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SPOILER ALERT: This post totally spoils the TV series Lost and the movie Inception. If you haven’t watched either and don’t want to be spoiled, stop reading. I said stop!
Over the weekend, Lost producer Damon Lindelof tweeted his admiration for Christopher Nolan’s new movie: “I wish that someone would break into my dreams and give …
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When I wrote my print TIME feature on the end of Lost, one section I had to drop for space had to do with how much money ABC was asking for ads in the finale—reportedly $900,000 a pop—even though Lost was not close to the highest-rated program on TV. That fact points to something that has potential to shape the business, and thus …
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In the Lost podcast I posted Tuesday, Maureen Ryan, Ryan McGee and I hashed over how our thoughts on the finale had evolved over a couple days. Before the finale aired, I had considered following up a few days after the finale with a second review.
I’m not going to do that, yet anyway. In part, I’m just burned out on Lost analysis for …
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…here’s an hour and change more, courtesy of the good offices of Ryan McGee of Zap2It and Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune, plus yours truly. We walked about how our views of the finale have evolved (or not) over 36 hours, the polarized online debate over the ending, our thoughts on the ending itself and the long but …
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I’m not going to be good for much today beyond reading other critics’ and bloggers’ writeups of Lost, so I can at least be of some use to you and refer you to some of the other opinions I’ve been reading this morning:
Myles McNutt, Cultural Learnings: “Beautiful and heartwrenching, ‘The End’ captures more than any other series finale …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather some of your closest friends together in a special place, and watch the last episode ever of Lost.
The great puzzle of the last season of Lost has been: how can both the flash-sideways universe and the Island universe mean anything? If Sideways is the universe in which Oceanic 815 …
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This is the second of two parts of a batch of actor interviews I conducted on Lost’s set in Oahu (and in the case of Matthew Fox, over the phone) in April for my feature in TIME. Part one, with Terry O’Quinn, Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway, posted yesterday.
As I said then, there’s nothing horribly spoilery in them (at this point …
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This is it. The big one. T minus two days. A couple notes on what I’ll be doing to mark the finale of Lost this weekend.
First, for those of you in the New York City area, I’ll be at the Paley Center Saturday afternoon, talking about Lost on a panel that also includes Alan Sepinwall of HitFix, Dan Manu of Television Without Pity, Chris …
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If your job is covering TV and not, say, Somali warlords, you do not expect ever to conduct an interview with someone who is holding a deadly weapon the entire time. But then I talked to Terry O’Quinn, in his trailer on location with Lost, last month. O’Quinn was sent, as a souvenir, an inscribed hunting knife from the SOG company, in …
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This is the last of three parts of my interview with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof on April 19. Here’s part one and here’s part two of the interview.
* As a result of [the growth of media platforms], you have a very involved fan base. Is there there a point at which you kind of need to plug your ears and not pay attention to all the …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, grab yourself a nice, cool refreshing cup of water—NOW YOU’RE LIKE ME—and watch last night’s Lost.
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about how much of Lost its creators planned out long ago, and how much they’ve made up as they went along. Of course, it’s impossible to know the …
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This is part two of my interview with Lost producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof on April 19. See here for part one.
* To shift up a little bit: You stab at a lot of big ideas in the show, free will versus destiny, predetermination, and so on. And you have over the course of the show worked in a lot of allusions to writers and …
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It’s now less than a week until Lost is no more. For this last week before the Lost weekend—call it the Lost Endweek—I’m going to post some daily transcripts from my on-set interviews with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, and some of Lost’s cast members. I visited the set on April 19, and hadn’t seen any advance episodes, so …
