The popular science fiction display, but the disregard for it is responsible for the Lost structure

Just as “Lost” had a great impact on many of the shows that will come after, “she lost” herself only because of other leading TV programs from previous years. The most obvious effect is “Twin Peaks”, “ Show mystery from the early nineties that adopted its strangest sides to the joy (and frustration) of fans everywhere.

Perhaps the biggest influence was the TV series in the 1990s “Babylon 5”, which was broadcast on the Pten network (later turned into TNT) Starting in 1993. “Babylon 5,” unfortunately, he did not maintain the same continuous cultural importance that “Twin Peaks” followed, but by the early first decade of the twentieth century, it was certainly new in the mind of the show “Lost” DAMON Lindelof. in 2016 interview with LightSpeed ​​magazineThe creator, Babylon, explained.

“When Damon Lindlaov came to develop” lost, “said Strakinski. He pointed out that after “Babylon 5” ended, long -term arches began to become the new thing that everyone in Hollywood wanted to start: “I held a meeting in a network two years ago where I was talking about an offer that I would like to do with the five -year -old arc, and the main man in the room said,” A look at people all the time they say “we want to do in the five years.” They can never be successfully pulled; I invented it, well? “

As the already missing “missing” fans teach, the long -term plan was always chaotic. The width was constantly rising while flying, sometimes due to the sudden departure and sometimes due to the intervention of the network. Their early plans were for more 3 arc seasonIt is not a 5 -season season, but in some respects, it was “lost” a victim of its success; While “Babylon 5” was reasonablely popular as the science fiction shows, “Lost” has been a complete prevailing phenomenon since the first day. ABC wanted to withdraw their profitable offer for up to ten seasons, and in the end, writers and executives It came to a 6 -season compromise.

But despite the “missing” chaos of production, he did a work worthy of maintaining a continuous, coherent story for years at a time. The exhibition contains many continuous stories that eventually connect to fun and satisfactory ways; It is likely that my favorite was when we discovered that my father John Locke is the same as the man who was deceiving (and indirectly killing) my father Sawyer. The detection was slowly prepared for three straight seasons, and its climax in one of the best rings in the entire show. Was the detection planned from the beginning, or did the book find it at the present time? In the end, it does not matter; It was exciting for television in both cases.

The most impressive section of “Lost” is the period of the second half of the third season (after ABC agreed to the date of the end of the sixth season) until the end of the fifth season (where they concluded the Dharma plot in the 1970s). This was the show in the most anti -sin and fast, and surprisingly how long they managed to keep the chain before it was running out of steam. Say what you want Season 6 of “Lost”, But these two seasons and a half before they certainly do the book “Babylon 5” are proud.