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The act of writing a long and interesting story with many mysteries, which, due to the story's complexity, attracts many fans, but then continues to stall, prolong, postpone, or flat-out ignores the answers to the story's questions, thus essentially jerking around the loyal fans.
This word comes from the TV show "Lost" on ABC, but can describe any story which follows the definition, such as the the videogame "Half-Life 2", or the manga, "Bleach".
There are two main reasons why a story is "losting". The first is that the writers are not creative enough to come up with an answer to the questions posed that can meet the fans expectations, and thus try to pretend that the questions never existed. The second is that, due to marketing pressures, the writers are forced to continue a story longer than they have ever anticipated, and thus are forbidden from giving away any answers indefinitely. The second method may be referred to as "Milking the Cash-Cow".
A quick way to spot if a story is losting is to look for a situation in which an answer to a story's various questions can simply and easily be answered, only for the story to not do so. Here are a few examples:
1) Lost:
After spending an entire season building up the suspense and mystery of the Island's native inhabitants, known as the "Others", one of the survivors of the plane-crash comes face-to-face with an "Other". The survivor asks "Who are you people?", to which the "Other" replies, "It doesn't matter who we are", thus effectively telling all the loyal fans who cared about this storyline to go screw themselves.
2)Half-Life 2:
In the first Half-Life, you play through the eyes of Gordon Freeman, and thus are purposely not told the answers to many mysteries in order to obtain the illusion that the player is just as confused as anyone else is in the story after an alien-invasion takes place.
However, ten years later, during Half-Life 2, you are surrounded by dozens of friendly characters who all know exactly what happened during the events of the first Half-Life. Despite this, no answers are given, leaving fans to read separate books and searching for hidden audio files within the games to fill in the blanks to the story.
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A verb. The act of watching the show LOST, either one episode, or a marathon.
John: What are you doing on Saturday?
Kat: I will be LOSTing. I just bought all the seasons!
MSN or Facebook status every Wednesday night: "______ is LOSTing"
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The person who has seen every single episode of the hit TV show LOST sometimes can't even describe what is happening on the show to a person who never watches it. This is usually because they do not understand everything that has happened, even though they are experts.
A: "So let me get this right...You've seen all 4 seasons and you can tell me what happening."
B: "Ummmm. No. Sorry."
A: "You are so Lost on LOST."
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A term used when you start laughing like crazy at some part of a video/game/etc.
*watches a video*
*"How about we don't pay the bills? YOLO bitches"*
*laughs*
I fucking lost it
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The name of a popular television program on the ABC channel in early 2005. Follows a group of people who survived a plane crash while flying on an Oceanic Airlines flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles. They try to survive on the island and encounter lots of odd things, including an invisible monster that may be able to communicate with the survivors, polar bears, a crazy woman who was part of a resarch team that was slaughtered on the island, a mysterious "black rock", strange voices, and more. The survivors also have to deal with problems faced within their camp, including the well-being of a woman who is pregnant, the hidden motives of a man named John Locke, and the communication barrer that exists between the survivors and a Korean couple who can't speak English. The show currently airs Wednesday at 9:00 EST on the ABC network.
John Locke: "You see this little hole? This moth's just about to emerge. It's in there right now, sturggling. It's digging it's way through the thick hide of the cocoon. Now, I could help it - take my knife, gently widen the opening, and the moth would be free - but it would be too weak to survive. Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it."
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The greatest show on ABC!
Did you watch Lost last Wednesday?
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1: The TV show.
2: The cast of "Lost".
3: Your state of mind after watching "Lost"
4: Not knowing where you are.
1: Lets go watch Lost!
2: "Where are we? Are we lost? Why are these people attacking us? Why did our plane crash? Hey! that guy was dead! What?! Why? Where? How? WHEN?"
3: "What just happened?
4: "I took a right turn and then a left turn at the dirt road." "No, you took 2 left turns, and that was a brick road." "Great! Now we're lost."
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