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The person who has seen every single episode of
the hit TV show LOST sometimes can't even describe what is
happening on the show to a person who never watches it. This is usually because they do not understand everything that has happened, even though they are
experts.
Lost
by crazyrabbits on May 07, 2005 03:40:22
The name of a popular television program on
the ABC channel in early 2005. Follows a group of people who survived a plane crash while flying on an
Oceanic Airlines flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles. They try to survive on the island and encounter lots of odd things, including an invisible monster that may be able to communicate with the survivors, polar bears, a crazy woman who was part of a
resarch team that was slaughtered on the island, a mysterious "
black rock", strange voices, and more. The survivors also have to deal with problems faced within their camp, including the well-being of a woman who is pregnant, the hidden motives of a man named
John Locke, and the communication barrer that exists between the survivors and a Korean couple who can't speak English. The show currently airs Wednesday at 9:00 EST on the ABC network.
Example:
John Locke: "You see this little hole? This
moth's just about to emerge. It's in there right now,
sturggling. It's digging it's way through the thick hide of the cocoon. Now, I could help it - take my knife, gently widen the opening, and the moth would be free - but it would be too weak to survive. Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it."
Lost
by VisOraK on Apr 19, 2009 03:30:02
Example:
1: Lets go
watch Lost!
2: "Where are we? Are we lost? Why are these people attacking us? Why did our
plane crash? Hey! that guy was dead! What?! Why? Where? How? WHEN?"
3: "What just happened?
4: "I took a right turn and then a left turn at
the dirt road." "No, you took 2 left turns, and that was a brick road." "Great! Now we're lost."
LOST
by rvxen on Apr 24, 2009 02:31:39
Example:
1."Dude, can you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"Those
whispers! WE'RE NOT ALONE!"
"Man, you are so LOST!"
2. "Aw crap, I forgot my
wallet at the restaurant."
"WE HAVE TO
GO BACK!"
"Stop being LOST and just turn the damn car around!"
Losting
by Jbrew on Sep 03, 2007 21:23:24
The act of writing a long and interesting story with many mysteries, which, due to the
story's complexity, attracts many fans, but then continues to stall, prolong, postpone, or flat-out ignores the answers to the story's questions, thus essentially
jerking around the loyal fans.
This word comes from the TV show "Lost" on ABC, but can describe any story which follows the definition, such as the the videogame "Half-Life 2", or the manga, "Bleach".
There are two main reasons why a story is "
losting". The first is that the writers are
not creative enough to come up with an answer to the questions posed that can meet the fans expectations, and thus try to pretend that the questions never existed. The second is that, due to marketing pressures, the writers are forced to continue a story longer than they have ever anticipated, and thus are forbidden from giving away any answers indefinitely. The second method may be referred to as "Milking the
Cash-Cow".
Example:
A quick way to spot if a story is
losting is to look for a situation in which an answer to
a story's various questions can simply and easily be answered, only for the story to not do so. Here are a few examples:
1) Lost:
After spending an entire season building up the suspense and mystery of
the Island's native inhabitants, known as the "Others", one of the survivors of the plane-crash comes face-to-face with an "Other". The survivor asks "Who are you people?", to which the "Other" replies, "It doesn't matter who we are", thus effectively telling all the loyal fans who cared about this storyline to go screw themselves.
2)Half-Life 2:
In the first Half-Life, you play through the eyes of
Gordon Freeman, and thus are purposely not told the answers to many mysteries in order to obtain the illusion that the player is just as confused as anyone else is in the story after an alien-invasion takes place.
However, ten years later, during Half-Life 2, you are surrounded by dozens of friendly characters who all know exactly what happened during the events of the first Half-Life. Despite this, no answers are given, leaving fans to read separate books and searching for hidden audio files within the games to
fill in the blanks to the story.
LOST
by Moralqua on Jul 13, 2005 16:27:26
Example:
1. Girl 1: Did you catch that episode of LOST last night?
Girl 2:
Heck yes I did! That
Charlie is so, HOT!
2. Guy 1: Did you catch that episode of LOST last night?
Guy 2:
SWEET ACTION!!!!!