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As Lost Ends, Creators Explain How They Did It, What’s Going On

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Re: As Lost Ends, Creators Explain How They Did It, What’s Going On

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Post by puredemo »

defen wrote: post #3

I like that they admit they're just not going to explain certain things. I wish they had told me this six years ago - would have saved me about 200 hours of my life.

I was so bitter from the BSG finale I never watched Lost. Woohoo!

Re: As Lost Ends, Creators Explain How They Did It, What’s Going On

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Post by _cbsz »

I have never seen the show, but I think they tipped their hand, given 1) the existence of the continuity czar that began after the show started, 2) their commentary about figuring out the best way to run the show by watching the show, and 3) the explicit acknowledgement that they may have been making it all up as they went along:

    Locke is now the voice of a very large subset of the
    audience who believes that when Lost is all said and
    done, we will have wasted six years of our lives, that we
    were making it up as we went along, and that there’s
    really no purpose. And Jack is now saying, “the only 
    thing I have left to cling to is that there’s got to be 
    something really cool that’s going to happen, because I 
    have really, really fucking suffered.”

Re: As Lost Ends, Creators Explain How They Did It, What’s Going On

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Post by timdorr »

_cbsz wrote: post #6

I have never seen the show, but I think they tipped their hand, given 1) the existence of the continuity czar that began after the show started , 2) their commentary about figuring out the best way to run the show by watching the show , and 3) the explicit acknowledgement that they may have been making it all up as they went along: Locke is now the voice of a very large subset of the audience who believes that when L…

The were making it up in the beginning because a) they didn't know how long the show would be on for/when it would end b) the core of the show has always been known, but the stuff in the middle can be whatever is needed to keep the story going. They created a series of story arcs in the beginning that weren't truly important to the core story, so they could be made up. The continuity czar was brought on to keep those storylines going and from tripping over each other because of the web that was getting more and more complex to maintain.

Re: As Lost Ends, Creators Explain How They Did It, What’s Going On

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Post by TomOfTTB »

_cbsz wrote: post #6

I have never seen the show, but I think they tipped their hand, given 1) the existence of the continuity czar that began after the show started , 2) their commentary about figuring out the best way to run the show by watching the show , and 3) the explicit acknowledgement that they may have been making it all up as they went along: Locke is now the voice of a very large subset of the audience who believes that when L…

If I may ask why on earth would you read an eight page article on a show that you've never seen?

Re: As Lost Ends, Creators Explain How They Did It, What’s Going On

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Post by pak »

It's going to bellyflop. At this point there is no way you can satisfy the questions people have.

In some ways I always felt Lost was the TV version of a pyramid scheme: resolve one mystery, create two more, repeat. I gave up myself when mysteries started getting resolved by papering things over with outright mysticism -- "that's the way it is in this world" or the magic science approach, if you will, which totally turns me off. When the show was just about the Dharma initiative, or even the Others, both artifacts of a lost civilization and grounded in human decisionmaking and anthropology, I was more intrigued. I had to pack my bags around the third season.

Re: As Lost Ends, Creators Explain How They Did It, What’s Going On

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Post by TomOfTTB »

puredemo wrote: post #4
defen wrote: post #3

I like that they admit they're just not going to explain certain things. I wish they had told me this six years ago - would have saved me about 200 hours of my life.

I was so bitter from the BSG finale I never watched Lost. Woohoo!

When battlestar ended Lost was already halfway through its fifth season so that really doesn't make much sense
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