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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 commen
by swolchok 17y ago
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.”
- timdorr 17y agoThe 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.
- TomOfTTB 17y agoIf I may ask why on earth would you read an eight page article on a show that you've never seen?
- swolchok 17y agoI have a few friends who watch it, and someone told me to watch it once upon a time. Reading a flashy, well-written 8-page article at my leisure seemed like a much quicker way to find out what all the fuss was about than actually watching a 6-season show.