Lost (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lost |
| Original title | Lost |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2004-2010 |
| Production company |
ABC Studios Bad Robot Productions Grass Skirt Productions |
| length | approx. 41–43 minutes |
| Episodes | 121 in 6 seasons ( List ) |
| genre | Adventure , action , drama , mystery |
| idea |
JJ Abrams , Damon Lindelof , Jeffrey Lieber |
| music | Michael Giacchino |
| First broadcast | September 22, 2004 (USA) on ABC |
| German-language first broadcast |
April 3, 2005 on ATVplus |
| occupation | |
Lost is an American television series about the survivors of a passenger plane crash and its aftermath on an island in the Pacific . Lost is designed as a mystery series with a continuous storyline. The tension is created by ever new revelations - and the resulting changes in the way the series and individual scenes are viewed - whereby various aspects of the plot are gradually brought into connection and linked.
Awards received include a Golden Globe and eight Emmys , one of which was Best Drama Series in 2005. The series started on September 22, 2004 on the US network ABC . The last season ended in the USA on May 23, 2010. The series was also broadcast in German-speaking countries.
Show runners of the series, and thus primarily responsible for the plot, were Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse . Was produced Lost from ABC Studios , JJ Abrams ' production company Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions .
History and production
Emergence
Development of the series began in January 2004 when Lloyd Braun , then head of ABC , commissioned Spelling Television to write a script based on the concepts of Lord of the Flies , Cast Away and the reality show Survivor . Initially, writer Jeffrey Lieber wrote a pilot episode entitled Nowhere . However, Braun was not satisfied with the result and contacted JJ Abrams for a new script. He agreed on the condition that he could incorporate supernatural elements. Together with Damon Lindelof , Abrams developed the series style and the characters as well as the series mythology and the plot points . Since the selection of actors and the development of the script for the pilot took place in parallel due to the tight schedule, individual role concepts could be tailored to the respective actors.
The shooting of the pilot took place on Mokulē'ia Beach in Oʻahu , an island in Hawaii . The pilot was ABC's most expensive American television production to date. The first two episodes cost between 10 and 14 million US dollars . Shipping the wreckage of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar to the island alone cost over a million dollars. Because of these high costs, the ABC majority shareholder Disney dismissed the board member responsible for entertainment Lloyd Braun, who had approved the series. On September 22nd, 2004 the first episode was broadcast on ABC and was able to book an audience of 18.6 million.
History and backgrounds
Lost was shot in 35mm film format with the help of Panavision cameras. Most of the location was Oahu. After the pilot, they moved from Mokulē'ia Beach to North Shore . The first season cave scenes were filmed in an isolated room in an old Xerox warehouse. Some interior scenes were also filmed in the Hawaii film studio. Various locations in and around Honolulu were used for scenes that did not take place on the island .
Right from the start of production, great importance was attached to the secrecy of the mysteries in the series. Only Lindelof, Cuse and Abrams were privy to the overall story concept of the series.
On September 21, 2005, the first broadcast of the second season began. Between seasons 2 and 3, the alternate reality game The Lost Experience was carried out, in which fans could actively participate.
On October 4, 2006, the first broadcast of the third season began. This season the broadcast schedule was changed - the season was now broadcast in two blocks. This should prevent the time between episodes from being too long (more than a week). This fact in season 2 was criticized several times by the fans. The first six episodes were now broadcast in a row before the winter break. The remaining episodes followed in the spring of 2007, without major interruptions in between. In the course of the third season, the great influence of fans on the content of the series came to light. Two of the minor characters introduced this season were deleted from the series because of antipathies on the part of the fans, or they had to die in the series.
In June 2007, those responsible announced that three more seasons of Lost were planned. However, they would only contain 16 episodes and would be broadcast at the beginning of the year without major interruptions. With this, ABC complied with the producers' request to decide on a fixed end to the series, with which one could better plan the remaining storylines. The series should therefore end in 2010. The end should be the logical consequence of all seasons.
Production of the fourth season began in August 2007. It was interrupted by the Writers Guild of America writers' strike in November 2007. By then, 8 of the planned 16 episodes could be shot. Nonetheless, the season began broadcasting on January 31, 2008. On February 12, 2008, the strike officially ended and production of the remaining episodes could continue. Due to the lack of time, not all of the originally planned episodes were shot. Instead of the planned 16, the season had to be reduced to 13 episodes, with the last episode being twice the length of a regular episode. In January 2008 - after The Lost Experience - another alternate reality game called Find815 was carried out to bridge the time until the start of the fourth season on January 31st.
The fifth season started on January 21, 2009 on ABC and consisted of 17 episodes. From February 2, 2010, the final, sixth season ran on ABC, which ended on May 23, 2010 after 18 episodes.
Actors and roles
At the beginning, the main cast of Lost had 14 actors, making it one of the largest casts on US prime-time television at the time.
The supposed main character Jack should originally be played by Michael Keaton and die in the pilot episode, whereupon Kate would have taken on the role of leader of the survivors. In this way, the producers wanted to give the viewer the impression that none of the main characters were safe. The broadcaster ABC insisted, however, that viewers would feel “betrayed” if the alleged main character were killed in the middle of the story. For this reason, the character of the pilot was created, who is found in the cockpit by Jack, Kate and Charlie and is killed shortly afterwards instead of Jack by the monster of the island. Keaton then turned down the role of Jack - he did not want to commit to a series role in the long term. Eventually Matthew Fox got the role.
The role of Hurley was created especially for Jorge Garcia . Garcia was also the first actor to be hired for the series. The character Sun was also created especially for Yoon-Jin Kim . She originally auditioned for the role of Kate, but the producers thought she didn't fit the role and really wanted her on the show. Then the character Jin, played by Daniel Dae Kim , was created as Sun's husband.
The character of Charlie was originally created older. So he should actually be a worn out rock star with a longer career in the background. However, the producers liked Dominic Monaghan's performance so much that they tailored the role to him. Kate, played by Evangeline Lilly , should also be significantly older in the original version. Her background was also originally different: she was not supposed to be a fugitive criminal, but a newly married woman who, however, was unsure whether her decision to marry had been the right one. Her husband would have been in the back of the plane and missing, so finding him would have been part of Kate's motivation while she would have started a relationship with Jack or Sawyer at the same time. Part of this original characterization was instead used in the final version for the supporting character Rose, who genuinely loved her husband Bernard.
Ian Somerhalder left during the first season, but after the death of his role - Boone Carlyle - returned several times during the following two seasons for guest appearances (in flashbacks or visions). Malcolm David Kelley (Walt Lloyd), in turn, limited himself to guest appearances between the second and fourth seasons.
For the second season in 2005, Michelle Rodríguez , Cynthia Watros and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joined the main cast. During the filming, Michelle Rodríguez came into conflict with Hawaiian law several times over traffic offenses. In December of that year, she was arrested with Cynthia Watros for drug abuse behind the wheel. In 2006, the roles of both actresses were deleted from the series. Officially, the problems with the law had nothing to do with the expulsion; However, some claim that this was the reason for the termination, since ABC's parent company Disney attaches great importance to a clean image. While filming the third season in 2007, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje also came into conflict with the law when he was caught driving a car without a license. He spent one night in jail before being released on $ 500 bail. As was the case with Michelle Rodríguez and Cynthia Watros a year earlier, the role played by Akinnuoye-Agbaje was deleted from the series some time later, although, according to everyone involved, this was planned from the beginning.
In the middle of the second season, the character Benjamin Linus, played by Michael Emerson , was introduced, originally conceived for only a few episodes . Since the producers were so impressed with Emerson's performance, they expanded his role so that he was one of the main cast from the third season onwards. Also from the third season, Henry Ian Cusick , who already had a supporting role in season 2, and Elizabeth Mitchell were among the main characters. At the end of the third season, Dominic Monaghan left the series, but then made guest appearances.
In the fourth season, three new leading characters were added: Jeremy Davies , Ken Leung and Rebecca Mader . In addition, Harold Perrineau Jr. , who left the series at the end of season 2, returned for a season. There was also Kevin Durand , who embodied the mercenary Keamy.
Season 5 came out without new main characters; However, Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert and Jeff Fahey as the pilot Frank Lapidus are placed in a more central light and finally with the sixth season as the main characters within the series. In the fifth season, however, due to the time leaps, numerous younger actors were required to embody certain characters as children and adolescents. During this season, Jeremy Davies and Rebecca Mader also left the show to star, but reappeared occasionally during the sixth season.
Actors Ian Somerhalder, Maggie Grace, Dominic Monaghan, Elizabeth Mitchell, Harold Perrineau Jr., Michelle Rodríguez and Cynthia Watros, whose protagonists mostly died in the first or second season, return to the sixth season through the alternative flight 815 Cast back.
Protagonists
Dr. Jack Shephard
Jack is an excellent surgeon who specializes in spinal surgery. Jack has always had a difficult relationship with his father Christian, the chief surgeon at the hospital where they both work. His father never showed him much appreciation, which Jack suffers greatly from. After Christian operated under the influence of alcohol one day and caused the death of his patient, he lost his license to practice medicine because of Jack's testimony . Then Christian drank himself to death in Sydney. Jack was about to transfer his body to the United States when the plane crashed. Jack was married to a former patient, Sarah, whose broken spine he had recovered in an extremely complicated operation. The marriage broke up on the one hand because of Sarah's unfulfilled desire to have children and on the fact that she felt neglected by Jack because of his work. Jack suffered from this separation for a long time.
After the crash on the island, Jack takes on the role of leader from the start. Several times he saves the lives of members of the group. He tries to do what is best for the group, even against the will of the others. This attitude often creates conflict. Nevertheless, he is respected and liked by everyone. In the course of the series, he loses his inhibitions to injure or even kill people in order to protect the group. Yet he never loses his morale, even though it often gets in his way.
Jack falls in love with Kate for the first three seasons. Their relationship is always overshadowed in the course of the series; first of the fact that Kate is a wanted criminal, later of Kate's feelings for Sawyer.
Katherine "Kate" Austen
Kate is a young woman wanted for the murder of her father, which she believed was her stepfather for years. He had beaten up her mother for years, which led Kate to the gruesome act: one night when he came home drunk, she blew up the house with a gas explosion. Previously, Kate took out life insurance on his behalf on her mother. When she confessed to her mother, she turned against her daughter - contrary to expectations - and denounced her why Kate had to go on a year-long escape. She was later embroiled in a bank robbery just to get hold of a beloved memento and accidentally caused a car accident that killed her childhood sweetheart. Her mother later became seriously ill with cancer.
Kate had just been caught in Australia and was about to be transferred to the States when the plane crashed. She suffers from guilt complexes especially in the first season. On the island she is another leader alongside Jack. She is very compassionate and helpful. In dangerous situations, however, she can show unexpected severity. Her skills as a tracker and weapon handling often come in handy.
A complex love triangle develops between Kate, Jack and Sawyer. While both men are strongly drawn to her, she is torn between Jack, the archetype of the hero, and Sawyer, the villain.
James "Sawyer" Ford
James was eight years old when a cheater, then called Tom Sawyer , seduced his mother and then cheated his parents of their savings. As a result, James' father shot his wife and then himself. James only survived because his mother hid him under a bed. This incident left him severely traumatized. At that time he wrote a letter to “Mr. Sawyer, ”in which he recounts what he did to his family. As a boy, James vowed to find Sawyer someday, give him this letter, and then kill him. He would later commit frauds similar to Sawyer out of financial difficulties and even introduce himself by his name - he became what he hated. James has a daughter named Clementine, whom he did not meet personally during the series. He was in prison a few years before the plane crash, from which he bought himself out through a deal; he provided important information about a fellow prisoner, was released and even received compensation. However, he did not keep the money, but deposited it in an anonymous account in favor of his daughter.
In Australia, James went to see a man who he believed was Sawyer - and killed him. However, it turned out that his contact had tricked him and the man was just someone who owed a lot of money to the wrong people. A little later, James was declared a persona non grata in Australia and expelled, which is why he was in the crashed plane on the return flight to the USA.
Sawyer quickly became unpopular on the island. Not only is he rude and arrogant, he also hoards numerous scarce goods that he was able to salvage from the plane wreck. His behavior is sometimes so provocative that his few friends on the island fear that Sawyer wants to be deliberately hated.
Despite his tough shell, Sawyer is helpful in times of need, and at times (especially to Kate) he's even friendly. His skills in handling weapons are often of decisive advantage , especially when fighting against others .
He feels strongly drawn to Kate for the first few seasons. In the later seasons he has a long and happy relationship with Juliet and gains such personal maturity that he becomes the head of security for the Dharma Initiative.
John Locke
John is a man who had a difficult childhood and a life of humiliation. His mother was 17 when she became pregnant by her much older boyfriend and put the baby up for adoption after birth. John, who is called almost exclusively by his last name in the series, subsequently grew up in various foster families. When his mother met him again after many years, she led him to his birth father, Anthony Cooper, who - it turned out - was terminally ill. John developed a very close bond with his father and even struggled to donate his own kidney. However, after the operation, Anthony promptly dumped John and even mocked him for his gullibility. Anthony cheated on John of his kidneys by just playing for him to be a loving friend and father. This plunged John into a life crisis that lasted for years. The often almost delusional relationship with his father later cost John his relationship with a woman he wanted to marry. After John found out one day that Anthony wanted to marry a woman in order to subsequently cheat her out of her fortune, he sought him out and confronted him. Anthony attacked John and pushed his son through a high-rise window, causing him to fall several floors. John survived but remained paraplegic. Anthony escaped and was never caught by the police.
Before the plane crash, John Locke was in Australia to take part in a several-month survival tour that was supposed to follow the dream paths of the Aborigines . The tour leader only found out shortly before departure that Locke was in a wheelchair and therefore sent him back home. After the crash, Locke can suddenly walk again. This roots in him the belief that it is his destiny to be on the island. This belief often leads to conflict with the rest of the group, especially Jack rejects the notion of a fixed future.
Locke is fanatical and almost unswerving about his belief in his own future. For example, he's obsessed with the idea of opening a solid steel hatch in the forest floor. In order to follow his fate, Locke disregards majority decisions, his own scruples and moral conventions. He often appears downright manic in his behavior. Although he is sometimes genuinely interested in people, such as Claire and her baby, his main motivation is always to follow his fate.
Locke is an excellent tracker and is good with weapons. In his luggage he had a suitcase full of knives, which are extremely helpful to the group, but also stamp him as an outsider (who has a suitcase full of knives with them?).
