For Lost fans, Damon Lindelof has lengthy discussion of show
Damon Lindelof sat down with the Verge and had a lengthy interview about Lost, what it meant, the disappointment some fans felt with the ending, dealings with ABC, etc. It's a really informative, awesome interview for those that love or loved the show. The only thing is, the interviewer was under the impression they were dead the entire time. Lindelof is one patient guy explaining the ending to him.
I especially find what he said about the show never being called "Lost" because the castaways were physically lost, but because they were haunted by self-judgement, and were lost emotionally really well put. I never interpreted the title that way, but it makes sense.
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Everyone has there opinions on Lost but man do I ever enjoy Lindelof. He's got an incredible sense of humor and I really like him. Kudos to Lindelof for his patience with this interview to.
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Good stuff. Well, the interviewer could be a lot better, but interesting to hear Damon Lindelof talk about his 'baby'.
Also, if you want to know what LOST was about, just watch 15:30-16:10. THAT is a great summary of the show. Don't get me wrong, I still have a lot of issues with the show, but this summary helps explain it a bit.
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Thanks, I'll have to bookmark this somehow so I remember to go watch it. I'm actually just watching Lost now (now that it's on Netflix), just starting season 3.
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Thanks, I'll have to bookmark this somehow so I remember to go watch it. I'm actually just watching Lost now (now that it's on Netflix), just starting season 3.
The flashbacks of season 3 are awesome. They culminate into one of the very best reveals and scenes in all of Lost in the final episode.
Funny thing, if you put in season 1, season 2, etc., in Google, Lost is the first result for all of 'em.
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Thanks, I'll have to bookmark this somehow so I remember to go watch it. I'm actually just watching Lost now (now that it's on Netflix), just starting season 3.
You won't be disappointed with season 3. My favorite season of the show.
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I want to punch that interviewer in the face. He should focus less on looking like a complete ###### and focus more on not getting embarrassed while he's interviewing someone.
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I want to punch that interviewer in the face. He should focus less on looking like a complete ###### and focus more on not getting embarrassed while he's interviewing someone.
Poor Josh... I guess the skills needed to review the Galaxy S III don't transfer over the interpreting TV shows.
Poor Josh... I guess the skills needed to review the Galaxy S III don't transfer over the interpreting TV shows.
Josh needs to trim the 'stasch hair, when it curves into your mouth that's pretty nasty.
Lindelof was pretty great in this interview, loved his explanation about the difference between Lost and The Matrix. It seems like the shows been off the air a lot longer then 2 years.
I've changed my tune on the LOST finale, but I wish they'd go back and re-edit that show and drop about 40 episodes to clean it up.
Also, regardless of what Lindelof said, I liked the mythology, and I wanted to learn more about it. I also liked the characters and really appreciated the "reunion" scenes in the finale, but I still wanted to know the mysteries.
But it lost something for me when mythology and supernatural took over from improbable but demonstrably logical explanations (for example, the polar bear coming from the zoo)
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I will bookmark this. Just got into lost on netflix, only on season 2 now. Not sure how I never bothered watching when it was on. Tons of episodes on netfix, only about a hundred to go,
Sure like Lindelof says it had it's low points and filler episodes, but for a network show overall it was great. I was addicted to this show not for just the compelling storylines, but for the dynamic characters. You would be hard pressed to find a show with a better cast and variety of rich, complex characters.
Lindelof is also right that no matter what played out in the finale many people were going to be disappointed.
I didn't like most of season six, but the importance of a show is the journey and not the ending. That and if you throw away the happy/religious ending I did love the island sequence ending with the plane getting off the island while Jack lies dying on the ground. That was just perfect symmetry and that was the proper way to end that part of the show at least.
Lost is in my top five shows of all time, right up there with The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and The X-Files, which did actually had a worse ending (which wasn't even an ending); and did go the crappy movie route.
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Good interview that could have been great if the interviewer wasn't more focused on how clever he thinks his questions are than what his guest actually has to say about them.
My problem with the ending was it seemed self indulgent. For 6 years you tortured these people then you create a nice happy flash sideways world for what there lives could have been. To me that flash sideways is almost a cop out, that the writers wanted some happiness for the mains that they could never find on the island. For me it just didnt work.
I think there were much better options for the flash sideways but other than the flash sideways I did enjoy the Island part of the ending.
Its funny that i still have strong feelins that I could discuss the ending for hours
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This show was a perfect example of "How-not-to-write-a-TV-show"
But a pretty good example of how to create a fantastic cult following, win Emmys, and make a huge name for yourself. Oh, and still be passionately discussed years after the show ends.
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My problem with the ending was it seemed self indulgent. For 6 years you tortured these people then you create a nice happy flash sideways world for what there lives could have been. To me that flash sideways is almost a cop out, that the writers wanted some happiness for the mains that they could never find on the island. For me it just didnt work.
I think there were much better options for the flash sideways but other than the flash sideways I did enjoy the Island part of the ending.
Its funny that i still have strong feelins that I could discuss the ending for hours
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The flashsideways isn't what their lives could have been, it's what their lives were in this realm that they all created together after death, which also happened to be timeless (see the episode where Richard Alpert talks to his dead wife through Hurley, when she says he's already with her -- foreshadowing the reveal of what the flashsideways really is).
I don't think it was a particularly happy world they all created together, either. Not until the very end, at least, when they had all finally gained peace with themselves. Before that, everyone was tormented by not having come to terms with themselves or what happened on the Island. Jack had to create a mini-Jack, Locke still couldn't walk, Charlie was all spazzed out, Sawyer couldn't stop looking for something . . . and when they all finally passed on to whatever lay beyond, Ben still couldn't come to terms with what he did and go with them.
And for photon, etc., you probably don't want to read through all the comments in here . . . I notice some spoilers.
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For Lost fans, Damon Lindelof has lengthy discussion of show
