Promises were made. Promises should be stuck to. Promises are important. ABC, you’ve broken your promises.
That is how we have come to our conclusion, our inevitable conclusion — you want something from us, you want us — as a people — to stand up and do something or sit down and do something or dance around and do something.
Here’s an idea — rather than just being passive aggressive about the situation, why not actually stop and tell us what it is you want. If we all need to call up two friends who aren’t watching the show and tell them to watch, I think we’ll probably do that… but only after you swear to The Others to fall on your sword before you give us a clip show or a repeat instead of a new episode ever again.
Maybe that’s not what you want, maybe you want us to go around wearing our shirts inside out one day, maybe you want us to… oh heck, we have no idea and we’re not going to bother to guess anymore.
We can make this work, we can try to get you what you want, just stop holding new Lost episodes hostage.
Sincerely,
Some Other Others
Article comments
1 - Travis Johnson
Are we sure that the one repeat and clip show weren't thrown in to give the production more time to complete the season? Or had ABC always had these on the schedule?
2 - Josh Lasser
I'm not sure it matters - the point of starting the season as late as they do is to allow time for production delays and still be able to run straight through.
3 - Travis Johnson
Only reason I bring it up (and forgive me if I get some of the specifics wrong here, I'm going from memory) is that I think it takes about six weeks per episode from script to finished production on average. More complex episodes (like Desmond's time-conscious-hopping trip in season 4) can take up to 11, due to its complexity.
Supposing one or two episodes this year faced similar troubles, I can understand the break. Yeah, it bites, but I'd rather they get it to me a week late and right, rather than on time and mediocre. Again, that's supposing this is even the case.
4 - Phillip Winn
Travis -- then they should have started airing them a week later. They promised!