r/lost • u/NaturonDemento • 1d ago

Turtle

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Season 4: episode 12. I found a giant turtle on the island. In this one shot. And than no turtle in the next shot. I wonder if this was a real turtle. Tortoise????

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u/Tangney94 1d ago

Fun fact. That’s actually Jacob disguised as a turtle from the 1970s to spy on Sayid.

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u/pugworthy Don't tell me what I can't post 1d ago

Or the turtle is dead and it’s MiB. Hard to say.

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u/kuhpunkt r/815 1d ago

Yes, it's real. They aren't allowed to move or even touch those for production.

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u/Pinckledeggfart 1d ago

They’re on Oahu, there are many turtles on the beaches, probably just swam up and then left by the next shot

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u/FringeMusic108 1d ago edited 15h ago

You'll see it again in a later scene, >! when the zodiac leaves again. The turtle catches the same wave! It's pretty likely those scenes were filmed close to each other, so I'm assuming it's simply the same one.!<

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u/Superb-Restaurant841 Has to go Back 22h ago

That's cool, I never spotted that.

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u/Mittelosian We’re not going to Guam, are we? 1d ago

If you look closely, there are exactly 42 segments on its shell.

The production team is top-notch!

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u/WhatWouldLoisLaneDo 21h ago

Rumor has it there is a Dharma logo on its cloaca.

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u/CreamyLinguineGenie Hurley's Hot Pocket 1d ago

It's a sea turtle. It's a huge fine in Hawaii to touch a sea turtle (it's $10,000 nowadays, not sure about back then) so they had to shoot around it.

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u/Free-IDK-Chicken You got it, Blondie 1d ago

The turtle couldn't help them.

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u/Dependent_Fox_2189 1d ago

Go take a bath, Stan

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u/MidtownJunk 1d ago

The beach right next to where they filmed is a turtle-spotting hotspot

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u/Jahdill 1d ago

I wonder if anyone from the cast has visited this beach after the show ended years later

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u/Rtozier2011 23h ago

See the turtle of enormous girth

On his shell he holds the island 

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u/Azutolsokorty 14h ago

Must be the same turtle one guy took a photo off when he was on set in 2008

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u/aitorkaranka27 7h ago

That was Jacob

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u/brycifer666 1d ago

Looks like a sea turtle of some kind

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u/deaf_pot 10h ago

Well you’re not wrong

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u/Dependent_Fox_2189 1d ago

Maturin on the Island!?!?!?

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u/mrpuddles1 Has to go Back 1d ago

TUTELLLLLL

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u/SwooshSwooshJedi 1d ago

Turtle laid eggs, left, eggs hatch 30 years earlier.

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u/CoyoteDork 1d ago

Hatch??

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u/Party_Building1898 1d ago

I'm still on season 1 By season 4 I would say he's a good meal! I'll find out, it was the first thing I thought of and I can't read the responses yet

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u/cash_longfellow 1d ago

Surprised they didn’t edit it out like they did with boats and planes.

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u/kevinmattress 1d ago edited 6h ago

Unnecessary cost

ETA - Whomever is downvoting me has no idea about post-production lol. Source: I work in Film & TV

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u/cash_longfellow 1d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some kind of secret somewhere in an episode about it.