I just watched the first 5 sea­sons of Lost again, so I feel I’m in a pretty good posi­tion to sum­ma­rize every­thing that’s hap­pened so far:
Let’s see if I can do this bet­ter than Hur­ley.
Oceanic 815 is a plane fly­ing from Syd­ney to LA that crashes on an uncharted island some­where in the pacific. The sur­vivors of the crash soon real­ize that there are oth­ers on the island. The ‘oth­ers’ are led by Ben­jamin Linus, a for­mer mem­ber of the Dharma Ini­tia­tive.

The Dharma Ini­tia­tive is founded in 1970 by sci­en­tists inter­ested in the islands super­nat­ural energy. Some­time in the 1980’s, Ben joins the ‘oth­ers’ and ini­ti­ates a purge against the Dharma Ini­tia­tive (he kills all of them).

Shortly after the crash, the sur­vivors of 815 begin to wit­ness the islands power. A smoke mon­ster flies around scan­ning and killing peo­ple, and sev­eral sur­vivors recover from severe ill­ness: Rose beats can­cer, Jin becomes fer­tile, and Locke walks. Then they find a hatch built by the Dharma Ini­tia­tive and inside it they meet Desmond, who tells them they need to press a but­ton every 108 min­utes to con­tain a leak­ing pocket of super­nat­ural energy caused by an inci­dent back in 1975.

They push the but­ton for a while but then Locke decides to stop. The energy builds up and Desmond has to ini­ti­ate a fail safe mech­a­nism which destroys the hatch and (seem­ingly) buries the problem.

At the same time, Jack, Kate, and Sawyer get kid­napped by the oth­ers and find out that Ben is dying. Jack saves Ben, and they are let free. At some point they find out that the oth­ers are actu­ally being led by a god­like fig­ure named Jacob…
Ok Hur­ley, you win…
Screw it, there’s no way I can explain the rest of the show.

Tags: lost, ramble

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