@UrbanistBlooms Trashy love is the best love It's still a ring he earned with his labor, right? Because they don't give sponsorships to anyone. So I don't really see a difference between getting a ring from a sponsor and buying a ring with money you got... from a sponsor.
The problem with tungsten carbide id that it's hard to cut off, in an accident you may lose a finger instead of a ring but other than that it's very cool jewelry.
As someone who's never seen an episode of lost, I find this ungodly fascinating. I feel like an archeologist stumbling upon a copy of an epic of a long gone civilisation XD
Billiam's videos are amazing and undoubtedly the best coverage of lost ever done, but watching these videos without having actually watched through the series is just shameful. There's a reason he's devoting this much time to researching and talking about it, it is truly the best piece of media ever created, and to only watch a retrospective of it is doing both the show and yourself a massive disservice.
The thing is that, after having watched these videos, some of the truly amazing moments will not be surprises now. I remember watching a moment from Season 2 very vividly. I bought into a character only to have their true nature shown in a single unexpected moment, and not having that as a surprise would have diminished the entire experience.
I'd also like to point out the scene where Boone is explaining to John what a red shirt is in Star Trek. When John replies saying he must've been a piss poor captain. Thats a reference to his own character in Star Trek TNG where he was a captain that ended up being court martialed for treason. Love that line ever since I started diving down the Trek rabbit hole.
Theres an office reference too , if i recall , the girl charlie was hustlng to steal her antique collectables said her dad was buying a paper merchents in slough so im guessing someone was a big fan of the uk office
you're one of the only TH-camrs to credit journalists, and not just give a shoutout to the publications, and I just want to say as a journalist myself, that we appreciate that so so so much.
absolutely obsessed with sayid's role in the constant. being the only one from the island having to protect desmond when he can't remember anything, his original worry about the people on the freighter, watching the dude die of time travel knowing desmond's next, having to deal with desmond just kinda passing out and waking up with new knowledge and requests, using his crazy skills to fix all the equipment even tho he doesn't know why. and the pure pain of him being in the room while desmond calls penny, knowing that there's almost no way he will ever be able to have a conversation like that with nadiya. sayid is always doing everything he can for everyone he meets, no matter how 'loosened' he himself is, making him a far superior leader than jack or even john could ever be
@@brooklyn113 As i spent my late childhood and entire life since, being told I looked like Naveen Andrews I was 100% looking for something, ANYTHING to hate on Sayid, when LOST premiered, but really, Naveen is a GREAT actor and Sayid is fantastic character. So yea, he became my favorite too, long before season 1 ended.
I'm 71 so I've watched quite a lot of TV over the years. LOST was the only show which I've ever watched from start to finish --every single episode--, including buying DVDs of all the seasons. It positively hypnotized me. Thanks for reminding me of so many of those peripheral characters who'd since become LOST in my memory!
If you're interested in seeing a detailed breakdown on how the writers' strike affected Lost, you can see it in more details here: th-cam.com/video/dNQHVadYmfQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7fX1IHxrwe4tWzIf&t=10
Well yeah, The Man in Black/smoke monster has the capacity to take the face of dead people. It’s used Christian, Yemi, and John as avatars throughout the show
Its the vibe of when you just asked a friend a question and they realize this answer is going to take the rest of the night. A "yeaaaah" that says "alright, sit down buddy we're gonna be here a while"
@@gobulgobblerso true. Feels like he’s just picking the conversation right back up, only with the inconvenience of having to wait a year to finish telling us.
love how throughout the series billy will just lie about the really big fakeouts or plot twists right up until he gets to the twist part, to incorporate them into his recap and giving first time watchers experiencing the story thru this channel a taste of what the show was like live
I told my friend I watched 6 hours of LOST retrospective a couple months ago and she recommended I see a doctor. Instead im going to watch another 3&1/2 hours of LOST retrospective content coz I just think its neat.
"l remember sitting at my girl's house, Wednesday nights, that's the show... Watchin as that plane crashed, back in twenty zero fo... Now we ain't together tho, ppl seem to come and go... But Lost is like my CONSTANT, sounds a little strange, l know... As a grow and change, alot of things come on that tv screen... But other shows don't matter tho, the island isn't done with me... Damn even thinking bout the end has got ya boy depressed, Lost I'm gonna miss you, got those numbers tattooed on my chest...."
@@John-Doe-Yo "l remember sitting at my girl's house, Wednesday nights, that's the show... Watchin as that plane crashed, back in twenty zero fo... Now we ain't together tho, ppl seem to come and go... But Lost is like my CONSTANT, sounds a little strange, l know... As a grow and change, alot of things come on that tv screen... But other shows don't matter tho, the island isn't done with me... Damn even thinking bout the end has got ya boy depressed, Lost I'm gonna miss you, got those numbers tattooed on my chest...."
Honestly, I was in shambles when I was watching the 6-hour video and got to the point where I realized that it wasn't gonna be the full retrospective, it's like "Damn, I don't want to waste this much time on this, but I'm too invested!" which is what I imagine most Lost viewers felt at the time(I was a kid so I had all the time in the world back then)
It’s so crazy to see how many actors were in like every ABC show at that time. Bunches who were in this, Once Upon a Time, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy, and Scandal.
There was a show I watched not that long ago, I can't remember what it was now....but there were at least 4 lost characters in the show and I couldn't believe it. 😂 Edit: possibly Sons of Anarchy? Yes, I think so.
They should have done a plot with Jack learning how to be a pilot and instead they focused on how he got a tattoo. He literally mentions he tried to learn how to fly. An amazing opportunity to bring Lapidus into it.
I remember Heroes crashed during the writers strike, and it almost felt like Lost was clapping back at Heroes by tackling Time Travel when Heroes abandoned it, and made some of the most incredible stuff
@@sirensongssAnd the show remained shit after the writers strike. It's cleared the first season was a passion project, something the creator took a lot of time to fine tune to the most minute detail. And starting from season 2 it's cleared they had no clue what they were doing.
I’ve always believed that S4 was the strongest. The season length and writing was so tight and the flash forwards allowed for both the on island and off island stories to feel so so fresh.
Hard agree. I love they played as much into the weirdness as they could as well, with so many crazy concepts being tackled at once from the scientific to the spiritual. In hindsight it's probably the series highlight for me as the possibilities were endless but also lead to how there was going to be no way to stick the landing and satisfy all the various plot ideas being introduced. Very much a double edge sword. I personally enjoyed the later seasons compared to the earlier ones (I'm not a huge fan of some of the forced survival drama) but the whole thing was a wild and entertaining trip.
@@AnywhereMiami How can you say "by far" when S6 exists? I actually like the overall ending, but the season itself isn't the greatest. 4 is a masterpiece in comparison.
58:33 this moment had me on the floor, the hopeful music getting cut of as everyone just gets completely BODIED by the huge wave, then there’s the quick shot of Billiam resurfacing as it smash cuts to the chapter title, it’s great I love it
23:11 what I find interesting how the idea of the show “being made up as it went along” is that we have an example of a show that didn’t evolve as choices were made; How I Met Your Mother. And in the case of that show, it’s a huge detractor. Character growth and choices made over the course of all the other seasons are undone in the last 15 minutes. It’s infuriating
Yeah Lost definitely suffered from some of the lack of planning (too many interesting ideas introduced, only a handful expanded upon) but it at least transitioned toward the ending somewhat naturally. Yeah I wasn't a huge fan of the decision to mostly ignore the scientific based mysteries in favor of going hard on the spiritual stuff but at least by the finale it felt related to all the build up.
