All through its six-season run, Lost handled large, metaphysical questions that made sense to depart open to interpretation. Somewhat than spoon-feed the solutions to large mysteries to the viewers, some issues had been answered subtly or left as much as interpretation. Of all of the mysteries Misplaced left unanswered, one of many largest can also be seemingly inconsequential.
The identification of the folks within the mysterious outrigger had been going to be revealed, however producers could not match that into the story. Misplaced followers had been bewildered over the choice to not speak about who chased the time-traveling castaways within the outrigger. Nonetheless, a DVD additional could have given it away.
The Outrigger Chase Is One in every of Misplaced’s Largest Unsolved Mysteries
The Scene Felt Like It Demanded to Be Revisited in a Future Episode
In Season 5, Lost introduced time travel and a gaggle of castaways had been despatched barreling via the historical past (and near-future) of the island. Juliet Burke, Miles Straume, Charlotte Lewis, Daniel Faraday and Sawyer adopted John Locke as he tried to cease these “flashes.” At one level, they discover a pair of outrigger boats on the seaside from the (as-yet unseen) Ajira 316 flight survivors. They took one and got down to sea.
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As they traveled, a shot rang out. Behind them was one other boat crammed with folks firing their weapons at them as they tried to get away. Whereas followers may instantly assume it was folks from Bram and Ilana’s group of Jacob devotees, the second outrigger was a special design. It was the form of scene that appeared destined to seem in a future episode, revealing the identities of the folks chasing the sequence’ characters, nevertheless it by no means occurred.
The Clarification to the Outrigger Chase Was Written however By no means Filmed
Misplaced’s Producers Have Since Mentioned They Will By no means Reveal the Reality
Throughout these remaining seasons of the present, actual life generally received in the best way of what the producers wished to do. For instance, the original ending for Lost would have concerned a climactic struggle on a volcano. This was scrapped by the community as a result of it could have damaged the finances. That is what occurred with the outrigger chase. In interviews since, sequence co-creator Damon Lindelof and co-showrunner Carlton Cuse stated the opposite aspect of that second was minimize from an unnamed episode for story causes.
“We wrote the scene that answered the query. And different folks exterior of our writers’ room have seen the scene and been sworn to secrecy.” — Damon Lindelof at NYCC in 2014.
Maybe, all the complaints about the Lost finale soured their willingness to offer the followers closure about this scene. For no matter cause, the identification of the folks within the different outrigger is one present secret the producers is not going to reveal on basic precept. The truth is, it isn’t even that enjoyable to theorize about for followers, as a result of there actually aren’t many clues to their identification in the remainder of the present.
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On one hand, it is good they’ve chosen to maintain this secret. Given how frustrating some Lost character endings and different solutions had been for followers, the thriller of that second outrigger is cooler than their reply. Something the producers stated would, in spite of everything this time, be anti-climactic. But, it is potential the reply has been on the market for 15 years.
Whether or not This Doc Is ‘Canon’ or Not Is Up for Debate
The complete DVD box set for Lost was filled with goodies past simply particular options on the disks. There have been issues like a senet board, a comic book guide, Kate’s toy aircraft and different little objects from the sequence. One such factor was a “misplaced entry” to the log of the Black Rock, the ship that crashed into the jungle, bringing Richard Alpert to the island. It appears to reply the query.
“An away group of six males was launched at first gentle in an try and get to the island with hopes of figuring out our location. Just one returned alive. He appears in a deep shock, muttering about exchanging musket hearth with one other vessel, which promptly disappeared in a flash of heavenly gentle.”
It is potential whoever put collectively this stuff was aware about the scripts, particularly the episode which had the reply to the outrigger thriller. If it was Season 6’s “Ab Aeterno” that instructed Richard’s backstory, it is sensible why the scene was minimize. He was chained within the maintain all the time the ship was at sea. This journal entry particulars the times earlier than the ship crashed into the island throughout a storm, together with a point out of seeing “two males” close to the statue of Taweret seen within the island flashback from Season 5’s finale.
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After all, it is also potential this misplaced journal entry will not be canon, created by some advertising and marketing firm. In any case, the castaways did not flash into one other time interval till after they had been chased. Until the Black Rock crew was additionally flashing via time, it could not have been them. Nonetheless, of all of the potential theories, it does take advantage of sense, and it’s nearly as good a solution as Misplaced followers are more likely to get.
The entire Misplaced sequence is on DVD, Blu-ray, digital and streams on Hulu, Disney+ and Netflix.
Lost
- Launch Date
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September 22, 2004
- Showrunner
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Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse
- Administrators
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Jack Bender, Stephen Williams
- Writers
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Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof
