One of the warning signs of someone being suicidal is that they start giving away all their things. It could be that Libby was already having depressed thoughts, then went on to give away all the most extravagant things David had left behind, only to correct her life before trying to hurt herself, and checked into a mental hospital to work through her depression.

Hurley choking out “I’m sorry I forgot the blankets” absolutely devastated me every time. Jorge Garcia is a great actor

I hadn’t considered how much impact Libby’s boat had on the story. That’s wild. Practically everything changes if Desmond didn’t need a cup of coffee.

Honestly, it was kind of a bummer that Libby, Ana Lucia, and Eko were all killed off so quickly. Bernard ended up being the only tail section guy with much staying power on the show, which made the whole tail-section ordeal feel almost unnecessary to the plot. I know Eko was supposed to be a critical endgame character, but that obviously didn't happen. And man, that's just sad that Libby was killed because nobody liked Ana Lucia.

Would we Lost fans be happy with a full Libby episode? No doubt. But then again, rewatches prove that we really didn't NEED it. What really matters is her role in Hurley's character and in the whole story, which this video showed. Besides, as much as I feel for Hurlet, her death is such an iconic scene.

I absolutely hated it when Libby was headed back and Michael was there being a crazy ass... I knew something bad was coming.. and as another viewer has already commented, I must agree, when Hurley sobs out “I’m sorry I forgot the blankets.” It’s so harsh. So so harsh...

I always wondered what the deal was on Libby. Thanks for the awesome video!

Season's Greetings. Thank you for this deep dive into Libby's character. Although she was only on the island for a short time, her character certainly had a big impact on events on and off the island till the very end. Enjoy your content very much. Cheers (Y)

I’ve come back to this channel, which I love, after a busy holiday season and I’m happy to find there’s new and continuing content. Keep it up! Thank you.

Great work, brilliant as usual !

Excellent video, as always! Constantly learning new details I never saw. I always assumed Desmond met her after the institute, but you're right. One month between her husband dying and meeting Des isn't a lot of time for her to get committed, treated and released again. This is the first time I noticed that her hair in the Desmond scene is just a little bit lighter and shorter than it is in the institute scene (where it is full brown and long), which is another indication that her committal to Santa Rosa probably happened a month or two after crossing paths with Desmond that day.

Have been checking this channel so many times to see if there are new video’s!!! 🥳🥳 Very excited to watch, thank you for uploading!!!

Your content is simply amazing!

Yeah, hell yeah! I needed this.

The premier of Two for the road was my introduction to the series. I was so confused, but instantly hooked. I had to know what was going on with this crazy show. I watched season one and the rest of season 2, but had to wait for the season 2 DVD set to come out before I could fill in the gaps of season 2 prior to two for the road. It was a wild ride for sure!

Another Great video! Loved lost as a kid and hadn’t watched it again until just recently and fell in love with it again, these videos are amazing and have helped me understand it so much more. Was wondering if you could maybe do a future video on kelvin Inman or Stuart radinsky as there back stories are pretty cool but are both hard characters to fully understand for the casual viewer.

When I saw Libby in the nut house, stoned on drugs, I was afraid that maybe she only imagined the whole Lost island story. It was a really good suspenseful Lost moment for me. Like a real existential crisis, was it just her imagination? Was nothing real, like sometimes I think, is my life real at all? Are the characters of Lost just an imagination of Libby so they were never there? Which is a strange thought because in the end it's all fictional, maybe I take Lost too seriously xD.

Good stuff!

Damon Lindelof's father was named David, so the name is used in LOST quite a bit because of that. Glad to see you are providing more content! Great stuff as always!

Hurley's dad's name is also David, perhaps that's where he got the name for imaginary Dave from.

I’m pretty sure I read an article that mr eckos actor was unhappy living in Hawaii. I got the distinct impression that he felt culturally isolated.

