What if the Cast of “Lost” was Re-Arranged?

I’m going to bring you back to a simpler time. When our Losties were still all on the island. We’d never heard of Nikki or Paulo. There was a giant monster and you were pretty sure it was a dinosaur, or something huge and corporeal (unlike black smoke). And you knew there were dangerous Other’s but they were far more menacing when you’d never seen one and thought they might be island natives with disfigured faces and polar bear tails. Or something. (For anyone who is a little confused, I’m just saying - remember season one?)

Using that template of characters, I got to thinking about how the cast could be re-arranged. Mind you, not ‘why’ - because I don’t know any good reason to re-arranged the roles, I just think it might be fun to experiment. (Every hormonal teenage guy totally just took that sentence wrong.) If you have other combinations, leave a comment and let me know. How strange can we make it? Well, who knows!

Jack Shepard: Currently played by Matthew Fox. How about… Josh Holloway (Sawyer)? It’s a little obvious, since they’re foils and all - but hear me out. If you took Josh and started him out with shorter hair, and a more clean shaven look - and he read Jack’s lines, and acted with the moral superiority complex, he could so be Jack! And - presto chango, Matthew Fox could play Sawyer. Can’t picture this? Have you ever seen season one or two of Party of Five? He was a slacker-type with longer hair (just imagine it less poofy). Now, who should be his leading lady?

Kate Austen: Currently played by Evangeline Lilly. How about… Emilie de Ravin (Claire)? This should be pretty easy to picture if you ever watched Roswell. On that show Emilie played Tess Harding, who ended up being pretty evil. Emilie can play a mischievous person well. She could dye her hair if that was needed.

Shannon Rutherford: Was played by Maggie Grace. How about…Yunjin Kim (Sun)? Pretend she speaks only English (and a little bit of French)! She could be snobby and have bad taste in men.

Okay. So I didn’t get too crazy. It’s not like I said that Terry O’Quinn should play Vincent the dog. That would be a stretch. But the possibilities are there. What do you think?

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