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
Hurley's most noticeable feature is his obesity, which is a recurring theme throughout the series. He has had problems with his weight since one day he went on a roof terrace and it collapsed. Although the roof terrace was massively overcrowded with 24 people (it was designed for eight people), Hurley was still responsible for the collapse. He was catatonic and admitted to psychiatry. There he met a patient who kept muttering a sequence of numbers "4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42". He later bet the lottery with these numbers and won $ 150 million. From this moment, however, began what Hurley calls a “ curse ”: Since winning, bad things have happened repeatedly in his vicinity: his grandfather suddenly died of a heart attack, a meteorite crashed into his place of work, his newly bought house burned down and ultimately his plane crashed on the island.
Hurley was in Australia to visit the man who supposedly knew what the numbers mean. This had withdrawn to the outback years ago . Hurley learned from his widow that the man was also adamant that the numbers were cursed. To protect people from the curse, he committed suicide a long time ago.
Hurley is neither strong nor does he seem to have any special abilities. Later in the series, however, it turns out that he has the gift of being able to talk to the recently deceased. But with small gestures he makes everyday life worth living for the survivors on the island again. Among other things, he is setting up a golf course in order to give them back a piece of quality of life in view of the dangers of the island and the fear of their uncertain future. Charlie Pace becomes Hurley's best friend. Hurley is in the process of developing a relationship with Libby when she is shot by Michael.
Hurley's character is probably going through the most significant evolution in the series. The initially very insecure man, plagued by the many inferiority complexes, develops into a self-confident, bold, caring person who is loved and valued by everyone. He saves the lives of several of his friends and is also one of the key characters at the end of the series.
Desmond Hume
Desmond is a man who restlessly paced his life without finding his place in it. Among other things, he was a soldier and a monk, both of which didn't end well. The only constant in his life is his great love Penelope, whose wealthy father Charles Widmore is always strictly against the connection. Desmond spent some time in a military prison, which - and because of her father's intrigues - alienated Penelope from him. To win her back and to impress her father, Desmond took part in a one-on-one regatta around the world, organized by Charles , where he was stranded on the island. There he was found by a man who lived in the swan station. Over the years, both entered the numbers with which Hurley won the lottery into a computer in order to supposedly save the world. One day Desmond found out that his comrade was secretly repairing his sailboat in order to leave the island with it, and he killed him in an affect. Fearing that the world would end if the numbers were no longer entered into the computer, he went on with the task alone.
When Locke blows the hatch to the swan station at the end of the first season, Desmond comes back in contact with other people after years. He hands Locke his job and for the time being takes off, hoping to return to civilization with his sailing boat. After weeks at sea, however, he does not succeed. Despite his knowledge and skills in sailing, his boat is always driven back to the island. In season two, Desmond joins the survivors and makes good friends in Charlie and Hurley.
Desmond is a peaceful person who can be very melancholy and philosophical. His trademark is to address everyone with "brother". He tries desperately to return to Penelope, but never loses sight of the group's welfare.
Charlie Pace
Charlie is from Manchester and is the bass player for the English band Drive Shaft, a one-hit wonder . Although he was the only one in the band who was really enthusiastic about the music and also wrote the successful song You All Everybody , the fame stayed almost exclusively with his older brother Liam, the singer of the rock band. The fact that Charlie was constantly in his shadow was ultimately the reason why he, like his brother, turned to drugs and became addicted to heroin . Shortly before he got into the misfortune machine, he tried to convince his brother Liam, who had started a family in Australia, to rejoin the band, which he refused.
On the island, Charlie initially suffers from not being recognized as a star and seeks attention and admiration. With Locke's unconventional help, Charlie succeeds in drug withdrawal and gradually settles into the group. In the first season he begins a relationship with the heavily pregnant Claire. He later sacrifices his life in the hopes that this will save Claire and her baby from the island.
Sayid Jarrah
Sayid is a former Republican Guard soldier and intelligence officer in Iraq. He tortured countless people during the Second Gulf War. One of his victims was his childhood friend Nadia, with whom he fell in love and helped her escape. He later left Iraq in the hope of finding her again.
In Australia, he worked with government agencies to get information about Nadia's whereabouts. He was hired to infiltrate a terrorist cell and thus prevent a terrorist attack in Sydney and to extradite its client to the authorities. Then he learned that Nadia now lives in Los Angeles and got the ticket for flight 815, which eventually crashed on the island.
He is often initially treated like an outsider by the survivors due to prejudice. Nonetheless, he shows his courage and helpfulness by actively supporting the group in their survival and rescue efforts. His military training, his knowledge of handling electronic devices and his outstanding experience in hand-to-hand combat often prove to be extremely helpful.
Sun and Jin Kwon
Sun comes from a wealthy, influential Korean family. Her father is a domineering, irascible man who always knew how to rule his daughter's life. In order to marry Sun, Jin-Soo Kwon, the son of a simple fisherman, took a job in her father's company. In this context, Jin often had to threaten unpleasant people and business partners for his father-in-law and, in the worst case, eliminate them. In addition, Jin had to be on call for his job almost around the clock, which put a strain on his marriage to Sun. When the two tried unsuccessfully to have a child, Sun learned that Jin was impotent. This led to an ongoing rift between the spouses. Sun began an affair with a wealthy hotel heir, who was teaching her English during this time, because Sun was planning to flee to the United States from her father and Jin. When her father found out about the affair, he felt hurt in his honor and put the unsuspecting Jin on his daughter's lover, who beat him badly. The man took his own life shortly afterwards.
Sun accompanied her husband on a business trip to Australia. There they boarded flight 815 to Los Angeles together. On the island, the couple initially separate from the rest of the group, with Jin increasingly attracting attention due to his aggressive behavior towards Sun. When it becomes known that Sun understands and speaks English, the two of them have a temporary break. Finally, they manage to resolve their differences and start over. Sun teaches her husband English and they both blend in well with the community over time. Sun unexpectedly becomes pregnant by Jin on the island.
Boone Carlyle
Boone is Shannon's stepbrother, whom he obviously despises because of their passive behavior after the crash, but there is something special between the two, as we learn later. His mother, "Sabrina Carlyle", owns a huge wedding company and Boone worked as a director for one of her subsidiaries. On the island he becomes friends with John Locke. Later, the two of them accidentally find a hatch in the jungle, but first tell no one about their discovery, but secretly open the access and try in vain to open it. Boone dies in the 20th episode of Season 1 as a result of the injuries he sustained when he tried to send an emergency call to a wreck of a propeller plane that was hanging wobbly on a cliff. The plane crashed with him.
Boone flew to Sydney to bring back his stepsister Shannon, who was having trouble with her boyfriend.
music
The soundtrack of the series was composed by Michael Giacchino . Other songs used come from, among others, Patsy Cline , Joe Purdy , Willie Nelson , Blind Boys Of Alabama , Damien Rice , Bob Marley , Mama Cass Elliot and Petula Clark . A song by the fictional band Driveshaft, whose members included Charlie, one of the main characters in the series, was written by songwriter Jude from Los Angeles. Michael Giacchino's soundtracks for all seasons have been released on CD.
content
Narrative style
Basics
In terms of content, the individual episodes build on each other very strongly and thus achieve a high degree of continuity. It often happens that events from long ago episodes (in some cases even from earlier seasons) are referred to or that a loose thread is taken up and continued. With a few exceptions, each episode follows several parallel storylines, each of which focuses on the experiences of one or more main characters. One of the storylines is mostly told from the perspective of the character. The storylines can certainly overlap and individual people can play a role in several storylines.
In order to get the required number of episodes for a season, but at the same time to avoid a too rapid progression of the main plot, episodes were repeatedly produced during the first three seasons that explain subplots that are important for the development of the characters, but with the overall picture At first glance, they don't have much to do or they don't advance the actual story. The flashbacks in particular hardly offer any new revelations in some episodes and are therefore mainly used to develop the characters. In order to avoid such episodes, the producers of the series negotiated with the broadcasting US broadcaster ABC in order to decide on a fixed ending for the series and in this way to be able to plan the remaining storylines during seasons 4 to 6 accordingly and to avoid unnecessary overflow episodes.
Seasons 1 to 4 - island storyline, flashbacks, future prospects
During the first three seasons, the main plot of the series deals with the events on the island. In addition, the viewer gets in most episodes through flashbacks (Engl. Flashbacks ) insight into the past of the protagonists . These flashbacks have different functions. On the one hand, they often explain the actions or the character of the people in the current action on the island with their experiences from the time before they came to the island. On the other hand, from the second season onwards, they are also occasionally used to show events from the island plot of earlier episodes from a different perspective and thus reveal the background to the corresponding scenes. In particular, it becomes clear that the paths of the protagonists already crossed every now and then before the plane crash. A connection is often established via detours, for example through mutual acquaintances or via companies or institutions to which several people have connections. In most cases, however, the actors on the island are completely unaware of their connections with one another. Occasionally, flashbacks are also used from the perspective of a character to give a new meaning to events from the flashbacks of another character.
Despite the straightforward narrative structure of the main plot during the first four seasons, the tension is maintained through the restriction to certain perspectives, which often deprives the viewer of the information that is actually necessary for understanding. In many cases, the plot only makes sense afterwards (several episodes, sometimes even several seasons later) through subsequent revelations (through dialogues, discoveries or flashbacks). The series often deliberately deceives the viewer's perception by showing a scene from a very specific, restricted perspective and thus depriving the viewer of information, while interspersed elements are intended to create a certain impression, only to be able to end the corresponding scene or to broaden the perspective of the episode and come up with a surprising twist. This effect is achieved, among other things, by largely avoiding long shots , which means that the viewer should be thrown directly into the middle of the action every time the scene changes, without being able to re-orientate themselves beforehand by fading in establishing shots . Popular variations of this technique include, at the beginning of the series, first the state or living conditions of characters in flashbacks, later also increasingly the spatial (on the island or in the outside world) and temporal (flashback, present-day action or view into the future) of individual scenes or entire storylines within an episode. A mixture of different temporal levels of action has already been used, giving the viewer the impression that the relevant scenes were playing at the same time.
The future level of action (English. Flashforward ) was introduced in the finale of the third season. This element is used more and more in the fourth season, although, just like in the case of the flashbacks, no clear linear sequence is used between the individual episodes. Only the island story, which has been continuously retold since the pilot film and which, due to the slowed-down narrative style of the series in the middle of the fourth season, is only located at the end of 2004, a little more than three months after the crash, still follows a largely linear narrative structure.
Season 5 - More future prospects and island non-linear storyline
In the fifth season, time travel is introduced as a narrative and plot-technical stylistic device. As a result, the protagonists subjectively still experience a linear sequence of events, but for the viewer, gaps in the plot are constantly torn up and scenes are shown in the middle of an advanced course of action without explaining the context in this situation in more detail. In this way, moments of tension are artificially created that would not be the case with a linear narrative structure. This fact has led to the broadcasting Network ABC swapping two episodes of the fifth season in order to better understand the connections. Also as a result of the time travel, the established future level of action is combined with the main level of action in the course of the episodes, but at the same time a new level of the future is created, which from this point on is told as a parallel level of action. From this point on, these two levels of action continue to be narrated independently of one another, while classic flashbacks are occasionally shown again.
Season 6 - "Flash Sideways" and linear island plot
In the sixth season, a new narrative style was added: A storyline plays next to the island story, which is now linear again, to which both timelines of the fifth season were merged again at the beginning of this season. The officially named "Flash Sideways" represent a largely autonomous action from the previous series from this point onwards, which probably began with the explosion of the atomic bomb. The protagonists are here again on an Oceanic flight 815, which, however, flies unscathed over the submerged island and properly reaches Los Angeles . The characters fall back into their typical behavior patterns from the first season and face new challenges that they escaped due to the crash on the island. In addition, there are also deviations from the initial circumstances of the main characters shown in the previous course of the series, which go beyond the missing crash. For example, Hurley is very successful, Jack has a son, Sawyer is a cop, and the Kwons are not married.
On the one hand, the viewer gets an idea of how the lives of the individual people would have been without Jacob's influence and without the crash and how the characters would have developed accordingly. On the other hand, the narrative style and the transitions between the narrative styles in the individual episodes give the impression that the subplot shown is the result of the island plot of the sixth season.
What is striking about the subplot is the reflection of the processes that the characters go through in the island plot. While Sayid tries desperately in the subplot to leave his dark past behind and not to commit new atrocities, he does it on the island out of a supposedly free will in order to get the woman of his dreams back. He fights against his dark side until the end, but then kills the loan sharks who beat his brother in the hospital in revenge and to close the deal. An ambitious Benjamin Linus, on the other hand, has the chance in the subplot to blackmail the headmaster, who is bad for the school, and thus to get his job in order to turn things around for the better at the school. However, he finally decides in favor of his favorite student Alex Rousseau against selfishness and against power. On the island, however, Ben has lost all the power he had previously built up through selfish handling. In doing so, he reminisces that he sacrificed his daughter in order to maintain his power and only later realized that Alex had really been the most important thing to him.
What the ulterior motive of the "Flash Sideways" and their narrative style was in the end will only be revealed with the season finale. It turns out that the alternative reality, initially assumed as the "what-if-the-island-didn't-exist" scenario, represents nothing more than a fictional world created by the main characters, which extends far after the experiences the island and especially after the death of everyone involved. The protagonists themselves are initially completely unaware of this and have completely suppressed their time together on the island, which, according to Christian, was the most significant time of their lives. But it is precisely this connection that inevitably drives the people towards each other during the course of the season, which forces the memories and finally makes it clear to them where they are in reality and why. Those who can make peace with their life and let go of it now continue their journey together.
action
First season
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The season one pilot begins with a close-up of a human eye that opens in shock. A man in a suit wakes up in the middle of the jungle, obviously confused. A Labrador runs towards him from the bushes, whirls around again and disappears into the jungle. The man follows the dog and comes closer and closer to a sinister source of noise. A short time later he finds himself on a beach, where the extent of the disaster he was the victim of becomes apparent. He is one of the 48 survivors of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 , which was en route from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles and has just crashed over a deserted, several square kilometer island with mountains and jungle. Jack Shephard, this man's name, is a doctor and immediately takes care of the injured passengers wandering around in the chaos.
Since the chance of rescue quickly turns out to be very slim, the survivors have to organize themselves, especially since they are soon confronted with a number of challenges and dangers. They must learn to cooperate if their survival efforts are to be successful. The group is led, reluctantly at first, by Jack, who has a strong leadership personality.
The first episodes of the season serve to give the viewer glimpses of the past of the main characters as well as some mysterious events on the island through flashbacks . Among other things, the survivors encounter a mysterious monster that apparently consists of a cloud of black smoke. The smoke monster is responsible for at least one death and is constantly terrorizing the other survivors. In addition, John Locke , who had been paraplegic for several years, has been able to walk again without any problems since the crash, although initially only the viewer knows about this.
