Showrunners - New Promo with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof

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Showrunners - Trailer feat Damon Lindelof

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Showrunners is a feature length documentary film about the fascinating world of television showrunners - the writers and producers of US television drama and comedy series. Featuring interviews with showrunners, actors, network execs, casting directors and many more. It is an in depth exploration of the making of modern American television.

Featured showrunners include: Damon Lindelof - "LOST", David Shore - "HOUSE", Jeff Pinkner & J.H. Wyman - "FRINGE", Kurt Sutter - "SONS OF ANARCHY", Steven S. DeKnight - "SPARTACUS:VENGEANCE", Mark Schwahn - "ONE TREE HILL", David Eick - "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA:BLOOD AND CHROME", Robert & Michelle King - "THE GOOD WIFE", Mike Royce - "MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE", Matthew Carnahan - "HOUSE OF LIES", Russell T. Davies - "TORCHWOOD" ... and more to come!



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Damon Lindelof taking a knee to the groin from Olivia Wilde on House [VIDEO]

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Damon Lindelof taking a knee to the groin from Olivia Wilde on House last night

Lost Creator vs. Game of Thrones Creator

Thanks to Icecolddharma for the heads up.

Damon Lindelof and George R.R. Martin begin a war of words.

GEEK FIGHT! In a new interview, Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin has said some critical words about the end of Lost, and Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof has been responding with some barbs of his own at Martin.

It all began with an interview Martin did with The New Yorker to promote the highly anticipated HBO series based on his novels. Here's the section on Lost:

Martin knows what it's like to be provoked by a serial entertainment. He experienced it himself as a faithful viewer of "Lost," the ABC adventure series about a group of castaways trapped on a mysterious island. "I kept watching it and I was fascinated," he recalls. "They'd introduce these things and I thought that I knew where it was going. Then they'd introduce and I'd rethink it. Like many "Lost" fans, Martin resented the series's mystical ending, which left dozens of narrative threads dangling. "We watched it every week trying to figure it out, and as it got deeper and deeper I kept saying, 'They better have something good in mind for the end. This end better pay off here.' And then I felt so cheated when we got to the conclusion."

Martin knows what it's like to be provoked by a serial entertainment. He experienced it himself as a faithful viewer of "Lost," the ABC adventure series about a group of castaways trapped on a mysterious island. "I kept watching it and I was fascinated," he recalls. "They'd introduce these things and I thought that I knew where it was going. Then they'd introduce and I'd rethink it. Like many "Lost" fans, Martin resented the series's mystical ending, which left dozens of narrative threads dangling. "We watched it every week trying to figure it out, and as it got deeper and deeper I kept saying, 'They better have something good in mind for the end. This end better pay off here.' And then I felt so cheated when we got to the conclusion."

It was likely mostly meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but Lindelof went on to write, "You got yourself a feud, motherf**ker." However, it seemed a bit more serious when Lindelof tweeted, "I don't take issue with his opinion, I take issue with the fact that he coined 'Pulling a LOST' as empirically 'f**king up the ending'"

However, Lindelof seeemed to be having fun as he wrote, "Not to mention, he agreed to be say nice things if I sent him Mr. Friendly's beard, which I did."

Fans of the Game of Thrones books should be amused by Lindelof's next tweet...



Source: IGN

Life After Lost - EW Magazine Cover Story

Highlights from ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’s March 18, 2011 issue (on newsstands nationwide Friday, March 11):

LIFE AFTER LOST

The castaways and creators of Lost flash back to their time on the Island
and fill us in on what they’re up to now.

NEW YORK – Over six seasons, ABC’s intricate series about a group of inextricably linked plane-crash survivors redefined the outer limits of a broadcast network drama. And when it was ultimately time to “let go”—as Lost’s finale instructed us to—we packed up our overstuffed albums of Lost memories and headed off in search of the next great TV drama that might taunt and tantalize our minds. This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly looks back at the people who inhabited these characters. When their exotic journey ended, how did they readjust to life off the Island and back in Hollywood? How do they look back on the series? And what are they up to now? EW asked the show’s cast and producers to flash back to their experiences on the show, and to tell us all about life after Lost.

