“Lost” at PALEYFEST on March 16, 2014. Ten years after the 2004 premiere of the eye-opening pilot: We have to go back! ABC’s “Lost” evolved into one of TV’s great “myth arc” shows and endures first and foremost because of its deeply flawed yet ultimately heroic characters: Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Locke, and all the other poor lost souls who survived the crash of Oceanic Flight 815.