Television Lost: The Final Season

Mockney said:
Looking into it too deeply...There was no plan when making the pilot...they've admitted that many times. The only ambition was to get a full series out of it.
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Infact as it is commonly known now, writers wanted to kill Jack in the pilot itself, the network people advised them to keep him.
 
Kinda spoiler regarding the other half of the outrigger scene (It's not who it involves or any deaths or whatever)

It's not happening.

Q: Okay, finally, I have to ask, simply because it's been driving me nuts for a year and a half: what's going on with showing the other half of the outrigger shootout?


CC: The outrigger shootout is not something we're bending around in gyrations so we can solve it. In the grand scheme of the show, that is a fairly obscure piece of the show. It is your particular obsession...


DL: ...and you're not alone in it.


CC: You're not alone in it. And yes, it would have been great if we had had the opportunity to close the time loop. But you can't get everything done and keeping the narrative going in a straight line. This is one of those things where we made a very conscious choice to ask, "What are the big questions? And most importantly, what are the paths of these characters? Where do they lead?" And we followed those paths and tried not to trip ourselves up getting too diverted from that. We felt that that's the thing that's ultimately going to make the finale work or not work. We got to the point where we made the finale we wanted to make, that was our approach, and I think it was the only approach we could take. We sat here in my office, had breakfast every day for six years, talked about the show, and we used this gut check methodology, where if we both loved something and thought it was cool, that would go in. We applied that same methodology to the finale, and that was the only way we could do it. We came up with a finale that we thought was cool, that was emotional and one we really liked. That's the best we could do.


DL: When we wrote that scene and somebody started shooting at them, we knew exactly who was shooting at them. That is not a dangling thread that we don't know the answer to. That being said, as we started talking about paying that off this season, it felt like the episode was at the service of closing the time loop, as opposed to what the characters might actually be doing in that scenario. It never felt organic. We decided we would rather take our lumps from the people who couldn't scratch that itch than to produce an episode that was in service of putting people in an outrigger and getting shot at.

Q: You put people in a lot of outriggers this season. It feels, frankly, like you're taunting me.


DL: We can't entirely deny that we're taunting you.


CC: Honestly, though, the logistics of getting all the participants in the outriggers in the configuration that was on the A-side of the time loop was actually really daunting.


DL: Considering half of them had been killed off


CC: It's not like we didn't want to do it. Like Damon says, it was just too much of a narrative deviation to do it.

To me, that kinda sucks. One, it means that as recently as one season ago, the writers still didn’t actually have the ending of Lost plotted out well enough to actually get to the tail end of storylines they were introducing at the time. Unlike The Woman and Anti-Jacob, that’s poor project management. It’s also a little frustrating that they had plenty of episodes earlier this season to carry out the conclusion to this scene (honestly, are there any characters that haven’t been on Outriggers at one point this season?), but chose not to because they were afraid to “pull the trigger” (pun!) and potentially kill off a main character before the very end of the season.
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Solius said:
Kinda spoiler regarding the other half of the outrigger scene (It's not who it involves or any deaths or whatever)

It's not happening.
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That's bullshit. Imagine what this show could have been if they put in some real long term planning into it. Their far too many mysteries they've created and then realised their not going to fit in with the show.

I love how they just joke about the whole Jack saying Adam and Eve were 40-50 years old as well.
 
He's chilling with Rose and Bernard.

Watching that promo made me think of something, the bit where John says hes looked into the eye of island and it being beautifal etc, (well it most likely isnt due to what locke seeing coming out of the trees and in the jungle rather than a river) but what if he saw and found the light?

Or maybe he wasnt actually reffering to the thing that came out of trees, maybe he explored further after this and came accross the light? My memory is a little vague on the first 2 seasons as i havnt re watched in a while but doesnt he also mention a bright white light? (Though of course our light is more yellowish)

Just a random thought.
 
Xander45 said:
The only light i remember mentioned in the earlier series is the hatch.
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From LP

Locke was also the first survivor to see the Monster; he was out tracking boar with Michael and Kate, when it seemed to be closing in on him. The confrontation is presented from the viewpoint of the Monster. Locke later told Jack: "I looked into the eye of this Island, and what I saw... was beautiful." ("White Rabbit") He later described the "Monster" as a "bright light" to Eko, who only replied curtly "that is not what I saw". As a result of this incident, Locke came to think of the Island as an entity unto itself with a plan for them all. This account of seeing the Monster seems to be similar to what would later be seen between Juliet and the Monster. ("Walkabout")
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Looking forward to some more of Mr. Hume in the next episode. Since Jack knows where he is now.
 
quick question...

has mr eko appeared in the flash sideways yet?
if yes what happened (i must have missed it cos i just dont remember seeing him
or if he has not been in it yet does anybody know if he is scheduled to appear
 
No he hasn't, if I remember correctly the actor asked to leave the show so I doubt he'll be coming back.
 
The writers had bigger plans for him for the entire series but since he wanted to go they had to kill him off.
 
The Flying Potato said:
He didnt want to go iirc, he was one of three to be kicked off the show after getting DUI's
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Nah thats not correct.

His father passed away close to him leaving the show and he had some personal acting projects to undertake, no idea whether this is true but that was the reason given and they certainly wouldn't have dropped such a fan favourite for a simple DUI.

Anna lucia on the other hand...............................................
 
Libby also wasn't kicked off for her DUI, she was killed for emotional impact because the writers didn't think Ana-Lucia was likable enough for it to just be her getting shot by Michael.
 
Not sure if this has been posted before but thought this was quality.

 
101 said:
Which episode was that scene with Christian and Vincent from??
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It's from one of the Missing Pieces extra scenes.

Pretty fun to watch all that thrown together as one, hadn't seen it before.
 
Which death affected everyone the most so far in the series?

For me it was Charlie :(

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So the finale is tonight? what time does it air english time for some streamage!
 
Didn't actually know the final episode was on Sunday, awesome stuff! Less time to wait for my last ever Lost fix.
 
I've only just realised the Finale is this Sunday. This time next week it'll all be over, done, dusted and deconstructed. Weird.
 
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