Welp, looks like I can edit out my "Libby backstory" segment from an upcoming video of mine, since you pretty much explained it :P One thing I think it's interesting is that the showrunners didn't forget about her, but over the years tried to get her story into the show, but were unable to do it. Like in the Nov 18th 2006 interview with TV Guide: "Question: What's the latest on Cynthia Watros returning to Lost to finish out her backstory?- T.K. Ausiello: I asked Lindelof-Cuse that very question when I spoke to them for AA's 100th. Here's what Carlton had to say: "We would love to tell the rest of [Libby's] story, it’s [just] a question of whether we get to it. We’re now working on the early episodes for the second pod, and we want to get back to some of the characters we haven’t seen, and spend a little more time with them. We'd like to get to Cynthia's story, but I think we're going to try to tell the stories of our regular characters before we do that." Adds Damon: "Obviously, we have a couple more beats of Libby’s story to tell to fill in the missing pieces, and the way we would tell that story is in the flashbacks of another character. But that character can’t be a character that we already know and love, otherwise they would recognize Libby. We know who those characters are and what those story beats are, but it might be awhile before we get to their flashbacks." Then in the 2nd of December 2006 interview on E! Online “Given everything else we have to tell, [Libby's story] is going to be a mystery that's going to have to get answered in year 4. There's really one significant missing piece to Libby's story. We saw in the season finale last year that she met with Desmond, she gave him his boat, and we know that her husband died - and then we know that subsequent to that, she spent some time in a mental institution, the same one as Hurley. The question the audience wants answered is, How did she get from A to B - from Desmond to the mental institution? We know the answer to that question, but the only way to tell that story is through another character's flashback, and that character would have to be another character on the show who is not among the beach dwellers” Comic-Con July, 2007 MAN: I'm gonna ask a very volatile question right now, Libby! We were told that we were going to get more of her in uh flashbacks and stuff, revealing stuff, and there's been a couple of hints that she possibly worked for DHARMA, I don't- uh, it's been theorized online and stuff, uh, what do you have to say about the absence of Libby and are we getting more of her any time soon in flashbacks like you promised? CARLTON: It- it is our intention to get to Libby's story this year, and we think you will be very happy when we actually do finish that. DAMON: You're not, um, you're not barking up the wrong tree either with some of your speculative online questioning. Comic-Con 2007 was before season 4, so I think the intention was to have her in some of the freighter-flashbacks. And the "not barking up the wrong tree" might suggest that. Maybe Miles did a reading of her David, like he did for Mr. Gray in "Some Like it Hoth"? In September 2007 they told Ausiello: “She'll be in enough of the show for us to fill in the missing pieces of her story," says Cuse. "We could not be more pleased. Cynthia is a smart and engaging actor, and Damon and I have some very cool parts of her story left to tell.” Carlton Cuse told Ausiello after the strike was over that: “We've found ourselves in a situation where we had eight episodes of story planned, and we're going to try to fit that into five hours of the show.” In an interview with Comics on Comics they said that they approached Cynthia Watros several times, but she didn’t want to return. On May 8th, 2009, we learned from Kristin on E! Online that “Libby's story will not be wrapped up on the show. Damon said: "I have learned that if you kill someone off the show, they are less likely to cooperate with you." Basically, Cynthia Watros is busy until further notice, and they can't explain Libby without her, at least not in any way that shows her story rather than annoyingly tells her story.” I know many blame the writers on dropping a Libby mystery right before she was killed, but to me it seems like they really tried to weave in a story for her, but things got in the way or it didn't fit. I agree with you on the idea that she got into the institution after she gave him the sailboat.

15:00 Why did you say: "psychic abilities being hereditary" explains why Walt would have enhanced powers? Wouldn't that mean that Walt's powers would be reduced (or equal, at best), since there's no indication that his mother had the abilities?

If you've ever needed ideas for new videos (if you can't think of anything left to explain), I've always thought a series explaining the backstories/stories of individual characters chronologically would be cool. For example, Jack from childhood (saving that kid) going all the way to when his eye closes and potentially through his (after)life in the Flash Sideways. I think you'd be the perfect guy to do it.

I'm in agreement with everything you say. I just wanted to say that shows don't often have characters with the same name to avoid confusion

I distinctly remember Darlton saying in Season 4 they'd be Libby's backstory via the backstory(ies) of one or more characters. Clearly those were one of the plans for that season that were scrapped due to that damn WGA strike. 😔

I always thought Libby didn’t want Hurley to remember where he knew her from because it would be revealed that she was masquerading as a psychologist. Do we know the timeline on their stay at Santa Rosa? Did she actually become a psychologist after that?

