Lost's Damon Lindelhof
Apr. 3rd, 2006 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxI can't help it. I like LOST's Damon Lindelhof because he's honest, which I've found is rather refreshing for a show runner. I'm so used to doublespeak and sucking up to TWOP that I rather like someone just admitting the truth. I like that he knows and we should know that there's no way to live up to unrealistic expectations, so you just have to do the best you can (would that some other showrunners would be as honest with themselves and fans.)
Excerpts from Lindelhof's talk with Wrongda (No actual spoilers:)
As you message boarders know, before he and I spoke this week, I asked for your input on what questions you'd like to know, and I was able to tackle the most popular burning queries regarding our favorite islanders. Here's what I learned:
A Lostie Is Found: Damon (who, by the way, has stellar taste in television, including a love of Prison Break) also happens to be a fan of 24 and, like us fans, got a kick out of seeing his MIA Desmond [Henry Ian Cusick] coming face to face with Kiefer Sutherland in last week's episode. "He was holding a gun and saying, 'Don't move, or I'll shoot him.' It was the exact same dialogue!" As for the casting of Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) as a kidnapped boy on My Name Is Earl, Damon muses, "Hey, at least we didn't kidnap him...Oh, wait. We did."
The Clues Do Mean Something: Many of you fans wanted to know whether the Easter eggs and hidden "clues" that we online fans obsess over incessantly actually mean something. "I don't spend a lot of time on the Web anymore," Damon admitted, "because, you know, unfortunately Web chatter can be overwhelmingly negative, and it gets in my head. It was so much fun when I was reading about shows I wasn't writing! But people will come up to me and say, 'I saw this. Does this mean anything?' and I'd say that [a large percentage] of the things that people mention to me are intentional."
This Year's Season Finale Is [Fill in the Blank] Compared to Last Year's: When asked if there will be bigger reveals in the season ender, Damon said, "I mean, whatever I say, if I promise we're revealing craploads of mythology, then people's expectations will be high for craploads. 'Well, what is a crapload exactly? Is that more than a bushel?' It's our belief that we're answering questions.[...]when you do something like that and people have to wait for it, the reaction is very commonly, 'You didn't give me enough!' So, I can't really anticipate how people will react."
By the way, did you note that there are 24 hours of Lost this season? Most series only have 22 on network television--aside from, say, Fox's 24. So, to those of you who emailed in with the most asked question--why are there so many stupid reruns?!--be advised that it just feels that way.
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Excerpts from Lindelhof's talk with Wrongda (No actual spoilers:)
As you message boarders know, before he and I spoke this week, I asked for your input on what questions you'd like to know, and I was able to tackle the most popular burning queries regarding our favorite islanders. Here's what I learned:
A Lostie Is Found: Damon (who, by the way, has stellar taste in television, including a love of Prison Break) also happens to be a fan of 24 and, like us fans, got a kick out of seeing his MIA Desmond [Henry Ian Cusick] coming face to face with Kiefer Sutherland in last week's episode. "He was holding a gun and saying, 'Don't move, or I'll shoot him.' It was the exact same dialogue!" As for the casting of Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) as a kidnapped boy on My Name Is Earl, Damon muses, "Hey, at least we didn't kidnap him...Oh, wait. We did."
The Clues Do Mean Something: Many of you fans wanted to know whether the Easter eggs and hidden "clues" that we online fans obsess over incessantly actually mean something. "I don't spend a lot of time on the Web anymore," Damon admitted, "because, you know, unfortunately Web chatter can be overwhelmingly negative, and it gets in my head. It was so much fun when I was reading about shows I wasn't writing! But people will come up to me and say, 'I saw this. Does this mean anything?' and I'd say that [a large percentage] of the things that people mention to me are intentional."
This Year's Season Finale Is [Fill in the Blank] Compared to Last Year's: When asked if there will be bigger reveals in the season ender, Damon said, "I mean, whatever I say, if I promise we're revealing craploads of mythology, then people's expectations will be high for craploads. 'Well, what is a crapload exactly? Is that more than a bushel?' It's our belief that we're answering questions.[...]when you do something like that and people have to wait for it, the reaction is very commonly, 'You didn't give me enough!' So, I can't really anticipate how people will react."
By the way, did you note that there are 24 hours of Lost this season? Most series only have 22 on network television--aside from, say, Fox's 24. So, to those of you who emailed in with the most asked question--why are there so many stupid reruns?!--be advised that it just feels that way.
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