that at all

[@OttoGrainer27]

The bird is over 26 years old?

[@hanburgundy4317]

African Grey Parrots live to be upwards of eighty, but this was just a case of the writers making something weird without reason.

[@TimThomason]

It was a hybrid bird. It's possible multiple hy-birds were created and were breeding.

[@stephanieharrigle6430]

They are all funny

[@whammo12]

They didn't answer any of the questions!

[@beyondthecamera333]

It didnt sound like Hurley, it says Hurley in the script!!! They dont have any answers

[@flexlinear7395]

somebody needs a nap....

[@AdmiralCarrotJelly]

0:50 spoiler

[@CosmicUndeadElf]

It annoys me when Damon gives us these vague explanations to the questions, he's like "That's my interpretation of it"... it's just another way of saying "I don't know." I mean I'm a big Lost fan, no doubt about it, it's an amazing, brilliant TV show and all... I'm just disappointed that they didn't bother to explain so many parts of the story, feels kind of like I was lead on...

[@AFatOcelot]

This made me like the show less. It’s frustrating to know that they actually had no fucking idea about anything. More fun to think they had all these secret answers

[@bobdonda]

When the show first aired a lot of people suspected they were just making stuff up with no plan to explain any of it, while they kept swearing they weren't doing that. Of course, years later they reveal they barely had any idea what they were doing with the story. They admitted that the Hurley Bird wasn't even intentional, it was just a sound effect that resembled Hurley's name. When fans started talking about it, the writers thought it would be funny to show the bird another time or two and have Hurley notice it. It never had any explanation. They had no idea what to do with Walt. They kept talking about how "special" he was, and it never went anywhere, then they just wrote him out of the show because he aged. Totally useless character. Only a few things were actually planned in season 1. The existence of a past scientific research team examining some kind of anomaly (Dharma), and the unusual animals (polar bear) were part of their experiments. And the fact that the island would turn out to be some kind of battleground between good and evil. They had no idea what the smoke monster was going to be. They had no idea who the two skeletons were going to end up being. They just made up tons of random stuff, and when possible they tried to make that stuff compatible with the story (like saying the Hurley bird was part of Dharma's animal experiments, or that the smoke monster turned out to be a person with evil powers).

[@MrElephantBeach]

@@bobdonda I don't understand what your complaint is. I'm sure if ABC said you're going to have six seasons and 118 episodes to tell your story they would have had some kind of clear plan, but that's not how network television works. They could have been canceled before the first season even finished, or after the second season, third season, etc. As it turns out they had to beg ABC to stop since if it was up to them it would have kept going until people stopped watching. How can you plan for an end when you don't even know when the end is coming? I don't blame them for focusing on actually making a show that people wanted to watch which they were massively successful at.

[@bobdonda]

@@MrElephantBeach The complaint is that they created mysteries with no clue how, when, or even if they would ever be able to resolve them. Other good shows didn't have this problem. Other shows found things for their characters to do without creating wild situations made for the purpose of shocking the viewer and making them wonder "wow that was crazy, how and why was that even possible?" The Lost writers didn't know when the end was coming, but that doesn't mean it isn't foolish to create a mystery without any idea or what the mystery actually is or any plans of how to explain it.

[@thorbadillo]

child please

[@Jabikz]

Stoner B

[@zammmerjammer]

These guys need to take an improv class. The show died due to a terrible case of "offeritis." After season 3 it was an endless string of "...and then," "...and then," "...and THEN."

[@ZombieLincoln666]

lol, no you don't

[@dordor147sback]

shoot at me, I can answer anything you want to know about the show.

[@hanburgundy4317]

Horace, the statue, the ash ring, the eyeball in the cabin, Locke losing his voice, the voice in the cabin, Walt, the banyan trees, the mechanical sounds of the smoke monster, how Ben summoned the smoke monster with water, why magnetic fields can stop it, the Hurley bird, Ben's "magic box", who shot at the boat, etc. There are dozens of unanswered questions. I'm about to rewatch the first five seasons and I'll come back with a lot more for you.

[@doglover363]

Locke looks so bored hahaha

[@hanburgundy4317]

Locke is laughing at the writers inability to answer any of the questions they came up with and is clearly angry at having been in a show like that.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Oh, you are so pathetic - to come to KZbin, to bitch about the show you supposedely hate. Shut the fuck up and ho get some life.

[@zcsman7878]

True, lol.

[@LifeisabitshitBlogspot]

Who's the gay bald guy

[@BlueSky-ls5qy]

your dad

[@21chch]

Umm don't bother watching this as they don't answer anything!!