Well done. I am so excited when you uploaded a video about Libby's story. I am currently writing my own version of season 7 of Lost after the events of season 6. The first episode consists of flashbacks of Libby which revealed that Libby is actually Ilana's sister and Jacob's daughter and Libby and her husband travelled to the island and her husband was infected and then killed by the MIB. Jacob then tasked her with keeping an eye on Hurley in the mental institute as he believes Hurley might be his replacement and he told Libby that Hurley might be able to talk to her dead husband. Well I would have a flashback of Libby feeling shocked about the plane crash and how Jacob did things and decided to ditch him and help the survivors by giving them some sessions and the island decided to be done with her by providing her with her death by Michale . Her backstory would be that she was almost killed by the MIB and brought to the temple to be healed and she lost her memories and was forced to leave the island for her safety. I would also like to have Libby figuring out Goodwin as an other and warned him to stay away in another flashback of future episodes that I will write. I would also include a flashback of Richard trying to recruit Libby along with her friend Juliet which she declined. What do you think of my ideas?

1) I graduated from high school with Cynthia Watros. Nice girl. 2) I had always assumed Libby killed her husband, the boat had something to Di with it and that's why she gave it to Desmond.

Cynthia confesed about that DUI in a podcast. she seemed to always had that wound not cured. So sad

I'm pretty sure they would have tied her story up with a neater bow had it not been for the writers strike and shortening of Season 4. I can almost imagine them going down the Widmore root, and tying Libby to the freighter in some way, as they did with Michael. You could also assume they had already spoken to the actress about this, but as things changed her role in S4 was reduced to the incredibly small cameo appearances to Michael due to time constraints. It would make sense from a story telling perspective that Libby scenes would have been cut before anyone else's in S4, since she died so early on.

I kinda got the impression Hurley developed his abilities in no small part because he wanted to talk to Libby so badly… and yeah, Libby giving away her boat seems like a very likely inciting incident to her family/friends strongly encouraging her to get some help.

Here's what happened: Libby noticed Hurley because he constantly mentioned someone called Dave. She then became obsessed with him and after he was let out, she discharged herself and started stalking him. Hurley plays Leonard's numbers in the lottery and wins. But the "curse" is not what he thinks. First, Libby induces a heart attack in Hurley's grandpa. Then she threatens or pays off Starla leave him and run off with Johnny. She arranges for Diego to run off with a waitress. She burns down the house he bought for his mother. While Hurley is distracted by the fire, she quickly runs past and pushes his mum over, breaking her ankle. She also called the police and had him falsely arrested as a drug dealer. When Hurley meets with his accountant, she follows him to the building but accidentally ends up a few storeys higher. And when someone in the building found her, snooping around, she threw him out the window. She also caused a meteor to hit Mr Cluck's Then she follows him to Australia and then onto flight 8:15. Obviously, I'm Joking 😂🤣 Imagine that.

Another interesting video, so thanks for that. One question. If we dismiss the idea that Michael saw the true ghost of Libby because he didn't possess any special power that would allow him to do so, can we also deduce that Jack's sighting of Christian at St Sebastian couldn't have been his father's true spirit for similar reasons?

"....Micheal?" Libby's best scene.

I always thought Libby gave Desmond the boat happened AFTER she got out of Santa Rosa. Damn so it’s possible that Lostpedia got the timeline wrong about which happened first. The way I saw it was this happened after because upon her release from Santa Rosa I’d like to think she didn’t want anymore reminders of her late husband so she gave the boat away to Desmond as a way to cope to heal and not trigger another nervous breakdown. Rewatching that scene between Hurley and Libby in the mental institution during the Season 6 flash-sideways filled in most of the blanks for me especially when she told him that she remembers seeing Hugo in the institution as well. I would like to think that was really Libby’s ghost haunting Michael the whispers any made it seem like it. Just like when Ghost of Boone came back through Locke’s visions and the ghosts Ana Lucia and Charlie directly visited Hugo.

Great video as always! I enjoyed Libby's character so much. It still irks me when Sawyer tells Jack to get off "his" boat in season 6🙄

Hey you should do a video about penny's and widmore's relationship. Like how she knew to look for electromagnetic anomalies! Greetz LOST

Nice video 😍👌👌

"People didn't like Ana Lucia so we thought it wouldn't be shocking enough so we axed Libby as well"...If that's true that's the dumbest and cheapest reason to kill off a character. I'd rather have them straight up say they didn't know what to do with her character. It's less insulting than "Oh we just killed her off to get cheap tears from the audience and y'all ate it up".