Good point. HIMYM is a particularly egregious example because they knew the entire time that they were at most parodying a prestige serialized show. Obviously the show was a make-as-many-episodes-as-possible romcom. The flashforwards and flashbacks and everything were... jokes. They were setting up and paying off comedy bits. I think the writers ultimately got high off their own supply. They started to believe their own hype about serialization, rather than actually assess how the show had evolved over the years since the pilot.
Finally got through this. This is far and away my favorite installment of "Increasingly unhinged Florida Man talks about a cult TV show from 20 years ago." I just want to mention that (1) I miss the Rod Sterling bit (2) the briefcase B-plot in this installment is the best of the series. The increased production value and practical effects compared to prior installments really shines.
So glad someone is doing a detailed retrospective. My 18-year-old self was so deeply offended by Alex’s death that I rewrote season 5 with her as the protagonist 😂
@@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL it was nice to see her again and all but I always felt that she could have been so much more than a plot device to make the audience feel sympathy for Ben. The last thing I wanted for him was a happy ending. I wanted to see Jacob snub Ben in favor of her as the others leader (since Locke dies) in my fic, I kept her alive and sent her to live in the 70s. By the end of the story, she’s a hardened badass that’s fully integrated with my version of the a-team. There were a lot of wasted characters in lost so I rewrote it the way I wanted it to go down
@@ninaxwings as a teen I didn't really know fanfics were a thing (maybe a little language barrier thing), but if I had, Alex death would have been the thing that drove me to fanfiction!
@@AgentSteffi OMG, thank you! With the way they wrote her character I thought she was being set up to be a major player in the final seasons I think the writers missed a great opportunity with her
So excited to watch this. I will say as a writer, something being foreshadowed doesn't mean it wasn't made up after the fact. Part of being a writer, especially if you already have one part committed and public before the next part, is knowing what you already wrote and finding ways to recontextualise it if you need the story to go a certain way. I also don't think it was made up entirely as it went along but some of the foreshadowing is bound to be recontextualising existing story beats. Which is a fine thing to do! It's one of my favourite parts of writing when I realise I left something on the table and I can pick it up later with new meaning.
Adventure Time was fantastic at doing this. Finn has a couple weird character traits early on, like a fear of the ocean and seeing a weird ghost lady that represents his repressed memories. But as the show continues they play off of these facts about him to determine that he was lost at sea as an infant, and that the ghost lady was a past life of his who died tragically. One of the weirder examples is there’s a scene in a very very early episode where Ice King claims “I didn’t steal [the crown], I made it. Made it with the magic that I stole!” Which once we get more context on his character and history as Simon seems like an inconsistency - he found the crown, and until then was unaware if magic really existed. But then way later it gets wrapped back up when we discover the crown’s actual origins - that it was made by an ancient wizard using stolen magic crystals, and part of the crown’s curse involves turning the wearer into some form of that guy, meaning that original scene gets recontextualized as Ice King was accessing those memories.
@@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL Yep. I assume you're trying to gotcha me but never deviating from your plan is a) unrealistic and b) not making the most of what's available to you. Half the point of the writer's strike was because the companies were trying to stop paying writers for their last minute re-writes during filming. Your ideas change and you have to retrofit existing continuity to serve a newer, better idea. Long live the retcon.
I think a lot of the aversion to retconning is this cult of canon that people have. People are absolutely obsessed with authorial intent and canon for no reason whatsoever.
This series has become my Rome, I watch your videos on it at work over and over again. You’re commentary is amazing and being able to dissect the show like a book is so therapeutic to my ears. Thank you for spending your time on this and I hope you’re no longer burnt out 🙏
@SirBallsDeepOfHouseManthrust you clearly haven't watched his other Lost videos lmao Though imo we need to be giving Billiam's team their flowers also.
gotta say I was surprised and a little sad when you said part three would be covering the remainder of the show, but now that I've seen the final product, I like the direction you took. here's to three more three hour videos, cheers.
Charlotte Staples Lewis is almost directly C.S. Lewis's name, Clive Staples Lewis, who wrote the chronicles of Narnia. I don't know enough about lost to draw any reasons for it, but I did notice it immediately
This series you've made is pure 2000's euphoria. I love it so dearly and you should be proud of how well this is produced. It's something I can revisit as legitimately as the show LOST itself. Keepin' dis shit on in the background for a LOOOOOOOOONG time (after I watch it intently several times).
It's wild to hear you say that you've been working on this for 3 years bc that's hard to fathom but yeah so far, this series spans 12 hours, 46 minutes, and 23 seconds (I can only imagine how fried editing all of this must have made you, rip and thank you for your sacrifice for our entertainment)
Hell yes it was INSANE. From start to finish. I'm on my second re-watch, this time with my kids. It's amazing TV. I can't believe this show got made, and I am so glad that it did.
Im just thinking about how convenient it was that someone packed a pregnancy test for their international flight. I know theres a lot of plot convenience but that's always stood out
@karinalumen9722I have never heard of this practice, but I assume it's kind of the same (or mayhaps the exact opposite) as keeping a extra pad in case someone needs one :) It seems like a genuinely nice geature
Yeah i cant imagine anyone just having a pregnancy test in like a carry on bag 😂 like were they planning to check in an airplane bathroom?? Why? Who wants to do that in transit lol
So. . .when you're trying for a baby, you tend to have to track your ovulation and such in order to know when you've got the best chance at success. As such, you typically need many ovulation *and* pregnancy tests. (This is why you can find them for sale in bulk outside of medical supply stores/companies.) Given the nature of the modern world, it stands to reason in my mind that someone on that flight wanted to make sure they had at least one test with them in case their luggage got lost at the airport once they landed. (That's what I did when we were trying for our first kid and we had to travel.)
Imagine if this show had come out ten years later from 2014 to 2020, when sharing and overanalyzing scenes and freeze frames was not only more obsessive but was basically firmly established online practice for the fandoms of ongoing series than what had existed from the 2004 to 2010 period the show actually aired in. And even back then the sharing and speculation was already pretty feverish.
tbh, that kind of obsessive fan culture goes back to Lost. without this show, that fan behavior you’re describing wouldn’t have come together the same way
@@Silas_MN Not exactly. The advent of VCRs with their (clunky when you want to stop and go back to exact points, but you got where you wanted with a little fiddling) pausing saw the rise of fan communities recording and picking out details they'd missed watching episodes of shows they liked air, and many 90s fan communities were sharing these with each other. They were just very obscure and niche due to how relatively few people were online then. Passed around via fan publications and fan meets, in addition to a few webpages and Usenet or other similar early discussion systems. Lost benefited from being chock full of freeze-frame detail when bandwidth had improved and distribution widespread enough for the internet to become much more mainstream, but that fan behavior existed well beforehand. They just became more obsessive and common later on.
@@Silas_MNI disagree. That kind of stuff had already been seen, but LOST came out at a time where both media and how we used the internet were transition. I think that kind of fan obsession has always been around to some degree and would have evolved in a similar way regardless.
Thank you so much for this. Lost will always be a huge touchstone in my life. I remember having watch parties at college and hours wasted theorizing on internet forums. My long distance partner (who I'm still with) would call me after every episode 😂 it really redefined what tv could be, plenty of problems and jank AF at points, but so amazing and outside the box, nothing compares
Yeah it very much was a major part of my time in college as well. Had a former friend push me hard into watching it and when I finally did ended up dragging my brother into the series too. All the online discussions were great even if they got heated. My grandfather and I would bond over theories when I would visit, sadly he passed away literally during the season 4 finale so it's a weird bittersweet memory for me.
