LOST Ending Explained - What the Church ACTUALLY Means

[@DestroIABM]

When Kate said: I've waited so long for you. It was because she made it off the island and lived an entire life without Jack. She waited decades to live and die to see him again. It was probably my favorite part of the finale.

[@deeobrien5417]

It was so lovely. The love those two had for each other was gorgeous, I remember thinking how unbelievable the chemistry was between those two actors form the very first episode on so to hear her say that and the way she said it was just lovely 🤍

[@nathanhawee5373]

Ya I assume why it took then all different times to remember eachother was because they couldn't remember untill they died. Hugo might have been there on the island for decades before he died, Jacob did it for hundreds of yrs maybe longer

[@Luke_wait_for_it_marengo]

Heartbreakingly beautiful

[@patrickparham6241]

An entire life story told in one line. It was too much to absorb in real time watching it. That’s how good the writers were.

[@MMAFightMagazine]

​@deeobrien5417 LOL I guess it's impressive that the writers were so easily able to con viewers into thinking Kate "waited" and had feelings for Jack despite the majority of the show proving otherwise. But, Sawyer wasn't an option, and we couldn't have Kate and Jack go alone, so....

[@Cookie12670]

I know a lot were disappointed but I’m not ashamed to say I cried at the end. I thought it was a beautiful and hopeful ending. Some of reunions really made me sob.

[@iunderstanphotography2780]

I don't know why I was so invested in this show, When the dog laid next to Jack I teared up as well

[@rainesbobo]

I cried for days after it ended and I cry every time I rewatch it.

[@MrRawkusbacca]

same here. The ending made me cry. it still does

[@notoriousbmc1]

I want to like this comment, but it's at 108 likes

[@bosssho3096]

How could you not cry ;-)

[@PAPAjv33]

I spent the better part of 15 years being pissed off at this series and it’s ending. The last few weeks I decided to rewatch it and finally finished it tonight. INCREDIBLY different perspective the second time around!! I think there has to be significant consideration made for the old “week to week” version of shows versus modern binge watching. So much of the detail in this show got lost (pun intended), overlooked, and/or forgotten week to week, season to season. When you can watch separate episodes in a shorter time frame, those details stay fresh on your mind and give the narrative much more color. If you loved Lost when it was on the air but hated the ending…I highly encourage you to rewatch it!

[@joyb.5090]

I do think that the 1 episode per week format was great if you were super into the show, rewatching each episode, chatting on message boards and listening to the podcasts. It gave you time to process what was going on and catch things you missed when you watched it the first time. I can see how if you were a casual watcher of the show every week that it would be super easy to have missed a lot, or as you say forgot things from week to week. I was in the super obsessed category, lol. So when the finale came I was like, "I can't believe people didn't GET THAT!!"

[@irenemyravyeva3148]

You're absolutely right! I' m rewatching the series at the moment and only now I can see the entire thing rather clearly😊😊😊😊

[@alviltayco3713]

Time will give you greater perspective.

[@Kuroro5]

You are right I’m re watching it

[@KoolKeithProductions]

@@irenemyravyeva3148 I ALWAYS knew the show was great, but the inconsistent schedule it was on during it's original airing really did hurt it. Ppl wanted answers, so when it shows a new ep, then takes 3 or 4 weeks off before the next new ep, ppl get disappointed when that new ep doesn't justify the month long wait. But by streaming it if you want answers just move on to the next dang ep already lol

[@jessejorgensen3931]

I always saw the sideways as a waiting room until presumably Hurley died so they could all move on together. They all died at different times.

[@nathanhawee5373]

That's what I thought but didn't hurly help round them all up. So if he died possibly hundreds of yrs later he would have been the last to show up instead of jack. But some of the last season left me with questions. Like Claire and Aaron if Aaron didn't die why was he there(unless just to remind Charlie. Like what about Ben to? He said he was going to stay.

[@gowsa2233]

Yeah but time is fickle. They were all dead all along as well as alive well along

[@davidsoria9717]

⁠​⁠@@nathanhawee5373One of the best theories I've heard is that everyone in this show's version of purgatory perceives the people they love as how they remembered them in life. For instance, Jack never got to see baby Aaron grow up, so it makes sense that he would perceive him as a baby when he meets his soulmates in that church. Everyone on the island has their own perceptions and versions of this church moment, but we get to experience Jack's because we actually see him die. Same with Charlie. In theory though, after Clare dies, she probably would've seen all her island soulmates as well as a grown up Aaron, but that's pure speculation and left up to us. It's one of the reasons I love the ending - it leaves just enough room for interpretation while giving us closure at the same time.

[@DavidBourne-bu3xh]

That's pretty much that the 'father' said, not much left to interpretation.

[@davidsoria9717]

@@DavidBourne-bu3xh I'm referring to what/who the other survivors might have seen after they died or what their version of the church would've been. There are lots of clues to give us answers but they also left just enough breadcrumbs for us to use our imaginations.

