Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> Victor Velazquez wrote:
>> Andrew wrote:
>>> On 2008-03-02 08:47:06 +0000, "Dimensional Traveler"
>>> <dtravel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>>>> Anybody wrote:
>>>>> In article <13skbflnb7tjhde@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Steven L."
>>>>> <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In January 2005, Damon Lindelof discussed "Lost" in an interview:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "We're still trying to be ... firmly ensconced in the world of
>>>>>> science fact. I don't think we've shown anything on the show yet
>>>>>> ... that has
>>>>>> no rational explanation in the real world that we all function
>>>>>> within.
>>>>>> We certainly hint at psychic phenomena, happenstance and ...
>>>>>> things being in a place where they probably shouldn't be. But
>>>>>> nothing is flat-out impossible. There are no space****ps. There
>>>>>> isn't any time travel."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/handheld/30246.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, didn't this new episode, "The Constant," involve at least a
>>>>>> teensy-weensy little bit of time travel???
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And BTW, do you think that Lindelof's definition of "science
>>>>>> fact" might just be a trifle elastic, to cover all the phenomena
>>>>>> we've seen on the show?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't really believe they ever had a long-term plan for the
>>>>> show, or whatever plan they did have is long since history. They
>>>>> are now just making it up as they go along.
>>>>
>>>> Its been obvious to some of us for two years that they've been
>>>> making it up as they go along.
>>>
>>> Isn't that what creators of fiction do? Or am I just being
>>> simplistic?
>>
>> Of course it is. Sure, they often have an outline with plot points
>> A, D, and G but they still have to come up with B,C,E, and F as they
>> write the story. And often when they get to, say, E, they change
>> their minds about what G will be.
>>
>> It ain't rocket science. :-)
>
> Although they apparently have tossed that in to the mix as well. :P
>
> No, my complaint is that they started with A, went thru B, C and D,
> introduced E, made up an F that invalidates A, G came flying in from
> left field, H poked its nose in, ran and hid in the corner, I snuck
> in and assassinated C, D and G, then J tried to act like B and F were
> its best buddies while they were going "who the bleep are you?", K, L
> and M tried to start a whole new show, and so on. There's making up
> the story as you tell it and then there's pulling multi-colored fecal
> matter out of your posterior.
LOL, I don't agree with your point but you stated it extremely well.
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