It is now been over 20 years since “Misplaced” modified TV ceaselessly, bringing a stage of serialization and style storytelling to broadcast tv that hadn’t been seen earlier than at that stage. Watching the present at the moment seems like observing a time capsule for a bygone period by which mysteries fueled fan boards but the thriller field strategy wasn’t the mandate in TV and flicks (and when serialization was a device relatively than the rule for your complete medium).
Although some individuals 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 method or one other — whether or not it was the polar bears, the numbers, the island whispers, and even Walt. That being mentioned, there may be one thriller audiences by no means bought a solution to in any respect: 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 house, 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 individuals in one other outrigger. Proper earlier than they’ll uncover who their attackers are or combat again, the island flashes by way of 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 are going to by no means reply this thriller. “We’ll 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 artistic did, in truth, give you a solution to this query. Nonetheless, he added, “Different individuals outdoors 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 upset. As Lindelof put it, solely after he and Cuse die, and if compelled to guard the concept that 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.”