@@Unquestionable I'm really sorry you lost your Grandpa during that time, but i bet he'd be pretty proud you saw it through to the end and kept up your theorizing even to this day. {my gramps was very much the same, but for X-Files}
I can’t even tell you how excited I was when this came out. I legit jumped out my seat and ran around my couch for 5 minutes. I am more than a die hard fan of LOST, I have seen all 121 episodes 9 times, and I am so sad that hardly anyone talks about it. Thank you so much for doing this, you just earned a subscriber.
This show really just has that special something that makes you love all the characters and keeps you invested through all the insane twists and turns. No show has ever come close.
I haven't watched any lost analysis before because I was afraid that people would just be shitting all over my favorite show. I'm so glad you're as fascinated with the show as I am. It's not perfect, for sure, but it's very close to my heart and I love it, flaws and all. Can't wait for the last video
Your first lost video got me hooked on the show, ended up watching it with my dad and getting him hooked as well. It's an experience I'll never forget. One of my favorite shows of all time now.
I actually have a theory that the wheel wasn't frozen originally. There's not really anything to back this up, but something about the set dressing makes me think it was a place built similar to the temple by people from long ago, but maybe around the wheel which already had been there. But I somehow just don't see that happening in this weird frozen place. Instead, I wonder if the Dharma Initiative didn't freeze it in place to stop the island from moving through time and space. Like if it maybe turned entirely on its own once upon a time or at least was more easily turned. But then they got to the island and one of their first tasks was to do something to stop that wheel and their solution was to literally build a big refrigerator to freeze it. Random weird thought to throw into the comments down here.
I will assume you watched the whole show, if not then stops here as the next part is about season 5: It can't be that because Dharma is already well settled when they discover the existence of the wheel. They find out about it in the first scene of season 5 wich happens in 1977 (just before the swan incident) and we know the Dharma initiative got to the island before 1974.
I remember fondly how I binged the first part of this deep dive series of yours when I was pregnant and stuck at home all day. Now I’m still watching while I’m taking care of my toddler 😆
Desmond was my favorite character from the first time I laid eyes on him. I was 12 watching the show as it first aired - and I dont know why I liked Desmond so much, but his episode "The Constant" immediately became my favorite when it aired. His character, his story, and this episode were just so important to my experience of the show.
I don't know how Billiam continues to get me to happily watch so many hours of content about a show I've never even seen. Somehow he did it again and now I can't wait for the final part!
Yes Billiam! You know you can put out a 3-4 hour video on LOST because the watchers will all be people who absolutely hate themselves and have therefore watched LOST several times at least all. the. way. through! I count myself as one of those insane people..
just finished watching lost (for the first time) and now im binging all of your videos. its so interesting to learn about all of the behind the scenes and also about yours perspective, cause youve loved this show for many years. its especially interesting regarding last 4 seasons because i really didnt enjoy them, yet you make me look at them from a different angle and i start to appreciate some things about them. cant wait for the last part!
I don't want to hijack Billiam's video to just promote my stuff, but if you want more behind the scenes stuff about the beginning, I got a video series on my channel.
This really takes me back to those nights where my family would gather around and watch Lost. We would sit around and theorize on what was going to happen and process what had just happened. Good times
Your first 2 videos made me start watching the show again for a third time and realize that it still is an awesome show. I was also reminded about how my wive started watching it with me on my second time through and how she couldn't get enough of it. Thanks for doing this.
I was hoping the ghosts were recordings of people made by the island. The electromagnetic island is like a blank tape and the longer you are there the more that gets recorded.
You keep knocking these Lost videos out of the park, dude! You're really bringing me back to being a teenager and being obsessed with this show, I definitely need to give it a rewatch after your final video to see if I'm able to pick up more with my grown adult brain that my younger self just skimmed past.
The amount of times I've watched this just in the background of of whatever I'm doing on the computer, or, more seriously, a way to distract myself when my anxiety and panic rises. Your passion and enthusiasm and genuine want to share your excitement about this show is what makes this series so good. Thank you for all your effort and time and everything else you've put into this retrospective. I'm not even a LOST fan, but if you can keep my attention about a show I've never seen, there's gotta be something in what I'm watching that compels me to watch it again and again. So thanks.
I love that scene in the Orchid when John and Ben are in the Orchid and Ben sits down John to watch an educational video and then John tells him: "...but you're in all the metal." And Ben just gives him a sarcastic look saying "You don't say!" 😂
Has it been year already? Must be time for another Billiam's Lost specials! HURRAY! Still loving these, because I'm one of those who missed the train when comes to Lost. I knew of it and saw some, but when I was old enough to seek for the series (as someone outside USA) - it was kinda too late to catch up everything. Now I can finally know everything what I was interested in!
This was a really fantastic addition to your Lost series. I have enjoyed all of your other long videos. I am a strange person who likes 9+ hour videos so this series has been a dream. Lots of love for the effort you do for these. Lots of appreciation for all your work! Will you do Fringe next? It seriously is the BEST show out there on so many levels that I feel that you'd have impactful analysis of how it does Lost and X-Files with a family drama at its core justice. Do Fringe eventually is all that I am saying. Great job again!
When I was a kid, I would watch random Lost episodes with my older sisters. I was a little losened on a lot of Lost's plot details but was engaged nonetheless. With little context the "Jin is dead" episode hit hard. Since you are looking at supplementary Lost material, can you look at Lost Parody by The Fine Bros. They deleted the videos when they became a reaction channel but it has been reuploaded. It really was The Fine Bros making fun of Lost with their large collection of action figures.
I hope you allow yourself to feel extremely proud of the videos you’ve made for Lost. I hope you think you’ve done a great job on them. It was really, REALLY good and I loved every minute of them!
Kinda crazy to see Billiam explain the streaming situation for Lost as 2 months after this video came out, Disney signed a deal with Netflix to license a number of shows, including Lost, to Netflix on a non-exclusive basis (meaning that it’ll be on Netflix, Hulu/Disney+, and Freevee at the same time).
I'm really happy you talked about the writer's strike in detail. When I started watching Lost I was 9 years old and watching it on Netflix maybe four years after it ended. I've only ever watched Lost on streaming platforms. It's so interesting to know that the creators of Lost knew how tv consumption would change.
just wanted to say, bc I've recently learned this myself, "trauma bonding" is not a term for two people bonding over trauma, it's actually a term for a victim developing a one-sided attachment towards their victimizer
Billiam, my guy, thank you for being one of the few retrospective channels that puts just as much, if not more, analysis into your videos as you do recapping shows. Lost was the show that ignited speculation at my family’s dinners and awakened my media literacy and analytical abilities, so this series has been incredibly nostalgic and provides new interpretations. You and Quentin are probably the only Recap channels that really feel transformative and insightful instead of a wiki audio book. Love your content and love you brother, be easy.
Been looking forward to this one for a while, love to see it finally released from the shackles of copyright :) S4 is easily my favorite of the series, and still goes so hard for me upon rewatch. The latter half of the series has so much to offer when it comes to worldbuilding, setup, and payoff. The pair of Seasons 4 and 5 make for such a striking story told from both perspectives of the ones who left and the ones who didn’t. (S5 onward) Ji Yeon and Cabin Fever come to mind with how strongly they were contextualized by the end of season 5. Ji Yeon’s structure being a mix of flash forward/flashback hinting at Sun and Jin’s separation via time and space was wild to me. Cabin Fever’s flashbacks were a great setup for learning that John essentially created the *idea* of himself among the Others when he was flashed to the 50s, and we even see how Jack can be partially credited for pushing his legend given how he advocated for him to Richard (after Sawyer also sorta did a few years before that). Painfully ironic considering how the attitudes *end up* when they first arrive there in 2004. As great as the fifth season is, I’m especially excited for your take on the final season. It was a bold move for what it was, but it ended up resonating with me quite a damn lot, and spoke beautifully to the show’s themes on individual perspective and connections. Excited for the next part!
