LOST — Fanmade trailer.

Today is the 7 year Anniversary of the LOST pilot episode.

See, the thing is, while a lot of shows have come and gone since LOST or might even still be here plugging along, doing their thing, seems that nothing can or will ever match it. While there’s been much debate over whether or not they stuck the landing, and I still think they did NOT. That’s irrelevant to what they did along the way and the impact it had on culture and television history and life. Here’s why.

Lost was about everything.

It touched on all religions. All aspects of culture. Philosophy. Fate. Free Will. Destiny. Predetermination. Love. Luck. Loss. Victory. Failure. Bad Parenting. Regret. Success. Cowardice. Heroics. Time Travel. Simplicity. Complexity. Spirituality. Redemption. God. The Devil. The paranormal. Literature. Comics. Shadowy Organizations. The end of the world. The beginning of the world. 4. 8. 15. 16. 23. 42. Questions. Questions. Questions.

When everything seems at its worst, you can relax, because everything happens for a reason.

Lost was about everything.

A show that ostensibly was about a 324 people involved in a plane crash on a weird island and the 48 people who survivied was quickly revealed to be so much more.

IT was about the search for redemption and how all these people we meet are really all connected through coincidence, fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it.

How the decisions we make in the past will and do affect what is happening to us here and now.

How, even if you try to control your destiny and make things happen, some things were just MEANT to happen. How good becomes evil. How evil becomes good. And how its sometimes hard to tell the difference.

While I am (may be) overstating its significance, to me and millions of Others nothing will or can ever touch the effect of this show on our lives. It was brilliant. I could go on and on.

LOST was about everything.

LOST was everything.

We have to go back.

We have to go forward.

What lies in the shadow of the statue?

He who will save us all.

Thanks.

Forever.

“We’re going to need to watch that again.”