TV Series Lost
Lost is an American television series that chronicles the adventures of a group of survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean. The series combines drama, suspense and adventure. The concept was developed by J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Jeffrey Lieber, the first of which went further double pilot episode.
The series is produced by ABC Studios and Bad Robot Productions, and is issued in the U.S. by ABC. His shooting focuses mainly on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian islands.
It has been a widespread success in countries that have been delivered, arriving to take his first season averaging 16.1 million viewers in the United States, and has become part of rapidly American popular culture ( has been referenced in numerous television shows, comic books, songs, etc.). He has also won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe and six Emmy Awards.
Format of the series
The series consists mostly by episodes of about 42 minutes that often combine action on the island with a series of flashbacks on one of the characters. These flashbacks are usually only involve a character per episode (though sometimes there are cross-references between them), and allow as the series progresses ever known over the life of these characters. The chapters also often contain many riddles, and situations without apparent explanation.
There are several types of flashbacks employees in the series. The most common is one that shows the character's life before taking the plane. But there have also been examples of flashbacks in which we are witnesses of what happened to central character of that chapter hours or days before the current timeline leading this episode (showing us, therefore, moments past but already occurred in the Island). This resource has been used in Lost especially when introducing new characters (like the survivors of the tail of the plane in the second season, or Nikki and Paulo in the third).
From the last chapter of the 3 rd season, began to replace the Flashback by Flashfowards, which consist of moments to future action on the island. Since then, sometimes play with flashbacks and flasforwards within the same chapter.
Argument
The Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, which went from Sydney (Australia) to Los Angeles (USA), crashes on a remote Pacific island. Due to various problems occurred during flight, the plane had to divert its course after it lost communications. This leaves a group of survivors on an island in the middle of nowhere. The Fourth Season shows that the reason they have not had any rescue is that shortly after the crash, a submarine that was looking for remains of sunken ships are found with a false Oceanic 815, so it take for all passengers dead .
After the accident, passengers survivors realize what their situation, and that it is possible that no one will rescue them in the near future. In addition, since very soon begin to observe phenomena strangers on the island, and understand that if they want to survive will have to stay together. The character originally erected in "leader" of this community is Dr. Jack Shephard.
Seasons
Note: In some countries, every season has a chapter rather than in the United States, as the last, double-long, is divided into two parts.
First season
Lost (Season 1)
On September 22, 2004 premiered the first season of Lost in the United States, which consisted of 24 episodes. The first season introduces the characters, explained how each of them come to that situation and show the first interactions between them. In addition, it also introduced for the first time some of the riddles of the island.
Synopsis: The Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashes on a remote Pacific island. After the accident, the survivors are beginning to observe very early strange phenomena on the island. Jack was originally erected in the community leader. His medical condition allows it to be useful to others and begin to earn their trust. The charge of obtaining food is John Locke, an enigmatic figure by which others feel respect and distrust in equal shares. According moving chapters, in the midst of several discoveries about the nature of the mysterious island, is revealed why each of the characters was in Sydney before the accident. Over time, grows between Jack and Sawyer a kind of rivalry by Kate, a girl in which both apparently feel attracted. Mediada season, Sayid discovers Rousseau, a French who has spent years trapped on the island and to talk about other people. One of these mysterious inhabitants ago act of presence and abducted shortly after Claire, a pregnant woman who gets back soon after, but not remember anything of what happened. For his part, Locke also makes a discovery: a hatch on the floor whose opening obsessing him since then. Meanwhile Sawyer, Jin, Michael and his son Walt built a raft to try to escape the island. Finally, several characters manage to open the hatch with dynamite, and the raft left the island but is intercepted and attacked shortly after, which concludes with the abduction of Walt.
Second season
Lost (Season 2)
The first chapter of the second season was issued in the United States on September 21, 2005. It consists of 23 episodes. They are shown for the first time the other survivors of the plane, as well as other enigmatic inhabitants of the island. In addition, both in this as in successive seasons, is still deepening in the past of the characters.
