{"id":770184,"date":"2026-07-18T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770184\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:14:11","slug":"lost-debate-revived-by-simon-pegg-after-claims-about-tv-shows-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770184\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost debate revived by Simon Pegg after claims about TV show\u2019s ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Simon Pegg<\/a> has fanned the flames of controversy among the Lost<\/a> fandom by appearing to misunderstand the US drama\u2019s divisive ending<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Shaun of the Dead and Mission: Impossible actor was a big fan of the hit show, but wasn\u2019t a fan of the final episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on Dish podcast<\/a>, Pegg was asked: \u201cIf you could rewrite the end of a film or TV series, what would you choose, and how would you rewrite it?”<\/p>\n

\"SimonSimon Pegg loved \u2018Lost\u2019 \u2013 but misunderstood the ending (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He quickly responded: “I would rewrite the end of Lost, and I’ll tell you why. I loved Lost. In fact, when JJ Abrams called me about Mission: Impossible III, he had just finished the first season of Lost, and he sent me the whole season on individual DVDs, before it was on TV, to watch it, to see his stuff, to check him out as a director.<\/p>\n

He continued: “But at the end of it, it just\u2026 spoiler alert if you haven’t seen Lost, but, you know, they were dead all along. I was like, ‘But that’s what everyone thought in the first series?'”<\/p>\n

When the show started in 2004, many fans theorised that the main characters \u2013 survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 who crash onto a mysterious island \u2013 were stuck in purgatory. <\/p>\n

Upon the finale\u2019s initial broadcast in 2010, the divisive two-parter caused a large number of disappointed viewers \u2013 including Pegg \u2013 to think they were dead all along. However, this is not correct.<\/p>\n

The final ever scenes of Lost are intercut between events on the island and an alternate timeline known as the flash-sideways, which explores what would have happened had the plane landed safely instead of crashing.<\/p>\n

\"MatthewMatthew Fox played Jack in all six seasons of ‘Lost’ (ABC)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s revealed in the closing moments of the show that these flash-sideways are, in fact, a netherworld where the characters are drawn together and, after recalling their time on the island, move on together to \u201cwhatever comes next\u201d.<\/p>\n

But many incorrectly assumed that the island events weren\u2019t real, and that the characters had been dead the entire time \u2013 when in fact, they were alive; everything that took place in the series actually did happen.<\/p>\n

While Pegg seemed to grasp this aspect of the plot, he appeared to fall short at deciphering what it meant. When asked to provide what he believed would have been a better conclusion, he ended up basically describing what actually happened in the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it would have been really good if, in order to get off the island, they had to die on the island, and then they would be transported to the alternative universe. So, there’d be this amazing dramatic irony, because they’d be desperately trying to survive, but we’d know that you’ve got to die to make it.<\/p>\n

\u201cEventually, you’d end up with Jack, you know, Matthew Fox, and he would be fighting for survival, but then he’d die. Then, they’d all be in this alternative universe in different roles. I just felt like there was something interesting there. That’s the bad version of that idea, but instead, it was just like, ‘Meh, dead all along.’ I was like, ‘This was seven years of my life, and it’s that?!’\u201d<\/p>\n

Not helping the common assumption about the characters\u2019 fates was an unintentional blunder in which ABC added footage over the end credits showing the plane wreckage with no survivors \u2013\u00a0a decision that wasn\u2019t sanctioned by showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on this, Jorge Garcia, who played Hugo \u201cHurley\u201d Reyes, told The Independent<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s definitely true that a lot of people misread the ending and thought they were dead the whole time. I think there were a lot of things that contributed to that. <\/p>\n

\"JorgeJorge Garcia as Hugo “Hurley” Reyes in ‘Lost’ (ABC)<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things they thought might have been the reason was that, after it ended, during the closing credits \u2013 in the US, at least \u2013 they had some B-roll of the original crash site, which was just kind of meant as a thing for people to sit and decompress with as they watched the closing credits. But some people read that as, \u2018Oh, we\u2019ve been at that crash site this whole time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Anderson, who played Bernard, added in the same interview: \u201dI remember most of the writing staff and the producers standing up and being really upset because it wasn\u2019t what they intended. We believed the network added it just as something to show the credits with, and that in itself made people think we had been dead from the very beginning. But it isn\u2019t at all what they meant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindelof himself told The Independent<\/a> that \u201cwhether or not you hated or loved the way that it ended, it\u2019s pretty cool that people are still talking about it and have very strong feelings about it\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s the intention of any art \u2013 to basically last,\u201d he said. \u201cIf it lasts, you’re saying something even if people are saying it\u2019s something that they don\u2019t necessarily like. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think Breaking Bad is one of the greatest television shows of all time. I think the same thing about The Wire. But nobody ever talks about the finales of those shows because the endings were not as relevant as the journey themselves. With Lost, there’s a fixation over the way that it ended and I think that, in and of itself, is a very interesting legacy for the show to have.”<\/p>\n

Lindelof\u2019s next show, Lanterns, will be released on HBO Max on 16 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-770184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}