# Lost: The Journey. What is NOT important? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501 "2005-04-28T05:06:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrianJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/54ee81/32.png) [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501/41 "2005-04-29T11:44:09Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > No he didn’t. Locke told Walt himself that he knew Walt had burned the raft, but he promised he wouldn’t tell anyone else. > > To the Oceanic 815 survivors, he implied that he believed “the others” burned it. Sorry, yeah thats what I meant… Locke revealed to us, not to the castaways, by telling Walt… I should have made myself more clear. ← :wally ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501/42 "2005-04-29T14:51:24Z")
> [@BobT](#): > > The narrator sounded like Brian Cox to me. The linebacker? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501/43 "2005-04-29T14:56:53Z")
I understand why all the backstories got left out–although they’re integral to the story, there just isn’t time in a one-hour recap. But I don’t get why the polar bears were omitted. That seems pretty frickin’ important, to me. But maybe the OP is right, and the writers are telling us that the polar bears aren’t nearly as important as we like to think. I kinda liked the narration. I didn’t need it, of course, but it made the whole thing feel kinda like _Choose Your Own Adventure–Lost._ _If you’d like to try to open the hatch, turn to page 8. If you decide to look for the Crazy French Lady, turn to page 15._ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501/44 "2005-04-29T15:25:14Z")
Oh, yes… apparently, it’s also not important that some really good-looking women were wandering around in their underwear. That didn’t make it into this episode, even though the image of Kate standing in the water will be with me for quite some time… ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501/45 "2005-04-29T16:32:01Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > No one had the medicine, it was presumed lost at sea. Sun made an herbal remedy to asthma from Eucalyptus leaves. Ahh thank you. Interesting. Uh to me it sounded a lot like ‘We’re the survivors…’ but I have that show around here I could listen again. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501/46 "2005-04-29T16:41:09Z")
Is “Lost: The Journey” the title of the series or just of the recap show? 'cause that’s probably kind of important, too. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501/47 "2005-04-29T17:34:44Z")
[Brian Cox](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0004051/) ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501/48 "2005-04-29T19:25:27Z")
On the message boards at the site for the series, someone said that “The Journey” was _not_ produced by the producers of the TV series. It was an independent company hired by ABC. I don’t know how to go about confirming or disconfirming this tidbit, though. If it’s true, then we shouldn’t attach too much importance to the episode’s choices as to what was left in and what was left out. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501/49 "2005-04-29T20:01:42Z")
It’s just an episode title. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-the-journey-what-is-not-important/301501.md?page=2)