Matthew Fox (Dr. Jack Shephard) delivered an emotionally potent performance as a broken hero striving for redemption in the series finale. “Redemption is always a big theme for me, so I had waited a long, long time for that moment for Jack,” Fox says. “He had made so many mistakes and fallen apart and become this shell of a man and was really lost. And to finally get to play that end where he knows—he has the singular clarity of what he’s meant to do and what the sacrifice will be—that felt good.” Fox is currently in London performing in Neil LaBute’s play, In a Forest Dark and Deep. “A play in the West End of London is something I’ve always dreamed of doing,” says Fox. “I’d like to take on that kind of challenge. And the theater I’ve done has been phenomenally rewarding, so it’s been my goal after Lost to get into a situation where I’m doing a film here and there and a play here and there—that broad of a structure.”

Jorge Garcia (Hugo “Hurley” Reyes) can’t avoid conservations about the famous series finale. “I still get people who say that they love the show and didn’t like the ending, and they’ll ask me what I thought of the ending. I love the ending. For one thing, I end up with the Island. How can I not like that ending?” Since Lost, Garcia has appeared everywhere from the cover of Weezer’s Hurley album to How I Met Your Mother to Mr. Sunshine to Fringe. “I was leaving Lost, prepared to wait a while for people to forget me in this one part before I might get a chance to find something else that was exciting to do,” he shares. “[But] everything just kept popping up.” Indeed, Garcia is ready to settle down, signing on to star in another J.J. Abrams drama about people from another unusual island, the Fox pilot Alcatraz.

Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet Burke) continues to get fan feedback. “There’s a whole bunch of people watching it on Netflix or DVD that say, ‘Oh my God, I just saw you for the first time last night!’ It keeps coming in waves, which is fun…. I was just on an airplane and the guy behind me was like, ‘I’m not trying to make your life difficult, but I loved Juliet.’ Why is that making my life difficult? What a wonderful thing to say!” Since leaving the show after season 5 (but appearing in two episodes during the final season), Mitchell went on to star as FBI agent Erica Evans on ABC’s reimagining of ’80s alien invasion miniseries V. “I always thought it would be really fun to be the lead protagonist in a sci-fi show—I’m a dork,” she laughs. “I thought, ‘If you get a chance to do what you dreamed of doing when you were a kid, you should probably do it once. You should kick ass if given the opportunity. Fight some aliens.’ ”

Josh Holloway (James “Sawyer” Ford) looks back at the pivotal moments in his life that surround Lost. “God, it was just magical. That’s where I got my first home, got married, had my first child. The things that happened there in Hawaii were phenomenal. I have no regrets…. However, [last summer] I’m looking around going, ‘Damn, I wish I had a job to go to.’ I was a little bit—forgive the pun, I’m gonna finally be able to use that word lost again one day—but I felt a little lost. I’m like, ‘Oooh, this is tough to hang back and play chess now.’” Holloway recently shot a supporting role opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol. “No one recognized me,” he chuckles. “I shaved my beard, cut off my hair, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, the Clark Kent disguise actually works! Change your hair, put some glasses on, and people don’t know who you are!’ It was refreshing not to just be Sawyer all the time.” Holloway will also trade punches for punchlines when he guest stars in the paintball-themed season finale of NBC’s Community.

The Men Behind the Curtain- Lost’s Executive Producers

Does Damon Lindelof still get Lost in his head? “I expected that I would stop thinking about it as much, but I still think about it all the time—in a very healthy way,” he says. “Since we wrote the finale, I have not had a single Lost thought, like, ‘Hey, I just had an idea for a cool story or flashback!’ ” Lindelof is now penning the Ridley Scott sci-fi drama Prometheus and co-writing and producing Star Trek 2. Carlton Cuse has closure. “I don’t miss the show. I feel like we got to tell the entire story of the show, and now life goes on.” Cuse has teamed up with Randall Wallace to develop a Civil War-set adventure series for ABC. “This is a fictional story about a family through [which] we examine all the issues of the Civil War…. We don’t have any unicorns or spaceships, but we’ve got everything else.” J.J. Abrams won an Emmy for directing Lost’s classic pilot, and then left the show in the hands of Lindelof and Cuse during season 1 to helm Mission: Impossible III. “When I look back at what the writers, cast, and crew did to build the amazing story that Damon and I started, it makes me proud,” says Abrams, who is finishing up his next directorial effort, Super 8; producing the next Mission: Impossible; developing Star Trek 2; and working on two TV pilots. It’s no coincidence that many of these projects star Losties: “I have a real love for those actors. We went through a meaningful experience together. It’s great to keep working with them on other things or see them flourish in other projects.”