Some of the survivors, including the Iraqi Sayid Jarrah, a former Republican Guard officer , are trying to repair the radio that was recovered from the cockpit and use it to send an emergency call. A puzzling radio signal in French is received, which has been sent for 16 years and which blocks the frequency. Hopes for a speedy rescue are rapidly disappearing; the stranded begin to gradually settle in on the island. Relationships with one another become more intense; some friendships develop, but also enmities. The survivors remove firearms from a Zero Halliburton suitcase belonging to the late US marshal who was supposed to convict fugitive criminal Kate Austen in order to be able to defend themselves from the dangers of the island.
When Sayid explores the island on his own, he is captured by a mysterious woman named Danielle Rousseau. She claims to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked crew who perished on the island: Danielle killed her own people after allegedly contracting an unspecified disease. It was also she who sent the said emergency call back then. In addition, Danielle claims to have given birth to a daughter named Alex on the island , who is said to have been kidnapped soon after by an ominous group of people, referred to by Danielle as the Others . Sayid manages to break free from her captivity and returns to the survivors' beach camp. The stranded mistake Danielle's story for the madness of a disturbed, lonely woman until they find out from the passenger list that a man named Ethan Rom, who has lived with them since the crash, was not on the plane. He infiltrated the group on behalf of the others in order to scout out the survivors. After his discovery, Ethan escapes, kidnapping the pregnant Claire Littleton. After she got away from him about two weeks later, he was shot by the survivors while trying to get her back under his control. At the end of the first season, Claire gives birth to a healthy boy, Aaron, with the help of Kate.
Michael, a former construction worker, is building a raft with the help of other survivors in order to leave the island with his son Walt, who owns the dog Vincent, who wandered around in the jungle at the beginning of the series, and to get help for the remaining survivors. Together with two other survivors, James "Sawyer" Ford and the Korean Jin Kwon, who survived the crash with his wife Sun, they set sail. Already during the first night, to the initial delight of the rafters, a motorboat appears, but its crew - who are obviously relatives of the Others - brings Walt under their control, blows up the raft and leaves Michael, Jin and Sawyer to their fate.
Another storyline revolves around an initially locked hatch in the middle of the jungle floor, which was originally discovered by Locke and Boone and kept secret from the other survivors for a while. After Boone died in an accident in the jungle towards the end of the season, Locke gradually lets other survivors know about his discovery. Around the same time, Danielle Rousseau appears in the camp of the survivors and warns them of an imminent attack by the others . Jack then goes with a group of other survivors to a stranded ship in the middle of the island, the "Black Rock", from which they take dynamite in order to be able to blow open the hatch in the hope of finding shelter there. In the final scene of the season, Jack and his companions actually manage to blow open the hatch, despite the reluctance of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, who believes the numbers engraved on the side of the hatch are cursed.
Second season
One of the overarching themes of the second season is the ongoing threat from the still mysterious Others . Furthermore, with some of the survivors from the back of the plane, new characters are introduced and some secrets about the island are revealed, including the secret of the hatch. But at the same time new mysteries emerge, for example the survivors get to know the DHARMA initiative . The first half of the season is divided into two separate storylines. One storyline deals with the events surrounding the hatch, the other the experiences of the rafters Michael, Jin and Sawyer.
Under the hatch is a research station called The Swan . Like other stations that will be found on the island in the further course of the series, the station was built by the aforementioned DHARMA initiative , which carried out research on the island using these stations in the 1970s and 80s. The swan station has electricity, running water and a supply of food. Every 108 minutes the sequence of numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 has to be entered into a computer, the same numbers that have played an important role in Hurley's life. The only resident of the research station is a man named Desmond Hume, who has been isolated from the outside world for the past three years, but who will soon find a way out and leave the survivors alone with the task of entering the sequence of numbers into the computer on a regular basis. John Locke, who believes he has a special connection to the island since his miraculous healing from the crash, takes this task particularly seriously at the beginning.
Meanwhile, Michael, Jin and Sawyer are stranded again on the island after the destruction of their raft, albeit a long way from the other known survivors. Here they meet survivors from the back of the plane, which had previously been lost, but only five of them remained due to various deaths and kidnappings by the others . The group, led by former policewoman Ana-Lucia Cortez, makes their way with Jin, Michael and Sawyer to the camp of the known survivors, which leads them across the jungle. Before the survivors of the front part of the plane arrive at the camp, the stewardess Cindy is kidnapped by the others . In the following seasons she is seen safe and sound in the company of others several times .
Only a few days after returning to the camp of the survivors, Michael sets out on his own in order to free Walt on his own initiative from the clutches of the seemingly primitive Others . When Jack, Locke, Kate and Sawyer follow him, they meet for the first time the Others who promise the survivors peace if they do not cross a certain border on the island. Unable to follow Michael any further, they return to the beach camp. Shortly thereafter, the survivors capture a man who initially claims to be a man named Henry Gale who crashed in a hot air balloon on the island. Sayid, who doesn't trust these allegations, succeeds with the help of Ana Lucia and Charlie, however, in convicting "Henry" of the lie. In the meantime Michael has made a deal with the others . He returns to the beach camp, frees "Henry" by killing Ana Lucia and Libby and then lures Sawyer, Jack, Hurley and Kate into a trap for the others . Then he and Walt leave the island in a boat. Sawyer, Jack and Kate remain in the captivity of the Others while Hurley is sent back to the survivors' camp.
In the meantime, due to recent discoveries on the island, Locke has lost his faith in the sense of his task of entering the sequence of numbers into the computer. However, when he deliberately refuses to continue the task and lets the countdown pass, the electromagnetic energy in the station is overloaded. Desmond, who has meanwhile returned, realizes that a similar event must have been the cause of the plane's crash a few months earlier and triggers an emergency shutdown, which leads to a huge electromagnetic pulse and is perceived across the island as a bright light and a deafening noise becomes. As a result, rubble from the station hit the camp of the survivors. Of the people who are in or in the immediate vicinity of the station at the time, only Charlie returns to the camp, while the fate of Locke, Mr. Eko and Desmond remains uncertain for the time being.
This event is also registered outside the island by a small research or measuring station, whereupon its occupants pass on their discovery to Desmond's friend Penelope "Penny" Widmore, who has been looking for him for years. The second season ends with these scenes, which show the world outside the island in the present for the first time since the crash.
Third season
The third season deals more with the relationship between survivors and others . The second half also saw the survivors' first contacts with the outside world.
At the beginning of the season, the viewer learns that Locke, Mr. Eko, Charlie and Desmond survived the implosion of the Swan Station at the end of the second season. While Mr. Eko is killed by the smoke monster shortly afterwards, Locke has regained his belief in the island as a result of a self-induced vision. However, the electromagnetic discharge had the greatest impact on Desmond. This is haunted repeatedly in the further course of the season by visions of future events, almost all of which have the violent death of Charlie in different situations as their content, which Desmond can initially successfully prevent each time. In addition, the viewer learns through a flashback that Claire is Jack's half-sister.
The character presented in the second season as Henry Gale turns out to be Benjamin "Ben" Linus, the leader of those others . The kidnapped Jack, Sawyer and Kate are being held by the Others on a small island called "Hydra" off the coast of the main island . Jack is supposed to operate a tumor on Ben's back, using Kate and Sawyer as leverage. Juliet Burke, one of the others , who later turns out to be held on the island by Ben against her will, establishes a relationship of trust with Jack and tries to persuade him to let Ben die during the operation. Jack finally agrees to the operation. He doesn't let Ben die, but allows Kate and Sawyer to escape back to the main island. After the operation is over, the others return with Jack. Meanwhile, Kate sets out again to free Jack together with Locke, Sayid and Rousseau from the violence of the others . It turns out, however, that Jack and Juliet have now entered into a deal with Ben that allows them to leave the island in a submarine with which the others can move freely between the outside world and the island. Locke, who - it turns out - only came with us to join the others , prevents this by blowing up the submarine shortly before casting off. Then Ben and the rest of the others leave their village with Locke, while Kate, Sayid, Jack and Juliet return to the survivors' beach camp. Juliet initially acts again on behalf of Ben. She should infiltrate the survivors and prepare a surprise attack by the others , in which some of the survivors are to be kidnapped.
Meanwhile, Ben lets Locke in on the island's secrets and introduces him to the ominous benefactor of the others , a certain Jacob, in a lonely hut in the middle of the forest . Since Locke can neither see nor hear this, however, he wants to leave the hut angrily, whereupon a groaning voice apparently asks him for help. The viewer can also see a human silhouette for a brief moment. Locke finally leaves the hut and accuses Ben of a deception. The fact that Locke could actually hear Jacob enraged Ben so much that he shot Locke in the jungle and left him behind.
Meanwhile, Desmond, Hurley, Jin and Charlie find a crashed helicopter pilot named Naomi in the jungle who pretends to be looking for Desmond on behalf of Penny Widmore. The survivors receive a satellite phone from Naomi, but due to a jamming signal used by the others , as well as Rousseau's 16-year-old emergency call, they are initially unable to contact the freighter from which Naomi's helicopter took off.
Juliet has since revealed to Jack that she is acting on Ben's behalf, but is now determined to switch sides. Together with Rousseau, they develop a plan to lure the others who are supposed to attack the camp into an ambush and kill them, which they ultimately succeed in doing. Meanwhile, the survivors set out with Naomi to the radio tower where Rousseau once sent her emergency call, in order to turn it off and contact Naomi's freighter. At the same time, Desmond and Charlie go to an underwater station of the Dharma Initiative ( Der Spiegel ), which is used by the others to disrupt any communication on the island that does not originate from them. Charlie manages to turn off the jamming signal on site. He made contact with Desmond's friend Penny by radio and learned that Naomi and her group were not acting on her behalf. The underwater station threatens to flood and Charlie closes the control room door to save Desmond. As a warning to his comrades, Charlie writes the words "Not Penny's Ship" in his hand and shows them to Desmond through the porthole of the soundproof door. Eventually, Charlie drowns in the water-filling room, just as Desmond foresaw.
Arriving at the radio tower, the survivors meet Ben, who tries to convince them that the people aboard Naomi's freighter have no friendly intentions. Even Locke, who appears surprisingly and unceremoniously seriously injured Naomi, talks to Jack in vain. Despite the warnings, Jack uses the satellite phone to contact the freighter. A member of the ship's crew assures him that he will send help. The survivors think they have been saved.
The third season ends for the first time with a glimpse into the future: In a sequence that tries to give the viewer the impression that this is just another flashback, an alcohol and pill addict Jack struggles with his life, in which he has any Has lost his footing. Only at the end of the episode, when Jack meets with Kate, does it become clear that the scenes in question take place after the two return to the United States (not shown in the series until then). A desperate Jack tries in vain to convince Kate to return to the island. They were not meant to leave the island.
Fourth season
The fourth season immediately follows the end of the third. After Charlie delivered his final warning of his death to Desmond, doubts spread among the survivors. The group then splits up: the part of the survivors who hopes to be rescued remains under Jack's leadership, while Locke leads the group who are skeptical of the freighter people. This group joins, among others, Sawyer, Hurley, Claire and Ben, who go to the former settlement of the others .
On the same night another helicopter of the freighter has to make an emergency landing on the island. There are four passengers on board: Frank Lapidus, the pilot, the spiritualist Miles Straume, the anthropologist Charlotte Lewis and the physicist Daniel Faraday. Charlotte initially falls into the hands of Locke's troop. After Sayid exchanged them for Miles, he flies to the freighter with Desmond. On the way they get into a kind of storm in which Desmond's consciousness begins to jump back and forth uncontrollably between the years 1996 and 2004. With Daniel's help, Desmond can end the time jumps by calling his great love Penny from the freighter. Daniel feels confirmed by these events in his theory that the island has a kind of time anomaly.
On the freighter, Desmond and Sayid learn from the captain that Charles Widmore, Penny's father, has hired him to search for the island and specifically Benjamin Linus. The viewer later learns that Widmore, like Ben, was also the leader of the Others until Ben was banished from the island by Ben in order to be able to seize his position. Since then, Linus and Widmore have been fierce enemies, and Widmore have been searching for the island in order to be able to return there. Both accuse each other of having staged the plane crash of the Oceanic 815, far from the actual crash site, true to the original for the public and the media in order to cover up the real crash. It also turns out that Michael Dawson, who once left the island with his son Walt, has now been smuggled into the Kahana by Ben as a spy under the false name Kevin Johnson . He is supposed to spy on the crew and sabotage the ship to save the other survivors. Michael also finds out that there is a mercenary force on board under the leadership of the brutal Martin Keamy, which a short time later goes fully armed to the island to take Ben prisoner and then, according to Ben, to kill all other survivors. On the way, the troops kill Rousseau and Karl, the friend of Rousseau's daughter Alex, who is taken hostage by Keamy. In the subsequent attack by the mercenaries on the barracks, many of the survivors are killed and Alex is finally used as leverage to persuade their foster father, Ben, to give up. When the latter refuses, he has to watch her being executed in front of his eyes. In angry desperation, Ben summons the smoke monster, which the troops can fight back for the time being.
While Sawyer, Miles and Claire and baby Aaron make their way back to the beach, Ben, Locke and Hurley go into the jungle in search of Jacob's hut to ask Jacob for advice in the face of the threat. On the way, the group, led by Sawyer, loses Claire, who one night sees her father Christian Shephard sitting peacefully by the campfire with Aaron in his arms. In the hut Locke finds Christian Shephard, who pretends to speak on behalf of Jacobs. Claire is also in the hut. Christian advises Locke to "move" the island. In the course of this, Ben, Hurley and Locke make their way to another DHARMA station, The Orchid , with the help of which they want to achieve this.
Back on the freighter, Keamy enforces the "second protocol" with the aim of capturing Ben at all costs and eliminating all witnesses. He forces Frank Lapidus to fly the mercenaries back to the island. Previously, Keamy placed explosives on the freighter, which was connected to a heart rate monitor on his arm. Keamy's death would automatically lead to a complete explosion of the freighter, giving him leverage again. Meanwhile, Sayid manages to return to the beach, where Daniel and Juliet begin to gradually transport the stranded onto the freighter. Sun, Jin and Aaron are the first. Jack and Sawyer, however, head back into the jungle to find Hurley, who is still with Locke and Ben. Sayid and Kate follow them, but are briefly captured by the Others , now under Richard Alpert's leadership. The group around Ben, Locke and Hurley reach the orchid , which is already guarded by Keamy and his people. Ben instructs Locke to use the station before he surrenders to Keamy, who takes him to the helicopter. Richard and the others then manage to free Ben with the help of Kate and Sayid and apparently kill all the mercenaries. Kate and Sayid are released as a reward.
