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The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why does Lost have an unequal number of episodes among all seasons? Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 8 months ago. Active 5 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 11k times. Lost seems to have an unequal number of episodes across its various seasons: season 1 - 25 episodes season 2 - 24 episodes season 3 - 23 episodes season 4 - 14 episodes season 5 - 17 episodes season 6 - 18 episodes.
Improve this question. Ankit Sharma Ankit Sharma k 85 85 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Is this really unique to Lost? This seems to be the case with a number of shows.
AndrewMartin I have not seen this much of variation in other show i have followed. Again, watch it again. Flash debate hello, legendary comic book author Brian K. Do you understand? Plus, Katey Sagal! Dominic Monaghan is a champion.
I cry every time. The answer did not disappoint: Locke wound up in a wheelchair by falling out an eight-story window and landing squarely on his back. Hello, Eloise Hawking! The curtain pulls back and a sad answer tumbles forward in this emotional thriller of an episode, culminating with a shocking act of violence: Ben shooting Locke and leaving him for dead amongst the bones of the DHARMA Initiative. Vicious and delicious. That question, much like the one about Maria , does not have an easy answer.
Much like the narrative thrust behind season five, however, it would appear that the passage of time has helped the case. Hello, Man in Black!
Goodbye, Locke! Goodbye, Juliet! They needed to pull the Oceanic Six plus two from the island, move the entire island itself and wield so many other spinning plates all at once in only three closing hours. The high degree of difficulty elevates the season-four finale, no doubt about it. If I want to put on a random episode of Lost to lift my spirits, this is always the one. The Hurley-centric hour becomes all the more powerful with the benefit of hindsight, knowing this lovable lottery winner would one day come to inherit the entire island, after years of rotten luck.
The first two hours of Lost are still among the very best two hours of Lost. The one that started it all deserves every accolade it gets. Holy unfair advantage, Batman! Try to watch that final telephone call without sobbing uncontrollably; simply not possible, at least not for me. Small nitpick, and definitely a personal preference. Look, every episode of Lost comes equipped with merit, even the Driveshaft diapers of it all.
As far as personal favorites, I go back and forth between every entry in the top six. Locke, take it away:. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. September 20, pm. Logo text. Related Stories. Read More About: Less Lost. However, Nielsen reported that Lost was the top time shifted show from January 01, —November 18, , meaning that it benefited the most from DVR playback at a date later than the broadcast.
The straight-run format was kept, but reduced episodes meant that a fall start date and mid-season break were no longer necessary. Season 4 was broken up into an 8-episode pod and a 5-episode pod due to the writers' strike. Lost was also available for viewing the next day in full episodes on the ABC webpage, and was available on the Xbox Live marketplace.
Since the second "mini-season" of Season 3 , ABC started showing Lost back-stories , of which four new mini-episodes were available on the website at the time of a new episode. Averaging around four and a half minutes long, these mini-episodes portrayed part of a character's life before the crash, in chronological order.
Lost was shown on different networks in Canada. CTV network aired in English. SRC network was dubbed in French. With Season 3 's post-hiatus later time slot change in the US , Canadian viewers actually saw Lost before the American viewers: the east coast Canadian broadcast was two hours, and in some weeks three hours, ahead of the east coast US broadcast. The first two seasons of Lost were seen on Channel 4.
Virgin Media secured the rights to on-demand broadcasts of Seasons 1 - 3 of Lost , from August UK broadcasts of Lost originally began Season 1 eleven months later than in the US , but caught up by broadcasting Season 2 just two months after the end of the Season 1 broadcast. RTE 2 was one of the first European stations to air Lost and began nine months after the first US airing, though began catching up during the first season by airing two episodes in one night on a number of occasions.
Lost aired on Thursday nights at and aired the finale on Monday, May 24th, at 9 pm. In Australia , Lost was always aired by free-to-air station Channel 7. From season one to two, Lost aired at Thursdays pm. For season three, Lost was pushed up to pm.
For the most of season 4, Lost retained it's 9. In season 4, new Lost episodes aired six days behind USA, in comparison to months behind although as of Season 5, episodes aired weeks behind. Many Australian fans of Lost complained that Channel 7 was 'abusing' Lost, by pushing it back to later times, ending each episode early as of season 5 and airing episodes further and further behind the original US airing.
Channel 7 has a history of doing similar things to US serials, eg 24 and Alias. New Zealand was usually about five episodes behind the United States.
Glyphs and clues in these official blogs and "live" events were found in all three countries during the course of the game. The series finale of Lost was simulcast in six different counties around the world at the same time as the original U. The unprecedented scheduling move aimed to prevent illegal internet downloads of the finale and save UK fans of the show from having to spend five days dodging web spoilers until it aired on Sky1.
Before deciding to join broadcasters in six other countries in simulcasting the show, the UK airing of the finale was due to air on the usual Friday 9pm slot, but then moved to 5am on a Monday morning to coincide with the event. It resulted in this time as it was simulcast at the same time as the west coast transmission. Had it of been simulcast with the east coast it could have aired three hours earlier at 2am making it more accessible to more viewers.
According to The Guardian, of the , fans who watched the episode only 68, watched it live, the rest relying on their DVR devices. Lost was broadcast in a number of countries, and their airdates varied from being almost concurrent with the US broadcasts, such as Sweden which was generally only one episode behind, to broadcasting the first season years later, as in Japan. Some countries dub their broadcasts with voice actors , while others use the English audio with subtitling.
For the first three seasons, the future of the show was uncertain. There were rumors about further seasons, and even feature films. However, on May 7, , ABC revealed that Lost was to continue for a further three seasons, with each of them being condensed into 16 episodes.
They were to be aired back-to-back with no gaps, starting in February and ending in May. However, due to the Writers Guild of America strike in and , the fourth season was shortened to 14 episodes. To compensate, Season 5 ran for 17 episodes, and the final season ran for Accordingly, Lost ended on Sunday, May 23, , after episodes.
Lost became a widespread hit around the world. This success created a community of dedicated fans who analyzed every single aspect of the show, including planted Easter eggs. The producers, aware of their fanbase, included these Easter eggs to enhance the enjoyment of the show.
This was a comical way of summarizing the previous episode using the Lost character Action Figures from Season 1. Lostpedia Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk
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