I know this isn't related to this video: But I would love a detailed look into who you think was the most important character on the show. Maybe the most simple answer is just Jacob But Imo Desmond is the most influential character on the show

Walt’s psychic capabilities are likely more extensive than Michael’s due to the fact that Walt is still a child with a very open and imaginative mind as where Michael, being grown and so far away from his childhood days, has shut out those abilities maybe to denial, y’know, saying “I didn’t really effect those things or see those things when I was kid, that was just a child’s imagination at work”. Could be something like that...

Wait, the general consensus is that people disliked Ana Lucia? I personally really liked her.

The very episode title "Two for the Road" has been taken to at least imply a connection to the actresses DUIs.

I wonder, when writers are penning the story, to what degree are they creating Vs uncovering all the treads and interactions of events?

According to the Lost Encyclopedia, Libby was on Santa Barbara Health Institute because of her husband's death.

Libby and Ana Lucia death scene is one of the most famous scenes of Lost. I loved the badass Ana Lucia and was unhappy with her death more than Libbys. However overall Ana Lucia was more of a background to the story. I think her character simply didn't fit in with the rest of the survivors which were more of soft and emotional characters than she was. Libbys death was sad because of Hurley. He didn't deserve that. They got the happy end in the afterlife though.

I think they meant for Libby to be working for Widmore making sure to keep an eye on special people like Hurley, kind of like Matthew Abadon.

So many shows don't handle mental health issues very well. I think _LOST_ handled it better than most.

That really was a waste of food. Damn it, Hugo!

*I'm surprised you didn't cover why she didn't visit Hurley after he started seeing dead people*

He really missed a chance to say, "she was a sacrifice the show demanded."

Forgive me if it was covered somewhere... The reason Libby didn't appear to Hurley.? (Acress probably wasnt available, there couldve been a way to do it though, someone seeing Hurley talking to nobody and he says its her) .. Maybe she didn't have anything she was holding onto? That can't be it..Maybe she wasn't at a certain spiritual plane? Although Anna could see her in spirit town.

Right now I am rewatching Lost and I have one question regarding Sawyer's past, as far as I remember no one knew that Sawyer killed a man in Sydney(otherwise why he isn't in jail?), but in the episode where others told Lock to kill his father, Richard gives him a folder about Sawyer's past where said that Sawyer killed a man in Sydney. Can you help me find the answer? Maybe I missed something? or is it plot hole?

Hello, Thanks for this interesting video. You say DAVE isn't the monster, but how can an imaginary being (in Hurley's head) send a coconut drown on Hurley ?

I'm glad so many others disliked Ana Lucias character, thought it was just me.

Losing Ana Lucia and libby was such a bad move ... Great characters

I wonder why libby never came back to talk to Hugo after she died

An American Wildmore and black widow stalking Hurley.

Hurley should have ended up with Libby in the ending. Don’t care if he had to save the world.

I misread Libby as "Lubby". What I get for reading without my glasses.

Watros was ultra sexy on the show. Bad move killing her character.

Michael does see Christian on the freighter though and it couldn't have been the Man in Black because he can't travel over water without a boat or leave that island.

What's with the bad audio in some of your clips? Sound AI generated or something. Great channel otherwise.

You are too cavalier to dismiss the "conspiracy theory" that Libby was killed of because of actress dui. Sure the actors playing Jin and Sawyer also had run in with the law but they are lead actors and Jacob candidates which gives them plot armor. The show runners are much like forgiving about side characters. The shock factor of Libby getting killed off is just an added bonus

I think hurly Dave is base off Libby David. I think David got sick like Libby said and wanted to go sailing before he dies. When the incident on the dock happened think maybe someone said to hurly that he was to fat to go on and maybe David got pissed about the comment and told hurly he was fine and told the other person off, than didn’t really talk on the dock. There for hurly wouldn’t know what David personality is like except that he doesn’t care if hurly is fat and has that rough sound in his voice due to him being annoyed that someone called him fat. Maybe David introduce him self as David and hurly assumed he would be nick named dave or he did go by dave but Libby calls ham David And hurly see dave cause he feels guilty

Ana Lucia was, by far, my least favorite character on the show.

the writers are horrible

That's a shame. I liked the idea that Hurley's ability was a reveal that Hurley was never 'crazy', but just seeing the dead. It worked well with Libby being at the institution at the same time as him as well.