[@eseguerito2629]

Lost is so missunderstood. It holds a soft spot in my heart.

[@nathanhawee5373]

I will never find a better show to watch than lost...

[@cgerdsxvi]

I use jacks five second rule almost every day cuz of this show

[@nadeeshadissanayaka2015]

@@cgerdsxvi I can't remember it

[@Yk3d05bm]

Agreed same gere

[@zaab-yaoh9302]

It’s misunderstood cause even the show runners admitted they didn’t know what to do for the last two seasons, they kinda just made stuff up as they went along.

[@yarostarak5977]

The line when Jack's father says you built this place to help you all 'remember' is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I've come across in media, because it teaches through our current version of storytelling what many spiritual books and teachers have talked about since we first asked the question 'why are we here?'. Every spiritual teaching I've come across in some way talks about the purpose of life being to remember who or what you really are. If we are to believe we are all spirit having a human experience, which at birth requires us to 'forget' who are so we can truly live the experience of being human, that to me is the best explanation for existence I've come across. Lost ultimately left us with this message. They all came together, lived, loved, lost, fully experienced physical existence, eventually all died at different times and places, then moved on, remembering what they really are. This moment of remembering at death must be truly incredible. To finally know what you might feel or intuit in life, that stories like Lost allude to, would be the most wonderful experience of them all. I for one like to look at death this way, it makes it seem like an amazing transition and expansion of awareness.

[@philmccrakin9782]

Brilliantly said.

[@Rorobins]

Yes, brilliant!

[@SireeeMusic]

As someone who just finished watching the series for the first time a couple months ago it's awesome to see it's still relevant today.

[@deadpatronus]

Lost is love

[@jamestolbert1856]

It’s so beautiful

[@TrollMagic1987]

I love this TV series so much. I've seen it 9 times already (and yes, all episodes, without fastforwarding anything, on any watch of those 9 times). Each time, I see different details, appreciate it/love it even more. It is by far my favorite TV series (with Breaking Bad).

[@bernblm]

Just finished watching today

[@shannon-nw4gq]

Welcome ❤😂😊

[@dyva9]

I didn't understand why so many people hated the ending to Lost. I thought it was one of the most beautiful series endings. I rewatch every so often.

[@SemaKr]

Couldn’t agree more

[@Senegal604]

Same

[@Aldragon]

I don’t know if it was really the ending directly itself (maybe it was, I didn’t really pay attention to mass critique), but I know a lot of people did not like how the show changed drastically after season 3 into this mass time travel and sci-fi mess that kind of went through and explained everything in convoluted ways that could have just been left as mystery. But it’s true that if you just focus on the characters, which was the point all along, it’s a great show all the way through.

[@BH0t8498]

I hated the ending because the whole series the writers kept insisting it was not purgatory. I get that everything up to the church technically wasn’t, but in the end it all really was. I felt let down. And too many things that were too far out there and not go explained. Dinosaurs, smoke monster

[@Austlnf]

@@BH0t8498 And it still hasn't been confirmed by the writers that it is, so it isn't.

[@heavyspoilers]

You did it, the summofffabich actually did it!!!!

[@OceanAir815]

Need the heavy spoilers coverage on this =) (or any other LOST content)

[@awesomtim]

Are you quoting the Jurassic Park? Or, the Independence Day?

[@timothylangston3560]

Lol. Definition better come through with that Heavy Spoilers.

[@dominicbroome9381]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@__mads__]

We have to go back! Again!

[@BGRETT-311]

"If we can't live together, we're doing to die alone." -Jack, season 1 "I won't let you die alone." -Vincent, season 6

[@gayplamondon2665]

Nice

[@soliniv1411]

I wonder what the heck was vincent eating during all his stay in the island

[@renegademuse]

Vincent was such a chubster.

[@brookpederson738]

jacks arc was just amazing. His Death always brings me to tears, but more tears of happiness as he completed his purpose.

[@zdoggizzle]

I hated Jack so much, I couldn’t stand him in any season except for s6.

[@kateashby3066]

That’s what I love about all of the characters! They ALL completed their purpose. Shannon learned to be selfless and open her heart, Jin and Sun sacrificed theirselves for each other, James finally fell in love with a woman who would guard his heart and provide a sense of normalcy and safety, Jack humbled himself and leaned into faith and hope and away from logic, and even Ben humbled himself to realize he needed more time to reach his potential.

[@dn30001]

They did Michael's arc dirty. He should've been in that church

[@waterpixi]

@@dn30001ive read he wasnt on good terms with the producers so they didnt make him re appear in the show

[@OhHeyTrevorFlowers]

Oh, dang. This is the video that I didn't know I needed. My feeling of closure is immense!

[@Austlnf]

Still not confirmed by any writer of the show.

[@dawnowar2]

I was soo deep in this show and i still get mad when people say they were dead the whole time. 😅

[@docmychedelic9153]

I never thought that, but the shot of the plane from the pilot in the credits probably confused a lot of people.

[@Rdrewd2-og]

Media literacy is hard.

