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Lost Will Kill Epic Television, Claims Producer
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06/10/09
"By calling it quits at the end of Season 6, which no hit television show has ever done historically, especially a show that's had this worldwide success, popularity...."
No show has ever called it quits before? I think not. BSG and "The Wire" Come to mind.
And killing the epic drama? LOST doesn't hold that much power. If it ends badly, the geek community will rant for a while(including me), then move on to something else. It won't effect anything in the long run.
The real teller will be the budgets the networks approve. It has nothing to do with LOST.
Hopefully the networks find another epic show to push. These always are the biggest money makers, even if they are expensive to produce.
And at least it will HAVE an ending. I was a little worried about that. NO SPIN-OFFS PLEASE.
/rant sorry about the long comment
06/10/09
I don't think you can call The Wire or BSG "hit" shows, which is the actual statement. The implication is that the show is still going strong ratings-wise and COULD be milked to death. The Wire and BSG had devoted followings, but never large numbers and certainly not at the end. They weren't kept around for their popularity. Lost has seen some decline but it's still a big deal as network TV goes.
Seinfeld quit after 9, which is the closest thing I can think of.
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06/10/09
LOST isn't going to kill epic TV -- it's merely going to be the last one standing that started out epic.
The networks are in such financial trouble that they are never again going to approve a show that has such a huge cast, shoots on location in an expensive place, that you have to watch all the ep's to understand it. They simply can no longer afford this kind of show.
I like what he said about the ending -- we might not care for all the resolution, but by golly it's going to have an ending, and not just stop.
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06/10/09
Nah, it'll be Quentin Terantino giving a saliva-spraying pitch to some network exec. Either that or it'll end with all the surviving characters attending the movie premiere, and John Travolta will be playing Jack.
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06/10/09
bah - I still say they'll zoom out to show the Corona bottles. :P One, giant, Corona ad.
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06/10/09
Instead what we got were "makes no sense" plot and character development from Battlestar Galactica, with mysteries created simply for the sake of creating mysteries, as opposed to actually advancing the story.
Heroes and TSCC may also have fallen prey to the same syndrome. As compared to what you might ask? "24" is the champ for pacing and story development with every episode. That's the kind of writing I'd like to see emulated by other series.
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Make that _two_ glaring exceptions. Tony sorta died (but they never actually _said_ he was dead; they just let us/Jack assume that he was), and Jack most definitely died (but he got better, thanks to some electro-shock therapy). Everyone else, so far, has either died for good, or they've revealed the death to actually be some sort of deception, like giving Nina the armored jacket in the first season.
06/10/09
have you seen season 7? sure, they provided a "plausible" explanation to why he might not have died, and we didn't actually "see" him die before, but he was for sure, absolutely, 100%, dead.
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Jack absolutely does count, because (unlike Tony) they pointedly confirmed that he was dead, on-screen, before they shocked him back to life.
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FOX is already getting the whole "killing epic television" job done.
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I was about to say that CBS is the only network that's not (ABC did cancel Pushing Daisies, after all), but then I remembered that they're running NCIS:LA starring friggen Chris O'Donnell. I'm not sure if that puts them on top of the pile, or way at the bottom.