I couldn't watch it the first time, the thought of watching it now is overwhelming. I would love someone to do a fan edit and cut it down to 8 hours or so.

Yes very much so, still the only lost fangirl in my friend group

just finished watching it with my fiancee few days ago. so damn good.

@@GucciVal rest in piece hahaha, because I am the only one too. One of these days I had to explain to them why I always play 4 8 15 16 23 32 on the lotto. It was a shock to me that they didn't even know it :(

@@panthercapenha that's nice my friend!

Slowly getting there! Subscriber growth has been great recently and the views have increased massively in the past month. People must be sharing videos more, or the KZfaq algorithm is picking the channel up more than usual.

Yeah, I don't get it either, as many people that still love LOST. I do see this channel recommended regularly in comments on reaction channels that are doing LOST, with the caveat of course, of waiting until they finish the show all the way through. I know I myself have recommended it many times.

Its incredible the depths of LOST lore you delve into, LOVE IT!!!

I know a couple who’s rewatching the series, one who’s seen it and one who ain’t. They’re on season 3 ep 8 deep in that Desmond/Charlie story line. I can’t wait to show them these videos of the deeper lore and mythology once they finish up the show. LOST is timeless.😂

Whilst I agree, I would say that if you need to watch 6 x 2h+ videos in order to understand a 6-season show, it's not exactly excellent writing. I don't want things to be overly-simplistic, but at the same time, when things are purposefully obtuse to be "complex" then something has gone wrong in the process.

@@deandejaguar With respect, I totally disagree with your assessment here. There are people who make 30-minute videos deconstructing the plots of Christopher Nolan movies and his movies only tend to run for two to three hours. LOST was *100 hours* of story. You cannot begin to deconstruct it all in one video, that's simply neither fair nor realistic. And the show had a lot of narrative convolutions as a result of having to stretch out the storytelling for the first three years because they had no end date, so that adds to the complexities of an analysis. It's not a case of the writing being good or bad, just beholden to the time in which the show was made and how it was made. I actually resent the implication that simply because I make long analysis videos exploring the nooks and crannies of a long-running 120+ episode narrative with a huge mythology that it is somehow evidence, in and of itself, of the show being bad or incomprehensible. Would anyone expect one or two videos to be sufficient enough to explain the complex worlds and storylines of long running book series like The Dark Tower, or Game of Thrones, or Discworld? The answer is no, you wouldn’t expect that. Star Wars and Star Trek get in-depth video series exploring every aspect of their universes on the regular, getting into the deep lore of each universe. Are those video essays proof that those narratives were poorly written or too purposefully convoluted? No, they are not. Yet both LOST and the fanbase's work in analysing the story is held to this bizarre higher standard. If you can’t explain LOST in one or two shorter videos then it is somehow evidence that it is disastrous mess that does not add up. I think that is a totally unfair metric to use on this channel or the show.

@LOSTEXPLAINED108 I'm speaking for the vast majority of people who watched the show and went "wtf" at the end - there are better ways to get your points across to a broad audience than the way that Lost presented itself to the public. I love the series but even I was dumbfounded by the final season, and having to go online to have someone explain time-travel theories, physics and meta-physics, and spirituality before you can even begin to understand what the show is about is bad storytelling on the part of the creators. Now, might be that so much content was cut for time is the reason that this is the case, but either way if you write too far for most people to get what you are trying to convey, then it is your fault, not the viewer. My gripe is not with your videos but the shows writing, pacing and explanations (or lack thereof)