@@billiam Right there with you! Knowing the show’s reputation but not knowing the details when I first watched it, I heard someone say that everything went downhill after S3. I was preparing myself for the worst, but it just ended up getting better and better.
I recently got into your channel, loved the first two lost videos and got super bummed that you hadn't released a third yet. I had lost hope of a third and saw this rn. I thought I was dreaming. Thank you for this.
Watching this video brought me back to the days where after new episode of the show I'd be reading Lostpedia entries, listening to Jorge Garcia's podcast, and hanging around the TWoP forum. Good times.
Incredible, love watching people talk about their passions and this entire series of videos has been a joy to take in. Well done on this momentous achievement in content creation!
The problem I've always seen with shorter seasons to add more seasons is that some of these shows seem rushed. They cram too much into too few episodes because they have to get certain story beats or information out. It takes the viewer out of it a bit because they're given less time to connect to the material or the characters. You have 3 seasons, 24 episodes each, and full picture of what you want to make with good pacing, but then you're forced to split 3 seasons up into 1.5 seasons each in order to drop it down to 2 seasons or cut content because you already had a full plan for 24 episodes in a whole other season. A lot of time it just kills momentum and throws off the writers. Networks need to learn to keep their filthy hands out of the pot >_
There have been some really cool TV shows killed by sprinting to the finish. Wandavision comes to mind as something that could have really used double the time to pace the reveal of the Hex, have space to breathe with the characters, and not just have a doofy CGI-fest conclusion.
I think it’s different in the context of when it was releasing. While in a binge, 22-24 episodes is great but when you had to fight winter break and random other breaks to see this episodes over 9 months; the pacing always seemed wonky while them starting in January to May over 14-18 episodes just felt better plot wise.
I like the video but something I also caught in the last video, is that there are a lot of redundancies and repetition(the writers strike gets introduced like 3 times before it gets talked about, reiterating how the flash forwards change the show, etc), I feel like the script could have been a bit tighter, even if it meant the video would have been shorter.
I watched your Lost videos like maybe a year ago, but recently I started watching the series for like the fifth time, this time introducing it to my girlfriend who never had the chance to watch it, so I rewatched your videos for some extra juicy facts about the show to spill. We just finished season four, it's already one of the favorite series oat and there you go... you dropped another video. You are a god man, certified deity.
Season 4 is my second favorite, but I think 5 is peak Lost. Beyond the cool time travel shenanigans, that season drives the theme of fate vs free will better than all the others. There’s such strong consequentialism, and cause and effect. The characters make significant decisions that have tremendous ramifications but because of the stable time loop, they are following their “destiny”. They cause The Incident, but not knowingly but through their actions, which they were always meant to do.
Ah yes, another lost video by billiam -- this is my shit. I've watched the others all the way through. didn't watch lost when it was airing, but did watch it through entirely about a decade ago or so, and was very obsessed for a while. This takes me back to that :) I love the way LOST felt early on, before a lot of the mysteries were solved. Super cool vibe, right? The hatch, the island, the monster, the others, it really gave you a feeling of being on the cusp of figuring it all out for a while.
Omg!! Had been waiting for this video for sooo long!! I love lost so much. BTW, those cephalopod sketches in the back are amazing!! One of my fav biologists and ilustrators is Ernst Haeckl 😍😍 so glad to see more people know of his work and art.
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@UrbanistBlooms Trashy love is the best love
It's still a ring he earned with his labor, right? Because they don't give sponsorships to anyone. So I don't really see a difference between getting a ring from a sponsor and buying a ring with money you got... from a sponsor.
The Hurley and Ben segment touching.
The problem with tungsten carbide id that it's hard to cut off, in an accident you may lose a finger instead of a ring but other than that it's very cool jewelry.
Isn’t Lost similar to Waco and the Jerry Jones Cult lol Ben us Jerry Jones
As someone who's never seen an episode of lost, I find this ungodly fascinating. I feel like an archeologist stumbling upon a copy of an epic of a long gone civilisation XD
You need to watch it, Billiam does a good job explaining what happens, but it's still something people need to /experience/.
Billiam's videos are amazing and undoubtedly the best coverage of lost ever done, but watching these videos without having actually watched through the series is just shameful. There's a reason he's devoting this much time to researching and talking about it, it is truly the best piece of media ever created, and to only watch a retrospective of it is doing both the show and yourself a massive disservice.
The thing is that, after having watched these videos, some of the truly amazing moments will not be surprises now.
I remember watching a moment from Season 2 very vividly. I bought into a character only to have their true nature shown in a single unexpected moment, and not having that as a surprise would have diminished the entire experience.
Same, I've never seen any of it nor will I ever, but it's such an enjoyable thing to watch Billiam cover.
me too, i also watched the mikes mic video which was 10/10 would recommend i feel like i watched it
I'd also like to point out the scene where Boone is explaining to John what a red shirt is in Star Trek. When John replies saying he must've been a piss poor captain. Thats a reference to his own character in Star Trek TNG where he was a captain that ended up being court martialed for treason. Love that line ever since I started diving down the Trek rabbit hole.
That's awesome
What a catch, sir! That’s a great double foreshadowed reference
I also love that they dressed frogut in a red shirt 😆
Mike Stoklasa, is that you?
Theres an office reference too , if i recall , the girl charlie was hustlng to steal her antique collectables said her dad was buying a paper merchents in slough so im guessing someone was a big fan of the uk office
you're one of the only TH-camrs to credit journalists, and not just give a shoutout to the publications, and I just want to say as a journalist myself, that we appreciate that so so so much.
absolutely obsessed with sayid's role in the constant. being the only one from the island having to protect desmond when he can't remember anything, his original worry about the people on the freighter, watching the dude die of time travel knowing desmond's next, having to deal with desmond just kinda passing out and waking up with new knowledge and requests, using his crazy skills to fix all the equipment even tho he doesn't know why. and the pure pain of him being in the room while desmond calls penny, knowing that there's almost no way he will ever be able to have a conversation like that with nadiya. sayid is always doing everything he can for everyone he meets, no matter how 'loosened' he himself is, making him a far superior leader than jack or even john could ever be
The problem with Sayid as a leader is that he's purely practical and prone to brutality.
God that shits so true love Sayid man hate how they treated his character in season 6
Literally! Where would they be without Sayid!!
I love Sayid, he was always my fave and I was hyped when I saw the actor in Sense8.
@@brooklyn113 As i spent my late childhood and entire life since, being told I looked like Naveen Andrews I was 100% looking for something, ANYTHING to hate on Sayid, when LOST premiered, but really, Naveen is a GREAT actor and Sayid is fantastic character. So yea, he became my favorite too, long before season 1 ended.
I’ve been waiting so long for this one, bruh. Thank you for feeding my never ending craving for Lost content
This is like Christmas morning. All the way back arguing with Cody on the lost fansites, I fell like billiam really put me back into 2007
I don't even remember the show. Or really care for it. But Billiam has a snack for making me like His vids regardless of what they are about.
Me too, I don't know why but I'm obsessed and it always makes my day.
Omg me too
@SB-NaFeTswe're not talking about Lost. We're talking about the third episode in this series of videos about Lost.
I'm 71 so I've watched quite a lot of TV over the years. LOST was the only show which I've ever watched from start to finish --every single episode--, including buying DVDs of all the seasons. It positively hypnotized me. Thanks for reminding me of so many of those peripheral characters who'd since become LOST in my memory!
No better way to celebrate the end the 2023 writers strike than taking a look on how the strike of 07 effecting the biggest shows of that era .
While 2007 affected our favourite shows and left us distraught.
While 2023 just made us go “Who cares?”.
