Lost is a 2004 American drama/adventure television series by JJ Abrams about surviving passengers of a plane crash on a (believed to be) deserted island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. The show is produced by Bad Robot Production and Touchstone Television.
Cast
Staff
Characters
- Jack Shepard - An American physician
- Kate - A fugitive who was involved in a bank robbery
- Charlie Pace - The bass player for the UK band Drive Shaft. He is dealing with an addiction to heroin.
- Boone Carlisle - Shannon's step-brother, chief operating officer of one of his mother's wedding businesses.
- Shannon Rutherford - Boone's step-sister. She has a history of conning Boone into giving her large sums of money.
- Sayid - A veteran of the Iraqi Republican Guard, trained in communications technology
- Michael Dawson- Walt's father. He's a construction worker and seems to have once had artistic aspirations.
- Walt Lloyd - Michael's son.
- Hugo "Hurley" Reyes - Young and very overweight
- "Sawyer" (real name unknown) - An American con-man who has "collected" items from the plane crash.
- Jin - A Korean with possible organized crime ties
- Sun - Jin's wife. She is secretive about her knowledge of English.
- John Locke - A middle manager at a box company and an apparent paraplegic with an interest in survivalism. After the crash he discovered that he was able to walk.
- Claire Littleton - A pregnant Australian. She was kidnapped by Ethan Rom.
- Ethan Rom - Apparently not on Flight 815. Claims to be from Ontario, Canada. He kidnapped Claire and nearly killed Charlie.
- Danielle Rousseau - The Frenchwoman responsible for the distress signal, she has been stranded on the island for 16 years. So far, she has only been encountered by Sayid.
- Vincent - Walt's dog.
Episodes
- Main article, containing episode summaries, at Episodes of Lost.
Season 1
A plane crash strands the surviving passengers on a deserted island. This group of strangers must now work together to stay alive. Survival depends on unraveling the mysteries of the island, including an enormous creature that roams the jungle.
Notes and Trivia
- Filmed in Hawaii, USA. However, there are talks about possibly moving the taping due to offset the high cost of filming. Source. (http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/38937.htm)
- The pilot episode was the most expensive in history, at $11 million-plus for the two-hour series opener. $1 million-plus of that was to purchase, chop, and ship the Lockheed L-1011 jumbo jet pieces to Hawaii.
- Counting the pilot episode as a single story, the first five successive episodes begin with a close-up of someone's eye opening. The eye close-up motif resumed later on in the season. Except for the pilot, each episode then focuses on that character and includes flashbacks from that character's point of view, explaining why they were on the plane and providing insight to the viewer about the character's secrets and motivations.
- Various strange and mysterious things happen during the show, and it is unclear (as of the first few episodes) whether the show is going to explain them using science fiction, mysticism or some other approach. Examples include the characters meeting a polar bear (which would normally be unable to survive the tropical heat), Mr. Locke regaining the use of his legs, and the presence of some sort of huge force (a monster?) that knocks down trees as it moves.
- The November 17, 2004, issue of USA Today listed several fan theories as to the nature of the show: that the characters are in purgatory, that Locke is working for the genetic engineers and social scientists using the island as an experiment, and that the island is a sort of dreamworld Fantasy Island. The December 3, 2004 issue of Entertainment Weekly touched upon some of those theories and a few more: that a catastrophe has killed everyone on the planet except for the islanders; that aliens crashed the plane and have placed the survivors in some kind of habitat; and that all the events exist in a dream had by the crash's sole survivor (possibly Jack). However, it should be noted that the latter two EW theories were deemed fairly implausible by members of the cast and crew.
- Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 was en route from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles in the United States and carried passengers from those countries as well as the United Kingdom, Iraq and South Korea (and maybe others). Before the crash, the plane ran into trouble and tried to change course for Fiji. As far as the characters can tell, they are thousands of miles off-course and, presumably, no-one knows where to look for them. Many years ago, a ship ran aground on the island after being "three days out" from Tahiti. This would probably put the island in the southeastern Pacific, near French Polynesia.
- As far as we know, there were 48 human survivors of the crash. That number has been reduced to 45 (the co-pilot was killed by a mysterious monster that roams the interior of the island, the US Marshal was killed in a "mercy killing", and a woman named Joanna drowned at the beginning of the "White Rabbit" episode). The number may go up again when Claire (who is very pregnant) gives birth. There was also a canine survivor: Walt's dog Vincent. There was a 49th survivor of the crash but since he died early in the pilot episode (he was sucked into a spinning jet engine) he is not counted as a survivor.
- All of the characters we've been introduced to speak English except for the Korean couple, Jin and Sun. However, we learn in the episode "House of the Rising Sun" that Sun speaks English but is keeping it secret from her husband. Sun revealed this to Michael in a previous episode, Kate figured it out by Sun's reaction to a statement she made in "Hearts and Minds".
- All of the survivors are adults except for Walt, Michael's young son and Vincent, Walt's dog.
- The character John Locke is named for the English philosopher of that name. Appropriately, the Locke character seems to be a sort of sage figure for the others, full of deep advice and uncanny perceptions about the others' motives and secrets.
- At least two other people were already on the island, alive, at the time of the crash: Danielle Rousseau, a French woman who is introduced in "Solitary"; and Ethan Rom, who is first seen in an earlier episode with Locke, but who is identified as not being one of the crash survivors in "Raised by Another".
- The name "Rousseau" is a reference to philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as indicated by Damon Lindelof, the show's co-creator.
- The name "Ethan Rom" suggests Edith Wharton's character Ethan Frome, who steals away with his loved one so that they both might kill themselves. Also, "Rom" is the singular term for a member of the Roma people, also known as "Gypsies". (Some fans have also noted that ethan rom is an anagram of other man.)
- Sawyer is often seen reading Boone's copy of Watership Down by Richard Adams, which is about lost rabbits looking for a new home. (Sawyer says that the book washed up on shore, although Boone believed it had been stolen.)
- The role of Hurley was created especially for Jorge Garcia.
- At one point, producers considered having Michael Keaton play Jack in the pilot episode, in which he would have been killed.
- Drive Shaft's hit song "You All Everybody" took its name from an audience member's rant on The Maury Povich Show. Singer-songwriter Jude performed the version heard in "The Moth"; it also can be heard in the background during a party scene in the Alias episode "The Awful Truth".
- Until the episode "Hearts and Minds", Boone and Shannon were believed to be blood siblings. However, it was revealed that they were only related by the marriage of Shannon's father and Boone's mother; in fact, it is implied that Boone and Shannon had a sexual encounter before leaving Sydney.
- The survivors were on Flight 815; in the episode "Whatever the Case May Be", the target of the bank robbery involving Kate is safe deposit box number 815.
External links
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