Im Lost about Lost, help?

Question

Okay, i havent been watching TV lately so i totally missed lost, some of my friends watch it and say its really good, but wont tell me what its about. keep saying "you just gotta watch it 2 understand". So can somebody just fill me in on whats been going on? from 1st episode 2 latest.

Answer 1

season 1:
On September 22, 2004, a plane breaks apart in mid-air, scattering survivors on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific. A few dozen of these survivors, after the initial shock passes, attempt to set up a camp, and figure out where they are, but are disturbed by loud roaring noises and crashing trees emanating from the nearby jungle.

Three of the survivors set out to find the cockpit. An injured pilot, shortly before he dies, tells them that the plane had lost radio contact six hours after take off, where it turned back for Fiji and hit turbulence. The plane was a thousand miles off course when it crashed.


After the plane crash.One of the survivors, an Iraqi Republican Guard communications officer named Sayid Jarrah, attempts to repair a transceiver. They take it to a higher point on the island in an attempt to get a signal, and are attacked by a polar bear along the way. When they finally do turn on the transceiver, they learn that its signal is being blocked by a transmission of a woman's voice speaking in French, which Shannon translates as, "I'm alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all." They deduce that whoever sent this message has been stranded on the island for sixteen years and five months.

Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle. He follows it, but it results in him being trapped by a mysterious woman who takes him to a bunker and tortures him, asking where "Alex" is. She eventually identifies herself as Danielle Rousseau, the person who sent out the distress signal. Sayid eventually escapes, and over the course of the season, Rousseau has other intermittent contacts with the survivors, telling them more of her own story, such as that she was pregnant when she came to the island, but after she gave birth, "The Others" came and kidnapped her baby, with their arrival heralded by a column of black smoke.

Hurley conducts a census of the survivors, and discovers that one of their castaways, Ethan Rom, is not on the passenger manifest. Ethan kidnaps Charlie and Claire, but then discards Charlie, since Claire was the one that "The Others" wanted. Locke eventually finds her. She doesn't initially remember her experience, but her memory slowly returns to her.


Locke looks at the mysterious hatch.Locke discovers a mysterious hatch in the jungle with no handle, and becomes obsessed about what may be inside. He and Boone spend many days digging it out of the ground, thinking of how to open it. While exploring the island, Locke and Boone also discover a Beechcraft lodged on the side of a cliff. Boone climbs up the cliff and into the plane. Inside, he finds a radio and sends a distress call. A male voice answers, "Is someone out there?" to which Boone responds, "We are the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815." The voice replies, "We're the survivors of 815." The Beechcraft then falls from the cliff and badly injures Boone. Locke takes Boone back to the camp, but Jack is unable to save his life.

Michael decides to build a raft, and enlists the help of the other survivors. They launch it with Michael, his son Walt, Sawyer, and Jin as crew. That night, they are surprised and initially delighted to meet up with another boat, but it turns out to be a group of the Others who demand that Walt be handed over to them. In the ensuing chaos, their raft is destroyed, Sawyer is shot, and Walt is kidnapped.

Rousseau takes the survivors to the "Black Rock", a wooden ship in the middle of the island which has dynamite which the survivors may be able to use to open the hatch. Along the way, one of them is chased by a black cloud, the "monster", which Rousseau calls the island's "security system." Jack and Locke bring the dynamite back to the hatch, and use it to force open the hatch door to look inside. The season ends with them looking down into the darkness of the shaft below.

By the end of the season, the group of survivors is comprised of over 40 people who have been on the island for 44 days.


season 2:
A prominent theme from the first scene of the season is the exploration of the Hatch that was discovered in Season 1. It is revealed to be a scientific bunker of some sort, which has running water and electricity, is well stocked with food, and has a 1970s era computer, which, according to its previous occupant, Desmond, must have the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 typed into it every 108 minutes, or "the world will end." A black and white "flip card" timer on the wall counts the minutes down, and an alarm sounds four minutes before the deadline.

The survivors debate whether or not to trust Desmond's instructions, but set up shifts to keep watch. They gradually learn through bits of filmstrip that what they had referred to as "the hatch" is actually the "Swan station", one of several different DHARMA Initiative stations, evidently placed around the island in the shape of an octagon.

