Late in the game here: Last night I did what I always do, which is read everything possible on the Internet about Lost (if I did this for a more important topic I would probably be making lots more money). I found this post from a blog (link below). It's an old post from 2007 claiming that it had leaked plot outlines for the rest of the show. You will notice a lot of things are more or less accurate, and tons that are very different. My theory: they were planning to fill out the sci-fi time travel/evil widmore/ben thing, and then at the last minute--perhaps a third into writing season 6, they tossed out key eps that would have wrapped it off that way, in favor of the more 'spiritual' hokey stuff we ended with, including 'across the sea.' this may explain why it felt like there were two totally different shows happening at the same time.
"- There will be 3 "flash-forward" episodes 2008 season, 3 "flashforward episodes 2009 season (including its finale), and 10 of the 16 episodes in the 2010 season will be flashforwards." [note, these would be the 'sideways']
-"- 2008 season premiere has partially been filmed already. The rescue does not occur by helicopter. They meet the ship on shore and the "rescuers" come on smaller boats."
-"- Desmond gets out of the hatch in the 2008 season premiere"
-"- Locke does not return to the show until severeal episodes into the 2008 season"
-"- Explanation that is revealed near the end of the 2008 season: Dharma Initiative has created a "time door". One end of the door exists in present time in Antarctica. The other end of the door is the Island. However, the Island exists in the "time bubble" in which it remains in the past. Everytime someone (Desmond) pressed the switch in the Hatch, the Island was reset further back in its own time, while the present continued onward.'
-"- Jack discovers sibling relationship to Claire in 2009 season."
You get the point.
I think they did have a 'master plan' and they unwisely scrapped it last-minute and gave us the the pap that was last night.
Another thought: What if there had been no sideways thread at all this season--and the finale scenes were just jack making his way to the jungle and dying, wouldn't that have been more truthtful and less manipulative and hokey? it would have been sadder but perhaps more real.
On 43 Answers To Unanswered Questions About "Lost"
Late in the game here: Last night I did what I always do, which is read everything possible on the Internet about Lost (if I did this for a more important topic I would probably be making lots more money). I found this post from a blog (link below). It's an old post from 2007 claiming that it had leaked plot outlines for the rest of the show. You will notice a lot of things are more or less accurate, and tons that are very different. My theory: they were planning to fill out the sci-fi time travel/evil widmore/ben thing, and then at the last minute--perhaps a third into writing season 6, they tossed out key eps that would have wrapped it off that way, in favor of the more 'spiritual' hokey stuff we ended with, including 'across the sea.' this may explain why it felt like there were two totally different shows happening at the same time.
take a look at this. it was written in may 2007
http://www.tv.com/lost/2008-2010-leak-major-major-spoilers.-plot-outline-leaked./topic/11431-760015/msgs.html
stuff that came 'true' more or less
"- There will be 3 "flash-forward" episodes 2008 season, 3 "flashforward episodes 2009 season (including its finale), and 10 of the 16 episodes in the 2010 season will be flashforwards." [note, these would be the 'sideways']
-"- 2008 season premiere has partially been filmed already. The rescue does not occur by helicopter. They meet the ship on shore and the "rescuers" come on smaller boats."
-"- Desmond gets out of the hatch in the 2008 season premiere"
-"- Locke does not return to the show until severeal episodes into the 2008 season"
-"- Explanation that is revealed near the end of the 2008 season: Dharma Initiative has created a "time door". One end of the door exists in present time in Antarctica. The other end of the door is the Island. However, the Island exists in the "time bubble" in which it remains in the past. Everytime someone (Desmond) pressed the switch in the Hatch, the Island was reset further back in its own time, while the present continued onward.'
-"- Jack discovers sibling relationship to Claire in 2009 season."
You get the point.
I think they did have a 'master plan' and they unwisely scrapped it last-minute and gave us the the pap that was last night.
Another thought: What if there had been no sideways thread at all this season--and the finale scenes were just jack making his way to the jungle and dying, wouldn't that have been more truthtful and less manipulative and hokey? it would have been sadder but perhaps more real.
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