The Lost Blog - Six Reasons Lost is the Greatest TV Show of All Time

Like many of recent TV shows LOST as raised the bar in what can be done and what is expected from American Television shows. LOST is a unique show unlike any other. At times infuriating, at time compulsive, it took the phrase "addictive TV" to new heights. Below are 6 possible reasons why LOST could be called the greatest TV show of all time. Whether it is or not is up to those loyal fans who have stuck with the mystery, the love stories, the back stories, the leaps of faith. So in honour of the Oceanic 6 and those dastardly Numbers, here are six reasons why LOST should be watched by everybody.

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The Music.

Michael Giacchino's rousing, heart wrenching, evocative, pulsating score has elevated LOST to level of high charged emotional brilliance. At lIst of the great scenes in Lost's history are ones accompanied by Giacchino's score. His character themes are all perfect, a mixture of love, mystery, intrigue, danger and humour all feeling right for the island setting. Lost has brought a tear to my eye on more than one occasion and for all of them, Giacchino's beautiful music was there to tip me over the edge.


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The Time You're Not Watching LOST

No TV show in history has taken over a fans life in the way LOST does. Yeah previous shows have developed deep, mystery mythologies, but nothing quite on the level of LOST. From books written by characters in the show, yet published in the real world, to the LOST Experience - a huge web of online secrets which can be investigated to add and enhance your enjoyment of the show. LOST's creates understood the importance of viral campaigns to pique interest in the show, and with Lostpedia, people had a resource where they could read up on the vast number of mysteries from the show as well as read theories and ideas on what its all about. I spent much more time thinking about LOST than I ever spent watching it, and even though its over, there is still so much which is left unknown. I feel I will for a long time be looking into the mysteries and questions the show raised in search of answers - and no TV show has ever embraced this more than LOST.

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The Twists and Reveals

A TV show built on a mystery of an enigma is going to have a number of big twists and reveals but LOST took the idea to such an extreme that even if the ending didn't satisfy even if it did at the very least work as the biggest twist and reveal in the shows history and so feels right in the sense. From the polar bears to the monster to the Dharma Initative to the Others to the island. There have been too many twists and reveals to name, but watching Ben move the Island, discovering the true identity of the smoke monster, discovering who caused the plane to crash and why, as well how each of the characters connected before they came to the Island is half the fun of watching the show. The biggest and best twists come right at the end of each series such as finding out that if Locke didn't come back from the dead, then who is that going to meet Jacob. A jaw dropping moment, which once again changed the face of LOST forever.

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The Characters.

LOST had such a vast array of characters throughout the show its surprising how well so many of them stuck with us. And what fascinating people they were. Firstly we had a cripple who was pushed out of a window by his kidney stealing con man father, a criminal whose witnessed the murder of his mother at the hands of his father and then took upon himself the identity of the con man who led to their deaths. A guy who won over a hundred million dollars on the lottery, owns companies other characters work for, spent time in a mental institute and thinks winning all that money was the worst thing that ever happened to him, only to discover the numbers are integral to events on the Island. Or how about a boy whose mother dies in childbirth who is then taken to the island, where his dead mother convinces him to join the natives and then years later, kill his father and everyone one of his former people; kidnaps a child and raises as his own and orchestrates the deaths of countless people only to seek redemption. These are just some of the wonderful array of diverse characters on LOST, and with actors of the calibre of Terry O'Quinn, Michael Emerson, Nestor Carbonell and Jorge Garcia every episode was joyous to watch just to spend time with these characters. 

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The Mystery.

From episode 1 LOST set itself up as the great mystery of modern television. Within the first episode we discovered polar bears, a giant man eating force rampaging through the trees and a French distress signal. As the show has unfolded bigger, weirder and less plausible storylines have come to light all answering questions whilst raising more. The mystery of LOST is its life blood. Its what had thousands of fans rushing to the internet after every episode to chase down potential leads which might, possibly, shed light on the show. That it ended with more mystery and less answers will no doubt infuriate many, but LOST always stuck to its guns and left us all with plenty to think and talk about. And even now the show has gone I still find myself pondering on the mysteries of the great mythology of our time. 

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The Island.

In long running TV shows, two things must remain constant throughout. The Characters and the World. And the creators of LOST created perhaps the greatest "world" in the history of television. The Island is perhaps the biggest and most interesting character on the show. Reluctant to reveal it's secrets, its purpose or even why it exists, the island is a menagerie of bizarre, engaging and utterly baffling things. From the Dharma stations to the polar bears, from plane crashes a plenty, the inland shipwrecks, from smoke monsters to caves, underground passageways and bright white lights. Add into that the weather, the scenery and the history and you have something truly spectacular. We never found out just how old the island was, who its first inhabitants are and what might happen if its power was negated or released. And yet, the biggest pull back to LOST will always be the island. Characters and societies in the LOSTverse will come and go, but the Island endures. For it is the great mystery of LOST.