Desmond, after giving instructions about how to operate The Swan, attempts to flee the island, but his sailboat brings him back to the island.

Sawyer and Michael deal with the chaos after the attack on their raft, and the disappearance of Jin and Walt. They create a makeshift raft from floating wreckage, and the currents push them back to the island, where they encounter a panicked Jin, and then the tail section survivors, who are led by Ana Lucia. She initially directs that Sawyer, Jin and Michael be held captive, but they eventually reconcile, and then all head together to the other side of the island to reunite with the rest of the survivors. Along the way, they worry about contact with The Others, and in a moment of confusion, Ana Lucia shoots and kills Shannon.

Claire learns how to be a new mother, and wrestles with whether or not to trust Charlie, who at one point suffers delusions that he has to protect the baby, but his actions in fact endanger the child. This is part of a theme of dreams and hallucinations that afflict many of the survivors, in ways both good and bad. The Others become a more visible presence in this season, though they often try to disguise their name and appearances. Tom, for example, wears a fake beard. In one encounter with The Others Tom tells the survivors, "This is not your island, this is our island, and the only reason you're living on it is because we let you live on it." He also scolds them for "opening doors that they shouldn't be opening".

Rousseau captures a man who identifies himself as "Henry Gale, from Minnesota", another castaway on the island who had arrived by balloon. He insists at first that he is not one of The Others, but the survivors doubt his story, hold him captive in The Swan, and brutally interrogate him. He maintains his story for several days, but finally when faced with proof of his deception (the ID of the real Henry Gale), he admits that he is indeed one of "The Others", and turns out to have some authority among them.


The photo ID of Henry Gale.At the same time Locke, who became trapped before he could enter the number codes, gets Henry Gale to enter the codes by sneaking through the air vents. As the countdown reaches zero a map appears on a blast door, detailing other stations on the island.


The mysterious map on the blast door, revealed by blacklight.Gale claims to have never entered the code as everything returns to normal tarnishing Locke's beliefs.

Following dreams and the map, Eko and Locke discover the central "?"(Pearl) station, which appears to be a station designed to observe the occupants of the other stations. When they learn that its earlier occupants were tasked with observing their own Swan station, Locke believes that entering the numbers is merely a psychological experiment, and does not "save the world". This puts Locke, who had originally been a strong proponent of entering the numbers, into a crisis of faith, but seems to make Eko even more sure of what he must do, and they switch roles. Inside Locke also finds a printout of the log entry of the numbers from the Swan computer.

Michael continues to seek his kidnapped son Walt. After an apparent conversation with his son on the computer in The Swan, he makes his way alone to find "The Others" at their camp. He is allowed to spend three minutes with his son, who pleads for rescue. They let Michael go, promising him Walt back, if he frees Henry, and brings Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley back to their camp. He returns to The Swan, kills Ana Lucia and Libby, frees Henry, shoots himself in the shoulder, and then delivers the requested survivors to Henry Gale and "The Others" in return for Walt and a boat. Hurley is freed and instructed to go back to his camp to tell the other survivors what he saw there.

Sayid believes that Michael is leading everyone he took with him into a trap. Sayid enlists the help of Sun and Jin, and they use Desmond's sailboat to find The Others' camp, which has been abandoned. They discover a door to what appears to be another DHARMA Initiative station, however, it is fake. They start a signal fire, and wait for Jack and his party to rendezvous with them.


System terminationLocke and Desmond take over the original hatch to prevent the numbers from being entered at the appointed time. Both of them argue over the validity of the threat until the last minute when looking at the log Desmond realizes the last time the code wasn't put through was the day of the crash. When the timer reaches zero, a great magnetic field erupts, forcing several objects to fly towards a strong point of magnetism in The Swan. Desmond says he is going to "save" Locke, and goes to the system termination station under the floor, which he activates by turning the key. The immediate result is not shown, but the entire island is enveloped by a white-violet light and a shrill humming sound.

