Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof Interview (Part Two) posted!
Here it is, Part Two of the Carlton Cuse/Damon Lindelof interview!I hope the past couple of days were not too hard on you guys. ;)
Anyway, I wanted to use this opportunity to thank the countless fans who sent in questions (several hundreds of them!).
Obviously I had to make lots of cuts and choices, and basically wanted to ask Carlton and Damon what I thought were interesting questions that many fans had, as well as questions that were not often, if not ever, asked.
I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did making it.
15 comments:
awesome... I can't wait for the last 3 episodes of the season
these people really have alot of imagination!!!keep up!!!
Thanks. I enjoyed reading it. I really wish we could get a straight answer on Libby, but I can understand how it's not important to the end of the show. Their caginess about answering things really makes me even more excited about the last three episodes this season.
Wow.
Thanks for posting only Lost questions - or not! I think this interview had some great parts to it, but you should've asked questions that only pertained to Lost and questions that hadn't already been answered in other outlets.
is there a difference between interview part 1 and part 2? they appear to be the same. maybe i'm just crazy...
Jillian - I think they just added the part 2 bit at the bottom of it, so there's a little bit extra.
ValMo - I think it was difficult as D&C basically said in the interview "yeah we don't really want to answer mythology questions" - so that meant Alex couldn't fire some of Lostpedia's best points at them
Well I love the Darlton, but I gotta say I'm really quite disappointed at how offhandedly they've dismissed the Libby storyline. They did, after all, spend a whole season developing those tailies. The least they could do is give us that one bit of closure.
They say you could ask a thousand fans what questions they want to see wrapped up and you'd get a thousand different answers, but it seems to me, as a reader of multiple LOST forums and a die hard fan within a circle of die hard fans, that A LOT of people would answer "How did Libby end up in that institution with Hurley?"
For crying out loud, we just spent a whole terrific hour, in the second to last season, dealing with MILES' daddy issues and Hurley writing Empire Strikes Back! Are we really going to try and make the argument that as good as the writing on the show is, that it's as tight as Damon and Carlton want to make it sound? That it's too tight to take five minutes of an episode and even just show us visually some connective tissue to put our minds at ease about Libby's storyline?
I mean, this all begs the question of why they were so adamant about setting the sixth season as the definite last season, or 16 episodes at the definite number of episodes. Why not make the number 17 or 18, and let yourselves breathe a little? I mean, geez, I love the show this season, but the Jeremy Bentham episode was super rushed. And Ben's confrontation with Penny was a huge buildup to a really fast payoff.
It reminds me of when people would say to George Lucas "so... why did you decide to start the prequels off with Anakin as a child?" or "Why Jar Jar Binks?" and his answer would always be something like "That's the story. I had no choice. I had to tell the story."
Yeah, like he didn't have the freedom to change the story.
Point is, Damon and Carlton are in the PERFECT position to give us a satisfactory conclusion to Libby's story. They are the HEAD WRITERS.
Daniel Lee Hit it SQUARE. ON. THE. HEAD. Everyone please read what he wrote again. An emphatic +1. Someone please send Daniel's post to Darlton. Great points about Bentham being rushed, fans deserving and wanting a payoff on Libby, not to mention the need to reconsider the Sixth season as the final one. There is so much left in the story to tell, I don't like this idea that we are going to get a fast food ending with all of the deeper tapestry and characters unresolved just so Darlton et al can say they wrapped the main storyline. It seems unfair to the people who have been fans of the show.
I hope Darlton is listening and won't be as dismissive in the shows resolution as they were in the interview. :S
Well said Daniel.
Anonymous and Daniel Lee,
The key quote in Cuse's response is the following:
"It's impossible to tie up every loose end...honestly, Libby's story is incredibly tangential to the principle action on the show."
It's irrelevant how Libby got to the mental institution. What matters for the story of the episode ("Dave") was that she was there. The story telling technique is sort of like life. Most of the time we don't see how people got somewhere and where they go afterward. We see them in one moment.
You have to write within the story you have. Consider how Miles and Faraday were supposed to have flashbacks in Season 4, but didn't because of the writers' strike. They got their flashback episodes in Season 5 instead. Do you think the episodes are exactly the same as they would have been in Season 4? No, but I'm sure the gist is the same. For instance, I bet they were going to reveal that PF Chang is Miles father in Season 4, but instead decided to do so in "Some Like It Hoth." The reveal probably would have had more punch last season, but they had to deal with the situation they had.
The most important point to take away from this interview is that every question we have is not going to be answered. They're going to answer the big questions, and then we're going to have to:
1. Deduce the small answers from the big answers.
2. Deal with not getting some of the small answers.
And if you disagree with that, well then:
Shut up, you're wrong.
(You could also check out my LOST column on my blog. Yes, that plug was both awesome and shameless.)
You're a Moron. And a spammer. So double moron. GFY.
Nothing wrong with a little shameless plug at the end of a thoughtful discussion.
If it's not important enough to answer in the show, why not just come right out and tell us what happened to Libby?
I absolutely agree with Daniel Lee. That fantastic show ending scene we see libby in the mental institution is one of the most representative ones, and it's a big part of the essence of why the show is loved world wide. They can't just overlook that.
And Jayemel, let me tell you something, the story telling technique is NOTHING like life. The story telling is more like a spider's net, very carefully and thoughrougly built, but it all has to come together and make sense in the end. And even though I agree that they can't tie up every loose end (and I dont't expect them to do so), I think it's pretty clear that is not just ANY loose end.
Coming to think of it, if I knew at that moment that I would never get the Libby story, I don't know if I would have continued to watch it. That is how much that story means to me and I'm sure I speak for many others when I state that. Regardless of how "tangential" they consider it to be.
It's only seen as 'tangential' now because it's been a long time since it happened.
That's what really annoys me about D&C's attitude to these things. "It happened ages ago, so it doesn't matter any more" seems to be their prevailing attitude these days. In LOST, a show which places heavy emphasis on cyclic themes (heck, it has FLASHBACKS and FLASHFORWARDS) you'd think they'd show a little more respect for the show's past, not just its present and future. Ever since S4 the writers have been so caught up in new ideas that they've been almost dismissive towards the mysteries of the earlier seasons.
I know people say that fans over-analyse, and it's true, but in a show like LOST the writers shouldn't be so flippant. They created and hyped the Libby mystery themselves - just because they don't have the attention span to follow them up, doesn't give them the right to show contempt for the fans who still care.
If it didn't matter, they shouldn't have introduced it in the first place.
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