“Nobody does it all alone. You needed them, and they needed you.”
Sixteen years ago, a pilot episode of a new show premiered on ABC about a group of plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island. Audiences were transfixed, the show became a blockbuster hit, and the landscape of TV was changed forever.
I rewatched the first five seasons in the summer/fall of 2009 to refresh my mind for season six because this show is so damned complicated. I took notes about what I missed and what jumped out at me in retrospect. Here are those notes. They contain great big honking spoilers for events up until the end of season five.