[@nathanhawee5373]

I think I because one guy faked all their deaths. The big give away they wernt all dead from the start is Walt wasn't there. But it was wierd that Aaron was tho. Shouldn't have Clare showed up not prego unless he died to

[@gowsa2233]

But they were dead the whole time. As well as alive the whole time. Time is a fickle bitch

[@nathanhawee5373]

@gowsa2233 no they werent...

[@dwayneadamsworld]

This show inspired me to write my first novel. Took me a few years but it's finally done.

[@chrisforson3501]

Drop a link I’ll buy it

[@justfacts1673]

Yes please link I will support

[@justthejuan5146]

Well?!? What's the name of the book?

[@DANiCL4WS]

i wanna read it

[@Thesirissacbnutting]

Hmm, how you uh, ... how you coming on that novel, ... you're working on? Huh? Got a big uh, big stack of papers there? Got a-got a-got a nice little-nice little story, you're working on there, big-big-big, uh novel ... you've been working on for three years? Huh? Got a ... got a compelling protagonist? Huh? Got a ... got a ... obstacle for him to overcome? Huh? ... Little story, brewing there, working on, working on that for quite some time huh? ... Yeah, talking about that, three years ago, ... Yeah, been working on that the whole time? Nice little uh, narrative. Beginning, middle, and end? Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? Yeah? At the end, your uh, main character is uh, richer for the experience? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, you got uh-No, no, you, you deserve some time off.

[@ilovegodzilla]

Just when I thought I was out....Lost pulls me back in.

[@HypocritesExposd]

You’re stuck in the Lost time loop, too!

[@Mattinalf]

"WE'VE GOT TO GO BACK!"

[@taimbreaksmasoul6563]

The Island isn´t done with you yet.

[@charleswidmore5458]

@@HypocritesExposd we all are

[@gibby525]

The Light and the Sideways created from it are the 'Magic Box.' The series finale opens on an on-the-nose montage of a box, which calls back to the 'magic box that gives you whatever you want' that Ben talked about, as well as the mystery box concept of the show that allows everyone to make the show mean whatever they want it to. The island is underwater in the sideways because Jack regrets dying, instead of letting the island sink like Kate advised him to do before they said goodbye for the last time. Each character's sideways storyline is defined by what they wanted when they died. Sideways Eloise says to sideways Desmond 'you got what you always wanted, my husband's approval,' the price of which is not having a memory of Penny, and Desmond is placed inside a giant box before being blasted to the sideways by energy meant to replicate the Island/Light. The Monster was the first mystery box, and the Hatch was the second. The Monster was created from the Light, as a 'security system' or

[@FBBvivaj]

Just recently finished Lost for the millionth time, so very happy to see you guys covering! Absolutely my most beloved show and will always recommend everyone give it a chance. It took me the second and even third rewatch to fully appreciate the ending.

[@robertw31968]

I can't believe y'all are doing this right now. I'm on my yearly rewatch of LOST. It's one of my favorite all time series. I rewatch it at least once a year, sometimes more lol.

[@brandonmunsen6035]

How do you have that much free time...

[@troubleondemand7703]

@@brandonmunsen6035 Making time for the things you love in life is the key to happiness.

[@robertw31968]

​@@troubleondemand7703 amen!! If you love something you will make time.

[@robertw31968]

​@@brandonmunsen6035I will watch a hour or 2 everyday after work. There is nothing on tv right now that I care about. I enjoy LOST so I watch it.

[@alankerrr]

Thank you for this Ryan. Its a hard life being a die hard Lost fan and having to put up with 14 years of people saying the ending is bad because they flat out didn't pay attention and didn't understand it. The ending, like the whole show, is great.

[@gowsa2233]

@@alankerrr do you think the ending could have been done better though?

[@alankerrr]

@@gowsa2233 certain characters last season arcs could have been a lot better (Sayid, Sun, Jin) and a lot of the Temple stuff is kind of meh, but the eventual reasons for all of the losties being brought to the island is really good, and I think everything in the Flash Sideways is excellent. Especially on a rewatch.

[@jplonsdale7242]

Well even powerful, successful and genius producers , writers and show creators say if a show has a garbage ending they say they pulled a lost

[@alankerrr]

@@jplonsdale7242 no they don't. If anything nowadays they'd say they pulled a Game Of Thrones, but they probably don't say that either since you just made that up.

[@DANiCL4WS]

do you watch 'From'

[@kellyzahara9561]

Must leave a comment on the music in the series. At a time when most shows were incorporating popular songs into their shows, Lost had the most amazing score. Michael Giacchino was the Ramin Djwadi of the early 2000's.

[@frankspencer1557]

Giacchino's 'moving on' theme always makes me well up when I hear It.

[@kellyzahara9561]

@@frankspencer1557 right????? ugh

[@Greatblue56]

And the sound design as a whole. I can still hear some of the effects. Really opened a whole new avenue for later sound design in movies, tv, and games.

[@LoriGraceAz]

I tear up just thinking about some of the music pieces.

