about that rushed ending to LOST again...

I've just had a quick read of an interview with Carlton Cuse of LOST in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/arts/television/30lost.html?_r=3&hp

I haven't spent any time thinking about LOST recently, which is a good thing since it ended 9 months ago. Side note - I find it interesting that if something wasn't a full year ago, the brain immediately guesses it was 9 months ago.

It's mostly about what the guy's been doing since the end of the show, but I couldn't help but notice he's still banging on about the negotiated end date of the show. I also recall countless other fans and pundits touting this as an incredible win for LOST, allowing the show to be meticulously planned to tell just he right story over the remaining episodes.

Clearly that didn't work. Said before and now saying again, I simply don't believe that what was happening at the start of season 6 had any real relationship with the reveals in the finale. I even find it hard to link the things going on in that so called sideways universe in the few episodes before the finale. I have tried. Far more than most casual viewers would ever bother to. If opinions like these upset Damon and Carlton, maybe they should attempt to talk about it. It's a hell of a lot easier to say nothing.

I can't help wondering if perhaps 3/4 of the way into the remaining 48 episodes, soon after the start of season 6, they felt painted into a corner and actually wished they had some additional hours. This isn't so crazy - they did add I think at least two more than originally planned in that final arc.

Much like the hundreds of other things that Damon and Carlton will continue to insist fans have no interest in, we'll probably never find out whether there's any truth to the above.

Perhaps there's a happy medium somewhere in all this. Somewhere between unnecessary deadline setting and the greed illustrated by those running shows that go way past their natural conclusion. Even then there are anomalies. This year's episodes of the ridiculously long running Simpsons have been a fair bit better, in my view, than most in recent years, but there's been plenty of crap to work through to get to them.

I don't know. I suppose this is why I don't work in Television.