Could it be time for the “Lost” castaways to start packing their bags?
Maybe not just yet, but Executive Producer Carlton Cuse said at a Sunday press panel that the show’s executive producers are in the process of “picking an end point to the show.”
“Once we do that,” he told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, “a lot of the anxiety and a lot of these questions, like, `We’re not getting answers’–a lot of those will go away. [Author] J.K. Rowling has announced that there’s going to be seven Harry Potter books, and it gives everyone a feeling of certainty that the story is driving to a conclusion. It’s time for us now to find an end point for the show.”
“A show like the original `Fugitive’ ended. It was a massive phenomenon,” Executive Producer Damon Lindelof told reporters after the panel session with the “Lost” cast, which included stars Evangeline Lilly and Matthew Fox. “But they had the [guts] to let Richard Kimble catch the one-armed man and end it. If you could make a case for that then, why not now?”
Producers would not offer specifics on when the end would come, but there were a few clues that the show’s fifth season might be its last. After the panel discussion, Lindelof reminded reporters that since the start of the series, which is in its third year, he had thought “Lost” would last “about 100 episodes,” which would add up to about five seasons.
“I would not want to go back now and say, `Oh, now that we’re in Season 3, I think it could go much longer,’ because I think that would be duplicitous,” Lindelof said. “That’s how I felt back at the time [of the show’s debut]; that’s how I still feel.”
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