I'm not ashamed to admit that as a 40-year-old man, I watched every episode of this series. Sure, it was a tween clone of "Lost," but in some ways it was the superior show. Why? Because (spoilers) at the end, they get rescued from the island; the audience wasn't left with bunch of unresolved story threads; and the writers didn't Deus Ex Machina their way out of a corner by making the island Purgatory when they explicitly claimed in the first season that it wasn't Purgatory. #NotStillBitterWellMaybeALittleAlso, why isn't Johnny Pacar a huge star by now?

Although they're meant for very different audiences, it's hard not to compare Flight 29 Down to Lost: both shows were filmed on the island of Oahu, both have characters with similar traits (for example, F29D's Taylor bears quite a bit of a resemblance to Lost's resident spoiled brat Shannon and Lex shares some of the qualities belonging to Lost's Locke and Sayid) and the general premise of each show is similar (people surviving a plane crash on a tropical island). With all of these similarities, there has been lots of discussion on whether or not F29D is a Lost rip-off and the fact that F29D began to air fairly soon after Lost (about 13 months later), certainly lends even more proof to back up this claim. Perhaps the creator of F29 D wanted to ride on the coattails of one of the biggest TV shows on the air? Having said all of that, F29D is a fairly enjoyable show for anyone who's into Disney and Nickelodeon shows like Hannah Montana, That's So Raven and Zoey 101. There's a fairly nice mix of action and comedy and the teen drama isn't too dark. I prefer the real Lost to this Disney-ized version, but for the kids and pre-teens, there should be enough here to keep them entertained until they're ready to graduate to the adult version.

I love this show it is SO great. people say its a cheap cut off of LOST but we all know its not. I love this show! Every that says it is coping off of LOST ha not around for a while. First what about Gilligan's island , survivors, the real Gilligan's island (the remake of the older version) and a-zillion others but no one pays attention to that. DO THEY? Anyway i like the video diaries heres way : 1)iget a close up of Corbin Bleu's face(aka Nathan) 2)It show how the character really feel. Some think that kids my age don't like the show i do because i seriously think that if me and 9 of my other classmates were strand on an island we'ed act the same way!

Flight 29 Down seems so familiar to me because I'm from Hawai'i and looking at where they filmed it reminds me on when I actually swum there. And I use to camp there with my family. It was great! Anyway as I watch the show I see how the director uses the beautiful landscape of Mokuleia. He could develop the story from just the place where the kids are stranded. And the story line is great. But what actually got me to watch was when I read the newspaper. It said a kids show filming. I found that Hawai'i shots a lot of shows and movies here and that it does make it feel real as if we were there. The actors must have had fun filming I mean even I find something new to do here. But I live here. So I hope that Flight 29 Down will last a long time before going off air.