Just as the "lost" has had a big impact on so many of the shows that they will come after that, the "lost" independently exists because of other difficult TV shows from previous years. The most obvious impact is "Twin Peaks", The mysterious show of the early 1990s accepted its strangest aspects of satisfaction (and frustration) of fans everywhere.

However, perhaps the biggest impact was the TV series of the 90's "Babylon 5", which aired on the PTNA network (later turned into TNT) Starting since 1993. "Babylon 5", unfortunately, did not retain the same long -term cultural importance that Twin Peaks was looking for it, but until the early 2000s was certainly fresh in the mind of the "lost" show -Shower Damon Lindelof. In a 2016 Interview with Lightspeed magazineThe creator of "Babylon" J. Michael Stracinski explained how Lindelof looked at "Babylon 5" explicitly when he created "lost".

"When Damon Lindelof was developing" lost ", he said directly to me," we want to explain this after the five -year -old bow you have in "Babylon 5", said Stracinski. He noted that after "Babylon 5" ended, long -term arcs began to become a new thing that everyone in Hollywood wanted to step down: "I had a network meeting a few years ago, where I talked about a play I wanted to do with the five -year -old bow and the main man in the room," watching, we look, Can never pull it successfully; What makes you think you can do that? 'I invented it well? "

As the hardcore "lost" fans already know, the long -term plan around the show was always pretty messy. The play was constantly improvised in flight, sometimes as a result of sudden team departures, and sometimes for mixing in the net. Their early plans were for more than 3-season varnishNot 5-season, but in a way the "lost" was a victim of his own success; While "Babylon 5" was reasonably popular as the scientific shows, the "lost" was a complete mainstream phenomenon from the first day. ABC wanted to distract its profitable show for up to ten seasons, and in the end, writers and executions came to a compromise of 6 seasons.

But despite how messy the "lost" production was, she commendable work by running a continuous story that had been coherently for years at the same time. The show has so many current stories that they eventually connect in fun, satisfying ways; My favorite is probably when we find out that Johnon Lock-Choen's wicked father is the same man who connected (and indirectly killed) Soyer's parents. It was the discovery that was slowly set for three seasons directly, culminating in one of the best episodes of the whole show. Was the discovery planned from the beginning, or the writers stumbled at it at the moment? In the end, it doesn't matter; It was an exciting TV in any way.

The most impressive part of the "lost" is that period of the second half of season 3 (after ABC agreed on the date of the end of the season 6) by the end of the season 5 (where they ended the plot in the 1970s). This was the show of the most convoluted and fast, and it is incredible how long they managed to keep the string before they ran out of steam. Tell what you will want Season 6 of "Lost", But those two and a half seasons before that will surely be made by the proud writers of "Babylon 5".