Just in case you have not seen this show and you are thinking of binge-watching it for the next month or so: don't do it. Lost, like the worst things in life, will start by hooking you with something you will initially love only to betray your love at every step until you are crying curled up in a ball asking yourself how you can ever love such a thing. It is that bad. Basically, in season one you will have this gorgeous location, decent acting and a gripping plot. Then, for 7 more seasons, the writers just pileup nonsense on plot holes. Main characters disappear without reason. Entire subplots vanish without ever getting an explanation. Things that were supposed to be THE MOST IMPORTANT THING just fade into oblivion between one season and the other. Characters declare things to be THE TRUTH only for it to be completely ignored in following episodes. Good guys become bad guys and viceversa so many times that you start to wonder if maybe it was all a metaphor about Good and Bad being just human concepts? Nope, in the next episode you get freaking physical manifestations of good and evil. With no connection to the former 5 years of the show. The "willing suspension of belief" which is necessary to enjoy good fiction dies at the end of season 2. By season 8 the only thing you are willing to believe that makes no sense is that people got do this as a job. Since you may still want to watch the effin' thing, and I do not mean to spoil it for you, let us consider how the writers of lost may have handled a tale you may have heard of: Little Red Riding Hood. The story starts with this little girl who gets a basket of goods to take to grandma's. 1 banana, 2 apples, 3 pears, 5 raisins and a bottle of wine. Mom tells her she is the most important part of the plot. It is fundamental she brings 1 banana, 2 apples, 3 pears, 5 raisins and a bottle of wine. You may think the casual fibonacci numbers mean something. They don't, or if they did, the writers forgot about them anyway. The girl walks into the forest and meets the wolf who challenges her to get to the grandma. Except, when we get to the grandma it turns out the wolf was actually an alien who came to heart to save LRRH. Grandma turns out to be an abject horror from the dawn of time. A hunter passing by takes little red riding hood and time travels to the beginning of the story, and tells her the wolf is actually a "security system". The girl meets the wolf again except this time it turns out the wolf is actually the hunter. People perform child sacrifices in the woods. A passing velociraptor eats Little Red Riding Hood. The little girl's mom goes into the forest and fights the wolf, as the two are actually timeless entities who have been in a fight since forever. At this point we realize that Mom is actually Jesus, and the wolf is Lucifer. Some more random characters show up. The hunter marries a woman who have never appeared in the plot, and moves to LA. Everybody now ignores the bit about grandma being an eldritch horror, she is now an immortal spanish woman from the thirteen century, for no apparent reason. No wait, she's a robot. The hunter wakes up from a bad dream and swears never to eat mexican again. Wait, what the hell happen to the little girl? Wasn't she the whole point of the plot? You actually said she was the most important part of the plot. Yes, my dear reader, we did. Go complain to the f* wolf.