Post by xbox360owner on May 7, 2007 19:54:11 GMT -1
From www.thetailsection.com/lost-news/breaking-news-lost-to-end-in-2.php....
Thanks to Doc Jensen for the heads up. USAToday has reported that LOST will end in 2010 after three more sixteen episode seasons. And yes, to answer the first question that came to your mind, this does mean longer hiatuses. Here are the details.
The end is in sight for ABC's acclaimed island mystery Lost, but fans will have to wait until 2010 for all the answers.
In a highly unusual move, the network announced plans today to end the show after three more shortened seasons of 16 episodes each. The episodes will air consecutively, repeat-free, from February to May.
ABC's bold step marks a response to the show's producers, who have been eager to set a finish line to better plot out their convoluted mystery of plane-crash survivors and to placate fans who are frustrated that the show seemed to be vamping its way to a conclusion.
"Among fans there was an unease that they were making an investment in a show that's complicated without any sense of where that's going to lead them," co-creator Damon Lindelof said in an exclusive interview. "From the very beginning, fans and even critics have been saying, 'Are you making it up as you go along?' " which was "a legitimate question."
That's four months on, eight off, for those keeping track. Before you go ballistic, hear me out. This is a very very good thing.
I Love the arrangement for a lot of reasons. Growing up in the Star Wars generation we waited almost four years between films for a meager couple of hours worth of story; waiting eight months for sixteen hours worth of story is a piece of cake in comparison. Besides, the point here is that the writers now have their canvas; from this day forward not a single line of script will be written for the purpose of putting off or slowing down the plot advancement. I think we got just the slightest taste of that during the second leg of Season Three; I fully expect Season Four to be the event of a life time for us LOST fans, and the best part is it will be the first of three. Totally stoked here folks.
This elevates LOST to the status that it deserves to be; LOST has always been larger than Television. This is a statement to the truth of that, this story and its fans have bent the will of this gigantic network to forge a unique playing field for this story. This is historic. If you're not ready to embrace it now, at least wait until you see the fourth season and the kind of focused story telling it will bring before you make judgment.
I will bet money that we are going to get more story out of 16 episodes written with a clear endpoint in mind than we got out of a full season written with nothing but uncertainty and the constant need too keep from revealing too much of the end game. The trade off is in our favor in the long run.
I know it's hard to grasp, but if it helps you, think of it like this: LOST will be concluded with a trilogy of sixteen hour chapters. There is no precedent for that on television, or in the cinema, period. This is historic. We should be very proud that these guys have accomplished this. LOST is going to get a conclusion that will be beyond our wildest dreams.
On a personal note, I think Damon Lindelof is far too accommodating to fans by granting the question of "Are they making it up as they go along?" legitimacy. There is no quantum plane in story telling where the entire journey can be seen from beginning to end before it is written. The cries of "where do they come up with this stuff? They must be making it up as they go along!" for me were symptoms of too much "T.J. Hooker" and not enough "Twilight Zone," let alone "The Prisoner," in one's pop culture diet. It's a funny time we live in when a detailed and challenging story brings forth cynical masses demanding to see the Emperor's wardrobe.
God bless ya Damon, you are indeed a diplomat. I don't think I could contain my sarcasm at such a ludicrous suggestion; at the very least I'd drive them even more insane by saying "Yeah we have it written, but we're thinking about changing it... we'll see what happens." Enough uncertainty to make the average myopic's head explode.
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I like the idea for an end date; that way they can draw out the series nicely instead of lagging some because they don't know how long to make the series....
Bad move for ABC now, if this show goes downhill they are stuck with it...
Thanks to Doc Jensen for the heads up. USAToday has reported that LOST will end in 2010 after three more sixteen episode seasons. And yes, to answer the first question that came to your mind, this does mean longer hiatuses. Here are the details.
The end is in sight for ABC's acclaimed island mystery Lost, but fans will have to wait until 2010 for all the answers.
In a highly unusual move, the network announced plans today to end the show after three more shortened seasons of 16 episodes each. The episodes will air consecutively, repeat-free, from February to May.
ABC's bold step marks a response to the show's producers, who have been eager to set a finish line to better plot out their convoluted mystery of plane-crash survivors and to placate fans who are frustrated that the show seemed to be vamping its way to a conclusion.
"Among fans there was an unease that they were making an investment in a show that's complicated without any sense of where that's going to lead them," co-creator Damon Lindelof said in an exclusive interview. "From the very beginning, fans and even critics have been saying, 'Are you making it up as you go along?' " which was "a legitimate question."
That's four months on, eight off, for those keeping track. Before you go ballistic, hear me out. This is a very very good thing.
I Love the arrangement for a lot of reasons. Growing up in the Star Wars generation we waited almost four years between films for a meager couple of hours worth of story; waiting eight months for sixteen hours worth of story is a piece of cake in comparison. Besides, the point here is that the writers now have their canvas; from this day forward not a single line of script will be written for the purpose of putting off or slowing down the plot advancement. I think we got just the slightest taste of that during the second leg of Season Three; I fully expect Season Four to be the event of a life time for us LOST fans, and the best part is it will be the first of three. Totally stoked here folks.
This elevates LOST to the status that it deserves to be; LOST has always been larger than Television. This is a statement to the truth of that, this story and its fans have bent the will of this gigantic network to forge a unique playing field for this story. This is historic. If you're not ready to embrace it now, at least wait until you see the fourth season and the kind of focused story telling it will bring before you make judgment.
I will bet money that we are going to get more story out of 16 episodes written with a clear endpoint in mind than we got out of a full season written with nothing but uncertainty and the constant need too keep from revealing too much of the end game. The trade off is in our favor in the long run.
I know it's hard to grasp, but if it helps you, think of it like this: LOST will be concluded with a trilogy of sixteen hour chapters. There is no precedent for that on television, or in the cinema, period. This is historic. We should be very proud that these guys have accomplished this. LOST is going to get a conclusion that will be beyond our wildest dreams.
On a personal note, I think Damon Lindelof is far too accommodating to fans by granting the question of "Are they making it up as they go along?" legitimacy. There is no quantum plane in story telling where the entire journey can be seen from beginning to end before it is written. The cries of "where do they come up with this stuff? They must be making it up as they go along!" for me were symptoms of too much "T.J. Hooker" and not enough "Twilight Zone," let alone "The Prisoner," in one's pop culture diet. It's a funny time we live in when a detailed and challenging story brings forth cynical masses demanding to see the Emperor's wardrobe.
God bless ya Damon, you are indeed a diplomat. I don't think I could contain my sarcasm at such a ludicrous suggestion; at the very least I'd drive them even more insane by saying "Yeah we have it written, but we're thinking about changing it... we'll see what happens." Enough uncertainty to make the average myopic's head explode.
.......................................................................................
I like the idea for an end date; that way they can draw out the series nicely instead of lagging some because they don't know how long to make the series....
Bad move for ABC now, if this show goes downhill they are stuck with it...
