re: this post what i was trying to say is that LOST, because of its various limitations (genre, network, popularity etc), is a show about death that doesn't actually let its characters deal with death in a realistic way (see Jack Shephard who manages to grieve his father's death only after six seasons and only AFTER he's dead) where by "realistic" i mean that the characters are never afforded the time to actually try and rationalize the fact that someone they loved died. like, in LOST death is only something that happens to the people who die and not to the people who are... left "behind". The only emotion the characters are allowed after somebody dies is a sense of revenge for the wrongdoing and that's it.
this is why I think that "The Leftovers" is an absolute necessary companion to LOST because in that show Lindelof really tried to explore the "other side" of death, so to speak, the side that happens to the people who feel like they're... leftovers compared to the one who "vanished". "The Leftovers" didn't have the same limitations LOST had and so it really allows the audience to explore how the different characters approach the topic (spoiler alert: in a very bizarre way).
like. in LOST it's really like: a bunch of people sort of vanished and got "lost" on an island. and that's it, that's their story, we never learn about the people they've kinda left behind.
in "The Leftovers" we see the literal opposite, the focus is the people who were left while a part of their family had seemingly vanished to other planes of existence leaving them alone.