​@@deandejaguar You can only speak for yourself and not the vast majority, unless you can back it up with evidence beyond your own disappointment and prior echo chamber interactions. I can prove you wrong by pointing out some hard data. We have aggregate sites that tell us exactly how critics and audiences felt about LOST both in terms of its finale and the overall experience (IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, MetaCritic), and the aggregate ratings are high. Compare those same aggregates to those who hated the Game of Thrones series finale. It's night and day. Furthermore, a recent statistical analysis was carried out to actually get to the bottom of which series finales were considered good and bad, and LOST turned out to be one of the good ones, much to the surprise of people who share your view. Here's the link to the study: www.statsignificant.com/p/which-shows-got-their-finale-right Was the final season and finale divisive? Yes, it was. I'm not saying you are alone in your criticisms. There are plenty of comments and articles bemoaning how things wrapped up (but also plenty of comments and articles praising it). I'm just saying that is not "the vast majority" and that you really need to get out of this mindset: "Because I think it and saw people who agreed with me, then therefore everyone thinks and agrees with me." It's a Mandela Effect thing. If you do decide to take up that mission of seeking out the objective general reaction to LOST then do your due diligence and research a bit further. It won't take long! As for needing to have the whole series explained to you... not everyone does. Some people only need certain pieces of the mythology clarified and some just enjoy deep dives into a show that they loved to see where they agree and disagree with the interpretations, while others like to re-experience the show via video essay analysis and pick up on details they might have missed. It's a broad church of fans and casual viewers on here. I have found from my time doing this that many who come here needing the entire show explained in detail probably only watched it once. A lot of the data/answers come from re-watching the show. Like re-reading a really complex sci-fi novel to fully grasp it, or watching a Chris Nolan movie more than once. You don't have to rewatch it to get the gist of it, of course. Some people understood enough first time and moved on. But, I think, to really appreciate the levels LOST was operating on, watching it more than once is a net benefit to the experience. Understanding things like the time travel and metaphysics are for the hardcore geeky viewers, not the casual audience. All the casual viewer needs to know about time travel by the end is that the past was not changeable: whatever happened, happened. You don't need to know about the ins and outs of compatibilism or determinism to enjoy it lol. And not everyone needed to understand every aspect of how the metaphysics worked. Because some viewers only cared about whether or not Kate and Jack would end up together, and were invested in the character relationships and love stories, while others just wanted to see the action and enjoy the crazy twists. Like I said, LOST audiences are a broad church, and many were in it for different things. Videos like mine cater more towards those into the hardcore geeky details. LOST was ahead of its time, as were the writers. They created the modern TV show as we know them today. They absolutely encouraged rewatches from season to season, and that expectation was no different by the time it ended. It wanted us to keep talking and rewatching. It was Dark before Dark existed on Netflix, which you could also complain about being too complex to follow or fully understand in one sitting. But so what? Does every story need to be easily digestible in one sitting then never thought about again? There are plenty of shows for that - thousands in fact. LOST, from the start, told us it was going to be challenging and ambitious and crazy and make us ask questions. And we had to keep up with it or tune out. And those that couldn't get on with it, did tune out. But those of us who stuck to the end still talk about it today, whereas those thousands of other shows that were easily digestible have faded into obscurity. No one cares about shows like Desperate Housewives anymore. What LOST gave us was not bad storytelling. It was pioneering what TV would become.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Hard evidence? Really? The fact the ending is still being parodied and taken the piss out of (the big one that stands out is the Joker in Arkham City) shows that the vast majority of people DID NOT get the ending to Lost at all. Taking "aggregate" scores from the Internet and then trying to use the review-bombing of GoT isn't hard evidence either. Critics and viewers change their minds wildly over time, and yet people still to this day do not understand the ending - not just weren't happy with the way things happened or it was ambiguous - it was batshit! The fact that you have had to write 6 paragraphs and made 12h of extra content to and explain it proves my point. Again, I love the show and I am enjoying your videos to help me understand it better but as I said - if you have to do much homework to understand something, maybe the writers didn't get the best results from the ideas they had down to translate it onto the script.

Radzinsky didn't die, he left the island and became an acting teacher at Hollywood Arts.

@@Swearengen1980 he shot himself in the hatch

@@4g3nt69 It was a reference to the actor who was a semi-main character in the kids/teens tv show, Victorious.

@@Swearengen1980 reference to a show that nobody knows? that nice

​@@4g3nt69I know what show he's talking about

Me! Doing my first rewatch now since the finale aired.

How is she liking these videos so far?

