"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

They're both great shows, but yeah, there's not many similarites. Lost, unlike TP, isn't even viewed as unconventional (though it should be), because of the mainstream publicity and coverage it gets.

I think TP always seemed like it was more concerned with atmosphere rather than having a really tight plot. I know there is still lots of TP mythologists out there, but I don't really see the point as I think the mythology of TP is just there to create these great chacracters and just general weirdness. But the story doesn't actually seem to fit together perfectly (which doesn't bother me at all). Whereas the Lost writers seem much more concerned with continuity, and in that aspect it is more of a success than TP because there are some far-out elements in the show and the story is so complex but they still somehow manage to avoid plot-holes.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

Actually I'd say that Heroes has more Twin Peaks type references/things they nicked the idea from there than Lost does.  Claire's fascination with walking through fire for 1...Nikki's "doppelganger" Jess and now Tracey and she "now" claims Nikki was her original sister (even though she originally says she and Nikki weren't related.)  Since Nikki and Jess were twins, or Jess was the dead twin in the mirror, Tracey the third who came later, in T.P they talked about Sheryl Lee possibly coming back with red hair, you see what I mean?  I love Heroes but sometimes I watch and think "hmm...I wonder where they nicked THAT idea!?" don't do it so much with Lost.  Except for maybe in Series 2 with the swirling Black Mist/Electricty that followed (can't remember his name the big black african dude) just before they found out about the Dharma Initiative and Ben, etc and the fact there WAS electricity on the island kinda reminds me of the "E..l..ectricity" bit from FWWM.

"watch out for my cousin.."

"watch out for my cousin.."

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World... yup- that sounds kind of familiar.

Did anyone notice the VERY SIMILAR music that was used in Lost (Season 2) ... I think, from memory.

Towards the end of Badalamenti's theme from Twin Peaks, he uses 3 notes struck in a particular fashion that I positively remember seeing being used the same way on Lost and feeling that it was a deliberate 'sampling' of the shows 'mystique'.

I also vaguely recall questioning myself on other possible Twin Peaks influences throughout Lost (S1-3) but are currently too tired to remember.

Heroes season 2, in the first episode, featured a piano cue when Claire and her father went to school her first day in Costa Verde that sounded very similar to Laura Palmer theme's crescendo. Also I always kind of saw Claire and Noah (HRG)'s relationship as a very far-away reference to Laura Palmer and her dad in Twin Peaks (she's being sneaking on him, he's been keeping secrets and stuff as well, you know...). There was a scene in season 1, the night after Claire got killed with that tree branch in her head, she removed it and came back to life. She returned home only with a robe on that she stole at the hospital and found her dad waiting for her. They hug on the stairs and say they love each other and then when he's gone she starts crying lying on a step of "those stairs". It definitely reminded me the "I love you princess" "I love you too" moment in FWWM.

Definitely Heroes is more related to Twin Peaks than Lost is. But I feel, thematically, Lost is closer to TP than Heroes.

 Although, it is evident that Twin Peaks is pretty much different and it preceeded all these shows we're mentioning. I think, both unconsciously and deliberately, creators of these shows pay their homages to the so much  inspirational, groundbreaking series that Twin Peaks has been in the histrory of american television.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

 Are you being sarcastic with that last line?

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

Hey, what r your 2 cents on the flashforwards anyway? I still have to watch the final 5 episodes of season 4, but I was wondering what you guys are thinking of this choice.

At first, with my imagination I was hoping the flash forwards were sort of alternate futures, but it seems the guys who are writing the show told they are plain insights on what's gonna happen in the future, which to me is okay although maybe it's not always a good choice because it could kill creativity, you know, and the freedom to tell stories from the island without us having shoved down our throats bits and pieces of what's gonna happen in the future. But there definitely were some episodes where flashforwards and flashbacks were co-existing and that was kind of great because at first I couldn't tell the difference and I was extremely confused. Great stuff!

I mean, it's not so usual to see a show on television that has flash forwards without people timetravelling and that sort of stuff. The only thing I can think of now is Laura's dream of Cooper in the lodge in FWWM and the TP finale.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)