An overview of Lost:

Lost is a television series about a group of people stranded on a mysterious island after a plane crash. The island has many special properties that include electromagnetic fields, time travel, spirits, and can even be considered to be Purgatory. During the 6 seasons, the characters are shown in the life that they lived before they came to the island, life while they were on the island, after they had left the island and came back to it, and life if their plane had never crashed on the island. The island is protected by a man named Jacob. Jacob brought all of the islanders to the island because they were candidates to take his place in protecting the island. The island changed everyone that went there. By this, I mean that everyone became free, the time that they spent on the island was the most meaningful time of their lives. The characters needed the island just as much as they needed one another. The main characters include: Jack Shepherd, James Ford, Kate Austen, Jin and Sun Kweon, John Lock, Desmond, Charlie, Claire, Micheal, and Hugeo. All of the characters lived unhappily before the island, a bad past, doing bad things.