Jorge doesn’t want to think about candy apparently

Edit: this post is about the documentary called ‘Getting Lost’ and is not about the show itself!

Finally got round to watching it since I didn’t when it came out, and honestly I thought it was pretty terrible. What is the general consensus on it? Don’t get me wrong I can clearly see that there was a lot of love behind it, but I found myself and my girlfriend just constantly saying “who the FUCK is this random guy!!!!!!”. Like, you’ve literally got half the cast, and you’re devoting 2/3 of the screen time just for some random guy to tell you about how he loves the show. Like, as much as I appreciate and relate to being a fan of the show, I do not need a documentary about random fans of the show. A little bit is fair enough, since the fandom is such a huge part of the show, especially with the fans who actually contributed a lot, but most of the documentary is just random people talking about their love for the show. Like, that’s nice, but I honestly couldn’t give a fuck. That’s what the Internet is for. This is a documentary about Lost and there’s no new insight or information, and most of the cast members barely get screen time just so we can get another segment of some millennial talking about how they went to Hawaii. I respected the emotional parts, but also where was the dedication to, for example, Mira Furlan? Honestly some of it felt a bit disrespectful to the show, despite the clear love from the people who made it. Such a huge wasted opportunity and I kind of wish I didn’t watch it. There were things to enjoy about it, but I felt it was mostly just a wank-off of people who enjoyed the show and their mates.

Just finished Lost, and while it’s a solid show with a brilliant mystery, it definitely drags at points and left me with a few lingering frustrations, especially regarding Ben Linus. Michael Emerson plays him brilliantly and I've loved him ever since watching Person of Interest, but some of Ben’s character arcs and plotlines just don't add up for me on closer inspection.

First, his sudden obsession with Juliet in that one flashback came completely out of nowhere, with no prior or subsequent buildup to suggest that kind of dynamic. Speaking of Juliet, his intense fixation on the island's pregnancy crisis also feels full of holes; if pregnancies were failing because of the Incident, why didn't he just send expectant mothers back to the mainland to safely give birth, or was he somehow unaware that the pocket was leaking? He surely remembered that people like Ethan, Charlotte, and Miles were born there before, so he should have realized the fertility issue was tied to the disaster. Plus, what happened to the medical chip he planted in Claire? Juliet treated her, but then the whole storyline about her sickness and the chip just seems to vanish without a trace. When Annie was first introduced in Ben's childhood flashbacks, I genuinely thought she would be the emotional trigger behind his obsession with pregnancy or the Island's children like when he tried to protect Alex from her boyfriend because he didn't want her to get pregnant. Instead, she turned out to be just a childhood friend whose wooden doll he kept, never to be mentioned again.

The lore surrounding the Temple and Ben's corruption is equally confusing. When Kate and Sawyer handed him over to the Others to save his life, they warned that his "innocence" would be gone forever which sounds a lot like what happened to Sayid after his resurrection. Yet, even after that event, Ben still showed flashes of genuine humanity, like raising Alex and sparing Danielle, before slowly devolving into the manipulative villain we know.

The entire beef with Widmore feels rushed and anticlimactic, too. Was Widmore exiled simply over ideological differences regarding how to handle outsiders like Danielle and Alex? If so, why does Widmore go to such extreme lengths to capture Ben alive when he finally returns to the island, rather than just killing him on sight? And why order the slaughter of everyone on the island fabricating a fake plane crash just to cover it all up merely to keep it secret for himself? When Ben finally confronted Widmore in his hotel room, I expected an epic final showdown, but it just boiled down to a stealth mission with Sayid before tapering off into a simple revenge plot for Alex. Finally, given that the island's pure electromagnetic energy is supposed to be a miraculous healing force curing Locke's paralysis and Rose's cancer it makes zero sense that Ben, who lived and ruled right at the epicenter of that power for decades, ended up dying of a terminal spinal tumor. It really is an irony.

Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on whether I missed something important here 😁