Milking it.... (Lost)

[Daz]

Surprising like stories of supermodels doing coke:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6633863.stm

There will be three more series of Emmy-winning TV show Lost before it finally ends in 2010.

Really dont think it's going to do the franchise any good dragging it out. I mean think about it, then end of this series will only be the half way point!

Though some positives:

Each series will be 16 episodes with no mid-season break, following complaints the last series was divided in two.

I hope others follow suit with that.

[Fayshun]

Yay to no mid season break!

But 2010? I can't wait that long to find out WTF is going on!

[Belmit]

If it's only 16 episodes a season then it's only 48 more, and more like two series worth, so in fact we're technically past halfway. Hopefully the end of this series will give us at least a small inkling as to what's going on. *Remembers saying that 24 episodes ago*

[Vaultingslinky]

Lol, this disappoints me to think that I will be three years older when I finally find out what on earth is going on.

After hearing that I have decided to stop 'following' the show after the end of this season, and in 2010 I will decide whether to watch the last 48 shows or not.

[Fayshun]

I bet Jack wakes up in the shower at the end of season 6.

/dallas

[Garp]

Originally Posted by kitten_caboodle

I don't think the writers know.

The writers know.. its all mapped out what is actually going on. What they hadn't been told previously was when the end of the show would be, so they've been having to expand and fill the gap with faff to bide the time until they could map out the main story arc. Its been pissing off the writers something chronic from what I've read.

[petemc]

Its surprising that no-one's done it the way B5 did. Write the general story before hand with a fixed end that you can write to. Now that they have an official deadline they can finish the story in a good way, hopefully. The 2nd half of S3 has been classic Lost and recent episodes do seem to hint at a story of sorts. Apparently the S3 finale will take the show in a new direction. I do get the feeling that they're moving things along and I'm glad that I stuck with it, as annoying as it can be

[petemc]

Originally Posted by kitten_caboodle

I thought that was exactly what Jarp said they were doing?

B5 was far more structured. JMS, the writer, knew he would do 5 seasons and what would happen in each. It was a case of it would be a 5 year story and no more. From what I heard about Lost a while back was that they had an ending but they could stretch it out over 7 years if need be. To me that implies that they had a basic beginning middle and end and the rest was just random filler. I would prefer shows to be shorter if they were more entertaining. 16 episodes of great content versus 22 episodes of ok content. The first half of season 3 was basically filler. The producer of the new Battlestar series said similar things when production went from 13 episodes to 20. They had some episodes that weren't up to scratch because they needed filler.

[Mondo]

Originally Posted by petemc

B5 was far more structured. JMS, the writer, knew he would do 5 seasons and what would happen in each. It was a case of it would be a 5 year story and no more. From what I heard about Lost a while back was that they had an ending but they could stretch it out over 7 years if need be. To me that implies that they had a basic beginning middle and end and the rest was just random filler. I would prefer shows to be shorter if they were more entertaining. 16 episodes of great content versus 22 episodes of ok content. The first half of season 3 was basically filler. The producer of the new Battlestar series said similar things when production went from 13 episodes to 20. They had some episodes that weren't up to scratch because they needed filler.

You are right about that, towards the end of season 3 after the eye of Jupiter had a few really dull filler (The flashbacks episodes - about 3 of them!), and it was actually a chore to watch. I loved season 1 and 2 and first half of season 3 but soon as they got off that rock and started to concentrate on the characters only without the threat of the Cylon on their tails all time the tension left.

I've started to watch Buffy the vampire slayer again, up to season 4 now, it really is a much better TV show than most of the stuff out now. Even when a filler episode can be fantastic (Hush - where 95% of the episode was done without dialogue, it was brilliant to watch).

[Admiral Huddy]

Good grief, I'm glad I didn't start watching this. Prison break's bad enough.. I swear that each week different people from the production team convene to discuss what happens next, clkueless of what happened in the previous. I'm conviced that even they don't know what's going to happen. "Ehh something will come up".