LOST - Season 1, 2 and 3 Finale Fan-Edits (Version 2 in Progress)

This is my first post on this site, I’ve been lurking for years following the great work that everyone has done here on various different projects.

During the pandemic, I’ve been working remotely and that has given me some free time to pursue a fan edit that I’ve been working on since probably late 2007 (Whenever the Season 3 DVD of LOST came out.) Anyways, I was disappointed to find that my favorite episode of the series had been split in half for the DVD and Blu Ray presentations. Fast forward 4ish years and I received the Complete Collection on Blu Ray and found that now the finales of Season’s 1, 2 and 3 were all split in half. And not only split in half, but scenes were removed for time. WTF? This is not a complete collection with 3/6 finales being lame edited for rebroadcast cuts of some of the best episodes of the show.

I’ve officially begun working on Version 2 of this edit. I’m going to make some comparison videos to better illustrate the differences between the original episodes and these chopped up ones. Hope to have those up in the near future. It will still be a bit of a wait for links to the finished project because I’m waiting on a Broadcast HDTV capture potentially for all 3 episodes. Once I have this, it shouldn’t take me long to finish up the edits.

Update:

All of the edit lists are finished. Again, if anyone has 720p HDTV rips, please don’t hesitate to reach out in a PM. They would be invaluable for this preservation.

SpacemanDoug has agreed to add the edits to MySpleen on my behalf for now. I also have Google Drive links if anyone wants to PM me.

Exodus, Part 2 - Complete Edit List:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Huuh_fq7CYvvPi9awOvXRCHqbwc-G9eUwQVN6p0YjUA/edit?usp=sharing

Live Together, Die Alone - Complete Edit List:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NLOVWs5Aw0pU_HF-wbRH2SGPuYVxJ5skdNPErcG5fDk/edit

Through The Looking Glass - Complete Edit List:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11cY0kkrmUPprBe5DD8aC0MOSMtgN0T_A5Nqu5jq8sIY/edit

I sent a PM

Nice work. Wish this was around when I was doing my Chronologically LOST remaster. The OG version used the DVD release that had the extra content while I was sticking with BD. I was considering doing a v2 for those episodes then by importing the DVD sets and upscaling the extra bits to add with BD, but never did that.

DragoonClawNZ said:

Nice work. Wish this was around when I was doing my Chronologically LOST remaster. The OG version used the DVD release that had the extra content while I was sticking with BD. I was considering doing a v2 for those episodes then by importing the DVD sets and upscaling the extra bits to add with BD, but never did that.

Thank you! I was fortunate that when I started working on this project again, AI Topaz Labs offered a free trial of their new Video Enhancer tool. It really brought the quality up close enough that I could cover a lot of the transitions between footage with simple cross fades. And overall the results I got with the DVDs are pretty great. Still, part of me hopes that someone out there sees this some day and they are sitting on a gold mine of high quality 720P HDTV rips of all 3 episodes lol

ChainsawAsh said:

I’ve been racking my brain at the comment that the S4 and S5 finales are preserved in their original double-length forms on Blu because…they aren’t. At least, not on my sets, and I’ve been scouring the Internet for any BDrip uploads that have the movie length S4 and S5 finales, and have found nothing - they’re all split.

I was talking to SpacemanDoug about it, and after a while he finally dug up some info - they’re only preserved on the US Region A releases. I imported the UK sets because they were cheaper at the time, and apparently all the scene uploaders also used an international set for their rips and uploads.

Man. That really sucks, I didn’t want to have to re-buy them…

Don’t remember for S5 but there was a difference for S4 I noticed in the Chrono remaster when there was changes between the release (US DVD/BD) on the original and mine (AU BD), mostly with starting credits and order of scenes. I was bummed out by that, how even S4 releases were different.

Yeah I’m not sure what the thinking was behind releasing any blu rays with the finales split. I understand doing that for streaming and potential syndicated runs, but the official blu rays should be a time capsule of what aired.

ChainsawAsh said:

I’ve been racking my brain at the comment that the S4 and S5 finales are preserved in their original double-length forms on Blu because…they aren’t. At least, not on my sets, and I’ve been scouring the Internet for any BDrip uploads that have the movie length S4 and S5 finales, and have found nothing - they’re all split.

I was talking to SpacemanDoug about it, and after a while he finally dug up some info - they’re only preserved on the US Region A releases. I imported the UK sets because they were cheaper at the time, and apparently all the scene uploaders also used an international set for their rips and uploads.

Man. That really sucks, I didn’t want to have to re-buy them…

I think I may have found the original double versions of the S4 and S5 finales.
I’m pretty sure I’m not allowed to give download link, but I’m assuming I can provide you vague directions if you PM me about it.

edit:
never mind, they turned out to be low quality tv rips

Is anyone able to provide me with the original movie versions of the season 4 and 5 finales along with the season 6 premiere?

Even if they are from DVD rips or TV recordings I’ll still take them

SpacemanDoug said:

Is anyone able to provide me with the original movie versions of the season 4 and 5 finales along with the season 6 premiere?

Even if they are from DVD rips or TV recordings I’ll still take them

Yo. To anyone looking for direct Bluray rips from the American sources I hereby offer my services!
I am working on a long form preservation/fan edit myself! And I have all of these in proper direct HQ files.
I’m also working on a 4K remaster (but for the whole series) so I would love to check out your results TheBoogeyman1023

Namaste my homies!

sydcho said:

Is there any way I can have the link?

Links are down currently. I’m working on a Version 2. Making several audio and video improvements.

Work on the project has stopped at the moment because I’m currently waiting on a new lead that might have 720p broadcast sources for all 3 finales.

I’ll report back on here once things get moving again.