Jack and Sawyer eventually also arrive above the station, where they meet Hurley and Locke. In view of the special nature of the island, Locke asks Jack to keep quiet about the events and the remaining survivors in the event of a successful rescue in public. But Jack doesn't get involved at first. Shortly afterwards, Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer and Sayid fly with Frank towards the freighter, where they struggle with a lack of fuel due to a leak. Sawyer then jumps out of the helicopter halfway and swims back to the island to give the others their chance to leave the island. At the same time, Ben and Locke take an elevator down to the orchid , where they learn that it is a facility for experiments with time and space teleportation on the island. However, they are surprised by Keamy, who is still alive. In a fit of revenge, Ben kills Keamy, accepting that Keamy's heart rate monitor could blow the freighter. Michael and Jin have previously tried unsuccessfully to defuse the bomb. After all, they can stop the explosion with liquid nitrogen long enough for the helicopter to land, refuel, pick up most of the companions and take off again. Only Michael and Jin stay behind and disappear in the fireball of the explosion, while Frank with Jack, Kate, Aaron, Sun, Desmond, Hurley and Sayid on board try to fly back to the island.
In the orchid , Ben is now making some final arrangements and recommends Locke to leave the station. Wherever Ben went to move the island, there would be no going back. Instead, Locke should go to the others and become their new leader. Finally, Ben crawls into a cave that contains a large, old, icy wooden wheel. With a lot of effort, Ben can turn it and put it into effect. Then a strange vibration begins all over the island, and a bright white light lights up. From the helicopter, the occupants can see how the island disappears instantly in this glaring light. Unable to land anywhere, Frank has to ditch the ocean. The fallen manage to get on a life raft. When they have been floating around in the open sea for an indefinite period of time, they are finally discovered and picked up by a ship. The ship is owned by Penny Widmore, whom Desmond located via his phone call. Jack decides, as Locke wanted, to lie about what happened after the crash, for the good of everyone involved and the people who were left behind on the island. Penny helps them and delivers Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley, Aaron and Sun off the Indonesian coast a week later. The group now plays the role of the only six survivors of the Oceanic 815 flight, which allegedly crashed off Indonesia.
In the parallel future story of this season, the viewer learns how the survivors, known in public as Oceanic Six , fare after their rescue. In a press conference and a court hearing, a tale of lies is told, according to which all remaining survivors are said to have perished. Oceanic pays tremendous compensation to the survivors.
Hurley is initially happy, but is visibly haunted by apparitions and delusions, whereupon he is re-admitted to his old institution. Sun has her child from Jin, with whom she became pregnant on the island, and continues to mourn her husband. She buys large parts of her father's company from the compensation and contacts Charles Widmore, because she wants to find Ben with his help and take revenge on him. In their eyes, Ben is partly responsible for the explosion on the freighter, in which Sun's husband Jin apparently died. Kate pretends to be Aaron as her birth son and escapes a threatened prison sentence for her past misdemeanors. Sayid marries his great love Nadia, who is murdered shortly afterwards. At their funeral, Sayid meets Ben, who had to leave the island due to the relocation. Ben pretends to have evidence that Widmore was responsible for Nadia's death, whereupon Sayid kills a number of people who were declared responsible on Ben's behalf. Furthermore, Ben visits Charles Widmore personally and announces the murder of his daughter Penny. At first, Jack can live with lies and even meets Kate in real life, wants to marry her and take care of his nephew Aaron. But the past doesn't let go of Jack; so he has several visions of his father Christian. He begins to distrust Kate and expires pills and alcohol. This in turn culminates in the Flashforward shown at the end of the third season, which can now be classified by the viewer a few years after the crash.
The last scenes of the fourth season thus immediately follow the last scenes of the third season finale. It turns out that a certain Jeremy Bentham went to see almost all of the Oceanic Six and tried to persuade them to return to the island. Bentham dies in the process, however, in a hitherto unexplained manner. Since nobody but Jack wants to go back to the island, the latter drives desperately and completely drunk back to that coffin and opens it. He meets Ben, who tells him that it is extremely important that not only he, but also everyone else, including Bentham's body, return to the island. Since Jack finds himself unable to convince the others, Ben offers to help him with some ideas. In the final shot of the season, you can finally see that the late Jeremy Bentham is none other than John Locke.
Fifth season
The first half of season five consists of two independent storylines that merge in the middle of the season.
The theme of the first storyline is the whereabouts of the survivors left on the island. After the island seemed to disappear into the sea at the end of season four, the characters jump back and forth arbitrarily through time. The island itself does not jump along, but has shifted its physical location in the ocean, which explains the sudden disappearance into the sea. During their leaps in time, the survivors witness some of the scenes shown from previous seasons, but from different perspectives, but also of actions that one knows but has not yet seen. Jin, who apparently died on the exploding freighter at the end of the fourth season, survived and also jumps through time in sync with the other island survivors. He eventually made contact with the other survivors.
Because of the leaps in time, the survivors begin to develop side effects in the form of jet lag , which can initially be expressed as a headache, later as a nosebleed, and ultimately lead to death. Charlotte dies from it. The survivors understand that they can only save their lives if they stop the leaps in time. They accompany Locke to the orchid station, where he can move the wooden wheel that has fallen out of its axis and thus end the time leaps. As a result, as happened to Ben, Locke is forcibly teleported from the island. The remaining survivors can be found in 1974 when the DHARMA initiative was active. They mingle with them and work with them without revealing their true origins and identity. They also learn that the DHARMA initiative has a tense relationship with the island's natives, who the DHARMA people call enemies , and that the two factions have agreed a ceasefire. Although the survivors work for the DHARMA initiative , they are secretly looking for their friends who they are sure will one day come back to the island.
How John Locke fared after he left the island and how he got into the coffin in which he was seen at the end of season four is told in the form of a flashback. Like Ben in season four, he wakes up in a desert in Tunisia and is finally visited by Charles Widmore. He pretends to be one of the "good guys" and shows Ben as the "bad guy" who sees things the other way around. Widmore helps Locke see the Oceanic Six to convince them to return to the island. The attempt fails, however, which is why Locke wants to take his own life. Just before he hangs himself, Ben appears and saves him from suicide. Immediately thereafter, however, he strangled Locke after he had revealed crucial information that would enable Ben to persuade the survivors to return to the island.
The second storyline revolves around the returned survivors in the present and picks up where the future storyline ended at the end of season four. Jack wants to return to the island and gets help from Ben, with whom he works from now on. Eventually some of the Oceanic Six are persuaded to come along to a mysterious woman named Eloise Hawking. It turns out to be the mother of Daniel Faraday, who is still on the island. Eloise explains to those present how to get back to the island. For example, on another flight, the exact route of which the aircraft will take over the island at exactly the right time, the situation during the crash of Oceanic 815 must be recreated as closely as possible. Eloise can determine the exact future location of the island using another DHARMA station in LA. With the exception of Aaron, who is left behind by Kate with his biological grandmother, the returned survivors fly via detours on Ajira Airways Flight 316 from Los Angeles to Guam . The body of John Locke is also on board. During the flight there is turbulence, with Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid being teleported to the island and shortly afterwards waking up scattered in the jungle.
Here the two previously independent storylines come together, and a new one is opened at the same time.
The newly opened storyline revolves around the whereabouts of flight 316 of Ajira Airways. The aircraft can successfully make an emergency landing on the small neighboring island "Hydra" known from previous seasons. There the survivors find abandoned facilities that were still actively used by the others in season 3 . Among the survivors are Sun, Ben and the helicopter pilot Frank Lapidus, known from season 4, who this time piloted the plane, as well as John Locke, who is apparently alive and well again. Sun and Lapidus secretly take a boat that they find on the beach to the main island in the former, now also abandoned, settlement of the Others . Locke and Ben arrive there some time later and meet them again. In a house, they discover an old DHARMA photo from the 1970s showing Jack, Kate and Hurley, which tells them that they must have ended up in the past. Then Lapidus returns to the Hydra and Sun, Ben and Locke make their way to the Temple of the Others, which was already mentioned in the third season . Once there, Ben alone enters a room under the temple, where the smoke monster is. However, contrary to expectations, Ben spares him. Shortly afterwards, Ben's deceased daughter, Alex, steps in front of him and threatens him with death if he does not follow John's orders. The viewer later realizes that the smoke monster has taken Alex's shape.
Ben, Locke and Sun go to the beach and meet Richard Alpert and his people there. Locke has his leadership role, which was given to him by Ben in the fourth season, and orders Richard to lead him and his entourage to Jacob. On the way there, Locke orders Ben to kill Jacob. Finally, they stand in front of a ruin, which consists only of the foot of a once huge statue in which Jacob lives. Locke and Ben enter the room and actually find Jacob there. Annoyed by Jacob's lack of appreciation of all the sacrifices that Ben says he has made all his life for the sake of him and the island, Ben kills Jacob as John Locke asked. Jacob does not defend himself, but gives a final warning with the words: "They are coming", before Locke pushes him into the fireplace in the room, where Jacob burns to ashes within a very short time. Meanwhile, Richard and the others are waiting outside when the survivors of the Ajira flight appear with Lapidus and a coffin they have brought with them. Richard lets her open the coffin which, to the amazement of everyone present, still contains the body of the actual John Locke.
In the reunited storyline, Jack, Kate and Hurley, teleported to the island, meet Jin, who is traveling through the jungle in a DHARMA initiative bus , which makes it clear that they too have landed in the past. Jin radioed Sawyer about this find, who has now worked his way up to a respected member of the DHARMA initiative . Sawyer succeeds in smuggling Jack, Kate and Hurley into the DHARMA initiative , who now also work for it. Sayid is found a little later in the presence of another DHARMA member, which is why, when Sawyers insist, he has to pretend to be one of the island locals in front of the DHARMA people and is then captured. In captivity, he meets the young Benjamin Linus, who at the time lived with his father on the island as part of the DHARMA initiative . Sayid manipulates Ben to help him escape, but shoots the boy shortly afterwards, hoping that this will change the future. Ben survived the shot, however, seriously injured. Since Juliet is unable to help Ben, Kate asks Jack for his assistance. But he refuses to save the child's life in order to prevent the later "monster" Ben. Kate doesn't want to accept that. As a last hope, she brings Ben with Sawyer's help to the enemies , who should heal him again. Richard Alpert, an apparent leader of the enemies who already looks the same as in the previous seasons and thus does not seem to be aging, wants to help Ben, but gives him to understand that after this healing process he would be someone else - one of them.
At the same time they learn that the DHARMA initiative is currently working on the swan station to research a strong electromagnetic energy source. In 2004, this station was responsible for ensuring that the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 took place in the first place. Despite repeatedly mentioning that nothing that is done at this time can change the future, Jack wants to blow up the energy source. With the help of the enemy , he arrives at a hydrogen bomb with which he wants to achieve this. While the development well for the energy source is still in progress, Jack, accompanied by his friends , is able to throw the much smaller atom bomb , which was removed from the large hydrogen bomb and which was actually used to ignite the hydrogen bomb, into the well of the well - although it does not initially explode. When the drill head hits the energy source, an enormously strong magnetic field builds up, which now pulls all metallic objects into the shaft. Unfortunately, an iron chain wraps around Juliet, who falls into the shaft despite Sawyer's attempt to rescue her. With the last of his strength Juliet can apparently detonate the atomic bomb. The season ends before the viewer sees the explosion.
Sixth season
The sixth season begins with a repetition of the last minutes of the fifth season. With the explosion of the atomic bomb, Sawyer, Hurley, Miles, Jack, Kate, Juliet, Jin and Sayid suffer another time jump on the island into the year 2007, so that all characters are now again in the same time plane. At the same time, a subplot is introduced by means of the so-called “Flash Sideways” from the official side, the events of which begin during an alternative, non-crashed Oceanic Flight 815.
Island store
After the jump in time again, Kate, Jack, Sawyer and Miles find the swan station imploded in the second season. Juliet is initially found alive under the rubble, but dies shortly afterwards in Sawyer's arms of her injuries. Meanwhile, Jacob Hurley appears and advises him to take his friends to the temple. As it turns out, this is inhabited by the majority of the others living on the island , who have now made it their task to protect the survivors - if necessary against their will - on behalf of Jacobs.
Meanwhile, the viewer learns that Locke, who was brought in the coffin in season 5, is actually dead. The man who has been posing as Locke since the Ajira plane crashed on the island is actually the smoke monster who has the ability to take the form of the dead. This explains some of the supposed ghost appearances over the last 5 seasons. Disguised as Locke, the smoke monster once again used the opportunity to influence the survivors or Ben for his own purposes. After the murder of Jacob, the smoke monster is now bound to the figure of Locke and goes in search of Jack and his friends, all of whom are in the temple apart from Jin, Kate and Sawyer. Locke first seeks out Sawyer and convinces him to join him in his quest to leave the island forever. Locke said this would only work if Jack, Hurley, the Kwons, and the others left together. Sawyer is supposed to help him find the rest of the survivors and get them to his side. Jin joins Locke's group after meeting Claire, who has been missing since the fourth season and is still alive but manipulated by the smoke monster in the jungle. With Claire and Sayid's help, the smoke monster finally succeeds in penetrating the temple and killing many of the residents there who did not want to join it voluntarily. One of the survivors is Kate, who then joins Locke's group.
After the attack on the temple, Jack's group, including Hurley, Ben, Sun and Richard Alpert, found themselves in the former beach camp of the survivors of the Oceanic flight, where they initially quarreled with the decision about how to proceed. In a flashback episode, the viewer finally learns that Alpert came to the island in the middle of the 19th century as a slave with the "Black Rock" known mainly from season 1. Shortly afterwards, Jacob gave him the job of mediating between himself and the people he brought to the island. In return, Jacob gave him immortality, which is why he has not aged anymore. After Jacob's death, Alpert briefly loses his faith in the island until, with Hurley's help, he understands what to do: The smoke monster must be prevented from leaving the island at all costs. To this end, the group decides to blow up the Ajira plane that is still on Hydra. On the way there, they meet Locke and his people several times, as a result of which the group continues to split and in some cases also reorganized.
As a result, Across the Sea (dt .: Across the Sea ) the audience finally learns the backstory to Jacob and his enemy, the smoke monster. According to this, Jacob and his twin brother were born on the island around 23 AD, shortly after their mother was stranded after a shipwreck. After giving birth, she is murdered by a woman who from then on pretends to be a “mother” and raises the two twin brothers. Later she lets the children in on the island's secret. It leads the two of them to a cave through which a stream flows and which is home to a bright, mystical light. This light is described by “mother” as the source of life, death and rebirth. If you go into the light, you are threatened with something worse than death. According to “mother”, something of this light also exists in every human being. Should it go out on the island, however, it would also go anywhere else. Therefore, the island must be protected. Jacob later describes the island as a kind of cork that keeps evil where it belongs. “Mother” explains to the brothers that one of the two is destined to take their place as protector one day. Shortly thereafter, the twins learn the truth about their origins, whereupon Jacob's brother, whose name is never mentioned in the series, leaves home with "mother" to live with the people who once came to the island with his birth mother. Jacob stays behind with "mother" so that the twins, apart from occasional meetings, grow up separately from each other.
