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2[[caption-width-right:350: They're not the only ones.]]
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4->''"Welcome to the wonderful world of not knowing what the hell's going on."''
5-->-- '''Kate'''
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7An [[GenreBusting action / adventure / mystery / dramedy / all types of speculative fiction / crazy show]] (2004–2010) created by Jeffrey Lieber, Creator/JJAbrams and Creator/DamonLindelof, and show-run by Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
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9On September 22nd, 2004, [[OceanicAirlines Oceanic Flight 815]], en route to Los Angeles from Sydney, breaks up in midair and crashes on a tropical island. Initially, forty-eight passengers somehow survive. Unfortunately, they soon come to learn that this is no ordinary island.
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11Shortly after the crash, the pilot is mutilated by a mysterious, [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen unseen]] monster in the jungle capable of uprooting trees, but not before the pilot reveals that the plane had lost contact with the ground before steering over a thousand miles off course prior to the crash. Any potential rescuers would be looking in the wrong place; hence, the odds of rescue are pretty much nil.
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13Stuck on the island, the survivors must learn to work together if they want to survive in this strange and hostile environment. This isn't easy, not only due to the dangers and resource scarcity on the island, but also because the most prominent characters are [[DysfunctionJunction so utterly screwed up]]. All of them have [[DarkAndTroubledPast something they're hiding in their pasts]]; there's a [[BewareTheNiceOnes seemingly nice person]] who was actually a fugitive on the plane being extradited, a [[OneHitWonder one-hit wonder]] [[CelebritySurvivor ex-rockstar junkie]] ensnared in a battle with heroin addiction, and a former torturer desperately searching for the one they love. And that's just the beginning.
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15Their backstories are revealed in flashbacks, with each episode tending to focus on a specific character. In general, AnachronicOrder is to be expected with this show, particularly in the flashbacks, as are other MindScrew-style tricks; if there is a method of skewing the audience's perception of events by rearranging the order of the scenes, ''Lost'' has used it.
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17As the show goes on, the characters are forced to [[CharacterDevelopment grow and change in response to their changed lives]], and more and more questions arise as [[MythArc the secrets of the island, which seems to have supernatural properties, are slowly uncovered]]. Furthermore, flashbacks reveal more and more connections between the characters' pasts, beginning to suggest that it may be more than coincidence that this specific group of people was all on Flight 815 together with each other.
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19The showrunners would eventually release an AlternateRealityGame, ''The Lost Experience'', which heavily involved fans in the storytelling experience.
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21[[http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Lostpedia]] (which the producers themselves [[ApprovalOfGod occasionally namecheck in]] [[DVDCommentary DVD commentaries]] for its expanse of knowledge) has exhaustively catalogued (''almost'') every aspect of ''Lost''. If you want insight into the show or just want to learn some random statistics, it's definitely worth checking out.
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23!!Provides examples of:
24[[index]]
25* Lost/TropesAToE
26* Lost/TropesFToJ
27* Lost/TropesKToO
28** [[Leitmotif/{{Lost}} Leitmotif]]
29* Lost/TropesPToT
30* Lost/TropesUToZ
31** [[WhamEpisode/{{Lost}} Wham Episode]]
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35[[white:''God loves you as He loved Jacob.'']]

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