It is now been over 20 years since “Misplaced” modified TV without end, bringing a degree of serialization and style storytelling to broadcast tv that hadn’t been seen earlier than at that degree. Watching the present immediately seems like looking at a time capsule for a bygone period during which mysteries fueled fan boards but the thriller field method wasn’t the mandate in TV and flicks (and when serialization was a device fairly than the rule for your complete medium).
Although some folks like to complain concerning the unsolved mysteries of “Misplaced,” the reality is that, all the way down to its controversial finale, the present resolved just about each thriller it raised in a technique or one other — whether or not it was the polar bears, the numbers, the island whispers, and even Walt. That being stated, there’s one thriller audiences by no means received a solution to in anyway: who was on the opposite outrigger?
Backing up a bit: In season 5, episode 4, “The Little Prince,” because the island is flashing throughout time and area, survivors Sawyer, Juliet, Daniel, Locke, Miles, and Charlotte take an outrigger to the opposite facet of the island, solely to be shot at within the water by folks in one other outrigger. Proper earlier than they will uncover who their attackers are or battle again, the island flashes via time once more and the survivors disappear, by no means to determine who shot at them. In an interview with Josh Horowitz again in 2020, showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse confessed they’ll by no means reply this thriller. “We are going to reply any questions [about ‘Lost’] aside from one, which is the outrigger, and that we’ll take to our graves,” Lindelof defined.
With that in thoughts, Lindelof admitted the present’s inventive did, in actual fact, provide you with a solution to this query. Nonetheless, he added, “Different folks exterior our author’s room have seen the scene and been sworn to secrecy.” Sadly, these ready to get a solution anytime quickly will probably be disenchanted. As Lindelof put it, solely after he and Cuse die, and if compelled to guard the concept they really deliberate a solution to the query all alongside, would those that have the key script be permitted to launch it “to guard our legacy.”