30 years later, Jacob's brother tries to find a way off the island with the help of the people from his village. When “mother” learns that he wants to use the light of the cave for this purpose, she knocks him unconscious on a farewell visit. When he comes to, his village is in ruins, all residents are dead and the device he wanted to use to leave the island has been buried in a well. Out of anger about it, he kills “mother”, who thanks him for this with the last of her strength. Previously, she passed her job as the island's protector on to Jacob. In revenge for the murder of "mother", Jacob seriously injures his twin brother and throws him into the light of the cave. This goes out for a moment and releases an angry cloud of black smoke amid a deafening noise.
The now disembodied twin brother Jacobs - the smoke monster, does not give up his plan to be able to leave the island at some point. However, he can only achieve this by getting rid of the protector of the island, i.e. Jacob, which he cannot, since “mother” has “made” her in such a way that they cannot harm each other. Jacob, on the other hand, has been bringing people to the island for an indefinite period of time, on the one hand, to kill the smoke monster and to prove to him that people are not fundamentally bad, which his brother is convinced of and therefore sees no reason for Jacob's life's mission to go to the island to protect. On the other hand, Jacob is looking for a successor for himself should the smoke monster manage to kill him. Jack, Hurley, the Kwons, Sawyer and Sayid are the remaining "candidates". Since these are under Jacob's protection, the smoke monster cannot harm them directly either, but it can influence them for its own purposes.
Desmond, who in the meantime has been brought back to the island against his will by Charles Widmore, is thrown into a well by Locke and left to his fate. He later orders Sayid to shoot Desmond, but he doesn't. Locke learns from Widmore that Desmond is the only person known to have survived a fatal electromagnetic incident and was brought back to the island, allegedly on behalf of Jacobs, to perform a specific task. Ben, who is now the only one who has sided with Locke, kills Widmore. Together they go to the well where Desmond was thrown in, but find it empty. Desmond has since been freed by Rose and Bernard, in whose camp Locke ultimately finds him and forces him to come with him.
Sun, Jin and Sayid are killed during an attempt to escape using the submarine with which Widmore came to the island. While Lapidus, Miles and Alpert later find each other on the Hydra, Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley are stranded on the main island again. There Jacob appears to the remaining candidates, who are now Hurley, Jack and Sawyer. He explains to them that he created the smoke monster and that it will try at all costs to leave the island, which should have devastating consequences. When asked if it was even possible to kill it, Jacob replied that he did not know, but it would definitely try to kill Jack and the remaining candidates. Jacob also explains why he chose Jack, Sawyer and the others and brought them to the island. Like him, they would have always felt lost and looked for something in their lives that they could not find. Therefore, they are said to have needed the island as much as the island needed them. He explains that one of them must now decide whether he would like to accept the job as his successor. He would give them something that was once denied to him: a choice. Kate was formerly a candidate, which, according to Jacobs, was no longer an option because she became a mother to Aaron. But she can still take over his job if she wants to. Jack volunteers, however, because he thinks it is his destiny. Thereupon Jacob explains to him the way to the light, which only the protector can find and officially gives him the responsibility as the new protector of the island.
On the way to the Cave of Light, both groups around Jack and Locke meet at first peacefully. Jack threatens Locke to kill him, but does not reveal exactly how. Jack, Locke and Desmond go to the light and let Desmond down into the cave. Once there, he finds a kind of circular stone basin that is filled with water and emits bright light. It becomes clear that the light is a strong electromagnetic field when Desmond steps into the knee-deep water and cries out in pain. In the middle of the basin there is a cork-like elongated stone set into a hole. When Desmond pulls the cork out of the hole, the water drains and the light goes out. Instead, the cave shines in a dark red and seems to be heating up. Desmond falls unconscious. The island is now experiencing persistent earthquakes and is beginning to break up or sink. In front of the cave, Jack and Locke fight each other, with Locke sustaining minor injuries and realizing that he is now vulnerable. Thereupon he knocks Jack unconscious and tries to leave the sinking island with the sailing ship with which Desmond was stranded there years ago. When Jack comes to, he can catch Locke on the rocks, where there is a final fight. Locke can be killed with the help of Kate, who shoots him. Jack is seriously injured.
Via walkie-talkie, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley and Ben learn that Lapidus has been able to get the plane ready for take-off on the Hydra and that it will soon take off as the island is still threatening to sink. However, Ben and Hurley decide to help Jack save the island. Kate and Sawyer then take Desmond's boat and rush to the hydra. Since Jack plans to sacrifice himself, he passes on the task of protecting the island to Hurley. Ben and Hurley then rappel him down into the cave. With the last of his strength Jack drags himself to the stone basin, saves Desmond and puts the cork back in its place in the middle of the basin. Then water flows back into the basin, which shines again in the bright light. The earthquakes stop and the island is saved.
Hurley and Ben pull Desmond to the surface and figure out how to proceed. Based on his experience, Hurley asks Ben to help him in his role as the island's new protector, which Ben is pleased to accept. It is implied that Hurley wants Desmond to leave the island again so that he can be with Penny again.
On the Hydra, Kate, Sawyer and Claire can get on the plane in time and fly off the island with Miles, Alpert and Lapidus.
The last scenes show Jack who wakes up alive by a small stream and seems to run aimlessly through the jungle. It becomes clear that he is in the same place where he woke up in the pilot episode of the first season after the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. There he falls to the ground and sees the Ajira plane flying over him, which gives him the certainty that at least some of his friends have managed to escape. Vincent runs up to him from the jungle and lies down next to him. A close-up of Jack's eye follows as it slowly closes.
Subplot ("Flash Sideways")
The first pictures after the explosion of the hydrogen bomb show Jack and the other survivors again on Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney to Los Angeles . The fact that Desmond is on board already shows differences to the original flight. Shortly afterwards, stronger turbulence occurs on board, but this does not lead to a crash. The subsequent camera work shows that the aircraft has just flown over the underwater island. The passengers finally land unscathed at Los Angeles Airport. In the further course of the season they meet again and again. The alternative life courses of the main characters and those of the other survivors of the last seasons are shown.
The impression of a branching out of the subplot with the island plot is initially reinforced by the fact that the people gradually get memories from their time on the island in the form of flashes, mostly in situations that are very similar to the island plot. Also, mirrors play a predominant role in the subplot, as well as the characters' strange behavior when looking at themselves in them. Furthermore, Jack's memory gaps from his childhood and an inexplicably recurring bleeding wound on his neck, which, as it turns out later, is one of the injuries he sustained in the final battle with Locke on the island, are particularly noticeable.
After Desmond first realizes that there seems to be a connection between the passengers on Flight 815, he begins to visit Hurley and then the other main characters to remind them of the island. Most recently, Desmond had Jack's father Christian's coffin, which had been lost since flight 815 but now apparently recovered, delivered to the church, where his funeral was to take place, and informed Jack over the phone, pretending to be an employee of Oceanic Airlines. Before that, he arranged a meeting between Kate and Jack, at which Jack's memories now fully return and he lets Kate persuade him to go to the church, where "the others" are supposed to be waiting for them, and then "go together" ". Locke and Hurley arrive one after the other in front of the church, where they meet Ben. When asked if he could not come in, he replied that he still had something to do and would therefore like to stay behind for a while.
In the meantime, Jack first looks for his father's coffin in the church, which he finds empty to his amazement. Shortly afterwards, however, Christian is apparently alive towards him. Jack now learns from him that he is dead, as are all his friends. Some died before him, others long after him, but that is irrelevant because where they are now, time no longer plays a role. They would have created this reality themselves in order to be able to find each other again after death and move on together. In the church itself, Jack and Christian mostly encounter the survivors of the first season, including Sayid, Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Locke, the Kwons, Charlie, Claire and Aaron.
After everyone is happily reunited with each other, Christian opens the church door from the inside, whereby the room opens in a bright white light.
epilogue
The approximately twelve-minute epilogue "The New Man in Charge" was released with the DVD set for the sixth season and that for the entire series.
Ben appears in the DHARMA logistics warehouse in Guam and explains to the two employees, Hector and Glenn, that the DHARMA initiative has not existed for almost 20 years and that they should leave. Since the two require answers, Ben allows them to ask one question at a time. Glenn wants to know how it could be that the packages would all be sent to the island, although the coordinates were always different, which Ben explains with the reason that the island is moving. Hector asks about the possibility of the polar bears' existence, since the island he knows is in the tropics, whereupon Ben turns on a DVD with the Hydra orientation film.
In this film, Pierre Chang explains the experiments on polar bears and birds and the purpose of room 23.
Ben enters the Santa Rosa Mental Hospital to see Walt. He can convince him that he is special and that he must return to the island with him. Outside they get on a DHARMA bus with Hurley waiting in the back seat. He explains to Walt that he belongs on the island and that he wants to talk to him about a job.
Special offers
The specials are episodes that consist only of clips from previously known material and that retell the events up to a certain point. With a few exceptions, they are always set before the first episode or the finale of the respective season, which primarily serves to make it easier for new viewers to get started. Later there are also some specials that are theme-based (for example time travel or the history of Oceanic 6).
New information is only conveyed through an off-comment. This will be spoken by Brian Cox and Peter Coyote until the third season . In some episodes, executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse comment on the content. Beginning in Season 3, various actors who play a role on Lost will speak the commentaries. These are Michael Emerson (Benjamin Linus), Doug Hutchison (Horace Goodspeed) and Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert). In the German versions, the corresponding well-known voice actors are used.
The only exception is the Special Lost Moments , which aired during the 13-week hiatus that Season 3 was split from. It consists of individual scenes, all of which come from episodes to come. The concept corresponds to that of the Sneak Peeks, which were published from the fifth season as a preview for the next episode.
Not all specials were broadcast on German TV.
Special aspects
Crashed from Flight 815 and other survivors
At the beginning of the series, there were 48 survivors from the fuselage portion of the aircraft (plus a dog), 14 of whom represented the series' original main characters. The pilot of the plane was found in the course of the pilot, by Jack, Kate and Charlie, in the separated cockpit, but only a few moments later killed by the mysterious monster of the island. From the pilot film on, minor characters and extras among the survivors regularly die (for example, a survivor is torn into an engine immediately after the crash, which then explodes; the seriously wounded Marshal Mars is euthanized; a woman drowns while bathing in the sea, etc.) . Towards the end of the first season, the pregnant Claire has her baby, while Boone, the first main character, is killed. His stepsister Shannon in turn dies at the beginning of the second season and Charlie at the end of the third season.
The tail section of the aircraft has been missing since the pilot film. In the finale of the first season, a woman named Ana Lucia was introduced as part of a flashback, who, according to her own statement, had a seat in the rear of the aircraft. At the beginning of the second season, some of the survivors from the middle section meet the survivors from the stern. Their previous experiences on the island are described in a separate episode, with the number of originally 23 survivors dwindling to five within 48 days due to kidnappings by the others and various deaths. These five remaining survivors from the stern then return with the survivors from the middle section to their beach camp, whereby another survivor, the stewardess Cindy, originally introduced in the pilot film, mysteriously disappears. However, the new main characters are not granted a long life, as Ana-Lucia and Libby are shot at the end of the second season and Mr. Eko is killed by the monster at the beginning of the third season. Also in the third season it is revealed that the kidnapped survivors from the stern - including Cindy - are well and are now in the company of the others . Furthermore, Juliet runs over from the others to the stranded and joins them.
Occasionally the survivors of the crash on the island meet other people who also ended up there. A French woman named Danielle Rousseau is the last survivor of a research team that was shipwrecked on the island 16 years earlier; furthermore, a man named Desmond Hume, who was originally introduced as part of a flashback, was stranded there with his sailing ship three years before the current plot. In the course of the series, the protagonists also find the wreckage of a crashed propeller plane from Nigeria, whose deceased occupants are in connection with Mr. Eko, and the Black Rock , an old British slave ship, in the middle of the island. A man named Henry Gale also crashed in a hot air balloon on the island. The original survivors of Flight 815 are severely decimated by attacks from the Others, accidents and Widmore's men. In the final episode of Season 4, most of the survivors, with the exception of the main cast, are killed by the bomb on the freighter.
New characters have been taking center stage since season 4. Frank Lapidus, the helicopter pilot and original Flight 815 pilot, the anthropologist Charlotte Lewis, the physicist Dr. Daniel Faraday and Miles Straume, a person who can communicate with the dead. After a military unit subsequently infiltrated the island from a freighter, Danielle, Alex, their friend Karl and all the soldiers died. When Ben moved the island and some of the original survivors left the island, the remaining survivors on the island saw time leaps at irregular intervals. Since these are directly harmful to the brain, Charlotte dies after a short time in Daniel's hands before Locke can move the island again to stop the time jumps. Locke leaves the island and the other protagonists find each other again in 1974, where they join the DHARMA initiative a little later and live happily together for three years. In the fifth season Daniel is killed, and Juliet does not survive her meter-high fall into the shaft of the swan station and then dies. In addition, the roles of Jacobs, his mortal enemies and the others will be re-portrayed in the season finale of the fifth season and at the beginning of the sixth season .
Recurring flashback characters
For large parts of the first seasons, new characters appear in flashbacks who were not on board the aircraft or who did not survive the crash. Many of these characters appear more often in flashback scenes, some of them even in the flashbacks of different characters, adding to the mysterious connections between the characters. The roles of these characters will be explained in the course of the later seasons. In this way, Hugo can see people who have already died in the present and make contact with them. Other characters are related to Charles Widmore or the others . This also enables characters who have already died in the course of the series to appear again in a flashback. In some rare cases, characters known from flashbacks also appear suddenly in the current action on the island, whereby they have come to the island in different ways. With the season finale of the fifth season, the mysterious person Jacob and his enemy are introduced into the colonial times with a flashback and put in a central light.
Jack's father Christian plays a special role among the flashback characters, who - although he died before the crash - repeatedly appears to his son and other survivors on the island. According to the producers, his status within the writing staff - just like that of Mr. Eko's brother Yemi - is neither “dead” nor “alive” but “undead”. The mysterious smoke monster can also take the form of the dead; by taking on Alexandra's form, Benjamin Linus was also able to see his daughter again after her death. With the broadcast of the sixth season it was declared that the smoke monster is the false John Locke, Jacob's enemy, and that he has also assumed the form of the supposed "undead" in order to manipulate the survivors.