[@kellyzahara9561]

@@LoriGraceAz me toooo!!

[@thetruebatman4632]

Spoke right to my 90’s kid heart Ryan. Best show I ever watched.

[@mikequantum9835]

The only show that makes me emotional every time I remember it.

[@BarbaraAsquith]

Same I watched this show from start to finish at age 15 in a 2006 GTO. Alot of trips to Miami and back I fell in love that's the only good thing mh ex did for me. Haha

[@Rorobins]

Same! In all the years since, it remains the best show ever. I loved my life scheduled around the show.

[@robertbaldwin5636]

To me, as a life long LOST apologist and lover, I humbly submit, that the line of the show.....the theme of the show, really comes down to the line. " if we can't live together....then we will die alone" from S1 EP5 (the White Rabbit) which quite frankly speaking, is a sentiment we could use right now.

[@ScreenCrush]

You said it!

[@MaraJadeSkky]

Wow, that ended up being way deeper than I expected.

[@BusketRVA]

Ryan I need to thank you for making this video. You had me thinking about LOST again, when it was mentioned in the recent ACOLYTE you made, and how that show affected my life and my friends lives and is pretty much responsible for my kids existing. I had a group of 20 to 30 friends who would get together weekly for each new episode of LOST and we did this for 4 years. Anyway I personally really liked the ending of the show even if half the people in my group didn't. They mostly wanted answers to everything and I would always say that it is the journey not the destination that matters and that any answers they got probably wouldn't be as good as they answers we came up with together in our heads. The producers even released that deleted scene with Hurly, Mike, and Walt visiting the Dharma station in the real world saying something similar about getting answers. I really hope everyone who had a problem with LOSTs ending watches your video cause it will definitely help them understand better.

[@troubleondemand7703]

Never smashed the thumbs up so fast! Best network TV show of all time. It changed the game and so many shows were later inspired by it. Happy to see it start getting the recognition it deserves. There's a 20th anniversary documentary on the way too!

[@gibby525]

The Light and the Sideways created from it are the 'Magic Box.' The series finale opens on an on-the-nose montage of a box, which calls back to the 'magic box that gives you whatever you want' that Ben talked about, as well as the mystery box concept of the show that allows everyone to make the show mean whatever they want it to. The island is underwater in the sideways because Jack regrets dying, instead of letting the island sink like Kate advised him to do before they said goodbye for the last time. Each character's sideways storyline is defined by what they wanted when they died. Sideways Eloise says to sideways Desmond 'you got what you always wanted, my husband's approval,' the price of which is not having a memory of Penny, and Desmond is placed inside a giant box before being blasted to the sideways by energy meant to replicate the Island/Light. The Monster was the first mystery box, and the Hatch was the second. The Monster was created from the Light, as a 'security system' or

[@rainesbobo]

I got EXACTLY what the ending was saying the first time that it aired when I watched it. In the last 14 years I’ve argued with so many people about what the ending was that just don’t get it, so thank you for explaining it correctly finally! Also, the showrunners have said that this is ultimately JACK's story. That is why some of the mysteries didn't get answered because they were not relevant to his story.

[@anggaraw]

You're right, this is Jack's story, jack is the main actor in this series.

[@chriscourtney2956]

THANK YOU. Finally someone else thinks the same as me. And can understand that the ending WASN'T catastrophic. Kudos to the writer of this video.

[@ChasChasityChas]

Great video! We watched Lost in real-time back in the day. All the theories were wild! I just recently rewatched it. Still holds up, still love it.

[@DZiegler820]

I love that you explained this here!! I’ve tried to talk too many people out of hating the ending and not succeeding. I’ll he to send this to anyone who tells me hey didnt like or understand rhe ending

[@sebulbathx]

But regardless of understanding or not you can still dislike the ending. The ending only explained the overall story but many mysteries was not explained or solved. Which made the ending bad for me anyway. But the execution of the ending was good I think.

[@JosephSAMUELJonesMommyTammTamm]

​@@sebulbathxeverything was explained.

[@BGRETT-311]

Sadly, most of them won't care. They have made up their mind that it sucks and made no sense and that's where they'll stay. No helping some understand what a treat LOST is.

[@carpetbilly]

@@JosephSAMUELJonesMommyTammTamm the numbers, polar bear, lots of things unexplained

[@stephenoneill3134]

​@carpetbilly the polar bears were brought to the island by the dharma initiative for experiments. That's the place saywer and Kate were locked up in cages that had tests for the bears to get food.

[@thetruebatman4632]

The scene where Sawyer tells Jack that he remembers speaking to his dad in a bar in Sydney… I used to know the exact disc and timestamp for this moment. Crushed me. My favorite show of all time. Thanks for covering this Ryan.

[@MsLuna-cv6lf]

I love that scene too! I've rewatched it a few times

[@robsolf]

I never got why so few people understood this ending. I can get being dissatisfied with it, but thinking it meant "the island is purgatory" bewilders me.

