Let’s pay tribute to the writers of LOST, who had the genius to transform a problem they were facing into a magnificent storytelling trick.
At the end of season 3, after having written 60 episodes built on the same model, namely the story of the adventures of the castaways on the island, interspersed with flashbacks showing their past lives, the writers begin to go around in circles.
They no longer have anything to say about the castaways’ past. They said everything, told everything.
They can no longer have flashbacks.
So, what to do?
LOST is built on this model based on alternating current sequences on the island and past sequences in the real world.
The writers of the series will then have a brilliant idea which will captivate all fans of the series and become a landmark.
Everything will happen in the last episode of season 3, entitled Through the looking glass . (Spoiler alert!)
The episode seems constructed like the others. Alongside what is happening on the island, we discover flashback sequences. We find Jack, the hero, who is in Los Angeles. He’s feeling bad, he wants to kill himself.
It is then that he is joined by Kate, who was his main partner on the island.
So Jack and Kate knew each other before meeting on the island?! Spectacular turn of events !
But the biggest surprise is yet to come.
In the final moments of the episode, Jack tells Kate that they need to return to the island, that they should never have left.
What??!!
And there, we understand that, in this episode, what we thought was a flashback is in fact a flash-forward. We didn’t see the characters’ past but their future!
Absolutely breathtaking turnaround.
We will now see the future of the characters and no longer their past.
The writers masterfully turned the situation around. New horizons open up for two. the machine is restarted.
LOST had many faults, but we must still recognize its great moments…