The others
Also in the course of the first season, the existence of a group of people is hinted at for the first time, and they are eventually given the name "The Others". One of them, Ethan Rom, infiltrated the survivors of the crash and eventually kidnapped the pregnant Claire; as it turns out later, to ensure her and her child's survival. At the end of the first season, the raft with which some of the survivors want to flee the island is intercepted by one of the others ' boats , Walt is kidnapped and the raft is blown up. In the second season the others appear as a group of ragged savages, but later it turns out that this is just a camouflage. One of them, who initially pretends to be Henry Gale, who has crashed on the island, is captured by Danielle Rousseau in the course of the second season and brought by her to the survivors; however, he can later escape with Michael's help. Eventually it turns out that Gale takes a leadership position among the others and goes by the name of Benjamin Linus. In the third season, the others and their society are increasingly brought into focus, whereby it turns out that the majority of them were not born on the island, but were only recruited from the outside world over the years.
After they had to give up their residence in the DHARMA barracks, the others return to the vast jungle. The top leader of the Others appears to be a hitherto unknown person named Jacob. Richard Alpert takes on the role of advisor, while Benjamin Linus passes Jacobs' orders to the tribe. Over time, however, John Locke Benjamin Linus' rank expires and becomes the new leader. When Locke also leaves the island after moving the island and is strangled by Ben in an apartment after attempting suicide, he returns to the island a little later in a coffin. Jacob's enemy can thus assume the form of John Locke, manipulate the others under his administration and kill Jacob through the influenced Benjamin Linus. It is known that the others have set up their main camp in a deeply hidden temple and are stuck in an eternal fight against Jacob's brother, now the smoke monster.
They see themselves as “the good guys” and do not understand the aggressiveness of the survivors who react with violence to the kidnappings by the others. They have a significantly higher standard of living than the survivors. They live in the old houses left behind by the Dharma Initiative and lead a normal middle class life. In order to deceive the survivors, they use false beards, worn out clothing and walk barefoot. Few of them are seasoned fighters, most are normal people. Your motivation is never completely dissolved.
The DHARMA initiative
At the beginning of the second season, the DHARMA initiative is introduced, whose members only appear in the first seasons as part of film recordings or flashbacks of newly introduced characters. In the orientation film of the swan station, you learn that the DHARMA initiative was founded in 1970 and came to the island at that time. With the help of the first station, "The Lamppost", it was possible to find the island at a certain point on the planet in a certain period of time. Once there, she built various facilities, including a settlement and numerous research stations that are discovered by the protagonists or shown in flashbacks over the course of the series. Some of the research facilities made use of the survivors of Flight 815 as shelter, while the others used the barracks as a residential area. The employees of the DHARMA initiative were killed in a poison gas attack by the Others in 1992 . When the survivors travel back in time to 1974, they find shelter in the DHARMA initiative and become members.
Meaning of the names
According to the producers, none of the names was chosen at will, rather they should all have a meaning. In some cases the reference is obvious, for example Jack with the surname Shephard, in German shepherd, is a role that he actually takes within the group of survivors. The name of Claire's son, Aaron, was again the name of the brother of the biblical Moses . The latter is addressed in the series itself.
Several main and minor characters were named after famous philosophers , writers and scientists, such as John Locke , Jeremy Bentham , Richard Alpert , Mikhail Bakunin , Edmund Burke and Anthony Ashley-Cooper . Furthermore, Desmond's full name, Desmond David Hume, refers to the philosopher David Hume and the name Sayid Jarrah to Edward Said , Danielle Rousseau has the same last name as Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Charlotte Staples Lewis is that of Clive Staples Lewis , and Daniel Faraday is from Michael Faraday derived.
The names of fictional characters are also occasionally used, for example the assumed false name of Benjamin Linus, Henry Gale, refers to a character from the book The Wizard of Oz , the name Goodwin to the wizard from the Russian revision of the same subject, The Wizard of the Emerald City . The name Benjamin, on the other hand, also has a biblical model, which was the son of Jacob . In the series, Benjamin Linus says he reports to the mysterious Jacob. The character of the doctor Jack alludes to William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies , in which the leader of the stranded children bears the same name. Desmond's friend Penelope is named after Odysseus' wife, who waited 20 years for Odysseus to return home.
The name Mr. Eko was jointly chosen by producer and performer Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje after the latter rejected the originally proposed name Emeka, as he preferred a name from the Yoruba people of which he himself belongs for his role .
The names Marvin Candle and Mark Wickmund used by the DHARMA scientist from the orientation videos are variations on the same theme - both surnames have something to do with wax candles . A third name based on the same pattern, Edgar Haliwax, was also used in a new video that was shown for the first time at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con.
There is also an interesting relationship between Benjamin Linus and a character in a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . In the fourth season, Benjamin Linus checks into a Tunisian hotel under the name Dean Moriarty. In this context, the character of Professor James Moriarty can be found in the novels of Doyle as the brilliant counterpart to Sherlock Holmes , whereby the theory circulates that Holmes and Moriarty are one and the same person. In addition, there is also a character named Dean Moriarty in the novel On the Road by the American writer Jack Kerouac .
Another recurring theme in naming is anagrams : The name Ethan Rom (Dr. Goodspeed) is an anagram for other man - Ethan was actually one of the others, in English Others . The name of the Mittelos company can also be read as Lost Time , the name of the Herarat Aviation airline refers to Amelia Earhart , who also plays a role in ARG Find 815 , the name of the funeral home Hoffs / Drawlar from the finale of the third season an anagram of flash forward , and two of the identities of John Locke's father, Anthony Cooper and Adam Seward, taken together make an anagram for Sawyer, the con man, a poor dad, an early indication that Cooper was that Sawyer whose name James Ford had adopted. The name of Harper Stanhope, a minor character from the fourth season, can also be read as Perhaps an Other .
Meaning of the numbers
The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 play an important role in the series. Initially, they only appear individually or in smaller combinations (for example, as flight number 815 with a departure from gate 23), although a particular meaning is initially not recognizable. Only in the episode Numbers (German: cursed numbers ) from the first season does the entire sequence of numbers come to the fore: On the one hand, it is the winning numbers on Hurley's lottery ticket, and Danielle Rousseau's research team also followed a radio transmission of the numbers and stranded on the island. At the end of the episode, it also turns out that the numbers are also engraved on the rim of the hatch, discovered by Locke and Boone a few episodes earlier. At the beginning of the second season, the viewer then learns that in the research station, which is located under the hatch, the same numbers have to be entered into a computer every 108 minutes (the sum of all six numbers) - at the end of the season it finally turns out that in this way an electromagnetic field that builds up again and again is discharged.
Even after the numbers have been established as a special element of the series, they continue to appear individually or in various combinations (for example in the form of the 23rd Psalm, which gives an episode of the second season its title, or as a package delivery with the delivery number 4815), whereby in some cases it is unclear whether every appearance of one of the numbers is really intended, a mere Easter egg for fans or just pure coincidence. The numbers give fans time and again cause for speculation and theories, for example, a connection is assumed again and again in different situations in which one of these numbers can somehow be read or interpreted.
In the fourth episode of the sixth season it is explained why some of the protagonists apparently crashed on the island: The fake John Locke tells that Jacob is the protector of the island and chose who so-called candidates were in a cave. To do this, Jacob had to give them the decisive impetus at a decisive event in their previous life that changed their whole future life so that they crashed onto the island. His notes were: 4 Locke, 8 Reyes, 15 Ford, 16 Jarrah, 23 Shephard, and 42 Kwon. When asked what the numbers stand for, the false Locke simply replies that Jacob likes numbers. Each of the candidates apparently has the opportunity to decide whether he
- don't want to do anything, then his name will be deleted,
- want to protect the island and take Jacob's post or
- want to go, leave the island and never look back.
According to Jacob's enemy, the island does not need to be protected by anyone, as it is just an island. This later turns out to be a lie - it is Jacob's enemy himself that the island must be protected from.
In the fifth episode of the sixth season, Jacob sends Hugo and Jack to an ancient lighthouse that was previously unknown to them. In the top of which a tiltable mirror located at a angle - scale . Hundreds of candidates' names are engraved on this scale with their numbers. It should be set to 108 degrees. When Jack swings the mirror into the position corresponding to his name, he can dimly see the old house in which he grew up. With a mirror position of 23 degrees Jacob could observe the young Jack Shephard, with 4 degrees the young John Locke, with 8 degrees the young Hugo Reyes and so on, and the intermediate positions correspond to many other candidates previously observed by Jacob and mostly long rejected .
Recurring elements
In the course of the series, a number of consistent themes emerged, which the scriptwriters take up again and again. In the first season, the contrast between good and bad played a role again and again, which was increasingly forgotten in the course of the series, but was taken up again sporadically. Other recurring themes are the contrasts between faith and science, chance and fate, or fate and free will. Many characters on the series have pre-made opinions on some of these topics, from which they rarely deviate. In most cases, these opinions are shaped by experiences they had in life on the island before. Often immediately after a statement or action that is enforced on the basis of such a firm opinion and which appears to the viewer to be too biased - sometimes even clichéd - the experience of the character that led to this bias is shown. The fact that some characters have almost completely opposing attitudes towards certain issues often leads to conflicts that divide the whole group.
Each of the main characters has serious problems in life, including a junkie, two criminals and a woman with terminal cancer. The aspect that the island offers a "second chance" is addressed several times.
Another frequently recurring element is the disturbed relationships that many protagonists have with their fathers (less often with their mothers), who are often alcoholics, cheaters, murderers or simply bad parents.
Among the recurring stylistic elements, the first setting is used in many episodes part in the form of an opening eye that belongs in almost any of these cases the figure, in the particular episode in the center of the corresponding flashbacks - or later advance diaphragm is -. The model for this is the short film film from 1965. Also, especially in the first season, an episode often ended with a shot that allowed an ambiguous view of the character who would be the focus of the next episode. In later seasons, individual scenes from earlier episodes are directly quoted or shown again from a new perspective through similarly chosen settings.
Quite often, phrases dropped earlier in the series are alluded to or repeated, the best-known examples are "live together, die alone" ("live together, die alone") and "every man for himself" ("everyone for himself") .
Open questions
The authors announced that many secrets will be revealed to the end. However, even after the last episode ( The End ) was broadcast, there are still numerous open questions. Among other things, the question therefore still arises as to why no viable children can be conceived on the island. (See epilogue: This is due to the electromagnetic fields. Pregnant polar bears also die. But if a certain stage is exceeded, the children survive. Therefore, Claire survives too.) It is also unclear who built the eighteenth statue. At the beginning of the sixth season of Lost , Spiegel Online listed ten important open questions and over the course of the season summarized in a blog whether and how at least these questions were answered.
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Main cast
The table names the actors who are listed in the opening credits under Starring and thus belong to the main cast .
| Role name | actor | Main role (seasons) |
Guest role (seasons) |
German dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Jack Shephard | Matthew Fox | 1.01-6.18 | Peter Flechtner | |
| Katherine "Kate" Austen | Evangeline Lilly | 1.01-6.18 | Ranja Bonalana | |
| James "Sawyer" Ford (aka Jim LaFleur) | Josh Holloway | 1.01-6.18 | Johannes Berenz | |
| John Locke (aka Jeremy Bentham) | Terry O'Quinn | 1.01-6.18 |
Lothar Hinze Ernst Meincke |
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| Sayid Jarrah | Naveen Andrews | 1.01-6.18 | Tayfun Bademsoy | |
| Hugo "Hurley" Reyes | Jorge Garcia | 1.01-6.18 | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss | |
| Jin-Soo Kwon | Daniel Dae Kim | 1.01-6.18 | See-Young Cho | |
| Sun-Hwa Kwon | Kim Yoon-jin | 1.01-6.18 |
Kang Moon-suk Mey Lan Chao |
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| Claire Littleton | Emilie de Ravin | 1.01-4.14 6.02-6.18 |
5.04 | Ilona Brokowski |
| Charlie Hieronymus Pace | Dominic Monaghan | 1.01-3.23 | 4.01, 6.01, 6.11, 6.17-6.18 | Tommy Morgenstern |
| Michael Dawson (aka Kevin Johnson) | Harold Perrineau Jr. | 1.01-2.24 4.07-4.14 |
6.12 | Charles Rettinghaus |
| Walter "Walt" Lloyd | Malcolm David Kelley | 1.01-2.24 | 3.22, 4.08, 4.13, 5.07 | Aljosha Fritzsche |
| Shannon Rutherford | Maggie Grace | 1.01-2.08 | 3.14, 6.17-6.18 | Magdalena Turba |
| Boone Carlyle | Ian Somerhalder | 1.01-1.25 | 2.06, 3.03, 3.14, 6.01, 6.17-6.18 | Ozan Unal |
| Mr. Eko | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | 2.02-3.05 | Michael Ojake | |
| Ana Lucia Cortez | Michelle Rodríguez | 2.03-2.21 | 1.23, 5.02, 6.16 | Ghadah Al-Akel |
| Elizabeth "Libby" Smith | Cynthia Watros | 2.03-2.23 | 4.08, 6.12, 6.18 | Maud Ackermann |
| Benjamin "Ben" Linus (aka Henry Gale) | Michael Emerson | 3.01-6.18 | 2.14-2.24 | Udo Schenk |
| Desmond David Hume | Henry Ian Cusick | 3.03-6.18 | 2.01-2.03, 2.23-2.24 | Markus Pfeiffer |
| Dr. Juliet Burke | Elizabeth Mitchell | 3.01-5.17 | 6.01-6.02, 6.17-6.18 | Andrea Aust |
| Nikki Fernandez | Kiele Sanchez | 3.03-3.14 | Maria Koschny | |
| Paulo | Rodrigo Santoro | 3.03-3.14 | Michael Deffert | |
| Miles Straume | Ken Leung | 4.02-6.18 | Alexander Doering | |
| Dr. Daniel Faraday | Jeremy Davies | 4.01-5.15 | 6.11, 6.17 | Matthias Deutelmoser |
| Dr. Charlotte Staples Lewis | Rebecca Mader | 4.02-5.05 | 6.08, 6.17 | Katja Primel |
| Frank Lapidus | Jeff Fahey | 6.01-6.18 | 4.02-5.17 | Oliver Stritzel |
| Richard Alpert | Nestor Carbonell | 6.01-6.18 | 3.07-5.17 | Oliver Field |
| Ilana Verdansky | Zuleikha Robinson | 6.01-6.13 | 5.06-5.17 | Eva Michaelis |
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Notable supporting actors
| Role name | actor | Guest role (seasons) |
German dubbing voice |
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| Rose Henderson | L. Scott Caldwell | 1.01-6.18 |
Astrid Bless Regina Lemnitz |
| Cindy Chandler | Kimberley Joseph | 1.01-3.19, 6.02-6.13 | Antje von der Ahe |
| Marshal Edward Mars | Fredric backrest | 1.01-3.15, 6.01-6.03 | Erich Rauker |
| Dr. Christian Shephard | John Terry | 1.05-6.18 | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Noor "Nadja" Abed Jazeem | Andrea Gabriel | 1.09-6.13 |
Pervaneh Parviz-Hamidi Ilknur Bahadir-Schrag |
| Danielle Rousseau | Mira Furlan | 1.09-4.10, 6.16 | Ulrike Johannson |
| Danielle Rousseau (young) | Melissa Farman | 5.04-5.05, 5.12 | Julia digit |
| Dr. Ethan Rom (Dr. Goodspeed) | William Mapother | 1.09-3.16, 5.01-6.03 | Olaf Reichmann |
| Carmen Reyes | Lillian Hurst | 1.18–6.12 | Alexandra Lange-Baehr |
| Anthony Cooper / Tom Sawyer | Kevin Tighe | 1.19-3.19, 6.14 | Otto Mellies |
| Aaron Littleton | William Blanchette | 1.20-6.18 | Charlie Niesner |
| Sarah Shephard | Julie Bowen | 1.20-3.22 | Christin Marquitan |
| Diane Janssen | Beth Broderick | 1.22-4.04 | Andreschka Grossmann |
| Tom (Mr. Friendly) | MC Gainey | 1.25–4.08 |
Michael Telloke Axel Lutter |
| Dr. Pierre Chang | François Chau | 2.03-6.18 | Uwe Büschken |
| Dr. Bernard Nadler | Sam Anderson | 2.04-6.18 | Peter Hladik |
| Goodwin | Brett Cullen | 2.07-4.06 | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Cassidy Philips | Kim Dickens | 2.13-3.15, 5.11 | Katrin Zimmermann |
| Alexandra "Alex" Rousseau | Tania Raymonde | 2.15-6.16 | Berenice Weichert |
| Beatrice "Bea" Klugh | April Grace | 2.22-3.11 | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues |
| Danny Pickett | Michael Bowen | 2.22-3.07 |
Joachim Siebenschuh Gerald Paradise |
| Penelope "Penny" Hume (née Widmore) | Sonya Walger | 2.23-6.18 | Melanie Hinze |
| Charles Widmore | Alan Dale | 2.23-6.16 | Klaus Nietz |
| Karl Martin | Blake Bashoff | 3.01-4.10 | Vanya Gerick |
| David Reyes | Cheech Marin | 3.10-5.02 | Andreas Mannkopff |
| Carole Littleton | Susan Duerden | 3.12-5.11 | Ulrike Möckel |
| Naomi Dorrit | Marsha Thomason | 3.17-5.13 | Vera Teltz |
| Horace Goodspeed | Doug Hutchison | 3.20-5.16 | Axel Malzacher |
| Eloise Hawking | Fionnula Flanagan | 3.08, 5.02-6.18 | Inken summer |
| Martin Christopher Keamy | Kevin Durand | 4.05-4.14, 6.06, 6.10 | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Bram | Brad William Henke | 5.09-6.01 | Marco Kroeger |
| "Man in black" | Titus Welliver | 5.16-6.18 | Oliver Siebeck |
| Jacob | Mark Pellegrino | 5.16-6.16 | Jens-Uwe Bogadtke |
| Doge | Hiroyuki Sanada | 6.02–6.06 | |
| Lennon | John Hawkes | 6.02–6.06 | Robert Missler |
| David Shephard | Dylan Minnette | 6.05-6.17 | Joel Armbruster |
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Charisma
United States
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ABC has been broadcasting the series in the United States since September 2004. Due to the big protests of the fans, who complained about an irregular change between new episodes and repeats due to production technology, the third season, which started on October 4, 2006, was now broadcast in two parts. The first of these consisted of six episodes broadcast in the fall of 2006 and the second of 17 further episodes broadcast from February 7, 2007.