[@Wolfgame30]

its funny too because when Jack and his dad talk at church he literally explains everything to Jack and therefore the audience as well.

[@marvelrat]

ya i feel like it’s so easy to understand if you just pay attention 😭

[@gmee123]

For me it wasn't that I didn't understand, it was just terrible story telling and nothing but filler. I was sick of all that sideways garbage by the shows ending.

[@redmed10]

The Internet kind of guessed the ending. The word purgatory was doing the rounds. So the writers had to change it a bit. It just went on too long. Can't blame them because it was a cash cow. Stretched out a reasonable idea far too thin.

[@johnb2422]

I understood it the first time and I disliked it. I have come around to it but my problem isn't so much the flash sideways as it is other "present time" events that happen on the island in season 6.

[@pedrorabeje4019]

I just returned home from a week in Hawaii with my wife and Lost was on my mind the entire time. I wanted to do the Lost tour but it was too expensive. (The cheapest was priced at $500 for two people). I promised to rewatch the show to kind of relive the experience and will start doing so very soon. Thank you for this brilliant video, Screen Crush.

[@sethwilliams9878]

This makes me want to rewatch the whole thing over again too! I still hold LOST in my Top 10 TV Series of all time.

[@OofHearted]

What others would you include [that you can think of off the top of your head] in your top favourite shows list?

[@DesertTactical]

@@OofHeartedThe Office, How I met your mother, Stranger Things.

[@leonnahofer9138]

Oh this brings back so many memories about watching it when it was actually on tv the first time. At work there was a bunch of us who would gather the next morning over coffee and dissect the episode from the night before. Not to mention there was a whole online world that was going on at the same time about the show. Even the writers made a website with a supposed page of script that told about zombies but it was just to throw us off. There has never been another series like this!

[@alexpkeaton4471]

Those Lost forums were great and also sometimes pretty silly. Over-analyzing fan: "I'm pretty sure that there is something significant to the story in the reflection in Jack's eye but I can't quite make out what it is." me: "It's a camera."

[@jplonsdale7242]

The IMDB forums for lost used to be hilarious. It's a shame they stopped the forums was some crazy stuff on them.

[@strawzindrawz21]

Still waiting for a show that hits like Lost, they have tried and failed quite a few times, I have a feeling ill be waiting alot longer lol

[@H.A.L96]

DARK on Netflix is very similar to lost I’d recommend it.

[@leonnahofer9138]

@@H.A.L96 thanks I’ll check it out.

[@robkelso2771]

One of my all time favorites! Following along week to week online theories was amazing

[@davidsoria9717]

One of the most misunderstood series finales of all time... And one one of the best. It gives closure to all its characters and wraps its story up in a such a poignant way that it makes you reflect on the entirety of the story. I'm so glad ScreenCrush finally made a video about it. And I don't mean to advertise someone else's channel on this one but if you're looking for a deeper insight that strengthens the messages of this video, check out LOST Explained. That dude does a six part mini docu-series that goes deep into everything on the show, from the island's origins, to the symbolism of the numbers, to the reasons these particular people were selected, and yes, to even the ending. The ending of that made me cry and reflect just as much as the show did. Anyway, great job ScreenCrush. You nailed the ending. I know it's a long shot but here's hoping for a breakdown of every episode (or perhaps each season). 🛩️🏝️

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Oh wow, thank you for the shoutout! 🙏

[@JacobDean88]

Nice! Going back to the island! The end was perfect!! I've always liked it. Season 5 is definitely my favorite season. I really appreciated and liked their version of time travel. It makes the most sense. Maybe you did it already, but a full series recap would be cool.

[@jormungandr8704]

Lost was the friends we made along the way

[@DAipom1997]

Man, that scene with Charlie dying still has me in tears😢

[@euraljoiner246]

Best season finale ever 🥰

[@misskimbly123]

Same 😢

[@LOSTEXPLAINED108]

Spread the word! Not only did the show stick the landing, it also provided us with everything we needed in order to understand what was going on. The story was complete, the lore was deep, and the answers are all there. Just like Locke and The Swan, sometimes a little excavation is required.

[@PaulRWorthington]

Lost was great. Loved the finale the night it aired. I'm always stunned since that time that not only did some viewers get it wrong back then, but that so many continued to insist on their misinterpretation in the years since. Now that it's all on Netflix I hope many more will enjoy and appreciate it.

[@shadow_dancer25]

This is the most eloquent argument I’d love to have when discussing Lost years ago with ppl who didn’t understand the show! Great video!!! ❤

[@AlbertPatrick]

As one of those defenders of LOST, I got to say that seeing ScreenCrush do a video on the show made me really happy. I can only imagine what it would be like if you guys were around 20 years ago doing weekly videos on the show.

[@MrTDWfan]

I love this show so friggin much. If yall make more videos about it, I'm here for it.

