Out of Sight and Out of Mind? The Future Legacy of Lost

“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.” – Jacob

But what happens after it ends, Jacob?

While Lost peacefully addressed life’s ironically ultimate mystery, its public perception has been nothing if not turbulent (see what I did there?!). Last year at this time there were tons of in memoriam reflections, but I suspect that won’t be the case this year. However, I don’t think the lack of Lost noise will be caused by viewer apathy (or by the fact that it’s kind of ridiculous to expect people to share their feelings every year on the day of the show’s death); instead, I think this reluctance will come from a legitimate fear of “going back” and being disappointed.

Now, admittedly, I’m a Lost apologist through and through. I will argue its merits with anyone even when I know I’m wrong. It’s my favorite show of all time; I have fan art hanging in my room; I’ve heard every episode of the Official Lost Podcast at least two times. None of that is going to change. But, possibly for the first time ever, I feel the beating that the show has taken since its finale is partially merited and I wanted to step out of my usually defensive stance and actually write about my suspicions for the show’s legacy

We have to go back! Looking at LOST one year later.

As you may already know the Code 2 Crew loves/loved LOST. It all started with Royal challenging me to watch the Pilot and try not to watch the rest. Fool me once….I immediately got addicted and it consumed my life. It has been a year since the finale and there is still a LOST shape hole in my life so when my friend Nick hit me up and said he had a LOST post for Code 2 I immediately jumped on it. The following is his take on the show as a whole. Enjoy

I’m sure many of these Lost retrospectives are going to burst onto the blogosphere today, and if that’s your sort of thing, I suggest checking out all of these websites to see if they partake. I wanted to jump on the bandwagon— today being a year since the show ended— and Jonny D was generous enough to oblige.

Ben Linus: Prison Counselor

Here is our friend Ben Linus in a video for training prison counselors circa 1992…

I don’t know about you, but I think the real Ben Linus would of handled this a little different, maybe a little disappearing act?!

-El Capitán

“It only ends once. Anything that happens before that…is just progress.”

Smile!

Over the past school year, I’ve had some extra time on my hands (6 credits and no job), which has allowed me to catch up on certain shows such as Dexter and LOST.  You may remember my post last year about LOST and 88 Keys song “Baggage claim” below.

Well, the final season has begun and we are all still LOST and have no idea how the series will finish.  I have faith in the writers and hope they wont cop out on the storyline wrap up and call it all a dream or somethin’ else weak.  Anyway, fast forward to yesterday when I was surfin through NT and discovered a bunch of LOST-related art.  So without further adieu I present ya’ll with some art…. (Bendey, watch the series, get inspired, do your thing, & get paper. paper? paper.)

Carlos Ramos Dharma manual SOLD.

My path to new music.

From Dwight Howard to Sawyer.  A journey.

How you ask….read on.

Henry Gale

I don’t know if you cats out there are on LOST or not. I recommend that you get on it…if you want to lose a couple months of your life, or just have too much free time (fucking economy).
Spotted this over @ Digital Collage:

I was talking with Jonny D and ElCapitan and we have determined that if we ever see this fucker out on the streets…his presense warrents an automatic POPSMOKE (i.e., getting the fuck out of dodge). Really, the writers of that shit all deserve raises (yes even in this eff’d economy) due to the fact that after what? 4 years I still have no idea what is even happening on that show, but it’s straight crack (i.e., addicting; warrents habitual use).

On the island off the island, who the fuck knows?

-Royal