For more on your favorite castaways, check out the full story on newsstands March 11th and at EW.com: http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/03/10/life-after-lost-fox-holloway/

(Cover Story, Page 34)

Source: EW

The Art of Immersion: The Star Wars Generation

Thanks to Susan for the heads up.

Adam Horowitz blames the whole thing on Star Wars.

Horowitz — who with his writing partner, Eddy Kitsis, was an executive producer on Lost and a screenwriter for Tron: Legacy — remembers seeing Star Wars in Times Square with his mom when he was five. As soon as it was over, he wanted to go right back in.

“But there’s no bigger Star Wars geek than Damon Lindelof,” he admits.

Lindelof, the co-creator of Lost with J.J. Abrams, was only four when he saw the picture. Years later, when ABC’s Lloyd Braun paired him with Abrams as the show was in development, Lindelof showed up for their first meeting wearing an original Star Wars T-shirt he’d gotten when he and his dad joined the Star Wars Fan Club. Abrams was wowed.

Lindelof, Abrams, Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly) — for a whole generation of Hollywood writers in their 30s and 40s, Horowitz quips, “Star Wars was a gateway drug.”

It was also a precursor to what we’re coming to expect in movies and TV. Shows in the past, Lindelof points out, went to great lengths to avoid unanswered questions. Lost was deliberately ambiguous.

“The show became an excuse to develop a community” online, says Carlton Cuse, who headed the production with Lindelof. “And the basis of it was that people were able to debate open-ended questions — questions that we insisted be open-ended, and that would get fans engaged in the show.”

Years before the web, with its boundless connectivity and its endless cascade of hyperlinks turned entertainment into a spelunking expedition, Star Wars was a saga you could immerse yourself in at will.

Source: Full Article @ Wired

Once Upon a Time - Pilot from "Lost" creators Kitsis, Horowitz and Lindelof greenlit by ABC

Thanks to http://tv-shows.ru/ for the heads up.

Once Upon a Time centers on a woman with a troubled past who is drawn into a small town in Maine where the magic and mystery of Fairy Tales just may be real. It is not clear yet if Lindelof will be a consultant or executive producer on the pilot, in whose development he has been involved alongside creators Kitsis & Horowitz who serve as exec producers. Kitsis & Horowitz recently wrote TRON: Legacy for Disney, supervised the TRON animated series for Disney XD and are awaiting green light at Universal for their Ouija17th Precinct. script. Magical/fairy tale pilots are red-hot this season with Once Upon a Time joining NBC's Grimm and 17th Precinct.

Source: Deadline

Top 6 Flix Featuring Damon Lindelof

Thanks to Sl-Lost for the heads up.

Life After Lost - Damon Lindelof Interview

Thanks to Xannie for the heads up.

Lost part is around 11:50 Minutes.

Lost in all of the TV coverage of the midterm election is this: November is a pretty important month for TV folks too because of sweeps. TV producers and writers tend to save their best stuff for this period. And that was true for commentator and co-creator of "Lost," Damon Lindelof.

As ABC's series "Lost" comes to an end, executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cues talk to Marketplace about their legion of fans, their surprise success, and their future in reruns

KAI RYSSDAL: Lost in all of the television coverage of the midterm election is this: Besides politicians, November is a pretty important month for television types, too. The November ratings sweeps are among us. That means your favorite show might feature some buzz-worthy television stunts all in the name of grabbing more viewers and higher advertising rates.

Television producers and writers do tend to save their best stuff for sweeps, including commentator and co-creator of "Lost," Damon Lindelof.

DAMON LINDELOF: I can't believe that "Lost" is actually finished. Over six seasons we wrote and produced 121 episodes and here is a spoiler alert if you still haven't seen the series finale: We managed to kill every single character. Sorry.

Anyway, during the course of those 6 years my life was committed to the telling of a single story. Writing and producing a TV show is a massive commitment and one must make significant sacrifices to help that show achieve its true potential. In many ways it's a lot like being a monk, except with less sex.

Now, however, I get to do all the wonderful things that I denied myself, while my colleagues who didn't manage to cancel their own shows must play Sisyphus. And of course I quietly judge how well they are rolling their respective boulders from the sanctity of my living room. And here is the thing about boulder rolling: It's a lot more fun to watch than it is to do. And let's be honest, is it fun to watch? It does, however, make me fondly reminisce about my time in the trenches. And by fondly reminisce I mean wake up in the middle of the night, screaming.

