Thanks for the condescending “Actually” but they’re relative nobodies next to JJ. JJ could tug a string and get anything he wants to happen. He’s the only one with big enough clout to go up against the company and affect mandate on show finishing/continuation.

… and it shade a light on this question.

For some reason that cracked me up. Shade and light… sounds like another episode title. i think the most interesting comment in the interview was that they know exactly what the monster is and when and where to use it; it’s relieving to know that they have definite plan for some of the stuff.

All my friends have left Lost behind, mainly because of the lack of concrete answers. Occasionally it annoyed me, especially when they’d claim that the writers just “made it up as they went along”, which is true of lots of shows; but it’s nice to know that in some aspects at least they have a sense of direction.

In example, the scene where Pickett was going to execute Sawyer – if we knew that Sawyer would never die, that scene would lose impact and not be as powerful.

joe wrote:

one of the things i really like about lost is the ongoing dialogue between the producers and the fans – it’s really quite comforting to know that damon knows the introduction of nikki and paolo wasn’t handled as smoothly as it could have been.. which makes me excited to see how he will compensate for it once we see a flashback that explains a bit about where they’ve been the entire time.

Yeah, I agree. It feels great to know that they are aware of the fan opinion. I have faith in the writers, if Damon says that Paulo and Nikki have a purpose they probably do, but it will certainly be interesting to see what that purpose is, haha =)

Hi KJ,

Thank you for your explanation, this is very interesting and it shade a light on this question.

However, I don’t feel this way, I love the characters and I just think their death is bad for the show. And I am speaking about “popular and beloved characters”, like Eko.
Unlike him, the death of Libby and Ana-Lucia were an amazing surprise (really) and one of the greatest moment of season 2.

I really didn’t like Eko’s death, I am still pissed off with it. The show’s gonna miss him so much !!

Therefore, I think there are characters you can kill and others you can’t, this is a rule !

For instance, in “24″ we know J.Bauer never dies, does it make the show any worse ?
In my mind, not at all. Well I expect the same from Lost. Some characters embody the show itself, and I couldn’t bear the death of either Locke, Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Desmond, or Sayid (and maybe Hurley, Charlie and Claire).

If you wanna the other ones killed (Juliet, Ben, Nikki, Rousseau, Bernard, Dr Azt …) okay, but Eko was not part of them !
Otherwise we can also kill all of them to make the suspense bigger and bigger (who will be the survivor ?) but there’s no more Lost.

Happy New Year to everybody.