If you're interested in seeing a detailed breakdown on how the writers' strike affected Lost, you can see it in more details here: th-cam.com/video/dNQHVadYmfQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7fX1IHxrwe4tWzIf&t=10
@@rayvenkman2087 Speak for yourself. A lot of people care.
@@rayvenkman2087who's "us" is what I wanna know??👀
@@rayvenkman2087 Nostalgia ain't what it used ta be.
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I love the "who are you" because it shows the dead people are real, not an hallucination. Michael can't hallucinate a man he's never met.
Well yeah, The Man in Black/smoke monster has the capacity to take the face of dead people. It’s used Christian, Yemi, and John as avatars throughout the show
For some odd reason that I can’t explain, I love that every Billiam video starts with him saying “…yeah…”
It’s just so chill. 😎
and the minecraft door sound effect.
Its the vibe of when you just asked a friend a question and they realize this answer is going to take the rest of the night. A "yeaaaah" that says "alright, sit down buddy we're gonna be here a while"
@@gobulgobblerso true. Feels like he’s just picking the conversation right back up, only with the inconvenience of having to wait a year to finish telling us.
it's like he's resigned to his fate like "Yeah, here I am again, where else would I be?" XD
I really hope this comes to Spotify podcasts😭😭
love how throughout the series billy will just lie about the really big fakeouts or plot twists right up until he gets to the twist part, to incorporate them into his recap and giving first time watchers experiencing the story thru this channel a taste of what the show was like live
I told my friend I watched 6 hours of LOST retrospective a couple months ago and she recommended I see a doctor.
Instead im going to watch another 3&1/2 hours of LOST retrospective content coz I just think its neat.
"l remember sitting at my girl's house, Wednesday nights, that's the show...
Watchin as that plane crashed, back in twenty zero fo...
Now we ain't together tho, ppl seem to come and go...
But Lost is like my CONSTANT, sounds a little strange, l know...
As a grow and change, alot of things come on that tv screen...
But other shows don't matter tho, the island isn't done with me...
Damn even thinking bout the end has got ya boy depressed, Lost I'm gonna miss you, got those numbers tattooed on my chest...."
@@KoolKeithProductions???
@@John-Doe-Yo
"l remember sitting at my girl's house, Wednesday nights, that's the show...
Watchin as that plane crashed, back in twenty zero fo...
Now we ain't together tho, ppl seem to come and go...
But Lost is like my CONSTANT, sounds a little strange, l know...
As a grow and change, alot of things come on that tv screen...
But other shows don't matter tho, the island isn't done with me...
Damn even thinking bout the end has got ya boy depressed, Lost I'm gonna miss you, got those numbers tattooed on my chest...."
Honestly, I was in shambles when I was watching the 6-hour video and got to the point where I realized that it wasn't gonna be the full retrospective, it's like "Damn, I don't want to waste this much time on this, but I'm too invested!" which is what I imagine most Lost viewers felt at the time(I was a kid so I had all the time in the world back then)
@@DaDualityofMan 🥺
It’s so crazy to see how many actors were in like every ABC show at that time. Bunches who were in this, Once Upon a Time, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy, and Scandal.
At least four actors in Lost had been in Oz as well
Jacks wife went on to be Claire on Modern Family.
There was a show I watched not that long ago, I can't remember what it was now....but there were at least 4 lost characters in the show and I couldn't believe it. 😂
Edit: possibly Sons of Anarchy? Yes, I think so.
They should have done a plot with Jack learning how to be a pilot and instead they focused on how he got a tattoo. He literally mentions he tried to learn how to fly. An amazing opportunity to bring Lapidus into it.
Holy shit that's a great point, never thought about that.
Damn it, the idea of Lapidus coming into the plotline like that makes me so annoyed it didn't happen
Damn don't make me dislike the tattoo episode more 😭
I remember Heroes crashed during the writers strike, and it almost felt like Lost was clapping back at Heroes by tackling Time Travel when Heroes abandoned it, and made some of the most incredible stuff
the first season of heroes is so good, man. so sad it crashed so hard after that
@@Silas_MN I know right? It was so fantastic
heroes s2 was shit before the strike happened
@@sirensongssAnd the show remained shit after the writers strike. It's cleared the first season was a passion project, something the creator took a lot of time to fine tune to the most minute detail. And starting from season 2 it's cleared they had no clue what they were doing.
I need a Hero(es restrospective)
I’ve always believed that S4 was the strongest. The season length and writing was so tight and the flash forwards allowed for both the on island and off island stories to feel so so fresh.
I enjoy the tightness of S4 and how they approach storytelling. But I would have loved for more backstory on the outrig characters.
Hard agree. I love they played as much into the weirdness as they could as well, with so many crazy concepts being tackled at once from the scientific to the spiritual. In hindsight it's probably the series highlight for me as the possibilities were endless but also lead to how there was going to be no way to stick the landing and satisfy all the various plot ideas being introduced. Very much a double edge sword. I personally enjoyed the later seasons compared to the earlier ones (I'm not a huge fan of some of the forced survival drama) but the whole thing was a wild and entertaining trip.
@@AnywhereMiamican you argument your opinion or do you just want to be a dick?
@@AnywhereMiami How can you say "by far" when S6 exists? I actually like the overall ending, but the season itself isn't the greatest. 4 is a masterpiece in comparison.
God, I always thought season four was a shitshow.
58:33 this moment had me on the floor, the hopeful music getting cut of as everyone just gets completely BODIED by the huge wave, then there’s the quick shot of Billiam resurfacing as it smash cuts to the chapter title, it’s great I love it
23:11 what I find interesting how the idea of the show “being made up as it went along” is that we have an example of a show that didn’t evolve as choices were made; How I Met Your Mother. And in the case of that show, it’s a huge detractor. Character growth and choices made over the course of all the other seasons are undone in the last 15 minutes. It’s infuriating
Yeah Lost definitely suffered from some of the lack of planning (too many interesting ideas introduced, only a handful expanded upon) but it at least transitioned toward the ending somewhat naturally. Yeah I wasn't a huge fan of the decision to mostly ignore the scientific based mysteries in favor of going hard on the spiritual stuff but at least by the finale it felt related to all the build up.
Good point. HIMYM is a particularly egregious example because they knew the entire time that they were at most parodying a prestige serialized show. Obviously the show was a make-as-many-episodes-as-possible romcom. The flashforwards and flashbacks and everything were... jokes. They were setting up and paying off comedy bits. I think the writers ultimately got high off their own supply. They started to believe their own hype about serialization, rather than actually assess how the show had evolved over the years since the pilot.
Why do you have to rile up the whole internet over this again. I just watch the fan made endings they're way better. Or even the official alternate
Guy just said something about a show calm down nobody's getting ruled up
wrong
Finally got through this. This is far and away my favorite installment of "Increasingly unhinged Florida Man talks about a cult TV show from 20 years ago." I just want to mention that (1) I miss the Rod Sterling bit (2) the briefcase B-plot in this installment is the best of the series. The increased production value and practical effects compared to prior installments really shines.
So glad someone is doing a detailed retrospective. My 18-year-old self was so deeply offended by Alex’s death that I rewrote season 5 with her as the protagonist 😂
how did you feel when she came back in s6?
@@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL it was nice to see her again and all but I always felt that she could have been so much more than a plot device to make the audience feel sympathy for Ben. The last thing I wanted for him was a happy ending. I wanted to see Jacob snub Ben in favor of her as the others leader (since Locke dies) in my fic, I kept her alive and sent her to live in the 70s. By the end of the story, she’s a hardened badass that’s fully integrated with my version of the a-team. There were a lot of wasted characters in lost so I rewrote it the way I wanted it to go down
@@ninaxwings as a teen I didn't really know fanfics were a thing (maybe a little language barrier thing), but if I had, Alex death would have been the thing that drove me to fanfiction!
