Fifteen years after the finale,Loststar Terry O’Quinn shares an intriguing idea about a revival. The veteran performer was instrumental to the early success of the game-changing ABC series. In his role as the enigmatic Locke, O’Quinn portrayed the one character that many on the island looked to as their hope of surviving and returning home safely.
O’Quinn would remain part oftheLostcastthroughout the show’s six seasons, including the divisive series finale that premiered in May 2010. That unforgettable final episode has received something of a reclamation in the years since, with viewers and television scholars arguing that the polarizing ending is actually underrated.
During an interview withScreenRantforResident Alienseason 4, O’Quinn shared his pitch for revisitingLost. The actor, who recurs as Peter Batch inResident Alien, was asked about reuniting with former co-star Harold Perrineau on the horror dramaFrom. O’Quinn responds that he hasn’t seen the MGM+ series, but reveals his idea for picking upLostimmediately after the church-centered finale:
I’m interested in anybody calling me and asking me if I’d be interested in joining a world, but I don’t even know that show. I haven’t seen it, and don’t know anything about it, so that’s something I have to look into. Quite honestly, one of my fantasies would be all the people from Lost come out of the back of the church where the light was, where they walked out, and now they’re all this old [points to self], and so we gotta go like, “What happened?” [Laughs] “What do we do now?” I think that’d be kind of amazing. But I love Harold, he was fun to work with.
What O’Quinn’s Pitch Would Mean For A Lost Revival
O’Quinn’s remarks seem to be very much in conversation withtheLostseries finale. It would be a response to fans who weren’t pleased with the more meditative resolution by giving audiences a new question that would inevitably lead to several others. It’s a debate, in essence, about what kind of show the ABC hit set out to be and what it was in practice.
That is also a fraught question.Lostwas co-created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams, and Damon Lindelof, although Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are perhaps more immediately linked to its trajectory as showrunners and executive producers, with Lindelof co-writing the finale. Each contributed their own view to watching the show, with audiences perhaps preferring one iteration of the show over another.
O’Quinn’s pitch elegantly sidesteps those weighty questions by throwing audiences right back into the question. There’s a definite appeal to that sly, straightforward approach. However, Lindelof and Cuse have shared in past interviews that they have no interest inaLostreboot.
Our Take On A Lost Revival
Lostchanged television on an international scale. One of the many things that can be learned from that story is that the show’s success, its formula, is not easy to replicate. Another thing that the show speaks to is that experiences are valuable because they end. Although reboots are interesting to think about, it’s probably best to leave the island behind.
