Lost half a season ?
By fred | November 6, 2007
As I’ve said before, should the strike last the long awaited new season of Lost will be affected, as they only have 8 episodes done (and ready to air).
If such events were to happen, what would be best ? What would you like better : to wait longer but get your full uninterrupted 16 episodes long season, as promised, or to get the first 8 already done, then have to wait who knows how long before seeing the end of it ?
I for one, as I expressed before, wishes ABC would hold on and only air the season once completed. Unfortunately, in such case they seem more willing to air what they got, given that the competition might be almost inexistent. But how does producers of the show feels ?
It’s not new that splitting a season in two is a mistake. It’s happened to lots of shows in the past, Jericho almost died from it, and closer to home last season of Lost stopped after 6 episodes, and we all hated it. Hence the decision to air the remaining seasons 24-style.
Just because there’s a strike doesn’t mean any of this changed, and even if there’s a cliffhanger at the end of the 8th episode, I wish we would get the season as it was originally intended, and as we were promised.
Executive producer Carlton Cuse seems to agree here : “It will feel like buying a Harry Potter book, reading half of it, and then having to put it down for many months.”
The season already had some two-half structure to it, as he explained : “There is a cliffhanger at the end of the eighth episode. It will only be frustrating for viewers to have to step away from the show and not see the second half of the season.
The first half of the season, like a good novel, sets all the events of the show in motion and the second half deals with the consequences. We’re very proud of the first eight but it feels weird to have to stop literally mid-stream.
“Let’s hope we won’t have to. And I don’t just mean for ABC to change their minds, I mean for them not to have to : give the writers what they want, and should have, let’s end the strike already!
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