After the end of the third season in the United States, three more seasons were announced, which should now contain only 16 episodes each. Due to the strike of the Writers Guild of America , which lasted from November 2007 to February 2008, the fourth season was shortened from 16 to 14 episodes and the missing episodes were submitted during the two following seasons. The broadcasting scheme was also changed again for the last three seasons, as many viewers were not happy with the method used in the third season - broadcasting in two blocks. Therefore, ABC wanted to show the fourth season from January 31, 2008 in one piece without interruptions or repetitions. This project was not possible because of the strike. Until March 2008, the eight episodes that were completed before the writers' strike were shown in one go, while five more episodes were submitted after a one-month break from the end of April. The last episode of the season was broadcast after another one-week break on May 29, 2008 and had, just like the last episodes of the three previous seasons, twice the length of a regular episode. The first episode of the fourth season, The Beginning of the End, reached an audience of 16.07 million, the average for this season was 13.17 million viewers. The fifth season, this time comprising 17 episodes, aired between January 21, 2009 and May 13, and had an average of 10.9 million viewers.
The sixth and final season started in the United States on February 2, 2010.
The series is broadcast in the United States in both HD (720p) and SD (480i) resolution .
Germany
In Germany, the first season was broadcast on Pay TV Premiere on October 6, 2004 . The second season ran there as a German TV premiere from March 19 to September 15, 2006. From March 23, 2007, the third season was broadcast on the Premiere series, with the first episode running on March 18 on Premiere Blockbuster. The German premiere of the fourth season ran from June 15, 2008 on Sundays on the newly established in Germany pay TV transmitter FOX Channel . Since October 4, 2008, FOX was integrated into the Premiere program offering and replaced the Premiere Series heading - so Lost could be seen again on Premiere. The broadcast of the fifth season began on April 9, 2009. The broadcast of the final sixth season began on March 17, 2010. The broadcast of Lost on pay TV has now been completed.
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The first season of Lost was first broadcast on German free TV between April and November 2005 by ProSieben , interrupted by a two-month summer break. The weekly episodes, which were broadcast on Monday evening at 8:15 p.m., could no longer achieve the high ratings of the pilot film in all cases. ProSieben broadcast the second season from September 2006 to February 2007, initially at 9:15 p.m., and from January 2007 onwards at 10:15 p.m. due to lower audience ratings.
From October 15, 2007, ProSieben broadcast the third season on Mondays at 9:15 p.m. From December 3, 2007, the broadcaster expanded the broadcast to double episodes. On February 11, 2008, the last episode of the third season aired. The fourth season ran from January 12th to April 6th, 2009, now again in individual episodes at 10:15 p.m.
While the last episode of each of the first four seasons in the United States was twice as long (the last episode of the first season was officially the second part of the season finale), the corresponding episodes for various other markets, including Germany, were split into two making the first season finale a three-part series. In the case of the finale of the second, third and fourth season, additional time was required for the summary of the previous series events at the beginning of the newly created single episode, which resulted in individual scenes either being slightly shortened or moved to other parts of the episode. It is unclear whether there is a dubbed version of the missing scenes, as the episodes on the German DVD releases are also only available in two parts.
Due to the poor audience ratings on ProSieben, Lost was given a new slot on the ProSiebenSat.1 Media broadcaster kabel eins from the 2009/2010 TV season . There the fifth season ran from January 21, 2010 to March 11, 2010 on Thursdays at 9:15 p.m., with two episodes being broadcast one after the other. The sixth and final season was broadcast from September 23, 2010 to November 19, 2010 at 10:15 p.m., later at 11:15 p.m. The last episode saw only 390,000 viewers, 90 percent less than at the start of the series.
Since the summer of 2014, all episodes of the six seasons have been available as streams from several VoD providers.
Switzerland
In Switzerland, the station SF two broadcast the first two seasons parallel to ProSieben and also with a two-month break. The third season ended in Switzerland on February 4, 2008. The 14 episodes of the fourth season, beginning with a Lost IV Special , have been broadcast on SF two on Sunday evenings since January 4, 2009. The fifth season began broadcasting on January 17, 2010. The sixth season was broadcast on SF Two from September 19, 2010.
Austria
In Austria, the second season started on September 3, 2006 on ATV and was broadcast weekly on Sundays in a double episode. The third season ran from September 16, 2007 to February 7, 2008. The fourth season was to be seen since January 8, 2009 on ATV in double episodes . The second and third seasons were broadcast as German-language free TV premieres. The fourth season was also broadcast as a free TV premiere and ended on February 19, 2009.
The fifth season has aired in double episodes since January 19, 2010 on ATV .
Episode list
marketing
Actions by ABC and the producers
ABC came up with a few ideas to advertise the series. In addition to a professional advertising campaign that includes fictional websites for companies known from the series and related alternate reality games , ABC has also come up with some less sensational ways to promote the series. For example, the new episodes are freely available on the broadcaster's website one day after they are broadcast on ABC (but only for Internet users residing in the United States). Several official discussion forums are also offered.
For example, a website for the fictional airline Oceanic Airlines was launched during the first season, where fans of the series could find additional information on the fateful Flight 815 (including a seating plan) and discover some hidden Easter eggs. A second website, to which one was redirected via one of the many hidden functions on the first page, offered, among other things, video clips from the first season, wallpapers, a search game, information about the first season and, as an Easter egg, a (false) script page for one the first episode of the second season. A hidden link also led to the website of the (fictitious) Hanso Foundation.
In the run-up to the fifth season, a website for the also fictional airline Ajira Airways was added, which was not part of the Alternate Reality Games DHARMA Initiative Recruiting Project (see below).
The Lost Experience
The original website of the fictional Hanso Foundation was launched at the beginning of the second season and was also accessible via a link from the above-mentioned Oceanic Flight 815 page . Towards the end of the second season, the site was given a general overhaul (at the same address) and became part of a full alternate reality game called The Lost Experience. It was written by Jordan Rosenberg on behalf of Cuse and Lindelof and realized by Hi Res .
Commercials broadcast on ABC during the breaks for Lost and other series have drawn fans to other websites and sent them on a real scavenger hunt through the Internet. There were also video podcasts in which a young woman named Rachel Blake documented her attempts to uncover the machinations of the Hanso Foundation. The commercials and websites were supported by sponsors such as the Coca-Cola Company and Jeep / Daimler-Chrysler . During the break between the second and third seasons in the summer of 2006, the last phase of The Lost Experience finally ended with fragments of a video hidden on different pages, which, when put together, contained a message from Alvar Hanso, who always understood the meaning of the series reappearing numbers explained. Another video then shows Rachel Blake finally tracking down Alvar Hanso, who turns out to be her own father. Together, the two of them flee and ultimately thwart the plans of Hanso's opponent, the criminal Thomas Werner Mittelwerk.
Also published as part of The Lost Experience was a book called Bad Twin , which, according to the official advertising campaign, was the last book written by a certain Gary Troup before he was pronounced dead as a result of the Oceanic 815 crash . In the series itself, the Bad Twin manuscript was found and (at least partially) read by some of the survivors in the aircraft's luggage. According to the producers, Gary Troup is said to be one of the passengers who actually died as a result of the crash (to be more precise: the man who was thrown into an engine in the pilot). The name Gary Troup is an anagram for purgatory, in English "purgatory" (a theory that is widespread among fans about the true nature of the island). The actual author of the book is a writer named Laurence Shames. As part of the reciprocal advertising campaign, the fictitious Hanso Foundation threatened the publisher with legal action, as the description in the book (which was actually limited to a few brief appearances and mentions) supposedly damaged its own reputation.
Lost Mobisodes
After the end of the first season, the producers of the series intended to produce special short episodes that can initially be viewed via mobile phone (so-called Mobisoden ). Due to lengthy negotiations, however, the project was ultimately delayed by over two years and could only be tackled after the end of the third season. Since the Writers Guild of America writers' strike was taking place at the time, an extra contract had to be negotiated between the WGA and ABC, which allowed the episodes to be produced.
The episodes, each between one and four minutes long under the heading Lost: Missing Pieces , were initially offered for one week exclusively for Verizon mobile phone customers from November 6, 2007 ; After the week, the respective episodes were then also freely available on the official website of the broadcaster ABC (but only for Internet users residing in the United States). The last of the 13 planned Mobisoden appeared on January 28, 2008.
In terms of content, the individual episodes represent additional scenes, most of which alternate in time during the island plot of the first three seasons; but occasionally there are additional flashbacks. With one exception, the Mobisoden is a completely new material that has been specially produced for this purpose. The actors are the same as in the regular series; A reunion with characters who have already died in the series itself is possible due to the changing time levels. Occasionally, new characters appear who have already been mentioned in the series, but have not yet been seen there. In contrast, the twelfth episode is actually a cut scene from the first episode of the third season. The thirteenth and final mobisode begins shortly before the first scene of the pilot film in the series and ends with the same, whereby the last shots shown are reused footage from the pilot film.
All thirteen Mobisoden are - also in Germany - included in the bonus material on the DVD and Blu-ray box for the fourth season.
Find 815
Another ARG was started at the turn of 2007/2008 and was supposed to bridge the time until the start of the fourth season at the end of January 2008. The game was produced by the Australian company Hoodlum on behalf of ABC and the Lost producers . For this reason, the content is not with certainty a mandatory and official part of the series mythology.
The game is about the efforts of a computer technician for the airline Oceanic Airlines, Sam Thomas, to solve the mystery behind the flight 815 that had recently crashed (at the time of the ARG's action). It started with a new page from Oceanic Airlines, from which you were redirected to the actual page of the ARG after a few days. In the course of the ARG, Sam, following ominous clues, hires on a salvage ship, which was commissioned by the Maxwell Group, a subsidiary of the Widmore Corporation, which is already known from the series, to find the Black Rock , a lost slave ship from the near Jakarta late 19th century, seeks. Although it was already revealed in the series itself that the ship was actually stranded on the island, the actors of the ARG are not yet aware of this. The fifth and final chapter of the ARG ended on January 31, 2008, a few hours before the television premiere of the first episode of the fourth season, with Sam finding the wreck of Oceanic Flight 815 instead of Black Rock at the bottom of the ocean. This created a link to the last episodes of the third season of the series, in which the survivors of the flight had learned that the aircraft wreck, including the corpses of all occupants, had been found far away from the actual crash site on the island. The entire ARG is based on the opening scene of the second episode of the fourth season, but the discovery of the wreck by the salvage ship is described a little differently than in the ARG version.
DHARMA Initiative Recruiting Project
On July 28, 2008, the third ARG DHARMA Initiative Recruiting Project, or The Project for short , started, where you could register on the DharmaWantsYou.com website and then play various mini-games in the web browser . The framework story revolves around the fictional DHARMA initiative that appears in the series . This wants to recruit people and therefore tests the players through association tests, skill tests, etc. As usual for an ARG, various actions were taken to make the game look as realistic as possible. Occasionally, important videos appeared on the video platform YouTube , for which a user was specifically registered, e-mails were sent to participants, and at the 2008 Comic Convention in San Diego , the fictitious DHARMA initiative even had its own booth with what appeared to be recruits were advertised.
