Lost: Season Six - Page 64

 

 

 

 

btw there's a pretty good Damon Lindelof audio interview on the latest "Kevin Pollak's Chat Show" podcast, it's 2.5 hours long. 

 

 

Thanks for the tip. I listened to it. Just a warning to folks: you know how talk radio personalities have to kill time by talking about nothing, or maybe musing about sports with a fellow personality? That doesn't have to occur on podcasts because there's no time to kill. But Kevin Pollack does it anyway. So be warned, there's a whole lot of crap before Lindelof finally appears.

Lindelof was a great interview. He doesn't exactly admit that Lost had a bad ending, but he does say he was forced to consider that as a possibility for the first time, when a person he respected said it did.

He also says that they (he and his fellow producer) only worked the show out in advance to the point where the Losties returned to the island. (Which maybe explains -- this is my opinion, not what he said -- why everything from that moment onward was a cluster-frag.)

As a Lost fan, I always knew that JJ Abrahms had very little to do with the show, but I didn't know anything about the real showrunner, Damon Lindelof. This interview corrects that over a course of 2+ hours. Well worth hearing.

It is also a video, so you could watch it instead of just listening -- but really all you need to know is that the interviewer is one of the actors from the Usual Suspects, and he wears a hat. And Lindelof is cool looking and dresses down.

http://www.kevinpollakschatshow.com/archive/?cat=304

 

Lindelof veered between fairly evenhanded about 'you can hate the ending and still be a fan,' and presumptive with the 'if you hated the ending, you probably skipped from season 2 to the last couple of episodes.' But Pollack had my blood boiling with the 'you met your own expectations, and that's all you need to worry about as a writer, and if you haven't actually written a television show and got it on the air, I don't give a shit about your opinion of my show.'

It was a great interview. I liked hearing about the genesis of Lost all in one shot. I think I had heard some bits and pieces elsewhere.