Is Damon Lindelof Lost ?
By fred | July 16, 2007
As you may or may not know, but probably do if you like Lost, Damon Lindelof is the co-creator and head writer of the previously mentioned TV show. Yet that doesn’t stop him to take time to write about Harry Potter in the New York Times.
And of course, while mentioning Harry the good Lindelof can’t help himself but talk about his very own Lost. This is when thing gets pretty interesting…
See, to start on Harry, when Lindelof explains that he should die, I say : why do you care about how J. K. Rowling will end her story, and why do you not work on how the hell you’ll wrap up yours!??
Because seriously, let’s stop the praise here for a moment : there are still an awful lot of unanswered questions and mysteries in Lost, many of them we not only have any explanations for, but also not a clue as to how they will actually manage to explain them.
Sure, we all hope they know. But do they, really? Because the way they did that episode with Nicky and Paulo… Well I for one - and believe me when I say I’m not alone there - do worry and don’t appreciate at all how they tried to make us believe that they’ve been on the Island & on the show from day one when, obviously, this wasn’t the case ; and making Locke throwing a new line at her doesn’t make it right.
I’ve said it before, but to me it even makes it worst! Because I understand writers, back when writing season one, did not have all the plots that would go on during season one, two, three, and more. Obviously they made things up along the way, and some things were not planned.
We all accept that, but please please don’t go changing what really happened on previous episodes, trying to make us believe it was different so your new story makes sense.
That’s one thing J. K. Rowling never did, and when something happens to Harry it does stay that way. So instead of explaining what Lindelof would do on that story and why it is the way to do it, I wish he would focus a bit more on his show and story.
And also, when plugging in Lost on his essay about Harry Potter, Lindelof talked about how they just announced exactly when the shows grand finale would take place, in 48 episodes, and he then adds that “Shockingly, the pundits have already announced that they pre-hate it. The prevailing sentiment seems to be that our ending will be either too wacky to make sense or too anticlimactic to have justified the six seasons preceding it.”
Really? That was a shocker to me, as all I’ve heard or read about this announcement was nothing but praises. Praises for letting the writers go on and conclude the show when and how they wanted to do it, and not try to push it too far.
this is the second article i read on this blog, and honestly, I say this with all sincerity… you, my friend are an asshat… you have twice now, as far as i have seen, taken two pages to say what could have been said in one… and even then… you don’t seem to be saying much…
first off, i love your blogs on here & agree with a lot of what you say or atleast consider it before disagreeing.
however, i think that killing Charlie was a risk. & the biggest mistake since Nikki & Paulo, well, to me bigger. but the reason i see it as a mistake is because Charlie was a very popular & loved character, & even most of the haters changed their opinions of him after Greatest Hits, & killing him off pissed off a ton of people *like me* & some people have threatened to stop watching the show *mostly the Ringers* anyways, a lot of people are pissed at the writers & the show
Thanks.
Well, I never said Charlie wasn’t a beloved character or that people wouldn’t be sad to see him go, but I think pretty much everyone kinda expected him to die.
Like I said, “even though 8 out of 10 of us wanted Charlie to live, we knew in our hearts that he wouldn’t”, so the daring move was to go along with the crowd.
Thus, having him to say for a bit longer would have been a “bigger risk”.
That’s how I feel at least. And, I’ll admit too that i didn’t like his death at all, didn’t felt quite right to me…
BTW, as much as I love a character, I’m always thrilled when writers are able to kill him/her because they feel it’d be great/is required for the story, regardless of what the fans could say.
I’m not saying that i want to, but how cool would it be if they were to kill, say, Jack? No really, that’d be awesome I think.
(Besides, better have people pissed at writers because they dare do things no one else would have, and no one expected them to, than for poor writing…)