Since I kept clear of spoilers, I don't know their history. How many big or small plot twists were out there in internet spoilerville beforehand? What did they manage to keep a lid on? Were there any foilers or other types of false spoilers?
for spoilerholics - what was known/not known?
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Pretty much every episode this season was spoiled in advance, except for a good deal of the finale.
One of the biggest twists the show ever had, the flash-forwards, was known in advance and I'm still kicking myself for reading that particular spoiler.
I remember the season three and season four finales being completely spoiled, from the flash-forwards to Charlie's death to the Frozen Donkey Wheel to Michael and Jin blowing up on the freighter. The only thing that wasn't spoiled, as far as I saw, for the season four finale was Desmond and Penny's reunion. I was really happy about that.
Michael murdering Ana Lucia and Libby was spoiled a couple of weeks in advance. Some guy named LostFan108 posted complete spoilers for the season 3 and 4 finales. Obviously it was some guy who worked on the show. After season 4 he strangely disappeared and was never heard from again.
Ilana's death, Zoe and Widmore's, the deaths in The Candidate were all known as well. Jacob's cork analogy in Ab Aeterno, MiB's death in the series finale, Rose, Bernard and Vincent helping Desmond out of the well.
Pretty much every big twist and plot development was spoiled before it aired. Spoilers were a little more harder to come by in the first 3 seasons but after than it was like a friggin' flood.
Ilana's death, Zoe and Widmore's, the deaths in The Candidate were all known as well. Jacob's cork analogy in Ab Aeterno, MiB's death in the series finale, Rose, Bernard and Vincent helping Desmond out of the well.
Pretty much every big twist and plot development was spoiled before it aired. Spoilers were a little more harder to come by in the first 3 seasons but after than it was like a friggin' flood.
It's probably easier for me to think of what wasn't spoiled. The Locke/Flocke reveal last season wasn't spoiled that I remember, just some vague talk from Terry O'Quinn about a major twist. The flash-forward reveal in the series finale. Hmmm... hard to think of others.
As for "spoilers" that turned out wrong, I remember a funny one from alst season. The spoiler was that at the very end of the finale, Locke was going to lead Sun to a cave. There a hooded man was going to slowly walk out. He lifts his hood to reveal... old man Jin, who has been waiting for Sun to return since the 1970s.
As for "spoilers" that turned out wrong, I remember a funny one from alst season. The spoiler was that at the very end of the finale, Locke was going to lead Sun to a cave. There a hooded man was going to slowly walk out. He lifts his hood to reveal... old man Jin, who has been waiting for Sun to return since the 1970s.
Yikes! And I was mad at myself for reading the spoiler about who UnLocke really was (but thankfully didn't spoil myself about Locke's corpse still being in the coffin...)
Other than Shannon's death (spoiled for me by a rassin frassin magazine at the supermarket checkout counter), I managed to get thru Lost pretty spoiler free.
If you mean, that Locke was really MIB (not that Locke was really dead), then yeah that was spoiled - one of the very few I caved in and read.
Curiously that wasn't the only spoiler involving a cave. Early in season five there was a spoiler that said Richard would show Locke the smoke monster. The monster would emerge from the cave and appear differently that normal which resulted in Locke getting scared shitless. I liked that spoiler and was dissapointed it didn't come to pass.
After reading this, I just want to say thank God I avoided spoilers (for the most part, I think I learned a couple in early season 3). The only thing I knew in advance was whose episode it was and anything the producers said officially. It would ruined a lot if I knew all these twists ahead of time.
There were several things spoiled except for:
Locke being taken over by the smoke monster.
Demond and Penny's reunion... the first time over the phone in The Constant, and then their actual reunion. Don't know how they kept those under wraps.
Most of the finale.
I tended to read about character reappearances, etc... but most were so vague... and there was a lot of stuff I never would have believed (the Danielle and Ben hookup.)
During the third season, someone was posting a complete synopsis of every episode the night before. That ended after that year.
Locke being taken over by the smoke monster.
Demond and Penny's reunion... the first time over the phone in The Constant, and then their actual reunion. Don't know how they kept those under wraps.
Most of the finale.
I tended to read about character reappearances, etc... but most were so vague... and there was a lot of stuff I never would have believed (the Danielle and Ben hookup.)
During the third season, someone was posting a complete synopsis of every episode the night before. That ended after that year.
Oh yeah, I was spoiled about Michael's return...and I think Juliet and Boone...but since those could be flashbacks, alternate realities, ghosts, Smokey, or all of the above, that stuff hardly seemed like it should count as a spoiler.
Honestly, the fact that Jin survived the boat or Michael's return (in season 4) were definitely spoilers (although, with Jin, they kept his name in the credits, so they didn't really attempt to hide it). They were accidentally spoiled for me because people just openly talked about them in threads before the episodes aired.
At the same time, I was also spoiled that Juliet would return for Season 6, so her death surprised me.
At the same time, I was also spoiled that Juliet would return for Season 6, so her death surprised me.
I think Lost spoiled Michael's return by having his name in the opening credits for every single episode leading up to his return.
I think Lost spoiled Michael's return by having his name in the opening credits for every single episode leading up to his return.
They were yakkin about it before the season even begin!
I was spoiled about most everything 
Except the finale-the only thing I knew was that during the final scene, (the call sheet was 'found' in a restaurant) that Jack, Hurley, Desmond, and Sawyer were still alive (though in Jack's case, he didn't survive the finale) but Sawyer did so that's all I was concerned with. 
There were also spoiler pics of the building of the "Cave of Light" set
Except the finale-the only thing I knew was that during the final scene, (the call sheet was 'found' in a restaurant) that Jack, Hurley, Desmond, and Sawyer were still alive
(though in Jack's case, he didn't survive the finale) but Sawyer did so that's all I was concerned with. There were also spoiler pics of the building of the "Cave of Light" set
I wanted Sawyer to survive until the finale, but 100% expected him to be killed in the finale. Instead, he probably lived to be 102. I can just imagine him as a crotchedy old fart yelling "get off my lawn, you sonofabitch kids!" 
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