Talk:Lost (season 1)

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[edit] New format

Since this article is taking on a new format, I have archived all of the previous discussions. The purpose of this "new" article is to create a synopsis of the general themes and major storylines throughout season 1. Details should be saved for individual episode articles. Lost is going to be a featured article on Tuesday, October 3, so we should work to make this article as polished as possible in the few days we have. Jtrost (T | C | #) 15:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the archiving! It's nice to have some room to breathe.  :) --Elonka 15:29, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] population

The article says the group has "over 40" members at the end of the season. What's the exact number? Jack tells the pilot "at least 48", and soon afterward it seems to be exactly 48. Subtract Mars (died of infected wound), Joanna (drowned), Ethan (exposed as fake), Scott (beaten to death by Others), Boone (died of fall), and the four on the raft; add Aaron (Turniphead) — that makes exactly 40. Is there a rationale for another number? —Tamfang 01:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Ethan Rom is the problem. Despite Gregg Nations at The Fuselage saying that he was not in the orginal 48 head count, in A Tale of Two Cities, it is pretty clear that Ethan got to the plane right away. Also, you forgot to count Arzt and we are counting the raft 4 as part of the survivors. --thedemonhog 05:27, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for Arzt. —Tamfang 08:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

In "The Long Con" (2.13) Sawyer says "not much upside to scaring 46 people" — and this makes a bit of a mess of my count; six have been added since Exodus (Sawyer, Jin, Ana Lucia, Eko, Bernard, Libby) and one subtracted (Shannon), so the count after the raft sailed should be 41 not 39. Or 42 if he's not counting the perpetrator of the hoax attack. Or 43 if he's not counting Aaron. So, okay, "over 40" anyhow. —Tamfang 08:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] number of episodes

According to [1], the two parts of Live Together, Die Alone (season 2 finale) were first shown on the same night, but the two parts of Exodus (season 1 finale) were first shown a week apart. Therefore the precedent of Talk:List_of_Lost_episodes/Archive_3#Exodus:_Part_3_and_Live_Together.2C_Die_Alone_Part_2 does not apply, imho, to Exodus. On another hand, if Pilot and Exodus are split the count only reaches 24; 22 if they are not split. —Tamfang 18:41, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Now that I know about that page, I still won't use it because of the obnoxious Flash interface. But anyway, it confirms that the two parts of Pilot and the two parts of Exodus were shown in separate weeks. —Tamfang 23:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] and vs &

The use of ampersands (&) in the table of writers is in conflict with the MOS. However, this article has a good reason for using ampersands instead of "and" in these cases - ampersands are specifically used by the Writer's Guild of America in writing credits to show where a group of writers worked together and are taking an equal share of the credit. In their terminology "and" reflects a separate group or individual working on the script. So basically thats why we use ampersands here and I think it gives more info to the reader to do so.--Opark 77 10:42, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

You're right, and the ampersands are all correct except for the Pilot. Jeffrey Lieber worked on the script separately from Abrams and Lindelof and should therefore be separated with 'and'. --DocNox (talk) 09:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The biggest ensemble cast?

"The initial season had fourteen major roles getting star billing, making it television's largest cast at the time of the series' debut." Not true. Degrassi: The Next Generation had thirteen star billed cast in 2001, this increased to fifteen in 2002, and twenty in 2003 and 2004. Perhaps "...making it U.S. television's largest cast..."? -- Matthew Edwards | talk | Contribs 05:40, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Done, but in the future you can just do it yourself and explain in the edit summary. –thedemonhog talk • edits 05:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposal

It has been discussed here and here about a section of the Lost DVD releases article being merged into this article. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 06:20, 26 February 2008 (UTC)