All the experts agree: In the mid-2000s, when it appeared on American (then French) television, Lost, the legendary series created by JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof, purely and simply turned the world of the small screen upside down.
From the very first episodes, immediately striking with the effectiveness of their storytelling and the strength of their characters, the show haunted its poor viewers with dozens of questions that they needed answered at any cost.
last question
Why and how did the passengers of Flight 815 survive the plane crash? Where does the black smoke “monster” that hovers over the island they landed on come from? Why are polar bears in the jungle? Who are the known “others” who seem to pose a threat to disaster safety?
The list is still long. But on August 20, 2005, when the last episode of the first season (titled Speech: Part 3) aired on TF1, Lost viewers momentarily forgot all these questions to concentrate only on what matters most at that moment: what could be behind the trap?
what is behind the door
The trap is what John Locke found in the middle of the jungle in episode 11, and which he spent the rest of the season trying to open, certain that it would likely contain the answers to all the other riddles encountered on the island.
The good news is that after countless efforts, with the help of Jack, Kate, Harley and a few sticks of dynamite, Locke managed to blow up the trap door in episode 25. The bad news is that before he knew what was behind it. Before the transmission of season 2, we had to wait almost a year.
At this very moment, the secret of the trap was more painful, because before the explosion Harley noticed on the bunker body the famous numbers that allowed him to win the lottery. Everyone wanted to know what this strange structure contained.
Especially brutal rocks
But to ensure that their fans will be there next year (as if they weren’t already hooked enough), the great writers of the series decided without the slightest mercy to let them meditate for many months on one iconic shot: of Jack and Loki peering with their torches into the darkness of the underground, And the camera panned to its uncharted depths and the end credits of the season Immersed!
We have rarely seen such torture in the history of television.
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