@@AgentSteffi OMG, thank you! With the way they wrote her character I thought she was being set up to be a major player in the final seasons I think the writers missed a great opportunity with her
So excited to watch this. I will say as a writer, something being foreshadowed doesn't mean it wasn't made up after the fact. Part of being a writer, especially if you already have one part committed and public before the next part, is knowing what you already wrote and finding ways to recontextualise it if you need the story to go a certain way. I also don't think it was made up entirely as it went along but some of the foreshadowing is bound to be recontextualising existing story beats. Which is a fine thing to do! It's one of my favourite parts of writing when I realise I left something on the table and I can pick it up later with new meaning.
Adventure Time was fantastic at doing this. Finn has a couple weird character traits early on, like a fear of the ocean and seeing a weird ghost lady that represents his repressed memories. But as the show continues they play off of these facts about him to determine that he was lost at sea as an infant, and that the ghost lady was a past life of his who died tragically.
One of the weirder examples is there’s a scene in a very very early episode where Ice King claims “I didn’t steal [the crown], I made it. Made it with the magic that I stole!” Which once we get more context on his character and history as Simon seems like an inconsistency - he found the crown, and until then was unaware if magic really existed. But then way later it gets wrapped back up when we discover the crown’s actual origins - that it was made by an ancient wizard using stolen magic crystals, and part of the crown’s curse involves turning the wearer into some form of that guy, meaning that original scene gets recontextualized as Ice King was accessing those memories.
retconning
@@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL Yep. I assume you're trying to gotcha me but never deviating from your plan is a) unrealistic and b) not making the most of what's available to you. Half the point of the writer's strike was because the companies were trying to stop paying writers for their last minute re-writes during filming. Your ideas change and you have to retrofit existing continuity to serve a newer, better idea. Long live the retcon.
I think a lot of the aversion to retconning is this cult of canon that people have. People are absolutely obsessed with authorial intent and canon for no reason whatsoever.
@@Schemilix no it’s just a word
this is my Super Bowl
Jorge Garcia was honestly the GoaT in this whole show, him and Dominic Monaghan, 2 of the honeatly best actors in the whole show.
There's a reason Hurly was so important to the ending of the show. Both his character and his actor were just so crucial to the series
@@AeonKnigh432he was always the soul of the group. And ended up the soul of the island.
I probably relate to Hurley the most. And also those two characters together?? Some of the best chemistry i think
Ah the unhappiness of my childhood is rushing back to me while watching this series. Fantastic work mate, keep it rolling.
why was it unhappy 🙁
This series has become my Rome, I watch your videos on it at work over and over again. You’re commentary is amazing and being able to dissect the show like a book is so therapeutic to my ears. Thank you for spending your time on this and I hope you’re no longer burnt out 🙏
Almost 4 hours after editing! We dont say it enough Billy the lengths your go through to research your content, Thank you very much😢🎉❤
I like the guy and it’s good entertainment, but how is watching a TV show and giving a summary of it research?
@SirBallsDeepOfHouseManthrust you clearly haven't watched his other Lost videos lmao
Though imo we need to be giving Billiam's team their flowers also.
These are the definitive Lost breakdown/analyses on youtube, nothing even comes close. Really appreciate your hard work!
gotta say I was surprised and a little sad when you said part three would be covering the remainder of the show, but now that I've seen the final product, I like the direction you took. here's to three more three hour videos, cheers.
Charlotte Staples Lewis is almost directly C.S. Lewis's name, Clive Staples Lewis, who wrote the chronicles of Narnia. I don't know enough about lost to draw any reasons for it, but I did notice it immediately
She's trying to get back to "Narnia", the island, the magical place she remembers from her childhood. That's her character's motiviations.
This series you've made is pure 2000's euphoria. I love it so dearly and you should be proud of how well this is produced. It's something I can revisit as legitimately as the show LOST itself. Keepin' dis shit on in the background for a LOOOOOOOOONG time (after I watch it intently several times).
It's wild to hear you say that you've been working on this for 3 years bc that's hard to fathom but yeah so far, this series spans 12 hours, 46 minutes, and 23 seconds
(I can only imagine how fried editing all of this must have made you, rip and thank you for your sacrifice for our entertainment)
I think with the latest vid, we’re at 18 or 19 hours now!!
Following up that after the final part, the whole series ends up over 24 hours.
Hell yes it was INSANE. From start to finish. I'm on my second re-watch, this time with my kids. It's amazing TV. I can't believe this show got made, and I am so glad that it did.
Nice, I hope your kids are enjoying it
Im just thinking about how convenient it was that someone packed a pregnancy test for their international flight. I know theres a lot of plot convenience but that's always stood out
It was one of three attempts to signal the arrival of Widmore though.
@karinalumen9722I have never heard of this practice, but I assume it's kind of the same (or mayhaps the exact opposite) as keeping a extra pad in case someone needs one :)
It seems like a genuinely nice geature
Yeah i cant imagine anyone just having a pregnancy test in like a carry on bag 😂 like were they planning to check in an airplane bathroom?? Why? Who wants to do that in transit lol
The airlines provide them for the stewardesses
So. . .when you're trying for a baby, you tend to have to track your ovulation and such in order to know when you've got the best chance at success. As such, you typically need many ovulation *and* pregnancy tests. (This is why you can find them for sale in bulk outside of medical supply stores/companies.) Given the nature of the modern world, it stands to reason in my mind that someone on that flight wanted to make sure they had at least one test with them in case their luggage got lost at the airport once they landed. (That's what I did when we were trying for our first kid and we had to travel.)
Imagine if this show had come out ten years later from 2014 to 2020, when sharing and overanalyzing scenes and freeze frames was not only more obsessive but was basically firmly established online practice for the fandoms of ongoing series than what had existed from the 2004 to 2010 period the show actually aired in. And even back then the sharing and speculation was already pretty feverish.
tbh, that kind of obsessive fan culture goes back to Lost. without this show, that fan behavior you’re describing wouldn’t have come together the same way
@@Silas_MN Not exactly. The advent of VCRs with their (clunky when you want to stop and go back to exact points, but you got where you wanted with a little fiddling) pausing saw the rise of fan communities recording and picking out details they'd missed watching episodes of shows they liked air, and many 90s fan communities were sharing these with each other.
They were just very obscure and niche due to how relatively few people were online then. Passed around via fan publications and fan meets, in addition to a few webpages and Usenet or other similar early discussion systems. Lost benefited from being chock full of freeze-frame detail when bandwidth had improved and distribution widespread enough for the internet to become much more mainstream, but that fan behavior existed well beforehand. They just became more obsessive and common later on.
@@Silas_MNI disagree. That kind of stuff had already been seen, but LOST came out at a time where both media and how we used the internet were transition. I think that kind of fan obsession has always been around to some degree and would have evolved in a similar way regardless.
Thank you so much for this. Lost will always be a huge touchstone in my life. I remember having watch parties at college and hours wasted theorizing on internet forums. My long distance partner (who I'm still with) would call me after every episode 😂 it really redefined what tv could be, plenty of problems and jank AF at points, but so amazing and outside the box, nothing compares
Yeah it very much was a major part of my time in college as well. Had a former friend push me hard into watching it and when I finally did ended up dragging my brother into the series too. All the online discussions were great even if they got heated. My grandfather and I would bond over theories when I would visit, sadly he passed away literally during the season 4 finale so it's a weird bittersweet memory for me.
We will never have a other lost. Im glad i got to experience it in real time
Uh, what? Plenty of shows before and after that are far better than Lost. The Sopranos, Oz, Breaking Bad and many others.
