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Darlton gets WIRED

LostFreak408SJ LostFreak408SJ May 3, 2010
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I read a WIRED magazine interview [1] with Darlton recently and wanted to get some feedback from people

A few interesting comments I gleaned from the article (no spoilers):

  • 1) the only "answer" they feel they owe us at this point is how the two timelines fit together
  • 2) It’s order versus chaos. But first it had to start as science versus faith, because Jack is a doctor and Locke is a guy who got up from his wheelchair and walked. Now the question has been boiled down to its essential root — is there a God or is there nothingness?
  • 3) I think there’s this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. But there is no unified field theory for Lost, nor do we think there should be. Philosophically we don’t buy into that. The great mysteries of life fundamentally can’t be addressed. We just have to tell a good story and let the chips fall where they may.
  • 4) For its first season, the producers of Lost were flying blind. That’s right, the people running a show with interwoven narratives — backstories, future stories, alternate-reality stories, and stories that even a savant couldn’t keep track of — weren’t keeping track of all that stuff. Once it became clear that season one wouldn’t be Lost’s last, executive producer Carlton Cuse realized he needed a continuity czar.
  • 5) LOSTPEDIA !! -- By day, Kevin Croy is a 33-year-old data center strategist for Expedia in Bellevue, Washington. By night (and in his other free time), he is the guardian of Lostpedia — the sprawling online compendium that millions of devotees consult to seek knowledge and share their Lost-fu. Wired asked Croy about being the keeper of the unofficial canon and what it means to be a fan in the age of Internet-enabled obsession. — Angela Watercutter. Wired: Did Lostpedia change the relationship between the show’s followers and its creators? Kevin Croy: Definitely. I think the TV networks have realized how important these communities are to the success of their shows. I don’t have proof, but I’m fairly certain the writers and producers of Lost use Lostpedia as a way to instantly gauge audience reaction and comprehension.

Gotta love the Lostpedia honorable mention!!

So, does any of this change what you think about Darlton, Season 6, the answers that will be given, or what will happen at the end?

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  • Jacks back

    True, Jacob has been portrayed as a supernatural being. But if my Sunday school skills are in good form then The Book Of Numbers is referring to a census.

    by Jacks back
  • Tandthart

    @ hello mreko, to follow your numbers thing and Jacob, God wrote a book about Numbers. This keeps the good/evil, satan/God thing going.

    by Tandthart
  • Tandthart

    I agree with them using Lostpedia. what a great way to develop their storylines, they see where we're going and want to throw us off, or some of the great minds/geniuses out there may have even give them some ideas of where to go.

    by Tandthart
  • Hello MrEko

    get's on my nerve more than spoilers is people talking about them, giving them attention in anyway.

    Anyways. D&C said that if someone is wanting a definitive answer on the numbers they will be disappointed at the end of the series. They concluded the thought by letting fans know they will see more of them. Digging into the actual show now, obviously we have seen the numbers everywhere. When they are seen they are shown in a way that catches your eye to keep you hooked on to them to keep us wondering the significance. I'm sure this isn’t ground breaking, Sawyer asked “What the deal with all of the numbers?", referring to the candidates. MIB “Jacob had a thing with numbers." By saying Jacob had a THING with numbers you could say " Jacob has a fetish with numbers" or "Jacob was obsessed with numbers". Why does he? In the big picture "Why" does not matter. I think we were just to gather Jacob had a common human-like obsession with something, that something being numbers. I think the numbers in any given situation could be Jacob leaving his finger prints, or perhaps Jacob leaving bread crumbs. Either way I am satisfied. That may not be an answer that we were expecting to make us go "aaww!", but it does make sense.

    by Hello MrEko
  • Thomas14

    also, the "possibly spoilers" was to preface my post, it wasn't in regards to your OP

    by Thomas14
  • Thomas14

    No, not the article, the picture

    http://www.wired.com/magazine/wp-content/images/18-05/ff_lost_2000px_f.jpg

    by Thomas14
  • LostFreak408SJ

    I read the article and don't see any spoilers in there. If there is I am sorry to anyone who feels that way.