[@TheOriginalFoxtrotCharlie]

Ohh I'm excited about this. My most favourite show of all time. I've watched it countless times and each time I've discovered something new. The story is just brilliant and fit people who say they don't get it .. they really need to watch it more closely. I remember when it first aired and the absolute insanity and hype it generated! Each week the theories and speculations. It was such a fun time. Some of the character deaths still hurt me deep till this day. 💔 What a show

[@vitort3]

Lost was the first TV show I really watched as a young Teenager, and really dedicate time to watch, create teories and everything. That show was my introduction to this world and I love it sooo much that I can't even quantify. I periodically rewatch Lost and everytime it get better. The end was beautiful, and it is really sad most people did not understood. THANK YOU so much for this video, for keeping the sparkle of it living.

[@deadpatronus]

OMG FROM HOTD TO ACOLYTE TO A LOST VID ON SCREENCRUSH?!?!?! I FUCKING LOVE LOST. THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE LOVE!!!

[@markmcgee2417]

I just recently binge watched Lost again. It still holds up. Hopefully a new generation can appreciate it now that television series have much shorter seasons.

[@kass4424]

I am that new generation ❤ I remember my mom loving it when it was coming out and finally got to watching it two months ago

[@unadenson5396]

My 12 year old daughter just finished the entire series of Lost on Netflix. She absolutely loved the show and went straight into rewatching it. I watched it when it first aired in 2004. What an awesome journey it has been for me to watch it with her. She swears that no other show will ever come close to Lost. I've seen many good ones. And I fully agree with her. The themes explored in this show are truly universal. Loved it back then. Love it even more now.

[@yoopergamer2121]

The best show of that decade!! Always had you guessing.

[@MickeyP1230]

The "found the rope and dug the well" part of this utterly blew my mind.

[@gayplamondon2665]

Never thought of that before. Clever

[@JoshuaHenson-h5g]

Incredible breakdown! I have been one of those people who were interested in watching Lost. But, I never got past the first episode, because I came to it late and heard about it having an unsatisfying ending. I now feel excited to watch this series, especially since I'm one of those people who don't have a problem susupending there meta-knowledge of a show. I'll often purposefully watch your breakdowns before watching a show so I'll be able to watch it without having to pick out all of those special moments that make it so much better. Thank You! I appreciate all of the hard work, dedication, and passion you share with us.

[@dubdub2527]

Thx. Been years of therapy to stop hating on lost. Now I’m at peace and can move towards the light. Great analysis

[@RyanByrne999]

You and me ain't done Zeke.

[@HeresWhyItsCool]

I remember binge-watching the first 5 seasons, then watching the last season with the rest of the world as it came out. And I didn't quite understand why people were disappointed with it. I didn't catch all the answers at first, but felt I understood the finale and I liked it a lot at the time. This video really helps and is a great one to show people if the topic ever comes up, thanks for doing this, ScreenCrush!

[@bullymccguire]

This show is not for everybody, but if you get it, Lost will became your favorite tv series

[@peteranthonyproductionsinc548]

My favorite ever

[@krisztianunpronounceable]

Still mine!

[@CommanderLost]

Greatest show of all time. And if you really want to learn the mysteries of Lost check out the lost explained channel. He goes over every single mystery and unanswered question, everything. I'm convinced he was on the writing team.

[@Mriya2012]

Same here

[@lildballin86]

LOST is my all time favorite

[@rubpust6968]

Please please please go over each episode from each season, Ryan. Great video and I would love to see you dissect the entire journey👍

[@nathanlipp9871]

I'm currently rewatching the entire season. I haven't watched it since the finale, and I forgot how great this show is. It really is unbelievable. Crazy timing on this video, too. Love your channel guys keep up the great work.

[@raideroftombs]

First, Hiiiiiii Doug!! 🥰 Second, great epy, Ryan. LOST has been my favorite show for so long. Happy to see you guys break this down for the masses. Well done!

[@RediscoveringDavid]

ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS TO EVER AIR! The experience of watching it week after week was a roller coaster ride! Me and all my friends would meet up every week to watch L O S T. Those were good times.

[@fallingwithstyle5909]

Someone finally made a video I 100 percent endorse about Lost. Well done!

[@dwightschrute1953]

I'm still just as confused as ever

[@good-questions]

to everyone involved in the making of this video, thank you so much. it was awesome. it reminded me of my love for lost and has sparked a re-watch of the series. the writing on this episode was so good, and it's impressive how you tied it all together. it definitely gave me new perspective on some aspects of the show and i will have fresh eyes on it this time

[@Shelz650]

Time for another rewatch, it’s been a while.

[@patrickparham6241]

Wonderful video! I started the show well after it was underway - I binged on WatchABC and got up to current around mid-way of the final season - and I think this is a big reason why I enjoyed the ending more than many who were with it the entire run. They spent months between seasons debating mysteries and compiling theories. It’s not to blame them for being frustrated if, for example, the polar bear didn’t get “explained”. I missed the experience of the social media community but also I didn’t have the buildup of it either, I just had the stories and the characters. It remains an all time favorite of mine. The last ten minutes are breathtaking. The closing eye is perfection. It still gives me chills.