Synopsis: The hatch that the characters had managed to open at the end of the first season proves to be a kind of bunker. Inside there is one computer in which, according to the occupier (Desmond) should be inserted the series of numbers "4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42" every 108 minutes or the world will end. Survivors should discuss whether or not to believe in what they said Desmond. Thanks to a video that had information in the bunker, they learn that there is one of the stations of the initiative Dharma. Meanwhile, Sawyer and Michael, whose raft had been destroyed at the end of the first season, returning to the island and there are more survivors of plane crash, which had ido a stop to another part of the island. Rousseau captures a man named Henry Gale says that rather than being one of The Others, but the survivors do not trust him and hold him and interrogate him harshly (later discover that Henry is lying). Locke found another station whose content suggests that perhaps the whole issue of introducing the numbers every 108 minutes is just a psychological experiment and does not serve for anything. Meanwhile, Michael reaches a deal with The Others: You must release Henry and a trap to seek their own comrades, and The Others stop marching to his son. He does, and as a result Jack, Kate and Sawyer were captured, and Michael and Walt were given a boat so they can leave the island. Meanwhile, Locke and Desmond does not intend to enter the numbers this time, but at the last minute Desmond understands that something goes wrong and a low point that is beneath the station to activate a mechanism. The entire island is shrouded in a blinding light and sound atronador.
Third season
Lost (Season 3)
The third season began in the United States on October 4, 2006. It consists of 22 episodes. In it, survivors are beginning to have direct contact with The Others, coming to live with them at times. Also appearing for the first time flashbacks devoted to these other characters.
Synopsis: Locke, Desmond and Mr.. Eko have survived the explosion of the hatch. Jack, Kate and Sawyer, meanwhile, are in captivity as prisoners of The Others. Soon, Kate and Sawyer manage to escape thanks to the help of Jack, who had tended a trap to Ben, the leader of The Others and character who previously had called Henry Gale. They get two flee, but Jack should stay alone. Over time, begins to feel something for Juliet, even though she is one of his captors and that their loyalties are unclear. Later, Kate and Sawyer get back to camp, and convince Locke and Sayid to travel across the island and try to liberate Jack. His surprise is that when they arrive, Jack seems to have a friendly with The Others. They speak with him and Locke destroys the submarine The Others, causing a big stir. Then The Others (accompanied by Locke, who needs to find answers) disappear without trace, and Kate, Sayid, Jack and Juliet's own returning campers. The presence of the latter causes a great discomfort, but defends Jack and the rest decide to give a vote of confidence, which anyway will end when Sawyer (thanks to Locke) gets to demonstrate that it continues to serve Ben. Finally, it is discovered that she is acting in favour of Ben against his own volition, and tend a trap to The Others, getting as a result killing several of them. Ben is caught without a plan by Jack and his companions. Charly and Desmond manage to unlock the radio signal that the communications impossible, to finally get in touch, thanks to a satellite phone belonging to a paratrooper named Naomi, with a boat that apparently is going to rescue them.
Fourth season
Lost (Season 4)
The fourth season began in the United States on January 31, 2008. It consists of 14 episodes. In it, survivors have contact with people of the freighter, which had no intentions to rescue them, if not kill them. Also in the flashforwards we see life in the future of 6 survivors, who were the ones who left the island.
Synopsis: The fourth season begins with a flashforward Hurley. In this season we see the new life of the survivors after they manage to leave the island, specifically 6 of them, known by all as the Oceanic 6 (6 Oceanic), including Hurley, Jack, Kate, Sun , Sayid and Aaron (Claire's son). Also sees Ben off the island but is not counted within the group. It shows that the rescue team that came with Naomi were not really there to rescue them but that came to bear with Ben.
Upcoming seasons and the end of the series
On May 7, 2007, the president of ABC Entertainment, Stephen McPherson, announced that "Lost" will end in 2010. "We felt that this was the only way to give an end Lost creative and appropriate" McPherson said. Beginning with the 2008 season, will end 48 episodes of Lost that will be transmitted in three seasons with 16 episodes each. So, Lost will conclude with its sixth season. These seasons are transmitted without interruption during the year.