I think a sequel under Hurley's reign would be fun. Maybe beginning with a cruise ship crash. Ghost Charlie and Kate would be fun to see.

@@radagast7200 Theatrical sequel would be amazing.

They could explore all the history around the island. There are actually endless possibilities.

I hate the endings to tv shows, books, video games... it’s such an empty feeling for some reason, even when I have thoroughly enjoyed the story, er, maybe especially when I have thoroughly enjoyed the story. Whenever I watch LOST and get to season 6 I feel like it’s already over even without starting disc 1. It makes me feel like I’m losing my friends when it’s over... I verily understand your feelings here in your comment.

Wow, that's incredibly flattering to me that you would include mention of the channel in your paper. I am genuinely honoured. Thank you 🙏

Everything happens for a reason🙏You were meant to find me.

Lol. This is identical to me. Came up on my feed, been considering a rewatch for a couple of months, and thought why not. And can honestly admit (gonna blame general consensus around the time), that despite watching the series probably 8-10 times and being above average intelligence lol, I always thought they were in purgatory for the whole thing (whatever the 2nd or 3rd video on here I watched did shame me lmao). But even with those 15 odd years of stupidity I'd gotten over the(imagined) disappointment of the last episode, and survived on love of the whole. This channel has rekindled my initial infatuation with the program (downloading - oops, lol, I could watch it the next day legally but didn't want it wait - 1am uk time). It's taken away the black mark of the last episode, at the very least, as well as connecting a few other dots. But I'll always be grateful for taking away purgatory.

@@iancooper7772 I come at the show from another angle, from the world of comic books. What the show does is insert goofy comic book science and mysticism into a dramatic setting, and then take it super seriously. That's a rather unique blend. I was iffy on the show during the initial run, maybe about to drop it, then the time travel hit and I was back in to the end. I got the ending the first time around in a general sense, but I never tracked down all the mechanics. I don't rewatch the show much, but I remember everything enough on a pass through like this. I relate to this project because it's the sort of thing I would have done in my youth, filling notebooks with evidence and theories for a completely fictional world, for no one's benefit other than myself. I'm impressed with how well it all hangs together under fine scrutiny like this.

@LOSTEXPLAINED108 dude as an add on to my original comment. Just finished my rewatch, and it's the most I've enjoyed it by far since the 1st time. Thankyou so much for that, really appreciate opening my eyes to the what now seems clearly obvious. Actually got emotional at the charlie/clare meet up. Thanks again

That's amazing to hear! Honestly, comments like this are so validating and humbling. My hope has always been to reach out to people who felt short changed by the show in some way and to help them view it in a new and improved light. It makes this whole LOST Explained project worthwhile. Thank you for sharing that with me. It means a great deal!

You know, I’ve never watched Seanie B’s Final Recap before, but I should. Kept seeing it pop up in my feed but never clicked on it. Really love that interpretation about Desmond and the rope. Never heard it before, but it’s another cool connection. Thank you, as always, for your kind words and input! 👍

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Oh yes 1000% totally recommend it! It’s one of the best summaries of the ending but moreover the series as a whole, up there with your great videos!

When Ben shoots Locke in Season Three, the bullet passes right through him. Locke later explains that he'd probably be dead if he "still had a kidney there." I think a similar argument could be made for Jack's whole appendix episode in Season Four. At the time, it does seem like the island is causing Jack to get sick, to either prevent him from getting everybody rescued or otherwise "punish" him for it. But in the end, it could be argued that having his appendix removed allows him to survive being stabbed by the Man in Black long enough to satisfy his ultimate destiny. Y'know... to unplug it and plug it back in.

@@mikemoring 100% agree.

That is honestly the best possible feedback I could get. My primary goal with this channel has been to deepen and/or enrich the mythology of the show for fans, but I also very much hope to convert former fans who felt betrayed or let down by the eventual direction the show took. Honestly, it's comments like this that are the ultimate validation and keep me motivated. I'm really grateful that the videos have either clarified or improved the narrative of the show for you. That's about as much as I could hope for! Thank you for letting me know 🙏 p.s. I absolutely think you should do a rewatch of the show because now you are armed with more information about the mythology. It might help you to see it all in a new light, if you'll pardon the pun!