[@shaneoconnell9279]

Love the Golf course and Sun recreating eucalyptus to ease shannon's asthma

[@TheCup0joe]

I just watched the entire series again just so I could hit play on this video. It took me a while, I started right after you released this video. That's my level of ScreenCrush dedication.

[@rjkm]

Literally binge watching older screencrush videos while doing chores around the house and thinking to myself "what should I do when I finish my chores? Maybe I'll start watching Lost again as its almost a decade since I last watched it all the way through" Then screencrush drop a Lost video. Get out of my head Ryan!

[@MrIdnagy]

Great job, I always appreciate your content but I really wasn’t expecting this, wish you guys were around when the show was airing, would’ve loved an episode to episode breakdown! Thanks!

[@CuteLilRN]

The LOST appreciation is, well, appreciated. It’s one of the most beautiful shows ever made ❤

[@rpworks25]

Thank you for this, Ryan. LOST was a seminal show for me it first aired and I was initially disappointed with its final. Your breakdown really helped me recontextualize what was going throughout the last season. Such a great show. Truly the beginning of weekly tv programming that warranted in- depth analysis. I'd personally love for a channel to go back and break the series down in its entirety.

[@XvEArianvX]

So LOST was really the first binge watch. SO many people bought or borrowed the show on DVD during the 4th and 5th season to catch up and see the last season. I have NEVER seen someone who watched the show that way, like the ending. BUT, everyone I know, including myself, who watched it weekly from day one, loved the ending. Because it's the characters they grew to care about. Not the island. The binge'rs didn't have enough time to care about them. They only wanted to know what the answers were.

[@keyseronthewire2575]

Lost, for me, is the greatest television show of all time... The emotional catharsis that the final season cements is the whole show is about humanity, love, our own struggles, our flaws, and the path we all must take in letting go and growing past those flaws and find our destiny. I love shows like this that don't hold our hands through every aspect... There's always going to be mysteries and things we don't understand here on Earth... At least not until we've reached certain points in our lives, even after death. "It's a leap of faith." By the end, before everyone can move on, they have to come to terms with not only their death, but with themselves. The show isn't called Lost because they're literally lost on an island... It's because all the characters featured in the show are lost themselves and they're given a chance to find themselves in each other on the island. "Live together, die alone."

[@Simeon_Harris]

just recently rewatched the whole thing with my wife. loved it just as much as the first time through. the love stories are just so epic.

[@jackparkes4092]

Great video. The ending of LOST is perfect because the show was always about the characters, and the ending totally delivered for each character on the show. In many ways it suffered a similar fate to Twin Peaks with such a huge part of the audience misunderstanding the core principle of the show. Just as Twin Peaks wasn’t about who killed Laura and actually about how Laura and her death impacted this community, LOST was always about the survivors and how the challenges and mysteries of the island shaped them. People claim the show ended up a mess but I couldn’t disagree more - it stayed fiercely loyal to the core idea all the way through in a way. It didn’t just suddenly become sci fi, time travel wasn’t just crowbarred in, it was all a natural extension of the key themes they were dealing with. This is a show about how adversity shapes us, our past lives with us and how we have to let things go. Time travel was a natural extension of the show right from the very first flashback. Sure the execution here and there could have been better and LOST famously struggled around the 3rd season before they knew exactly how long they could run for, but for such a long running show that’s to be expected. The totality of the journeys taken by these characters is beautiful and one of the best tv experiences you can have. When you watch the final season without the constant expectation to know all the answers and you just follow the journeys of the characters, it’s the greatest final season of tv of all time IMO.

[@Baiano29]

This video reminded me of Desmond. The constant was my favorite episode.

[@chrysdudek2196]

I just started rewatching LOST this week! Thank you for the amazing timing.!

[@thekyzer422]

Thanks, now I won't have to expain it anymore

[@tsukitty6420]

Wow, I didn't expect to see a video about Lost in 2024, but I enjoyed this look back at my first show to obsess over. I think part of what made the ending seem so bad is that it confirmed a lot of fan theories over the years on message boards about the survivors being dead and it seemed cheap. I think this video was helpful in redeeming the show's ending, and you make many valid points. Game of Thrones is a great comparison as it was a very popular show with a devoted fanbase that felt similarly disappointed by the ending of the series. I'd like to rewatch the show now because the journey of the characters was much more interesting than their destination. I felt like an era of my life ended when that show ended. Thank you for the great watch!

[@kuhpunkt]

How did it confirm fan theories?

[@byteknyte]

Interesting the amount of other KZbinrs talking about Lost at the moment. Great video. Just curious if anyone might have an idea why I've been seeing an uptick in content on it.

[@ftnunosilva]

It's 20y next september and there's a special coming! ❤

[@byteknyte]

@@ftnunosilva ayo thank you I didn’t expect an answer. That’s awesome

[@PaulRWorthington]

I read that it's now coming to Netflix

[@PawelGuzowski]

It’s just been added to Netflix

[@AlexChiaraPiano]

So many talented actors that brought me to tears during this show. I rewatched it recently and still love it .

