Y’all know that I am a LOST fanatic. Caught up on Season 1 and a few episodes of Season 2 via DVD and the internet, and have been watching on live television ever since. (Thanks ex-boyfriend, for making me watch it when I didn’t want to.) We’re almost at the halfway point of the final season (episode 7 of 18 is next Tuesday), so I thought I’d share some interesting facts with you guys.
Note: For those caught up with most of the series, there are no spoilers. For those not caught up with it, there may be very minor spoilers, but there is nothing so earth-shattering as to ruin the entire premise of the show.
All factoids are readily available at Lostpedia (also linked in the bottom left sidebar), I just pulled a few and categorized them! Also, these are not in order of favorite or least favorite, just random. (Except Ben is first, because I love him, duh.)
First, some fun facts about my most LOVED characters…
- Benjamin Linus is a compulsive liar, but any time he gives “his word”, he holds to it, no matter what.
- Miles Straume is the only character to be member of all four major factions on the Island, the DHARMA Initiative, the survivors, the Others and the Kahana crew.
- Daniel Faraday has brown eyes, despite being born to two blue-eyed parents. While extremely uncommon, this is not a biological impossibility.
- Despite both characters being around since season 2, the first dialogue spoken between Desmond Hume and Ben occurred near the end of the season 5 episode “This Place Is Death”.
- Boone Carlyle‘s name is the first name of any character to be said on the show. Soon after the crash, Shannon shouted Boone’s name on the beach, prior to his introduction to the viewer.
- The only main character not to have a single flashback is Richard Alpert.
- James “Sawyer” Ford is left-handed, writing, shooting, and smoking with his left hand, but as a child he wrote with his right.
- Penelope Widmore and her father Charles have never shared a scene together despite both characters being on the show since the end of season 2, and having appeared in 9 episodes together
- Damon Lindelof confirmed in the February 4, 2009 episode of the Official Lost Podcast that Vincent the dog will survive through the end of Season 6, making Vincent the first and so far only character that has been confirmed to survive the entirety of the series.
And now some fun facts about my most LOATHED characters…
- Because Charlotte Lewis studied for her doctorate at Oxford, it would be a D.Phil rather than a PhD as stated by Ben in “Confirmed Dead”.
- The five-toed paw tattoo on Martin Keamy‘s right shoulder vaguely resembles the company logo of Blackwater Worldwide, a privately-owned Tactical Training & Contract Security Service organization headquartered in North Carolina, USA.
- Shannon Rutherford is the only main character never to have visited a DHARMA station, counting Boone’s trips to the hatch exterior as visits to a DHARMA station.
- Claire Littleton has once been described by writers to be the heart and soul of the survivors. [Personal note: No wonder they're so whiny!]
- John Locke has a habit of injuring his legs, and has done so in every season except the fourth.
- Michael Dawson‘s Oceanic plane tickets that he receives from Brian Porter are tickets for flights from Sydney to New York. He is the only character we know of that was on the plane but was not going to Los Angeles. However, it can be assumed that he needed to board another plane to take him from New York to Los Angeles.
- Ana Lucia Cortez appears to have worn the same clothes during her 64 days on the Island.
Here’s some about people that I waver on…
- Hugo “Hurley” Reyes‘ nickname, not his forename or surname, is stitched onto the pocket of his DHARMA jumpsuit. He is the only member of the DHARMA Initiative seen to hold this distinction.
- Jack Shephard is the only main character that is aware of all the DHARMA Initiative stations.
- Sayid Jarrah and Sun are the only main character that have met all the main characters for over 6 seasons.
- Kate Austen has been tied up more than any other character on the show.
- November 12th is the birthday of Mikhail Bakunin and Nadia Comaneci. In 1967, Nadia Comaneci joined a newly formed gym club, “The Flame”.
- When Desmond saw Charlie Pace playing the guitar on the street in England, Charlie was singing the Oasis song “Wonderwall”. In this song the lyrics are, “Maybe you’re gonna be the one that saves me”.
- Juliet Burke is the only “Other” to actually refer to herself as an Other, usually in jest.
- Despite the Pierre Chang‘s importance to the storyline, François Chau is never credited for his portrayal.
Tags: lost, television
you’re making me want to watch it again! we stopped a couple of seasons ago, with the breaks between seasons we forgot what had happened and there was too much going on to keep everything straight. but now I might have to just rent all of the seasons that are out and watch all at once, so I don’t get confused!
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Hi! I was surfing the net and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Melissa. G.