The season ends with a scene of a cramped polar research station where two men excitedly notice what appears to be the anomaly, and they proceed to phone Desmond's old fiancé, Penelope, to tell her that they've "found it".

season 3:
The third season continues 68 days after the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, set on November 28, 2004. At the end of the second season, three of the crash survivors: Jack, Kate and Sawyer – who are arguably the three most important characters of the show – were captured by the mysterious island inhabitants known as "The Others". The Others' apparent leader is a man who was captured in the middle of the second season and used the alias "Henry Gale". Meanwhile, near the survivors' camp on the beach, Locke, Mr. Eko, Charlie and Desmond argued over whether to continue entering the numbers into a computer in a workstation that was previously operated by a group of scientists known as the DHARMA Initiative. Locke became frustrated and destroyed the computer, which caused the station to implode and a purple light shone over the sky, which was accompanied by a harsh ringing sound

Island plot summary:
The activities of the Others, immediately prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 are revealed, as they are shown to have been living in modern suburban houses in a previously unseen section of the island. Their leader appears to be Benjamin Linus, known as Henry Gale among the survivors.

Jack, Kate and Sawyer are imprisoned on a separate island offshore from the survivors' island and kept under surveillance by Ben's cameras. Kate and Sawyer are kept in outdoor cages, apparently designed for polar bears, and are let out to do hard labor. Jack is kept inside the "Hydra", an underwater DHARMA Initiative station. He is interrogated by an Other named Juliet, who does not show the same reverence to Ben as do the rest of the Others. Jack finds out that Ben has a spinal tumor, and the operation Ben needs is the main reason for Jack’s captivity. During Ben’s surgery, Jack incises Ben's kidney sac, which he uses as bargaining power to help Kate and Sawyer escape with an Other named Karl, also Alex's boyfriend.

Hoping to communicate with the Others, Locke returns to the Pearl station. Sayid manages to repair one of the various television monitors and they see an eyepatch-wearing occupant of what seems to be a DHARMA station, who stares at the camera before disconnecting it. Meanwhile, the "smoke monster" lures Mr. Eko into the jungle by taking the form of his deceased brother Yemi, and then beats Eko to death. After the implosion of the hatch Desmond gained the ability to forecast future events, and has told Charlie that he will die.

The survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 have been stranded on the island for 73 days (set at December 4, 2004) at the end of the eighth episode

Answer 2

hi this the summary
Oceanic Flight 815 out of Sydney, Australia is mysteriously brought down out of the sky, crashing on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The survivors quickly learn they must band together in order to have any hope of rescue, because the island is treacherous and holds many secrets. As they are about to learn, the survivors have secrets of their own . . .
and thise is the the first episode :-
Stripped of everything, the 48 survivors scavenge what they can from the plane for their survival. Some panic. Some pin their hopes on rescue. A few find inner strength they never knew they had—like Kate who, with no medical training, suddenly finds herself suturing the doctor's wounds. The band of friends, family, enemies and strangers must work together against the cruel weather and harsh terrain. But the intense howls of mysterious creatures stalking the jungle fill them all with fear. Fortunately, thanks to the calm leadership of quick-thinking Jack and level-headed Kate, they have hope. But even heroes have secrets, as the survivors will come to learn.
the second episode :-
Having escaped the "creature" and retrieved the plane transceiver, a group of the survivors travel to higher ground so they can transmit a signal. En route, they receive a mysterious transmission and encounter another of the island's inhabitants. Meanwhile, back at camp, Jack tends to a wounded man who reveals a secret about Kate.
third episode :-
Jack and Hurley discover an alarming secret about Kate, as the marshal's life hangs in the balance and he suffers a lot of pain. Meanwhile Kate, Charlie, Sawyer, Sayid, Boone and Shannon ponder the mysteries they have begun to uncover and worry that telling the other survivors will cause panic. They decide to lie for the time being. Also, Locke's befriending of Walt disturbs Michael, but Walt is more concerned in finding his dog. Lastly, Kate flashes back to when she was arrested by the marshal in Australia.
and u can watch the rect from http://www.tv.com/lost/show/24313/summary.html
i hope i helped u

Answer 3

from 1st episode to latest????
that's about 50 hour long shows, which is probably about 200 pages of "filling in"

if you really want to catch up i recommend you go to lostpedia.com, go to the season pages and read the summaries.
that should help you catch

Answer 4

If any of the above summaries confuse you, just go to abc.com and watch episodes that you missed.

Answer 5

Get the 1st and 2nd season on DVD and watch it. you will be hooked and caught up.