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Well, I gotta tell you that you are absolutely nailing that primary goal. I think I will wait until you are done with your "Theory of Everything" videos before I commit to rewatching, but I 100% agree that I would see the show differently now based on all the videos you have made. Great stuff!

It's a crime that we haven't had, at the very least, a series of books.

My pleasure! 🙏

Wow, thank you for the encouragement and support there my friend. Really means a lot to me 🙏This was one of my personal favourite videos to make as it discusses all of the elements I love most about the show, so I'm glad it has delivered for you.

Thank you for the kind words. Really appreciate it 🙏

I'm honestly so pleased to know that people are digging the videos and still watching them. This particular video is my personal favourite of all the ones I've made, mainly because it deals with the plotlines and concepts that I find the most compelling from the series.

That’s music to my ears! Thank you 🙂 A rewatch should be very rewarding.

That was the main motivation for me to start using my own voice. The channel was hitting a plateau with subscribers and I was receiving multiple comments/complaints about the voice regularly. So I decided to address those very common and fair criticisms by course correcting the presentation style. I’m very pleased that you can watch the content properly now 🙏 The latest 11 or so videos on the channel all use my own voice so be sure to check them all out 👍

I'd love to see it...but also very skeptical of it

Think of it this way... Desmond broke up with Penny in 1995, right? Yet several years later she turns up at the stadium to see him, even though she is supposed to be getting married and moving on. She even left him a letter in his book before he went to prison that stated she will wait for him. Why would she do or say those things? Because Desmond had showed up at her door months after they broke up declaring that he would call her in 8 years. She didn't understand his promise but she could never forget it. That moment is what kept her waiting for Desmond. It's why she writes that letter to him. It's why she visits him at the stadium after he gets out of prison. She doesn't bring up the mad phone call promise because there are other pressing issues to discuss. But, I believe, the phone call promise is what kept Penny holding out hope for Desmond.

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Thank you for the reply. This always bugged me but your explanation makes a lot of sense within the story.

That’s a really cool idea for a video actually. Will add it to the list 👍

@@LOSTEXPLAINED108 ty!!

Thank you! I haven't seen 12 Monkeys the series but I have seen the movie that it is based upon, which is an absolutely brilliant Bruce Willis/Terry Gilliam flick from the mid-nineties.

@LOSTEXPLAINED108 Yes, the movie was great. The series, though, takes on a life of its own. Thanks for responding. The series starts off a little slow. It has some goofy moments on and off. But towards the end of season 1, it gets into gear. And without giving away any spoilers, all I can say is that it was only after finishing the last episode of the series that I truly appreciated the work the writers put into it. It's a truly complete story. The ending blew my mind. I watch a lot of series and movies, I'd like to believe that I'm a good judge of cinematic quality. I rank 12 monkeys ampung the best of the best, considering the time period it was produced. And now I'm raising your expectations, which isn't good. Anyway. It's my hope that someday you get the time to binge watch the series. Based on your passion for "Lost" and appreciation for complex storytelling, I think 12 monkeys will rank high in your favourites list. Maybe inspiring a new channel: 12 Monkeys Explained. I suspect there's a fan base that has no avenue to let out their love for the series. If you ever do start that channel, let me know, and I'll subscribe. And even if you don't, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Don't forget that we see him change again in that very same episode 'Dead is Dead'. He goes from being Fake Locke to Fake Alex within the space of one sequence, so he was still shifting and changing into other forms during the latter half of Season Five. I think the Island intuition thing guides MiB a lot, but I don't think it's a full information download in which he acquires a whole narrative's worth of exposition. It's a feeling of what to do or where to go. Whereas in the wheel chamber, as Fake Christian, he has incredibly specific information about someone who has been off-island for decades. It's the major clue as to when in the timeline that scene is taking place.