Nearly a year ago I blogged about the schedule for Lost season 3. Now the producers have announced that there will be exactly three more seasons of Lost before it ends, each of which will air only in the spring, for 16 consecutive weeks. I think this is a great step in the right direction for the show. After the craptacular mini-season aired last fall, Lost lost a lot of viewers.
Reading between the lines, it seems that the show’s writers always knew where they wanted to take the show to end it, but the networks would (naturally) like to keep the show on the air until it stops bringing in money. And that might be the best thing for the networks, but it’s certainly not good for the fans or for the show’s story. To extend the show, the writers would have two basic courses of action: 1) write filler material to go in the middle of the story, to delay the ending; or 2) write the ending, then make up stuff after that ending that you never planned to write. For a show with lots of mysteries, option 1 is really the only choice, and it seems the network was pushing the writers to stretch out the plot and forget about some things that were introduced in season 1.
The last ten episodes or so of this season have (in my opinion) gotten way better, and I’m looking forward to the next three seasons.
May 19, 2:09 pm
Here’s my latest guess as to where the show is going.
May 21, 10:38 am
Interesting theory. I’ve been wondering what Ben meant when he told someone (Jack maybe?) that God couldn’t see this place (the island). Without more context, it could mean a lot of things. And still no clue about what the smoke monster is...
May 22, 4:43 pm
According to the special that was on last week, the smoke monster appears to be “judging” the folks with whom he comes into contact.
May 24, 2:08 am
Wow, what a way to end the season. I was blown away by the ending, but it was tough to watch my favorite character break down like that.