    I am totally ANTI-SPOILER and I read the whole thing so it's prertty safe.

    by LostFreak408SJ
  • Thomas14

    possibly spoilers?

    woah, there's a lot of stuff going on in that picture. look at the whiteboard..

    I don't know, but it looks like episode names and a timeline up top with a definitive split. I don't know when this was taken but the episode names are for season 6

    by Thomas14
  • Dubs1986

    Has anyone seen the number 23?

    by Dubs1986
  • Sean Sheep

    @Hello MrEko

    Can you please explain how this is a "great explanation". Why exactly are the numbers an indication of Jacob's presence? Jacob "discovered" the numbers by elimination of candidates on the dial, rather than deciding in advance what the numbers were, and seeking out those particular candidates that corresponded to those numbers. If he had done it that way, there would only have been six names on the dial, not 360.

    Can you explain this to me, because I have heard people say this before, but I can't see that it's any sort of explanation at all. It just seems to me to pile another mystery on top of the existing mystery.

    by Sean Sheep
  • Hello MrEko

    The numbers have been given a great exlpanation. Jacob has a thing with numbers, refering to the numbers we know, hence, everytime we see them they are the eveidence of jacobs presence, past or present. Statement 1) Another way that can be translated is they have come to terms that they have posed more questions than they are prepared to answer.

    by Hello MrEko
  • LostFreak408SJ

    @ JACOBANDMIBAREBROTHERSIN23AD ... here comes the ban hammer son

    by LostFreak408SJ
  • Dinsdale42

    1) I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. It doesn't mean they *won't* give us more, but the only answer they feel is a must at this point is the timelines fitting together, and I'm fine with that. At it's core, LOST is a story...a story they are telling. They know what's important and what's not, and they know the story they want to tell. You can either adjust all the time to try to make everyone happy which you know you can't...or, say "to hell with it", tell the story the way you want to tell it and let it be judged on it's own merit knowing you stayed true to how you wanted it.

    2) IMO, these two go hand in hand with Science = Order and Faith = Chaos in the regards of Science "needs" to find an answer for everything and show all it's work....to me...that's "order".

    3) See my take on 1)

    4) I actually understand this. When LOST came out, it was bucking the trend of reality TV being spammed everywhere, so I find it easy to believe their first concern was "not getting cancelled"....then "Oh....we're being picked up for the long haul? Ok....we better start taking some notes".

    by Dinsdale42
  • Djr7

    i agree, it was vague overarching idea that they had, but they had no idea how they'd fill in the blanks

    by Djr7
  • LostFreak408SJ

    I think point 4 is pretty revealing for all those folks that say they had it figured out from the beginning... doesn't sound that way when you read this.

    doesn't mean they didn't have some vague generalized idea, but starting to think the end didn't come to mind until much later in the series.

    by LostFreak408SJ
  • Annied

    Yes, we were talking bout this article last week on Sean Sheeps Blog about how interwoven and important the numbers are. They, Darlton, said that they feel they have already answered the question about the numbers. I was disapointed after reading the article because they came off as dismissive. But I beleive they went on Wired to explain about some theories i.e. the numbers not being addressed for damage control and to manage expectations, specifically with the technological and scientific community. So I felt a little let down by them saying the only answer they owe is about the timelines. It was very clear however, that they use LostPedia as a gauge and surely they saw all of our awesome theories and wanted to say, whoa we are not going there... :)

    by Annied
  • LostFreak408SJ

    Sorry, new at posting links, guess I did it wrong.

    Try this: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_lost/

    by LostFreak408SJ
  • Djr7

    also, the link doesn't work, i can't read the article

    by Djr7
  • Djr7

    I agree with point 1. the only thing I feel owed is a good ending to the show, not an endless supply of answers to minor questions.

    by Djr7

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