Isn’t It Time We Reboot ABC’s LOST?

If you were old enough to remember television of the early 2000s, you remember just how big of a deal ABC’s LOST was. Imagine Game of Thrones level excitement for a show, on network television. Coming up on the 11-year mark for the show coming off the air, we can’t help but wonder if it’s time for this iconic show to live again?

First and foremost, LOST had some of the most creative character building we’ve seen on television. The character arcs on the show took you down a whole range of emotions. Characters you loved at the beginning, you hated by the end. Ones you hated, quickly redeemed themselves. So much happened in 121 episodes, it didn’t even feel like the same show when it was done but yet circled all the way back by the end.

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Then of course, we have to look at their unique storytelling. LOST had one of the more fascinating ways to unveil their best-kept secrets, a way that might not work out for today’s streaming platform. The show didn’t give you answers right away, in the next episode, or even the next season. You lived for the suspense of the answers as they came to you. Character-centric episodes kept stories progressing while connecting characters to one another, but they didn’t come back to those characters for multiple episodes. How they managed to advance stories without those characters being in them is what fascinated audiences the most.

So many LOST faithful want the show left as is since any other characters wouldn’t seem natural. However, one of the more unique plot points inserted in the show was time travel. At any given point, the new characters could run into the old ones based on the nature of the show.

Writing a reboot for the show wouldn’t be that difficult at all. At the end of season six, we learned Hurley took over as the next Jacob, looking after the island. We see the final shot of Jack drifting off assuming he died, but what if he didn’t? Yes, it would ruin their meetup in the afterlife story, but that doesn’t have to happen after the original story arc.

If after years of leading the island, Hurley finds the island is in trouble and that someone is trying to hunt him down the same way Jacob was killed, he could instruct Ben, or even a new follower to search out Jack, who never died and was kept alive by the island. Maybe Hurley finds a way to bring a new survivor to the island to fulfill this destiny.

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LOST wrapped up on a fast track to tie up loose ends, but that doesn’t mean so much more of the story was left unexplored. They could dig deeper into the Dharma Initiative. They could explain why they were brainwashing people in secret rooms. Who wouldn’t want to dive more into the four-toed statue?

LOST was a series like no other and ABC has been trying to replicate it’s success for years. After many failed attempts, isn’t it time to revisit the show most of us all loved? 10+ years is long enough to bring back a show that did so well but the original creators wanted to move on from it. Give LOST the reboot treatment with a fresh set of writers just as passionate about the reboot as the original creators and you might be on to something.