@@Unquestionable I'm really sorry you lost your Grandpa during that time, but i bet he'd be pretty proud you saw it through to the end and kept up your theorizing even to this day. {my gramps was very much the same, but for X-Files}
WE HAVE TO GO BACK!!
Thanks for the shoutout Billiam!
I can’t even tell you how excited I was when this came out. I legit jumped out my seat and ran around my couch for 5 minutes. I am more than a die hard fan of LOST, I have seen all 121 episodes 9 times, and I am so sad that hardly anyone talks about it. Thank you so much for doing this, you just earned a subscriber.
If you need more, I got something on my channel too.
This show really just has that special something that makes you love all the characters and keeps you invested through all the insane twists and turns. No show has ever come close.
All the characters? Including Nikki and Paulo?
And that is exactly why when it all goes south it hurts even more :)
@@williamhornabrook8081 Honestly, a reference to them later on makes me love them.
Yeah, it's called melodrama. It's a soap opera with a bunch of dumb sci-fi crap pasted over top.
@@canaldecastait never "goes south"
I haven't watched any lost analysis before because I was afraid that people would just be shitting all over my favorite show. I'm so glad you're as fascinated with the show as I am. It's not perfect, for sure, but it's very close to my heart and I love it, flaws and all. Can't wait for the last video
Your first lost video got me hooked on the show, ended up watching it with my dad and getting him hooked as well. It's an experience I'll never forget. One of my favorite shows of all time now.
This is still my favourite show of all time. Nothing beats the theorycrafting between seasons. So many great memories...
I actually have a theory that the wheel wasn't frozen originally. There's not really anything to back this up, but something about the set dressing makes me think it was a place built similar to the temple by people from long ago, but maybe around the wheel which already had been there. But I somehow just don't see that happening in this weird frozen place. Instead, I wonder if the Dharma Initiative didn't freeze it in place to stop the island from moving through time and space. Like if it maybe turned entirely on its own once upon a time or at least was more easily turned. But then they got to the island and one of their first tasks was to do something to stop that wheel and their solution was to literally build a big refrigerator to freeze it. Random weird thought to throw into the comments down here.
It can double as a polar bear enclosure this way 👍
I will assume you watched the whole show, if not then stops here as the next part is about season 5:
It can't be that because Dharma is already well settled when they discover the existence of the wheel.
They find out about it in the first scene of season 5 wich happens in 1977 (just before the swan incident) and we know the Dharma initiative got to the island before 1974.
I remember fondly how I binged the first part of this deep dive series of yours when I was pregnant and stuck at home all day. Now I’m still watching while I’m taking care of my toddler 😆
The underwater sequence at 1:57:49 is maybe the best underwater skit I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. You’ve outdone yourself!
Desmond was my favorite character from the first time I laid eyes on him. I was 12 watching the show as it first aired - and I dont know why I liked Desmond so much, but his episode "The Constant" immediately became my favorite when it aired. His character, his story, and this episode were just so important to my experience of the show.
I don't know how Billiam continues to get me to happily watch so many hours of content about a show I've never even seen. Somehow he did it again and now I can't wait for the final part!
Have you considered watching the show before Billiam's last LOST video comes out?
Used to wonder who would watch such a long ass vid like this until I was sick today. And this really helped the time pass by. Thanks
Yes Billiam! You know you can put out a 3-4 hour video on LOST because the watchers will all be people who absolutely hate themselves and have therefore watched LOST several times at least all. the. way. through!
I count myself as one of those insane people..
I haven't seen a single episode of LOST... not sure if that makes me more or less insane for watching these.
@@luc_is_heresame it's so hard to keep up with what the hell is going on
@@luc_is_hereyou gotta watch Mike's mic season 1 recap then
@@orimenguyou too lol
@@oo4758 already did? Also watched Billiam's recap, doesn't make it any easier to understand lmao
This is probably my favourite retrospective series on TH-cam. Can't Wait for the next one!
just finished watching lost (for the first time) and now im binging all of your videos. its so interesting to learn about all of the behind the scenes and also about yours perspective, cause youve loved this show for many years. its especially interesting regarding last 4 seasons because i really didnt enjoy them, yet you make me look at them from a different angle and i start to appreciate some things about them. cant wait for the last part!
I don't want to hijack Billiam's video to just promote my stuff, but if you want more behind the scenes stuff about the beginning, I got a video series on my channel.
This really takes me back to those nights where my family would gather around and watch Lost. We would sit around and theorize on what was going to happen and process what had just happened. Good times
Your first 2 videos made me start watching the show again for a third time and realize that it still is an awesome show.
I was also reminded about how my wive started watching it with me on my second time through and how she couldn't get enough of it.
Thanks for doing this.
I was in the military when you started this series and I am no longer in the military. That s*** is wild.
THE RETURN! Welcome back and thank you for your hard work!
I literally binged both your LOST videos yesterday (for the fifth time), didn't expect this to pop up so soon. Thank you Billiam!!!
I was hoping the ghosts were recordings of people made by the island. The electromagnetic island is like a blank tape and the longer you are there the more that gets recorded.
You keep knocking these Lost videos out of the park, dude! You're really bringing me back to being a teenager and being obsessed with this show, I definitely need to give it a rewatch after your final video to see if I'm able to pick up more with my grown adult brain that my younger self just skimmed past.
I literally screamed when this showed up in my feed!!! Oddly, one of my must awaited videos and I wasn’t even a big Lost fan😅 Cheers from México!
cheers!
The amount of times I've watched this just in the background of of whatever I'm doing on the computer, or, more seriously, a way to distract myself when my anxiety and panic rises. Your passion and enthusiasm and genuine want to share your excitement about this show is what makes this series so good. Thank you for all your effort and time and everything else you've put into this retrospective. I'm not even a LOST fan, but if you can keep my attention about a show I've never seen, there's gotta be something in what I'm watching that compels me to watch it again and again. So thanks.
My mental health today is just not it, so I'm really glad you posted a new Lost video! It's a wonderful distraction from a meh day
Misread this as "dental health day". Hope that helps.
Hope things get kinder for you, take care out there
I hope you're having a better day today you deserve happiness
1:02:53 “Look at Sayid. So naturally the little spoon. A lethal little spoon”
😂
Shouts out to the editor! They’re clearly having a lot of fun-THURSDAY!
We all had a lot of fun on this one!
I love that scene in the Orchid when John and Ben are in the Orchid and Ben sits down John to watch an educational video and then John tells him: "...but you're in all the metal." And Ben just gives him a sarcastic look saying "You don't say!" 😂
its been 86 years... but its worth the wait!!
I really appreciate you explaining the mechanics and reasons for both strikes. Most people don’t get that, and it’s really important
Has it been year already? Must be time for another Billiam's Lost specials! HURRAY!
Still loving these, because I'm one of those who missed the train when comes to Lost. I knew of it and saw some, but when I was old enough to seek for the series (as someone outside USA) - it was kinda too late to catch up everything. Now I can finally know everything what I was interested in!
It's still very worth watching the actual show, it's super binge worthy
This was a really fantastic addition to your Lost series. I have enjoyed all of your other long videos. I am a strange person who likes 9+ hour videos so this series has been a dream. Lots of love for the effort you do for these. Lots of appreciation for all your work!
Will you do Fringe next? It seriously is the BEST show out there on so many levels that I feel that you'd have impactful analysis of how it does Lost and X-Files with a family drama at its core justice. Do Fringe eventually is all that I am saying. Great job again!
Omg seconding Fringe - that and lost were my favorites
"Cause Jack's a ho."
I had to pause while dying from
laughing
I’ve been making people watch Lost at work and telling them “fun facts” from your videos. Thank you for small talk content for my job.
