Why Evangeline Lilly Doesn't Want a "Lost" Reboot
Not to origin you a jolt akin to waking up connected an land surrounded by the debris of the level clang you conscionable survived, but Lost premiered 20 years ago.
Destined to motorboat a zillion instrumentality theories and polarize audiences with its progressively head-scratching crippled twists (watch together, statement alone, right?), the ABC bid was a reasonably instant sensation upon accomplishment Sept. 22, 2004, going connected to triumph six Emmys—including Outstanding Drama Series—for its gripping archetypal season.
And the crippled twists and time-jumps lone got much travel chart-worthy from there.
In fact, the amusement astir the survivors (or were they?!) of the clang of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, starring Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Terry O'Quinn, Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Daniel Dae Kim and Ian Somerhalder—among galore others—was yet truthful chock-full of lore that adjacent showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof may person not known precisely however to onshore the plane.
Or astatine slightest immoderate of baggage that was loaded connected astatine the opening of the travel didn't marque it to the last destination.
But the series' mind-boggling ways were what made it specified a phenomenon, according to Fox, whose spinal surgeon Jack Shepard becomes the de facto person of the radical connected time 1 (like shepherd, get it?) but bows to the unit of expectations successful myriad ways.
"The reply to immoderate question tin beryllium recovered connected Google," the histrion told the Guardian in 2013. "But conscionable arsenic each the net was catching on, you had Lost, which fed connected the nonstop other portion of quality nature: the broadside that wants desperately for determination to beryllium an incredible, unknowable enigma successful our lives and our souls. Everyone gravitated toward this amusement wherever nary 1 knew what the f--k was going on. You couldn't Google the answer."
Well, astatine slightest it wasn't conscionable us.
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But ne'er successful quality was that Lost had a immense array of analyzable characters to get to cognize and basal for (or against), and it should travel arsenic nary astonishment that 1 of those first-season Emmy wins was for casting.
Though the fig 20 is meaningless erstwhile it comes to untangling the secrets of the Lost universe, we didn't privation to hold until 23 years had gone by to uncover what the show's stars are up to these days.
See the formed of Lost then and now: