10 Ways Lost Was Almost Completely Changed

Lost...but starring Batman! Sort of.

Lost was a necessary sacrifice. Much like how we suffered through the total mess of Batman And Robin to get the gritty reboot of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight films, or how your town will sacrifice a virginal Catholic police man in a giant wicker effigy to ensure a good harvest in the coming year, Lost died on its feet so that many more could live. But at least it burnt brightly and loudly before then. Ultimately, nobody was particularly happy with how Lost turned out. Fans who had been tuning into ABC's hit mystery series from the very beginning didn't get all the answers they wanted, and the few they were granted access to were far from satisfying. By that point they'd gone through so many plot twists and time travel shenanigans that they were few and dedicated compared to the blockbuster viewership it had at the start. Still, the gamble ABC took on the show partially lead to the current TV drama renaissance, in a way. The likes of Breaking Bad, Mad Men and Hannibal might never have happened if Lost hadn't made the medium look like a viable place to tell these prolonged, weird stories. Even if they never quite get as weird as Demond, the polar bear and the smoke monster. In the end, the show was a noble failure, with ideas above its station and a lot of concepts that didn't quite come off as well as they did. But what ideas they were! It might have ended very differently, however. And began in an unrecognisable manner. And starred...Batman, actually. Here are ten ways Lost could've been totally different.
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Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/