Saturday, November 28, 2009

How television show "Lost" should end.

A few months back I'd caught up with the final season of the television show "Lost" after promising not to ever go back after the third season (where I felt they dropped the ball and pretty much stretched out the show in order to make 100 episodes). Anyhow, after hearing how the show got back it's footing, I decided to take a peak because the show is very similar to my film "The Skeleptica Effect" where it's all about these characters that motivate the story.

Okay so I was impressed with the idea of time travel or displacement and the unexpected changes throughout the show. A week after I was up to speed, I called a friend of mine (a devout fan)and we discussed the fifth season's finale. Now the idea that the plane crash never happened interested me. I told him my story line for the final season which would be a complete 180 where the crash never happens and they move totally away from the island, the plane lands safely and now we start with sort of a re-telling of how the characters actually meet and how some fall in love.
I think that hardcore fans might be upset in the beginning after not having a lot of questions answered. But hasn't that been the mystery of the show from the start?
After a while the audience whom has been so vested into the show would get sucked back into the characters and adjust. It would be no different than comic book writers who re-create Superhero origins.

My story lines would definitely explore:

- Jack & Kate
- Sawyer & Juliet
- Hurley & Libby
- Boone & Maggie (Before Boone became a vampire and Maggie got Taken)
- Charlie & Claire
- Desmond & Penelope

Now it would be true genius if the creators who have been stating (over and over) that "we know how it's all going to end" if they had filmed a majority of Season 6 when they got the okay to either start Season 1 or 2, in order to keep the continuity of the "Michael and Walt" storyline. But I have to snap out of the reality of how I would have created this show (of course my show would definitely have the finale locked down before typing in one word of Season one. In screenwriting you learn to know you're ending before you start your beginning. Maybe I'm not giving the show writers enough credit and getting ahead of myself here). Okay but that would be BIG if they did such...

Also some of the non passengers would play significant roles (Linus), others minor (a la Kiele Sanchez as Nikki Fernandez, another through away storyline to stretch...)
BUT Definitely more Cheech Marin.

I am actually curious as to how it will all end and yet I'm predicting a let down with some little kid playing with an Oceanic model airplane that he lands onto his sandbox in the backyard... Uh Oh!

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