warn for those of you who have not see this movie yet and this comment contain major spoiler . give the small number of people who have rat this movie and i must conclude that this mini series be not well know at all and but the people who have see it may be interested in what i be go to point out represent i saw it in december 2004 and that be to say 6 month before lose be air on tv in western europe . have greatly enjoy it and i couldn not help think that lose remind me of something and and it do not take me a long time to figure out of what represent tribe . the similarity between the two series be quite obvious represent first of all and in both series . a brutal event ( an airplane crash in lose and a hijacked boat intribe ) and leave a group of very different people strand on an island while second and these people and despite their very different personality and be force to organize themselves in order to live together and and this can not be without some conflict while other element be also common to the two series represent the island on which both tribe be strand on contains some trap and there be also the bad one ( the others about whom the survivor in lose be warn about by the french woman in season 1 and and the bad encounter that the group of people who leave the island on the raft make be obviously similar to the sea pirate return to the island in tribe and etc . etc . ) and the name of one of the major character in both tribe and lose be . jack . strange and isn not it . i therefore highly suspect that the creator of lost may have be inspire by tribe and even if i can not prove it at all . however and give the so high number of similarity ( there be others that would be too long to enumerate ) and i can not believe that all this be pure coincidence .