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Ripoff of Lost, or ripped off by Lost?

posted 7 years ago by Jito463
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So, does anyone else see the comparisons to Lost? A bunch of people all stranded together, away from civilization, suddenly finding their lives are more intertwined than they thought. You have mysterious, unexplainable circumstances that are attributed to some unknown, uncertain and intangible force (the island on Lost, the egg/dome on UTD).

You have dead people coming back to life on both. Both shows have ghostly apparitions of people who have died, giving mysterious and cryptic messages.

Both shows involve a small group getting away and back to civilization, only to return again.

Even the beginning of season 3 (which admittedly I only just started watching) mirrors season 6 of Lost, with them jumping back and forth between different realities.

The only remaining question is, who ripped off whom? Since I've never read the book, I couldn't say how much of it was copied from the book (and I don't know which came first, the book or the show Lost).

Someone copied someone, though. There's far too many similarities for it to be a mere coincidence.

[–] debunkerboy 7 years ago

Just speculating, but I can see that. The King book was published after years after Lost began so if there was any copying of the general idea I'd guess it was either by King or by the script writers of the show. The King book, as I recall, was quite a bit different than the TV show. I'd say maybe or maybe not King was inspired by the Lost concept but that the script writers, who LOVE to clone successful show ideas pushed it further into the Lost direction.

[–] ADBruns 7 years ago

Many of these things happen in sci-fi.

LOST came first, so LOST did not rip off UtD.

[–] Crispin-19 7 years ago

That never crossed my mind. But I can see it, kinda, with some goodwill.

[–] nrb426 7 years ago

I think it's better to question whether or not Stephen King ripped off the Simpsons Movie

And as someone else said, Lost came first, so it would've been Under the Dome writers who copied anything

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[–] JunkiePants 7 years ago

I'd say it shares more similarities with Jericho, if anything.