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Originally Posted by Lostie!
Well you never know if someone is planning on starting the show, I'd only feel right talking about the ending without tags in an actual Lost thread 
I do get all that tbh, as I say there are gripes I totally agree with but I do also think it gets more flack than it deserves in some regards
But with Westworld they have said they have like 5 seasons mapped out in advance so I like to think they know exactly where they plan on going with it and already know the outcomes to the mysteries they've set up (even if they don't get that far). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until they prove otherwise anyway |
I think the problem with Lost, and a lot of the "earlier" shows with grand concepts and over-arching plots actually, was that they didn't start out with a clear idea of how many seasons they were going to be running for, so they didn't know how to pace the story and ended up having to create "filler content" in the middle, only to then have to slightly rush the final seasons. There are a greater number of shows with these large season-and-whole-show spanning plots these days and they've learned to at least aim for an end date ("We're aiming for 5/6/7 seasons") and they have proper 1st/2nd/3rd "acts" planned. Lost was really one of the first to negotiate that, I believe, it was sort of a big thing when they and the network announced I think in '07(?) that a full deal had been agreed with the network and it was DEFINITELY going to end in 2010... rather than renewals being indefinite hand in hand with ratings which just wouldn't have worked for a show like Lost. It would either have waffled on for years, or been cancelled at short notice with a rushed half-season summing up. Or both!
. But they really paved the way for writers planning shows with set lengths, that we often see now.