When I was a kid, I would watch random Lost episodes with my older sisters. I was a little losened on a lot of Lost's plot details but was engaged nonetheless. With little context the "Jin is dead" episode hit hard.
Since you are looking at supplementary Lost material, can you look at Lost Parody by The Fine Bros. They deleted the videos when they became a reaction channel but it has been reuploaded. It really was The Fine Bros making fun of Lost with their large collection of action figures.
Desmond’s and Penny’s phone call makes me cry... this show makes me cry many times... I love it.
I hope you allow yourself to feel extremely proud of the videos you’ve made for Lost. I hope you think you’ve done a great job on them. It was really, REALLY good and I loved every minute of them!
3 and a half hours and I sat down/laid down and watched it all.
This guy makes cinema
Billiam, you are amazing. I’ve been anticipating this video for a while now and you did not disappoint!! Thanks for being so awesome 💜
Kinda crazy to see Billiam explain the streaming situation for Lost as 2 months after this video came out, Disney signed a deal with Netflix to license a number of shows, including Lost, to Netflix on a non-exclusive basis (meaning that it’ll be on Netflix, Hulu/Disney+, and Freevee at the same time).
This series has been so captivating. Thank you for this retrospective. I was obsessed with LOST when it was out lol. I can’t wait for the next video!
I'm really happy you talked about the writer's strike in detail. When I started watching Lost I was 9 years old and watching it on Netflix maybe four years after it ended. I've only ever watched Lost on streaming platforms. It's so interesting to know that the creators of Lost knew how tv consumption would change.
just wanted to say, bc I've recently learned this myself, "trauma bonding" is not a term for two people bonding over trauma, it's actually a term for a victim developing a one-sided attachment towards their victimizer
Billiam, my guy, thank you for being one of the few retrospective channels that puts just as much, if not more, analysis into your videos as you do recapping shows. Lost was the show that ignited speculation at my family’s dinners and awakened my media literacy and analytical abilities, so this series has been incredibly nostalgic and provides new interpretations. You and Quentin are probably the only Recap channels that really feel transformative and insightful instead of a wiki audio book. Love your content and love you brother, be easy.
Been looking forward to this one for a while, love to see it finally released from the shackles of copyright :) S4 is easily my favorite of the series, and still goes so hard for me upon rewatch. The latter half of the series has so much to offer when it comes to worldbuilding, setup, and payoff.
The pair of Seasons 4 and 5 make for such a striking story told from both perspectives of the ones who left and the ones who didn’t. (S5 onward) Ji Yeon and Cabin Fever come to mind with how strongly they were contextualized by the end of season 5. Ji Yeon’s structure being a mix of flash forward/flashback hinting at Sun and Jin’s separation via time and space was wild to me. Cabin Fever’s flashbacks were a great setup for learning that John essentially created the *idea* of himself among the Others when he was flashed to the 50s, and we even see how Jack can be partially credited for pushing his legend given how he advocated for him to Richard (after Sawyer also sorta did a few years before that). Painfully ironic considering how the attitudes *end up* when they first arrive there in 2004.
As great as the fifth season is, I’m especially excited for your take on the final season. It was a bold move for what it was, but it ended up resonating with me quite a damn lot, and spoke beautifully to the show’s themes on individual perspective and connections. Excited for the next part!
Its some of my favorite parts of LOST!
@@billiam Right there with you! Knowing the show’s reputation but not knowing the details when I first watched it, I heard someone say that everything went downhill after S3. I was preparing myself for the worst, but it just ended up getting better and better.
I recently got into your channel, loved the first two lost videos and got super bummed that you hadn't released a third yet. I had lost hope of a third and saw this rn. I thought I was dreaming. Thank you for this.
I've never seen any of Lost, but I enjoy these videos so much and have watches them so many times
Watching this video brought me back to the days where after new episode of the show I'd be reading Lostpedia entries, listening to Jorge Garcia's podcast, and hanging around the TWoP forum. Good times.
Thats crazy, I legit just finished watching the Lost part 2 video yesterday. Thank you papa billiam
i WOULD LIVE FOR AN EPISODE BY EPISODE BREAKDOWN FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES! Thanks for these vids though, they're incredible! Youre so good at this!
Season 4 was my favorite. Great video, it's nice having such an indepth look back at the show
Incredible, love watching people talk about their passions and this entire series of videos has been a joy to take in. Well done on this momentous achievement in content creation!
The fact I have never seen an episode of Lost, but have watched every video Billiam has made on Lost...
I am so happy you have created these sets of videos. You are the 100% definitive source for everything regarding the show and it is always PHENOMENAL
The problem I've always seen with shorter seasons to add more seasons is that some of these shows seem rushed. They cram too much into too few episodes because they have to get certain story beats or information out. It takes the viewer out of it a bit because they're given less time to connect to the material or the characters.
You have 3 seasons, 24 episodes each, and full picture of what you want to make with good pacing, but then you're forced to split 3 seasons up into 1.5 seasons each in order to drop it down to 2 seasons or cut content because you already had a full plan for 24 episodes in a whole other season.
A lot of time it just kills momentum and throws off the writers.
Networks need to learn to keep their filthy hands out of the pot >_
There have been some really cool TV shows killed by sprinting to the finish. Wandavision comes to mind as something that could have really used double the time to pace the reveal of the Hex, have space to breathe with the characters, and not just have a doofy CGI-fest conclusion.
I think it’s different in the context of when it was releasing. While in a binge, 22-24 episodes is great but when you had to fight winter break and random other breaks to see this episodes over 9 months; the pacing always seemed wonky while them starting in January to May over 14-18 episodes just felt better plot wise.
I remember watching the constant and thinking “wow this show is getting better and better”. Love the video!
I like the video but something I also caught in the last video, is that there are a lot of redundancies and repetition(the writers strike gets introduced like 3 times before it gets talked about, reiterating how the flash forwards change the show, etc), I feel like the script could have been a bit tighter, even if it meant the video would have been shorter.
I watched your Lost videos like maybe a year ago, but recently I started watching the series for like the fifth time, this time introducing it to my girlfriend who never had the chance to watch it, so I rewatched your videos for some extra juicy facts about the show to spill. We just finished season four, it's already one of the favorite series oat and there you go... you dropped another video. You are a god man, certified deity.
Season 4 is my second favorite, but I think 5 is peak Lost. Beyond the cool time travel shenanigans, that season drives the theme of fate vs free will better than all the others. There’s such strong consequentialism, and cause and effect. The characters make significant decisions that have tremendous ramifications but because of the stable time loop, they are following their “destiny”. They cause The Incident, but not knowingly but through their actions, which they were always meant to do.
Thanks for helping me understand the Lil B lyric "Don't red shirt me, this is lil Berkeley" from Always Been Alone Band Freestyle.
Ah yes, another lost video by billiam -- this is my shit. I've watched the others all the way through. didn't watch lost when it was airing, but did watch it through entirely about a decade ago or so, and was very obsessed for a while. This takes me back to that :)
I love the way LOST felt early on, before a lot of the mysteries were solved. Super cool vibe, right? The hatch, the island, the monster, the others, it really gave you a feeling of being on the cusp of figuring it all out for a while.
Unironically some of the best stuff you've ever done on this channel. Can feel this is a passion project.
Omg!! Had been waiting for this video for sooo long!! I love lost so much. BTW, those cephalopod sketches in the back are amazing!! One of my fav biologists and ilustrators is Ernst Haeckl 😍😍 so glad to see more people know of his work and art.
10/10 would love to experience the shark scene again i lost it so bad when you did the punch. i love your lost series so much
Let's do this everyone! ITS HAPPENING 🤗