This excerpt from “The Revolution Will Be Televised” proves what I suspected all along: not only did the writers and producers of LOST have no idea what the island was when they made it up … they also had no idea why the series turned out to be a hit … no idea what to do once it did … and no idea how to end it once the time came.
It’s okay, when you’re in the middle of writing a story, not to know how everything turns out. It’s okay for the story to surprise you, for characters to do unexpected things, for the plot to diverge from what you expected.
What’s not okay is to sell me a puzzle, promise that the puzzle has a solution, and have no clue, even as you sell it to me, how the puzzle is going to be solved.
(A tip of the hat to Raymond Duke, in whose Google Plus stream I found this behind-the-scenes gem.)
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