Lost Narrative Chart
The idea behind a narrative chart for a TV show, movie (or any other story) is to plot a character's location on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal.
Randall Monroe at xkcd created what I believe to be the first charts of this kind. Check those out for sure because the LotR and Star Wars charts are very impressive and are the inspiration for this project.
My goal here is to create a similar chart for the entirety of Lost. As of right now I am just about done with season 1 and you can see that chart below.
I have been watching through each episode of Lost and drawing the chart on an iPad using Adobe Ideas. The end result will have important events marked on the chart with numbers that match up with a list of descriptions. I'll probably create 2 versions, one with characters' names labelled everywhere and one without.
Take a look at the season 1 chart below. Only includes the front half of the plane right now. Click for full resolution.
Below are all of the events covered in the Season 1 chart.
- Plane crash
- Jack, Kate, Charlie go to the cockpit
- Rouseau's message is heard on the radio
- Jack kills the US marshall
- Boar hunting for the first time
- Kate and Michael encounter the monster
- Locke sees the monster
- Jack sees the monster as his father
- Monster leads Jack in to the jungle
- Monster leads Jack to the caves
- First trip to the caves, find "Adam and Eve"
- First group moves to the caves
- Jack gets supplies
- Kate and Sayid leave to place antennaes
- Caves cave in on Jack
- Sawyer finds Kate to tell her about jack
- Sayid leaves to place his antenna
- Kate goes to see if Jack is okay
- Sayid gets knocked out
- Sawyer beats up Boone
- Jack confronts Sawyer for inhalers
- Charlie asks Hurley for peanut butter
- Sayid and Jack torture Sawyer
- Sayid leaves to "map the island"
- Claire and Charlie move to the caves
- Danielle captures Sayid
- First sign of Ethan at the caves
- Golf
- Sayid hears whispers
- Claire attacked at night
- Hurley talks to Ethan
- Claire leaves for "safer" beach
- Sayid returns
- Hugo reveals that Ethan was not on the flight
- Jack and Locke run off after Ethan, Charlie, Claire
- Kate, Boone, Locke join Jack in the search
- Ethan confronts Jack, Jack and Kate find Charlie
- Locke and Boone fInd the hatch
- Fuselage is washing away
- Locke knocks out Boone
- Boone hallucinates the monster killing Shannon
- Walt runs off
- Walt attacked by polar bear
- Claire returns
- Ethan knocks out Jin and confronts Charlie
- Vincent trips the alarm meant for Ethan and Ethan attacks
- Charlie kills Ethan
- Sawyer hears whispers
- Charlie and Hugo start burrying Ethan
- Walt burns raft
- Sun speaks english
- Hugo reads the numbers on Danielle's map
- Hugo leaves to find Danielle
- Hugo talks to Danielle about the numbers
- Locke and Boone try the trebuchet
- Locke dreams about the plane crash
- Lock and Boone find the crashed plane
- Plane falls with Boone in it
- The hatch window lights up for Locke
- Claire goes in to labor
- Shannon and Sayid spend time together alone
- Claire gives birth to Aaron
- Boone dies
- Boone gets buried
- Locke tells Sayid about hitting him on the head
- Jack sees the hatch for the first time
- Sun poisons Michael
- Walt tells Locke not to open "that thing"
- Danielle comes to the beach to warn that the others are coming
- The survivors see the black smoke from the others
- Sawyer tells Jack that he met his father
- First trip to the black rock
- Raft is launched
- Arzt explodes while handling the dynamite
- Danielle takes Aaron
- Charlie finds out that the plane was loaded with heroine
- Locke almost gets pulled in to a hole by the smoke monster, Kate throws in dynamite
- The hatch is blown open
- Michael shoots the only flare
- Walt abducted by Tom