Normally around this time of the year, an average day would be spent working on five episodes of "Lost" simultaneously, we would be blue-skying the story for one, writing the script of another, rewriting the script that we had rushed through previously, shooting the one we just rewritten and editing the one we just shot. During this process I like to spend my down time curled up in the fetal position, crying.

Things would sometimes get so bad I'd fantasize about ways to destroy the show and alienate the viewers. Like having the castaways discovering a huge donkey wheel in the middle of the island that had the capability to transport them back in time. Oh wait, we actually did that.

Anyway, life has gotten much better now. November sweeps don't matter, no more fake scripts to keep the mystery secret, no more fans ridiculing me on the Internet for wasting six years of their lives and betraying their trust. OK, that last one is still sort of happening a little, but I'm OK with it. I really, really am.

The bright side is that in all my free time I have gotten to do all the things I've put off, like hunting the most dangerous game, man himself. And yes, I even curl up in the fetal position and cry just for old times sake.

RYSSDAL: Damon Lindelof is the co-creator of "Lost." He's also the writer/producer of the new Star Trek movie, too.

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ABC buys new Pilot Script from LOST Exec Producers

“Lost” exec producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis have sold their hourlong drama script “Once Upon a Time” to ABC.

Pilot, from ABC Studios, is a mix of sci-fi and fantasy with a strong mystery element. Premise is a modern-day take on fairy tales, with a female protagonist who comes from a unique background. Show takes place in a small Maine town during the present time.

Despite the fairy tale premise, show will have a strong human emotional center. Similar to “Lost,” there will be a large ensemble.

“Lost” exec producer Damon Lindelof will consult.

Horowitz and Kitsis had the idea for the show seven years ago, prior to coming aboard “Lost.” The pair, who are longtime writing partners, didn’t approach ABC with the pitch until “Lost” finished its run in May.

Besides exec producing and writing “Lost,” Horowitz and Kitsis wrote the upcoming pic “Tron: Legacy” as well as the “Tron” sequel. They’re also penning “Ouija,” the Universal pic based on the Hasbro property.

Source: variety

Damon Lindelof and Elizabeth Mitchell Presenting at the Creative Arts Emmys [VIDEO]

Thanks to TD and Heiots for the heads up.


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Cuse and Lindelof reaction to the Emmy Nominations

Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, exec producers, "Lost"
Lindelof: "It sounds so cliche that it's great to be nominated but that's what we're basking in now. We don't take this for granted. And the fact that the love was spread to Michael Giacchino, Jack Bender, the sound mixers and art direction is great. It'll be cool to put on the monkey suits again and get together one last time."

Cuse: "My strategy is to sleep through these type of things. I checked my phone and saw there were a lot of emails. Bad news avoids you like the plague. … For Matthew (Fox) , he's labored almost unfairly on a show that's more ensemble-oriented than the guys he's competing aginst. Fortunately, the finale was Matthew-centric and he was finally given a chance to be front and center in such a way that allows voters to take notice. He was so critical to our show."

Source: Variety

Damon and Carlton Interview about the Finale and DVD

Thanks to Ryan for the heads up and to TheBookofLaw for the video.

Damon Lindelof’s Final Thoughts On Lost’s Series Finale and POLL

Thanks to Owen for the heads up.

From all of us who made the show, we really hope that you don’t feel it was a waste of your time. We hope that you spent the entire night not just thinking about the finale on a story level, but that you were emotionally affected by it.

There are two feelings that you feel when you watch the ending of a television show. The first is the feeling that you have of just understanding that the show is over and the second is what your response is to actually what’s happening on the screen.

What I liked about the Soprano’s finale was that it changed the experience because when Chase cut to black, suddenly that feeling of “the show’s over” was replaced by “is my cable out?” – he kind of changed the conversation about it.

For us, we tried to write the last two and a half hours of the show so that those two feelings would feel like they were the same thing. So, you’re feeling of saying goodbye to the show – of the show not being around anymore – was actually literally perfectly paralleling what we were showing you on the screen.

If you had an experience anything like that, then it was mission accomplished.

If you didn’t, we blew it and I apologize.

Source: Full Story @ Screenrant

Lost Slapdown - Part 17

Thanks to shirtlesslocke for the heads up.

Damon and Carlton Talk About the Series Finale with Diane Sawyer

NOTE: As you see in the video this was taped before the finale but they talk about the finale moments.

Thanks to Book of Law for the video


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NY Times Talk LOST Live event writeup

Thanks to DarkUFO reader JohnConstant69 for the write-up of last nights events.