[@karmaforall18]

I always hated the ending but now I can see it in a completely different light (no pun intended lol). Thank you Ryan for such a great analysis!

[@deanlane]

Thank you for doing this video. This show is my all time favourite. The characters, story’s and the music oh the music so good. I wish you were around to do breakdowns back then like you are today. Please consider this haha. What a great show. Definitely add it to your binge watch list if you haven’t seen it.

[@version3155]

Wasn’t expecting this one, thank you brotha

[@katinenaile7696]

Thank you for posting this video. I forgot how much I loved this show and it motivated me to watch it again since it first aired. So good.

[@ftnunosilva]

Thank you @ryanarey and Jack Picone for this... ❤ Lost was much more than a great show! It was a true social experience we were having, connecting people around the world by that new tech called Podcasts! 😉 Hail @jayandjack! Hail Ryan Ozawa! Hail Dispatchesfromtheisland! Hail Darlton and the OfficialPodcast!... Miss you guys! 🙏

[@Senegal604]

Every time lost blew my mind: Ethan wasn’t on the plane, first Jacob appearance, the fact that jack and john had a duality in the ending of the first season and then again as the protector and the man in black, the tease of the light and the dark when lock and Walt played backgammon. Btw this comment could extend beyond the metaphysical boundaries of reality, if I named everything I liked about the show.

[@roberthfagundes4013]

Só many years later, and I finally understand It. Thank you.

[@joncea1]

Yes!!!!! 🙌 Thank you for confirming what I’ve known for all these years. The Show is amazing, they did stick the landing and it was a show worthy of all the attention and accolades it received. Love your channel, keep up the fantastic work.

[@highwithhobbs1173]

Hey Ryan, I love the way you say "Sawyer"

[@troyapostol]

Thanks, ScreenCrush, for the balanced, insightful analysis! Love LOST and SC!

[@Nocc2991]

Time to rewatch this.

[@whatisdelicious]

A friend who'd never seen LOST before joined me for the finale as it aired live, so I had explain everything Ryan explained here in 3-minute chunks. It was a trip for both of us. Also, I had my first-ever nosebleed literally AS Faraday got one during season 4. Dude I love LOST.

[@OsarumObasanjo]

Ben Didn't go in the church, he decided to build an AI to save people from the crimes in Purgatory. So they can redeem themselves before moving on. Person of interest would be a great continuation

[@dreworyan5652]

Lost is my #1 TV show of all time. Thankyou for making this (even though I knew it already). Keep up the good work!

[@hsft]

One of the best shows of all time and you nailed it. The ending was perfect, just too many people didn’t understand it. Also LOST was the first show to bring internet nerds together to comb through a show for hidden Easter eggs and clues. And now we’re here. 😂

[@tazz2137]

Thank you for this video!! Lost is one of my all-time favorite shows and I rewatch it every year or 2 (Lost also has the greatest box set ever). Now with this video in mind, I would like to rewatch it again!

[@TopHatJackStudios]

Still one of my favorite series of all time. The first show I deep-dived every week online, which is probably why I love this channel so much all these years later.

[@Ludasan1]

Like if you rewatch Lost in 2024

[@MaraJadeSkky]

I'm introducing it to my teen for her first time seeing it. We are half way through the first season. I forgot just how much episodes are in each season. My kid seems thoroughly sucked into Lost.

[@JJJ-ok7nc]

Even better, just finished watching it for the very first time ! 😊

[@Ludasan1]

20 year getting lost documentary? Yea please

[@PlectrumShorts]

I was a Lost fanatic. I made the odd choice of watching the S1 finale to gauge if it lived up to the hype. Immediately hooked. I watched every episode, read all of the side books (fairly uniformly terrific, they were), but was deflated by the ending. I either missed some of the details that you discuss here or I’ve forgotten them over the years. I was already thinking, as you proposed at the end, that (wait for it…) we have to go back. I’m kicking off a full rewatch today. Asking for an episode by episode breakdown of a 20-year old show is bold, but maybe? At a minimum, is it too much to ask for 6 season breakdowns? Lost merch would be a cherry on top. Haha.

[@kuhpunkt]

There are lots of recaps and articles or even Lostpedia.

[@PlectrumShorts]

@@kuhpunkt tooootally forgot about that site. Thanks!!

[@kuhpunkt]

@@PlectrumShorts ;D

[@tommynoble3428]

Thank you for this. I've been defending this ending FOR YEEEEEEAAAAAARS and consider anyone who either doesn't or refuses to understand this ending as subhuman.

[@guysim138]

just binge watched it again for the first time in 20 years. It has aged so well, a true classic of outstanding character building. The ending was so much better the 2nd time around. One of the best TV shows ever that deserves about 10 watches to fully absorb the magic and wonder and best of all the mystery. Great summary of a complex and incredible show.

[@Hoppypoppy24]

Wow. Now I actually get it. Only took 14 years.