Lost had fewer abandoned plotlines than almost any other long-running show. This claim may surprise you if you’ve heard jokes about how the writers just made it all up as they went along, but that’s actually how most shows are written. Lost, in contrast, not only planned out its final three seasons in advance but also spent its entire run flashing back and forward to tie plots off. Watch any early episode, and you may find that every scene (sometimes every line) will be revisited before the series closes.
So, don’t angrily ask, “What ever happened to Walt?” Walt received an elaborate sendoff and then nevertheless returned to the show four times in four successive seasons. But Lost’s surprising devotion to resolving dangling threads makes the plots that it did abandon all the more notable.
At the start of Season 2, the characters discover a science station, The Swan, stocked with food from an old research initiative. The food is mostly unbranded, marked only with the logo of the Dharma Initiative itself, but there’s also a commercially manufactured candy bar. “Apollo bars?” says Hurley, confused. “Ever hear of these?” No one has. Later, in the same station, they find a record from a band named Geronimo Jackson. “As an expert in all things musical,” says Charlie, “I’ve never heard of these guys.” No one else has either. What’s going on here? Where did this candy and band come from?
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