For those that like spoilers, we have posted a spoiler summary and extended sneak peek here.

Just got back from attending the New York Times Talk Live LOST event, having watched it in-theater.

It kicked so much massive ass!
It was like a 90 min class on screenwriting. I would highly recommend it to anyone who’s teaching scriptwriting to a high-school level class, as long as the student can get into LOST.
Jorge Garcia and Michael Emerson made a surprise appearance, which was actually touching.
Damon really played the funny man and Carlton the straight guy.
The interviewer was very intelligent and asked some great questions.

They showed classic clips to which Darlton commented on:

Jack and Locke arguing over “faith vs. science” and Locke asking Jack to push the button inside the Swan Hatch. They pointed out that it wasn’t so much that Locke didn’t have faith, he said he didn’t want to do it alone, and needed Jack, referencing the famous “live together, die alone” speech. They mentioned that the scene in the submarine is where they came full circle on Jack’s transformation because he was now the man of faith trying to get Sawyer to NOT do something, (fiddle with the bomb) and Sawyer was playing the role of the empiricist this time.

Desmond finally reaching Penny on the phone in the Constant, Sayid in the background. Talked about how ridiculous it was that his mind time traveled to 1997 to ensure Penny would call him in 2004, Faraday’s rat maze, etc. And how it was the hardest and longest episode for them to break. They wanted to reveal time travel in a personal way that involved endearing characters and lots of emotion. That’s why Desmond remarks to Faraday’s mathematical explanation of a Constant: “can it be a person?”

The Dharma scene where Hurley debates time travel rules with Miles, and finally stumps him. They anticipated the audience having the same sort of questions that Hurley did, and the scene pretty much already took place within the writer’s room.

Some *really* good questions from the audience: “why must there be a human presence on the island?” which they said they’ve never been asked before but couldn’t answer. One guy asked a question which seemed to startle Darlton, especially Damon, and they basically said “We don’t want to spoil the ending to the show” as their answer, which made me think the guy was *extremely* close in his guessing the global reveal. I’ll give you a hint: he asked if there was an allusion in people doubting the button-pushing in the hatch as a critical necessity, and the critical necessity of protecting the lightcave. There was a lot more to it, but that’s all I’m giving. Sorry.

“I know this is very brief, but honestly the entire thing flew by in a little over 90+ mins, and I’m still soaking it all in. A couple other memorable details to try to do it justice:

A lady from the audience said the show pretty much restored her faith in God and got her much closer in faith and relationships (wow)
Damon and Carlton spoke a LOT on the struggle of faith, reason, religion, empiricism, etc. Damon summarized the show in this way “you have the Bible, it tells you, you do this and this, or there are consequences” and at the end of the day, you have to choose to have faith in that book, or not. So it really isn’t about that book, it’s about whether or not you decide to trust it. That’s our show. And it’s not just the Bible, it’s basically all the religious texts”.
One guy asked Damon and Carlton for a job, Michael Emerson kindly got up and received his resume
A really good question asked from the audience: “if MIB knew he couldn’t kill a candidate, why was he trying to do so by dragging Locke underground in season 1?” to which Damon replied: “ahh yes, but was he trying to kill him? You have to remember that Locke had just seen “the face of the island, and it was beautiful” and he was planning on going and giving a big speech to the castaways to give them hope and courage. MIB didn’t like this and was preventing him from doing so.”
Damon used the analogy of the “Johnny Explainer” (aka Exposition-Guy) character that is normally used as a cheap plot device to cover complex backstory and narrative (Dharma guy comes wandering out of the jungle to tell the 815ers about his time in the Dharma Initiative), as a springboard to say “as writers, we divided up Johnny Explainer’s dialogue amongst our characters. We’d put his word in Ben’s mouth, in John Locke’s mouth, Jacob’s mouth, and you always had to wonder if they were telling the truth, or not. Every time someone in the show gave an explanation, we wanted there to be an element of doubt.” After all this Damon said something to the effect of “but Johnny Explainer is no longer giving you the fruit from the tree”. He used a lot of interesting metaphors, some I understood, some I didn’t.
How much was planned out? They had the end-game in mind during season 1. They know how they wanted it to end. Between the hiatus of season 1-2, they sat down and had time to write out the core mythology. But also, when each season started up in the writing bootcamp, they might change or modify or add things, knowing ultimately where they still had to go. The end-game has never changed in theme or purpose, but may have changed in small details and content.
Damon pointed out that the #1 and #2 questions most asked by fans is: 1) Was everything planned out? 2) how much input does the audience have on the show? Damon said you can’t have it both ways. Because if they planned EVERYTHING out and locked it away in some “LOST binder”, then obviously fans would not be allowed any input or effect on the show. An immediate response to the audience: people kept asking why Hurley wasn’t losing any weight… so they wrote in that he was stashing Dharma ranch dressing (and other things). An anticipated audience reaction dealt with pre-emptively: Nicki and Paulo.
Why Nicki and Paulo? Because in the third season they realized they were punting along and had to do something. Their rule was to introduce new characters at the beginning of each season, and as they saw they were introducing the Others characters at the cages (Juliet, etc.) they wanted to introduce new characters back at the beach camp. Thus, Nicki and Paulo. They admit it was a mistake and tried to be cruel in how they got rid of Nicki and Paulo to make the fans feel somewhat satisfied.
When Damon realized Walt was getting too tall (taller than Damon isn’t very tall, btw), they basically said “lets get Walt on that raft, pronto!” and remarked how you can notice during season 1’s arc that Walt’s voice cracks a bit ala Peter Brady on the Brady Bunch. They way they wrote this into the show was that Walt was so special that even he was freaking out the Others, and Ben wanted him off the island.
Personally, I’ve been getting a little disappointed and frustrated with the increasing criticisms and attacks on the show you can find on many popular blogs and news sites. I can tell you, honestly, that A LOT of things that Damon and Carlton explained about the writing process, about character motivations, about overarching themes they’ve built into the show, about mistakes they’ve made, etc. cleared up a TON of the negative things “fans” have been saying. I wish all those people were forced to attend and listen. It really would have put a lot of their skepticism, frustration, and doubt at ease.
Damon said “if you hated Expose, if you hated Across the Sea, please watch the finale, give it some time, and let’s see if you still hate those eps or think they were unnecessary in the grand scheme”. (Obviously he was talking more about Across the Sea than Expose)
Jorge listed Ben as his favorite character, Emerson listed Eko as his favorite character (they weren’t allowed to pick their own), and Damon and Carlton copped out not listing any-one character, but saying how if you ate your favorite food every single day, you’d be sick of it. But they were excited because they could write for different characters all the time and it never seemed to get stale for them. They said that Hurley was basically the personality of the writing team of Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, and they would not have been able to write Hurley that way as a character. They said that the Desmond character/story was pretty much their writing territory.
After an audience member asked Darlton and Jorge if they were going to continue podcasting (Darlton: no, Jorge, maybe 1-2 after the finale), and Damon explained that they wouldn’t have too much more to talk about after the finale, Damon turned to Jorge and asked him “after reading the finale, being in the finale, do you have anything that needs explaining?” and Jorge sat for awhile, thought, shifted in his seat, and said “naw man, I don’t… cuz… I get it… I think I get it!” and smiled and everyone laughed.

They listed a good rule for Widmore (and others). “If a character tells you something, you can doubt it. Like Widmore. He suddenly has this change of heart and says Jacob visited him? Did Jacob really visit him? On the other hand, if you SEE something happening, then it’s true and real. We witnessed Jacob visiting Ilana at the hospital, her all bandaged up. But all we know is Widmore relayed a story. So it might be false. You have to remember to not listen to what characters on LOST say, but what they actually DO. Keep this in mind when wondering if what Widmore said was true.” It seemed like a good rule for all the characters on LOST, btw.

I really, really hope this ends up on the DVD set, because I can tell you, I’ve read the interviews, the magazines, watched the recap eps, listened to the podcasts, and I still feel like I really got to know Damon and Carlton a heck of a lot more after this than all those others. It was definitely worth the price of admission.

I’m not even gonna say “overall, it was great”. Because I was smiling and enjoying every minute of it. Since this is starting to sound like an AICN type review, I’ll leave it here.

Namaste!

JohnConstant69

Source: JohnConstant69@DarkUFO

Lost Slapdown - Part 16

The Official LOST Video Podcast: May 19th, 2010

Jorge Garcia, Michael Giacchino, Damon Linelof, Carlton Cuse and many more talk about being together one last time for LOST Live.

The Official LOST Video Podcast: May 14th, 2010

The writers consider who's the Man in Black and who's Jacob: Damon Lindelof or Carlton Cuse.


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