The game was canceled in early November. Technically, this was realized through an official communication from the DHARMA initiative, in which it was announced that it was bankrupt due to the economic crisis in 2008/2009 . The results of the various tests for the recruits had already been determined at this point and were also published.
Since then, there have been new videos over several weeks from showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse , in which they talked about various aspects of the series, above all information about the fifth season, which started in early 2009, as a replacement .
Actions in Germany
No localized versions of The Lost Experience and Find 815 have been offered in Germany, and no German version has yet been announced for the book Bad Twin . To this end, ProSieben launched a number of its own advertising campaigns, including the 108 Minuten website , which offered additional information such as a passenger list for Oceanic flight 815 or a transcript of the pilot's last radio contact with ground control. Both the passenger list and the transcript, however, contradict the series itself and are therefore not considered part of the official series mythology.
From October 2006 a Titanmagazins magazine of the same name appeared in Germany for the series. The magazine contained up-to-date information on the respective plot, technical background and interviews with the actors. It was published every three months at the end of the month. However, due to poor sales, the magazine was discontinued after the fourth issue.
Online sales
In addition to being broadcast, Lost is one of the first television series to be distributed online . Since October 2005, individual episodes can be downloaded for the iPod one day after the first broadcast using Apple's Internet trading platform iTunes Store without commercial breaks. The paid service was initially only available in the United States, but is now also available in other countries.
From May to June 2006, Disney , the parent company of ABC, tested an online sales model in which users - again only from the United States - could watch individual episodes for free, but with commercial breaks, via online streaming .
In the meantime, various other providers also use the opportunity to sell Lost online, such as the French broadcaster TF1 , AOL or Microsoft's Xbox Live .
In Germany, Lost on Demand is made available on Telekom Entertain , Videoload and Maxdome one week before the episode is first broadcast. In addition, the episodes of the sixth season will be offered around one day after their first broadcast in the USA on iTunes , as well as on Telekom Entertain and Videoload as the original version with German subtitles.
DVDs and Blu-ray Discs
United States
On September 6, 2005 - about two weeks before the second season began broadcasting - the first season appeared in the United States in a complete box consisting of seven DVDs in country code 1. The box is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment . The box went straight to number 2 on the American DVD sales charts in the first week.
On September 5, 2006, the second season was released in the United States in a complete box consisting of seven DVDs in country code 1, also distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment . This time they reached first place in the American DVD sales charts in the first week with around 500,000 units sold. On December 11, 2007, the third season was released in the United States in a complete box consisting of seven DVDs, or alternatively for the first time in a complete box with six Blu-ray discs . The fourth season was released on December 9, 2008 either as a complete box with six DVDs or with five Blu-ray discs. Seasons 1 and 2 will also be released on Blu-ray Disc.
There are now seasons 1 to 6, as well as the complete series ( The Complete Collection ) on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The sixth season and The Complete Collection topped the DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales charts in the United States after the first week of sales .
Germany
While the first season appeared in other European countries such as France, Belgium or Great Britain initially in two parts and later as a complete box, it was decided for Germany to start with the latter. The box, which was released in December 2005, contains seven DVDs with country code 2. In contrast to the US box, the second part of the season finale, which is twice the length of a regular episode, was not pressed completely onto the sixth DVD, but instead was pressed again divided into two parts, whereby the resulting third part was moved to the seventh DVD. As a result, some of the bonus material is missing on the seventh DVD, unlike the US box.
The second season appeared in two boxes, similar to the rest of the European market. Both boxes each contain three DVDs with four episodes each and a fourth DVD with bonus material, the latter being simply split into two DVDs compared to the US complete box, which only contains one bonus DVD. The first part was released on December 7, 2006, the second part on March 1, 2007, a few weeks after the last episode contained in the box was broadcast on ProSieben. In contrast to the two previous boxes, the second part of the season is not approved for those aged 16 and over, but was rated as not approved for young people . The decisive factor for this evaluation was the episode One of You (in the original One of Them ), whose torture topics the FSK did not consider suitable for minors. A complete box of the second season has been available since June 12, 2008.
The third season was also released in Germany in two parts, the first part on December 6th, 2007, the second part on March 6th, 2008. As a result of a misprinting, part of the edition of the published in Switzerland and also available in German video stores contains In the first part, instead of the bonus DVD, episodes 13-16 of the season, which are also included again in the second part. In Spain, a complete version of the third season was released on DVD on October 10, 2007, which also includes a German soundtrack. The complete box of the third season was released in Germany on June 18, 2009.
The fourth season was released in Germany as a complete box on April 9, 2009, this time on both DVD and Blu-ray Disc. In France and Switzerland, however, the fourth season was released in November 2008 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, including one German soundtrack and German-language menus.
The fifth season is already available on DVD in France and Great Britain. Unlike the previous versions (Great Britain: third season, France: fourth season), neither version contains a German soundtrack. However, there is a Blu-ray version of the season that has a German soundtrack. In Germany, the fifth season was released on March 25, 2010.
The sixth season appeared in Germany on December 2, 2010.
Computer games
In spring 2006, Ubisoft announced that it would bring a computer game based on Lost in 2007 to the market. A beta version presented in April 2007 was positively received by producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. The game was officially presented at Comic-Con 2007. The game has been available since February 28, 2008 for Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 and PC under the name Lost: Via Domus .
The main character of the game is a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815 named Elliott Maslow, who has not previously appeared in the series. As Elliott, the player can interact with the characters known from the series and explore the island. At the same time, the player has to decipher Elliott's past by means of flashbacks, since he suffers from amnesia at the beginning of the game . It turns out that Elliott was a reporter before the crash and, together with his girlfriend and colleague, Lisa Gellhorn, was on the trail of a gun handler named Zoran Savo, who in turn worked with Thomas Mittelwerk (the antagonist from ARG The Lost Experience from the year 2006) did business. Elliott, in his greed for a sensational photo, was to blame for Lisa's death and is therefore haunted by visions of his deceased girlfriend on the island. The game ends with Elliott - after several encounters with the others - finally leaving the island on board a sailboat, only to witness the repeated crash of Oceanic flight 815 and suddenly to find himself again at the crash site - with the difference that Lisa is alive this time and with him.
In the original version, only Michael Emerson, Andrew Divoff, Henry Ian Cusick, Emilie De Ravin, Yunjin Kim and MC Gainey contribute the voices for their characters known from the series, while all other characters are taken over by other speakers who (with varying degrees of success ) try to match the voice and tone of the series actors. In the German version of the game, on the other hand, all of the dubbing actors known from the series (as of season 3) take on the corresponding roles. According to the series producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the content of the game is not a mandatory part of the series history, although Lindelof himself had the idea for the end of the game.
On May 22, 2007, a game for the Apple iPod was also released for download from the iTunes Store . The flash game Lostscape started in mid-April 2008 . The aim here is to find a total of 34 items. The story begins with Oceanic flight 815. In the background, some short sequences are shown that are familiar to the viewer. The video sequence ends with the air burst of Flight 815. The player then has to find all (partially hidden) objects on the island. Sometimes it takes several clicks on an object to find another. But it can also happen that several objects have to be connected to each other in order to move forward. At the end of the game there is a so-called sneak peak . This is a sneak preview of the next episode.
Influence and perception
Due to the great success of Lost , the series or individual elements of it are often referenced in the media, including television series, commercials, comics, webcomics , magazines, computer games and song texts.
For example, in the film Mission: Impossible III , in which JJ Abrams was involved, in the credits under “Special Thanks”, the Hanso Foundation - a fictional foundation in the series. In Cloverfield , also with JJ Abrams' participation, you can see the logo of the fictional DHARMA initiative.
Jorge Garcia, who played Hurley in Lost, had a guest appearance in the episode Blitzgiving (10th episode of season 6) of the series How I Met Your Mother , in which his role in Lost is alluded to. Here, too, there is a curse on him. He also mentions the mysterious sequence of numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 and jokes about an island. Lost ended before this episode first aired.
Furthermore, led the episode Numbers (dt .: cursed numbers ), which was broadcast in the United States on 2 March 2005, to an increased participation in the lottery . In this episode, one of the protagonists won the jackpot with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 known from Lost and appearing again and again in the series. After the broadcast, these numbers were increasingly used in lottery games.
In the German-speaking media in particular, Lost received little response outside of specialized gene republications until the final. Only Spiegel Online accompanied the broadcast of the sixth season, which was also offered for the first time to German Internet users promptly via legal sources, with a weekly updated episode analysis in blog form .
Relationship between producers and fans
Like hardly any other series, Lost lived from the series' loyalty to the fans. These were not only viewed as passive viewers or customers for the advertising industry, but actually had the opportunity to come into direct contact with the producers of the series and thus to influence the design of the series. In addition to various unofficial fan sites, there is also an official discussion forum on the website of the US broadcaster ABC and the forum The Fuselage sponsored by producer JJ Abrams . In the latter, fans had the opportunity to get in direct contact with the cast, at least some of whom actually took the time to regularly answer questions put to them. Script coordinator Gregg Nations also frequently answered questions from fans for understanding.
In addition, free podcasts were offered on the ABC's website, in which two producers of the series, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse , discussed the current episode, gave some pointers about the next episode and answered questions from fans about the series in general. In a special issue from September 2007, the two even called some fans at home so that they could ask their questions directly by phone.
One of the main focuses of many fans' involvement with the series was developing theories to explain the mysterious events within the series. These theories could be short-term in nature, for example only trying to explain a partial aspect, or represent a complex theoretical structure that was supposed to bring all the puzzles in the series under one roof. The nature of the theories could also be very different; some fans tried to find a (pseudo) scientific explanation for everything, while other fans came up with metaphysical concepts that included wormholes , other dimensions, time travel and similar concepts from the field of science fiction. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse occasionally commented on these theories in their podcasts and interviews, for example a theory that has been advocated by many fans since the beginning of the series that the protagonists of the series actually died in the plane crash and that the island was in Truth is purgatory, officially invalidated. A possible dissolution of the series as a dream or fantasy of one or more of the main characters (such as in the finale of the series chief physician Dr. Westphall ) was vehemently denied for years. Some of the short-term theories turned out to be correct. Other fans, on the other hand, have overshot the mark and tried to interpret even obvious mistakes in the production as the intent of the producers. In these cases, it was often officially confirmed in retrospect that it had been a matter of pure production errors.
Lost was analyzed down to the smallest detail by numerous fans. Just a few hours after a new episode was first broadcast, discussions about individual aspects of the plot and dialogues as well as still images were examined for hidden clues. This has already led the props department to pay more attention to avoiding errors such as incorrect dates etc.
Awards
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th |
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| Nominations | 12 | 9 | 6th | 7th | 5 | 12 |
| Awards | 6th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
At the most important television award in the United States, the Emmy , Lost was successful in the first season with twelve nominations and six awards, with the series receiving special recognition by winning the category Best Drama Series . For the second season there were nine nominations without a prize. There were six nominations for the third season, of which only Terry O'Quinn received an award for best supporting actor. At the Primetime Emmy Awards 2009 , Lost entered the race with five nominations and won the prize once. Michael Emerson won the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for outstanding portrayal of his character Benjamin Linus. The sixth and final season was nominated for 12 awards, including Best Drama Series , but only received one award for editing.
For the Golden Globe Award was Lost nominated between 2005 and 2010 seven times. Three times in the category of Best Dramatic TV Series, with the prize being won in 2006. The other four nominations went to Matthew Fox, Naveen Andrews, Evangeline Lilly and Michael Emerson for their roles on the series.
At the Satellite Awards , Lost was nominated eight times between 2004 and 2007, of which only Matthew Fox won the award in 2004 in the category Best Actor in a Series (Drama) .
There were also 48 nominations for a Saturn Award , 13 of which were won by Lost.
There were other awards and nominations for the WGA Award , Screen Actors Guild Award and Young Artist Award .
criticism
In 2005, columnists from five American newspapers and magazines, including the Boston Globe and USA Today , rated Lost as the best TV series of the year. In the lists of other publications, too, the series was almost without exception in the top ten.
The lack of answers to the puzzles raised by the series was criticized very early on. The scriptwriters and producers of the series were often accused of not knowing the answers themselves, but rather constructing them afterwards with the help of increasingly hair-raising phrases. The columnist Steven Simunic referred in this context, in March 2007 in the US newspaper The Daily Californian on the series The X-Files - The X Files , which suffered in later seasons from similar problems. The second season, as well as the first episodes of the third season, were criticized for a slow-moving plot that raised many new questions, but offered few answers to older puzzles. The announcement of a set end of the series after the sixth season, which already took place during the third season, was received largely positively. Even the episodes of the third season broadcast at the same time were seen as signs that the producers and writers with a steady ending in mind could plan and advance the progress of the plot better.
After the broadcast of the last episode ( The End ), it was criticized that there were still some unanswered questions after creating as complex a space of suggestion and allusion as possible. In addition, in the finale, too much emphasis was placed on religious imagery not to have to answer open questions scientifically. In an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian at the beginning of 2010 , lead actor Matthew Fox said that the final would disappoint many fans.
In Germany, the long time lag between the first broadcast in the USA and the broadcast on ProSieben or kabel eins was criticized. This is even believed to be a possible reason for the steadily falling audience ratings, as many fans of the series prefer to get them illegally from the Internet instead of waiting for the broadcast on German-language television. This changed with the sixth season, the episodes of which were legally offered in the original version with German subtitles in Apple's online shop iTunes and the T-Online service Videoload within 24 hours of being broadcast in the US . This ability to instantly purchase cutting-edge US series has generally received very positive feedback.
The Lost Bloggers from Spiegel Online found the season finale to be quite successful, but criticized the resolutions of their “10 most important series puzzles” compiled at the beginning of the 6th season as rather unsatisfactory in the majority of cases.
In the FAZ was Lost described as an example of the "American quality television." The audience would be more frustrated by simply "sprinkling it", instead you have to be careful in order to be able to follow the action. The viewers would be required to have a “long-term commitment” and “memorable combinations”, which led to extensive audience discourse on fan blogs, wikis and internet forums. The series is "so far one of the largest and most imaginative narrative experiments of the 21st century".
Web links
- Lost in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official ABC Lost website
- Lostpedia (Wiki)
- LOST Bibliography (secondary literature)
Individual evidence
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- ^ Website of the fictional airline Ajira Airways , accessed on January 14, 2009.
- ^ Website of the fictional Hanso Foundation in its fourth incarnation, operated by ABC ( Memento from May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 18, 2007.
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