Any science fiction episodes in Lost?

[sojourner]

I hope some day the writer's bible for the series comes out. And that it explains some of the background.

 

[Sindatur]

Time travel and teleportation is not SF?

Not if they're achieved by 'magic' rather than science.

You mean technobabble.

Not really true, Daniel and his mom were spouting it all the time.

Then I question whether they were watching the same show that I was.

To be fair, it was repeatedly promised, there was a normal science explanation for everything.

When? Nobody ever promised anything about the resolution, except that 1) it wasn't a dream, and 2) they weren't dead all along.

Actually there was a boatload more promises than that, but, I don't want to derail the thread further. Look up Damon and Carlton interviews from practically the beginning, and you'll see lots of promises of everything having an answer, no questions are asked before they know the answers, etc.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Nothing with robots or space craft, but there's time travel, teleportation, ghosts, telekinesis, supernatural entities... it's basically a fantasy not a sci-fi.

Time travel and teleportation is not SF?

It's all the same thing - science fiction is a subgenre of fantasy. Lost is no more or less "science fiction" than Star Trek, which featured some pretty preposterous notions from time to time. It's just that if a series includes certain elements - say, a spaceship as a primary setting or aliens from another world - it's more likely to get automatically classified as science fiction without further examination.