Well, this doesn't bode well for Lost
Sep. 24th, 2005 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiFrom the latest issue of Rolling Stone:
The Lost creators have often claimed they know where the show is going and that everything will ultimately add up. Well, the current creators, anyway. "There was absolutely no master plan on Lost," insists David Fury, a co-executive producer last season who wrote the series' two best episodes and is now a writer-producer on 24. "Anybody who said that was lying."
"On a show like Lost, it becomes a great big shaggy-dog story," he continues cheerily. "They keep saying there's meaning in everything, and I'm here to tell you no -- a lot of things were just arbitrary. What I always tried to do was connect these random elements, to create the illusion that it was all adding up to something."
Many plot elements were concocted on the fly, Fury says. For example, they didn't know Hurley won the lottery until it came time to write his episode. "I don't like to talk about when we come up with ideas," Lindelof demurs. "It's a magic trick. But we planned that plot: we seeded references to it in earlier episodes." Fury disagrees. He says that scenes with those references were filmed much earlier and inserted into earlier yet-to-air episodes: "It's a brilliant trick to make us look smart. But doing that created a huge budget problem.
That article tells me two things: First, that it sounds like Abrams and Lindelof are flying by the seat of their ass, plotwise, just as much as David Lynch and Chris Carter before them. And, even worse, that David Fury is no longer with the show. Which I suspect I was the last to know.
The Lost creators have often claimed they know where the show is going and that everything will ultimately add up. Well, the current creators, anyway. "There was absolutely no master plan on Lost," insists David Fury, a co-executive producer last season who wrote the series' two best episodes and is now a writer-producer on 24. "Anybody who said that was lying."
"On a show like Lost, it becomes a great big shaggy-dog story," he continues cheerily. "They keep saying there's meaning in everything, and I'm here to tell you no -- a lot of things were just arbitrary. What I always tried to do was connect these random elements, to create the illusion that it was all adding up to something."
Many plot elements were concocted on the fly, Fury says. For example, they didn't know Hurley won the lottery until it came time to write his episode. "I don't like to talk about when we come up with ideas," Lindelof demurs. "It's a magic trick. But we planned that plot: we seeded references to it in earlier episodes." Fury disagrees. He says that scenes with those references were filmed much earlier and inserted into earlier yet-to-air episodes: "It's a brilliant trick to make us look smart. But doing that created a huge budget problem.
That article tells me two things: First, that it sounds like Abrams and Lindelof are flying by the seat of their ass, plotwise, just as much as David Lynch and Chris Carter before them. And, even worse, that David Fury is no longer with the show. Which I suspect I was the last to know.
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Date: 2005-09-24 10:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-09-25 01:18 am (UTC)And I though it was obvious that the writers of Lost had their initial 13 planned out, and then just pulled stuff out of their asses.
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Date: 2005-09-25 03:48 am (UTC)Still watching
Date: 2005-09-26 05:26 pm (UTC)I'm still watching, but yeah, that doesn't bode well.