The notice of the ABC was called "unprecedented" by Lost executive producers, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cusí. Lindelof and Cuse also indicated that "Lost has a beginning, a development and an end." The co-creator J.J. Abrams also praised the decision, commenting that "it is the appropriate option for the series and its viewers. I applaud ABC and Touchstone Television by the decision."
Personality
Connections
The series is littered with various coincidences "casual" that creators have made to the script with supposedly why give rise to viewers to decide which are significant and which are not. These matches include:
* Casual relations between the characters before the accident. In the flashbacks showing how the lives of some characters intersect with those of others, even if they do not know.
* Appearances of "Numbers". "The numbers are a number of figures who originally were issued through the radio transmitter in the island. It was this message which led to the issuance of Rousseau to the island. Although she later changed the message, the numbers have been heard by other people, including Hurley, cree that they are cursed. Throughout the series The numbers appear together or separately on many occasions.
* In the flashbacks of the characters are shown sometimes objects or animals on the island are present, or to turn people who may exist only in his imagination.
The Numbers
* The combination 4 8 15 16 23 42
* 4
* 8
* On 15
* On 16
* On 23
* 42
* 108: It was the number of counter in the hatch and also is the summation of the series of previous issues.
* 815: It is for the number of flight travelling survivors.
The initiative Dharma
The Dharma initiative is a mysterious project with a large presence on the island where they are lost survivors of Oceanic Airlines flight 815. Much of the information about this project is derived from videos of guidelines found at several stations located on the island.
The initiative is assumed that was founded in 1970 by Gerald and Karen DeGroot, doctoral students at the University of Michigan. He or is funded by the Danish industrial tycoon and weapons of Alvar Hanso and his Hanso Foundation. The alleged purpose of the initiative was to create "a compound of large-scale research where scientists and freethinkers around the world devoted to research in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism and social utopia."
Ben ended up killing all members of the initiative with a poison gas.
Stations of the Dharma initiative:
* The Arrow
* Staff
* The Swan
* The Flame
* La Perla
* The Hydra
* The Mirror
* The Orchid
* The Tempest
Theories
The complex and cryptic Lost development gives rise to many possible theories to explain the enigma of the series, as in his day happened for example with Twin Peaks. These theories relate not only to answer basic argument on the island and the survivors, but all the details unanswered it accumulates with the passage of the chapters. The creators claim that the various riddles have an explanation and that eventually this will be shown later in the course of the series.
Theories rejected
So far, the creators of the series have publicly rejected the following possibilities:
* J.J. Abrams has denied that the "survivors" were in fact dead or in purgatory.
* Damon Lindelof rejected that survivors had made or were to undertake a journey through time (albeit from the fourth season, travel "space-time" occur sometimes supplied by the station "The Orchid") and like any theory related to the intervention of spaceships or alien.
* Damon Lindelof has also ruled that everything happened so far has taken place in the minds of some character.
* Carlton Cusa, in turn, has ruled out the theory that the island is a television set and the only survivors of involuntary participants of a television program (as happened for example in the movie The Truman Show).
The creators have also stated that the argument of the series is nothing that could not happen on a novel by Michael Crichton.
Cast
 Josh Holloway Sawyer |  Daniel Dae Kim Jin Kwon |  Maggie Grace Shannon Rutherford |  Yunjin Kim Sun Kwon |  Rebecca Mader Charlotte Lewis |  Jeff Fahey Frank Lapidus |
 Ken Leung Miles Straume |  Evangeline Lilly Kate Austen |  Ian Somerhalder Boone Carlyle |  Harold Perrineau Jr Michael Dawson |  Elizabeth Mitchell Juliet Burke |  Kiele Sanchez Nikki Fernandez |
 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Mr. Eko |  Terry O Quinn John Locke |  Michael Emerson Benjamin Linus |  Rodrigo Santoro Paulo |  Emilie de Ravin Claire Littleton |  Cynthia Watros Libby |
 Matthew Fox Dr. Jack Shephard |  Michelle Rodriguez Ana Lucia Cortez |  Dominic Monaghan Charlie Pace |  Jorge Garcia Hugo Hurley Reyes |  Malcolm David Kelley Walt Lloyd |  Henry Ian Cusick Desmond Hume |
 Naveen Andrews Sayid Jarrah |
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