Official Lost Thread

[Basel]

I miss Lost.

[RollWithEm]

What if Lost was a 1980s point-and-click computer game?

[RollWithEm]

JORGE GARCIA would definitely consider a movie spin-off

Of course I'd have to consider it ... We'd have to see what the script is, but getting to shoot in Hawaii again is definitely something I would welcome.

Not really big news. It was interesting what he said about the plot of the series, though.

We did [try to figure it out] at the beginning, but then it just started getting so complex and in a way, we were too inside to be able to see big picture-y things, just doing the work of the show. We ended up just letting the audience do that part and seeing what they'd come up with.

I never really found it all that hard to follow.

[Gonzo]

It wasn't hard to follow, but I remember trying to figure stupid shit out rather than just watching and following the plot. When I go back and rewatch it, it's amazing how many references there are to purgatory in the first season.

[RollWithEm]

Originally Posted by Gonzo

it's amazing how many references there are to purgatory in the first season.

I don't remember them being that gratuitous.

[Gonzo]

Originally Posted by RollWithEm

I don't remember them being that gratuitous.

"See you in another life brotha" from Desmond, it's his saying, but I believe that it refers to the other life on the island. Although I guess that was in the first episode of Season 2.

Sun's dialogue of "Do you think that we're being punished for what we did before?"

[RollWithEm]

I figured those were references to reincarnation. Where did anyone mention purgatory?

[Gonzo]

Originally Posted by RollWithEm

I figured those were references to reincarnation. Where did anyone mention purgatory?

No one mentions purgatory specifically, but there are mentions to the island being some sort of afterlife, not directly but you can make the connection.

I remember thinking the island was a dream of Vincent or Hurley.

EDIT: bleh, I need to watch the last season again.

[RollWithEm]

Who'd have been Lost's leader if they'd killed Jack in the pilot?

At the center of the pilot would be two characters: Jack Shephard, a doctor who quickly falls into a leadership role among the castaways; and Kate Austen, a young woman whose fiancé had been in the back of the plane when the fuselage split in two, and who had no idea if he was alive or dead. In the vein of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (or even the pilot of Oz), they planned to pull the rug out from under the audience by killing Jack midway through the first episode, forcing Kate to take charge. After this sudden demise, viewers would realize no one was safe. Lindelof says Steve McPherson, then the head of the ABC studio, made a convincing counter-argument that it would teach viewers not to trust the show, and the writers ultimately agreed with him.

I think they made a good choice keeping him alive. He was the heart and soul of that show for a couple seasons.

Lindelof, Abrams, and then Cuse only knew a few broad strokes of the mythology in the early stages: that, for instance, the Oceanic passengers had been brought to the island for a reason, as part of some kind of battle between good and evil. (If the show wasn't a success and had to end after only one season, they would have built to a battle between the castaways and the monster.)

That's pretty much what I thought was going to happen when I first started watching.

The whole article on Grantland is here: http://blastr.com/2012/11/whod-have-been-losts-lead.php

[RollWithEm]