History Trivia / LOST

** Josh Holloway had pretty much quit acting and was in the process of obtaining a realtor's license when he was cast as Sawyer and saw the show as OneLastJob. And the rest is history.

* IKnewIt:
** Speculation was that based off his nickname, "Mr. Friendly", Tom's full name was Tom Friendly. Eventually the producers confirmed this was true.
** A number of fans also speculated that Tom was gay after he told Kate, "You're not my type," and the actor apparently changed his portrayal based on the fan reaction to that line. The episode "Meet Kevin Johnson" later confirmed that Tom was gay.
** On a more plot-relevant level, a lot of fans, upon finding out in the Season 5 finale that [[spoiler:post-return to the Island, Locke is not really Locke anymore]], speculated that [[spoiler:he was actually the Smoke Monster in Locke's form.]] Sure enough, in the Season 6 premiere...

* TheWikiRule: [[http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Lostpedia]], and another [[http://lost.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Lost Wiki]].

* TroubledProduction: And how, considering the frequent entries in the above CreatorBacklash section. There were the also Michelle Rodriguez's and Cynthia Watros's DUI incidents and other incidents that would influence the writing. Maureen Ryan's book ''Burn It Down'' even exposes [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/lost-tv-show-culture how even the writers]] were terrorized by "Darlton" throughout the show's run.

-->"It's very easy, especially twenty years after the fact, to think 'well, it can't have been that bad or
someone would have done something.' Let me say it loud and clear: <u>it was that bad, and no one
did anything because retribution was a constant and looming presence.</u>"

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/JorgeGarcia was cast after Creator/JJAbrams saw him in an episode of ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm''.

** Kate was originally supposed to be a 30-something business woman who had lost her husband in the crash. They eventually cast a younger Creator/EvangelineLilly as Kate and decide to portray her as a criminal.

** On a more plot-relevant level, a lot of fans, upon finding out that [[spoiler:post-return to the Island, Locke is not really Locke anymore]], speculated that [[spoiler:he was actually the Smoke Monster in Locke's form.]] Sure enough, in the Season 6 premiere...
* IronyAsSheIsCast:

* FoilerFootage: Three versions of the final shot from "There's No Place Like Home, Part 3" were filmed to disguise the identity of the person in the coffin. The fake shots showed [[spoiler: Desmond and Sawyer in the coffin instead of Locke]]. According to the writers they were nervous during the first airing that the editor might have spliced the wrong footage into the final cut and left them with a bear of a problem to write their way out of.

* FountainOfExpies: The number of shows from various networks (including ABC itself) that have [[FollowTheLeader tried to capture]] ''Lost'''s [[DuelingShows magic in a bottle again]]. ''Lost'' is nearly becoming the ''Doom'' [[FromClonesToGenre of television shows]].

** Creator/DamonLindelof was critical of the series in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ftLjmYlA 2020 interview with Collider]]. While he praised the writers and the actors, he also felt that the show didn't have a good balance as a result of stacking up too many mysteries. As well, he explained how the quality began to suffer as a result of ABC initially refusing to let them end the show, and even after an end date had been set, he didn't feel that everything in the later seasons worked.

** Creator/DamonLindelof was critical of the show in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ftLjmYlA 2020 interview with Collider]]. While he praised the writers and the actors, he also felt that the show didn't have a good balance as a result of stacking up too many mysteries. As well, he explained how the quality began to suffer as a result of ABC initially refusing to let them end the show, and even after an end date had been set, he didn't feel that everything in the later seasons worked.

** Creator/DamonLindelof was critical of the show in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ftLjmYlA 2020 interview with Collider]]. While he praised the writers and the actors, he also felt that the show didn't have a good balance as a result of stacking up too many mysteries. As well, he explained how the quality of the show began to suffer as a result of ABC initially refusing to let them end the show, and even after an end date had been set, he didn't feel that everything in the later seasons worked.

* BillingDisplacement: The cast are billed in alphabetical order, meaning that Sayid (Naveen Andrews) is billed first for most of the show's run, Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) is billed first during his run, and Bernard (Sam Anderson) takes the lead in the finale. Meanwhile, Jack (Matthew Fox), the main character, is typically billed anywhere from fifth to eighth

* NamesTheSame: The show's ThemeNaming:
** John Locke
** (Desmond) David Hume
** (Danielle) Rousseau
** (Daniel) Faraday
** Edmund Burke
** Mikhail Bakunin
** Jeremy Bentham
** Anthony Cooper
** (Boone) Carlyle
** Richard Alpert
** (Eloise) Hawking
** C(harlotte) Staples Lewis
** Dogen

* UncreditedRole: Despite making frequent guest appearances beginning with the second season, Creator/FrancoisChau went uncredited until the GrandFinale.

* ReferencedBy: In December 2016, the ProfessionalWrestling promotion Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} recorded several matches and released them in installments as the "lost" Season 17, with all nine events titled after episodes of ''Lost.''