George Lucas letter to Lost producers

[13Gigatons]

Here's the text of the letter:

Congratulations on pulling off an amazing show. Don't tell anyone ... but when 'Star Wars' first came out, I didn't know where it was going either. The trick is to pretend you've planned the whole thing out in advance. Throw in some father issues and references to other stories -- let's call them homages -- and you've got a series.

In six seasons, you've managed to span both time and space, and I don't think I'm alone in saying that I never saw what was around the corner. Now that it's all coming to an end, it's impressive to see how much was planned out in advance and how neatly you've wrapped up everything. You've created something really special. I'm sad that the series is ending, but I look forward to seeing what you two are going to do next.

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/05/lost-gets-a-letter-from-george-lucas.html

 

[montypythizzle]

Wow, 6 years ago? I remember when this came out. :/

 

[AndroidVageta]

Wow...this is what I always thought he did with the SW saga...I mean, sure it all fits together, but episodes 1-3 and 4-6 seemed so different...attached at the hip yes, but two totally different people...if that makes sense.

Either case, not surprising.

 

[LTC8K6]

Spielberg wanted the shark to be the star of Jaws. The shark was going to be prominently visible in the movie. Problem was, the shark rarely worked, so they couldn't use it that way. They had to shoot the movie a whole different way because the shark was a piece of crap.

Not seeing the shark turned out to be a much more suspenseful and better movie.

The movie would have been a stinker if Spielberg had shot it the way he actually wanted to.

 

[Crono]

As far as I know, Abrams sketched out the general framework for the series at the very beginning, and then left the details to be worked out by Carlton and Cuse later on when he went on to focus on other projects. I think it's been said that there is some flexibilities and contingencies in the plot by Carlton and Cuse for eventualities like actors leaving or things like Walt growing up.

I doubt it's like with Star Wars, where the success of it spawned unplanned sequels with no thought-out history.

 

[V00DOO]

I stopped watching Lost midway thru last season. Should I continued watching? Did the last season answer anything?

 

[mmntech]

Spielberg wanted the shark to be the star of Jaws. The shark was going to be prominently visible in the movie. Problem was, the shark rarely worked, so they couldn't use it that way. They had to shoot the movie a whole different way because the shark was a piece of crap.

Not seeing the shark turned out to be a much more suspenseful and better movie.

The movie would have been a stinker if Spielberg had shot it the way he actually wanted to.

Wait for the special edition with updated CGI graphics. You're going to be seeing more sharks than you can handle.

 

[mugs]

That's funny, because Lost reminds me a lot of George Lucas. The first ~3 seasons were great, but then it went in a totally ridiculous direction. The last few seasons of Lost are what you'd get if you had George Lucas and M. Night Shyamalan competing to write the biggest piece of trash. It's going to end with Hurly waking up at the end of flight 815 and realizing it was all a dream. It's the only ending that would make sense.

 

[silverpig]

I stopped watching Lost midway thru last season. Should I continued watching? Did the last season answer anything?

There was a line in last week's episode that was very apropos.

"Every question I answer will just bring up two more."

 

[V00DOO]

There was a line in last week's episode that was very apropos.

"Every question I answer will just bring up two more."

So I am not missing anything!

 

[Crono]

There was a line in last week's episode that was very apropos.

"Every question I answer will just bring up two more."

What I take from that is that the writers are crazy and want to murder pregnant women. D:

 

[Patranus]

LOST was good the first few seasons when everything was (somewhat) based in reality.

Now it is 'lost'.

 

[Perknose]

I stopped watching Lost midway thru last season. Should I continued watching? Did the last season answer anything?

Well, the dinosaurs that suddenly came down from that cloud obscured plateau in the middle of the island certainly caused unforeseen complications, but then the aliens who crashed landed on the northeast quadrant of the island in what looked for all the world like an intergalactic xylophone gave the dinos dino herpes causing the entire herd to thunder out into the ocean to drown themselves in sexual shame which led to the tsunami that was only counteracted by that low yield nuclear explosion but, well, YES, if you must know, the last episode of last season DID explain everything, and not just all the plot points of the show.

It explained everything!

It was awesome!

Sorry you missed it, but they promised right at the end of that episode never to show it again. I believe they destroyed the negative and all the copies.

Frankly, the crudely animated cartoon sequences that make up the majority of this season's shows feel like anti-climatic rip-offs.

Don't bother picking up the show again. You'll be terribly disappointed.

 

[Perknose]

So I am not missing anything!

Unless you consider the ongoing full frontal nudity that each of the female characters inexplicably adopted somewhere around the middle of last season -- come to think of it, probably around the time you said you stopped watching -- something, then, no, you're not missing anything.

And I take you for a man who's probably not that shallow. :thumbsup:

 

[Kev]

I stopped watching Lost midway thru last season. Should I continued watching? Did the last season answer anything?

don't bother

 

[ManBearPig]

Wait for the special edition with updated CGI graphics. You're going to be seeing more sharks than you can handle.

is it in 3D!?!??!?!

 

[Pegun]

I stopped watching Lost midway thru last season. Should I continued watching? Did the last season answer anything?

I would say watch it in a couple weeks so you can watch straight through to the end. From what I hear, starting this episode and then the next two, all the questions are going to be answered, but it wouldn't surprise me if the last episode ends on a cliff hanger to allow for a "LOST - The movie" or some other BS followup.

 

[dwell]

I always knew Lucas was making it up as he went along. No ways Luke would have tonged Leia if he had written in the sister thing when he wrote Empire.

 

[foghorn67]

Spielberg wanted the shark to be the star of Jaws. The shark was going to be prominently visible in the movie. Problem was, the shark rarely worked, so they couldn't use it that way. They had to shoot the movie a whole different way because the shark was a piece of crap.

Not seeing the shark turned out to be a much more suspenseful and better movie.

The movie would have been a stinker if Spielberg had shot it the way he actually wanted to.

The shark almost ate someone too. I think Spielberg almost got his head bitten off, and was pulled away at the last millisecond.