Damon Lindelof on Lost — On The Verge
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Damon Lindelof talks about his time writing and producing Lost, the polarizing ending, and the show’s legacy.
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“You have books like the Game of Thrones” that will go on and on.“
Oh, my sweet summer child.
Two things.
1. People who usually don’t like the finale don’t understand it, exhibit A as seen here.
2. People love to say “it doesn’t answer all my questions” as a fan who has deep dived into the lore, there is only a handful of questions that aren’t answered. You have to dig deep into the supplementals such as novels, ARGs, Podcasts, Interviews, Books and so on. So really the statement should be “the answers are hidden in the supplementals and I can’t be arsed to look.”
I give credit to the interviewer for having the guts to challenge his subject (Damon) because most interviewers would usually just nod their head and agree with everything, but it’s the way he did it that frustrated me. He obviously wanted to establish that he was the smartest person in the room. He obviously wasn’t. I thought the writers of Lost crafted and weaved a very clever story. I thought the writers made some nice adjustments when they had to because of the stipulations put on them by the network execs, including not giving the writers a definitive end date until three seasons into the show. Kudos to Damon and Carlton for keeping things on track during the adversities. LOST is my favorite show of all time. ❓✈️❔ 🏝️ ❓🥥❔☀️❓🌊❔🦮❓🕰️❔⛴️❓🧨❔4️⃣❓8️⃣❔1️⃣5️⃣❓1️⃣6️⃣❔2️⃣3️⃣❓4️⃣2️⃣❔⌨️EXECUTE…..108:00
Lost is a masterclass on how to troll a television audience
Im going to highly disagree with the idea that Lost never answered any mysteries about the mythology. If you are still sitting here in 2024 and asking why there were polar bears on the Island.…thats on you not paying attention. The answers are there you just have to pay attention. Furthermore Lost is the only show in history that is held to a standard that you have to answer every minut detail of every character and every scenario that happens in a 122 episode show. The dho is a masterpiece and i challenge anyone if that still have ambiguity to this show
Never listen to a guy that doesn’t know how to trim his mustache seriously.
What an absolute jackass of an interviewer lol
“does it haunt you, bro? does it haunt you?”
This guy didn’t do his homework.
🙎 That narcissistic ending in which you have afterlife self-affirming group therapy for Jack was incompatible with show’s unnecessarily convoluted “mythology” imbued with drama, action, science fiction, and religious motifs and concepts.
Lost is just a masterpiece.
“No”😂😂
17:50 Damon schooled him on his own show showing how unqualified this person is as an entertainment interviewer
I wanted to slap the guy giving the interview. He tried to push his own view on Damon like he knew what he was talking about and made a fool of himself. Damon stayed so poised.
He had to explain the ending to this guy 😂. And this is like the majority of people who don’t like the show really didn’t pay attention to anything. nearly all the mysteries on the show can be explained fairly easily.
The interviewer comes off as just being a whiner.
To be fair, I did not watch the show as it happened. I just finished binge-watching it. I thought the whole thing was brilliant. Maybe this guy should watch the whole thing on Netflix.
Perhaps I lost out on all of the rush or joy of theorizing on a weekly basis. But I think that the rush of theorizing is just a thing outside of television shows. All those theories while watching Game of Thrones and Wandavision and other shows…doesn’t really amount to much.
Gosh! That Millennial interviewer is disrespectful to criticize Lindeof’s art / work to his face. 😬 <stomping feet> “It didn’t end the way my reality wanted it to end…!!!” Doesn’t even try to keep the question 3rd person. Lacks the professionalism to keep the question objective.
Just to take the side of the interviewer- what was frustrating is NOT to not have the answers, but is to have ONE answer to all mysteries = purgatory.
Leave it all to interpretation and better answer nothing, like Stephen King does often. Or, if you had hard sci-fi themes- stick to them till the end. Because you can be ambiguous with science but never with religion- which is, again, finite, rather all encompassing. Religion is at the end of the day a far too simple solution for all the complex mysteries involved.
10:19 — It feels like I’m one of the rare ones who had the fairly common negative “visceral reaction” when I first watched the final 10 minutes live, but took the time to watch through the series (and especially the final season) again so that I finally understood it. And after I did? I came to absolutely love it. (The final episode even became my favorite of the series, eventually.) I really wish more people would do that — give it another chance, make sure that they understand it. Right in this interview, he showed that he failed to understand what happened until Damon corrected him. I believe that a large percentage of people who think the ending was bad actually just incorrectly believe that they were “dead the whole time.” Of course it would be disappointing if that was what happened. But it wasn’t.
These writers were clearly like me in their insights and curiosity. Equally important; they assumed I was smart. So I was along for the brilliant storytelling ride on which they were taking me. I loved the ending so much and, when I found myself asking about unanswered questions, I was so glad they didn’t answer them because it left the mythology of the show intact.
Watching this is very validating, and I would add that there’s a stupidity to those feeling the opposite from me about the ending. It’s seems apparent that if one is upset with the ending of “LOST,” one is probably keen on comedies with laugh tracks and dramas in which good guys wear white and bad guys wear black. To each their won, I suppose. Also, my dad can beat up your dad.
x files never had an ending bro. It had a last episode for the original series but it didn’t resolve enough of the show. And the extra seasons they’ve had since then haven’t fully resolved it either. Or at least, that’s how it felt. Perhaps I need to rewatch some of that or someone’s recaps. I love xfiles but it definitely feels like it never ended and won’t ever end.
“No actually youre sat on my couch ‚that says everything about this guy , control freak , big ego