Damon Lindelof on Lost - On The Verge

Weirdly, this interview feels like a shared fantasy between Josh Topolsky and the millions of people who tuned into the finale without watching the 2/3 seasons that proceeded it. The worrying part is most people who criticised the ending of Lost hadn’t watched every episode but this dude watched it all and missed the entire point. Embarrassing.

The interviewer clearly didn't understand the backbone and even the whole point if the show. no offense intended, but he clearly shouldn't have been the one to interview him, all i see is him projecting his own thoughts into it, not in the general sense as it should have been, cause he is not there for himself but for the audience.

Fun fact - if you polish Damon Lindelof's head, you get JJ Abrams.

Lost was just lazy writing. The whole show drags you along trying to create one mystery box in another with no real payoff. My guess was like all of Abrams projects there's no writing involved and instead just making nonsense up that sounds interesting to morons.

Damon is an absolute beast in his interview. He stocked to his guns clearly realizes this guy doesn’t understand the show at all. I hope he knows the real fans, who either liked the ending or not understood what they were trying to do and enjoyed the ride

This interviewer didn't even watch the show, or watched it like while making dinner, or he just has agenda of what show needs to be and then was disappointed

Did the interviewer watched Lost or was he preparing the meal at the same time without focusing on the storytelling? Poor Damon!

Respect loved the ending

I loved the wnding

I can see that people think

People tend to not enjoy what they don't understand.

Idk about the interviewer. He seems to want to have a strong opinion for the sake of a strong opinion. He can't say a single thing happened at the end of X-Files, but he knows he didn't like it. I have been rewatching Lost. Im on the 5th season and at this point the mythology is completely coherent and riveting. Im waiting on it to taper off or fall apart but it's pretty clear. I think the ending may have suffered from a visceral group think kneejerk.

I always say, one must meet themselves deeply enough to understand LOST. The deeper you go, and the more you grow, the deeper the appreciation for it. For me, it is an ayahuasca journey televised.

Damon did eventually create the perfect ending with The Leftovers. The ending of Watchmen was good too.

"You have books like the Game of Thrones" that will go on and on."
Oh, my sweet summer child.

Two things.

1. People who usually don't like the finale don't understand it, exhibit A as seen here.

2. People love to say "it doesn't answer all my questions" as a fan who has deep dived into the lore, there is only a handful of questions that aren't answered. You have to dig deep into the supplementals such as novels, ARGs, Podcasts, Interviews, Books and so on. So really the statement should be "the answers are hidden in the supplementals and I can't be arsed to look."

I give credit to the interviewer for having the guts to challenge his subject (Damon) because most interviewers would usually just nod their head and agree with everything, but it’s the way he did it that frustrated me. He obviously wanted to establish that he was the smartest person in the room. He obviously wasn’t. I thought the writers of Lost crafted and weaved a very clever story. I thought the writers made some nice adjustments when they had to because of the stipulations put on them by the network execs, including not giving the writers a definitive end date until three seasons into the show. Kudos to Damon and Carlton for keeping things on track during the adversities. LOST is my favorite show of all time. ❓✈️❔ 🏝️ ❓🥥❔☀️❓🌊❔🦮❓🕰️❔⛴️❓🧨❔4️⃣❓8️⃣❔1️⃣5️⃣❓1️⃣6️⃣❔2️⃣3️⃣❓4️⃣2️⃣❔⌨️EXECUTE…..108:00

Lost is a masterclass on how to troll a television audience

Im going to highly disagree with the idea that Lost never answered any mysteries about the mythology. If you are still sitting here in 2024 and asking why there were polar bears on the Island....thats on you not paying attention. The answers are there you just have to pay attention. Furthermore Lost is the only show in history that is held to a standard that you have to answer every minut detail of every character and every scenario that happens in a 122 episode show. The dho is a masterpiece and i challenge anyone if that still have ambiguity to this show

Never listen to a guy that doesn't know how to trim his mustache seriously.

What an absolute jackass of an interviewer lol

"does it haunt you, bro? does it haunt you?"

This guy didn’t do his homework.

🙎 That narcissistic ending in which you have afterlife self-affirming group therapy for Jack was incompatible with show's unnecessarily convoluted "mythology" imbued with drama, action, science fiction, and religious motifs and concepts.

Lost is just a masterpiece.

"No"😂😂

I wanted to slap the guy giving the interview. He tried to push his own view on Damon like he knew what he was talking about and made a fool of himself. Damon stayed so poised.

He had to explain the ending to this guy 😂. And this is like the majority of people who don't like the show really didn't pay attention to anything. nearly all the mysteries on the show can be explained fairly easily.

The interviewer comes off as just being a whiner.

To be fair, I did not watch the show as it happened. I just finished binge-watching it. I thought the whole thing was brilliant. Maybe this guy should watch the whole thing on Netflix.

Perhaps I lost out on all of the rush or joy of theorizing on a weekly basis. But I think that the rush of theorizing is just a thing outside of television shows. All those theories while watching Game of Thrones and Wandavision and other shows...doesn't really amount to much.

Gosh! That Millennial interviewer is disrespectful to criticize Lindeof’s art / work to his face. 😬 <stomping feet> “It didn’t end the way my reality wanted it to end…!!!” Doesn’t even try to keep the question 3rd person. Lacks the professionalism to keep the question objective.

Just to take the side of the interviewer- what was frustrating is NOT to not have the answers, but is to have ONE answer to all mysteries = purgatory.
Leave it all to interpretation and better answer nothing, like Stephen King does often. Or, if you had hard sci-fi themes- stick to them till the end. Because you can be ambiguous with science but never with religion- which is, again, finite, rather all encompassing. Religion is at the end of the day a far too simple solution for all the complex mysteries involved.

These writers were clearly like me in their insights and curiosity. Equally important; they assumed I was smart. So I was along for the brilliant storytelling ride on which they were taking me. I loved the ending so much and, when I found myself asking about unanswered questions, I was so glad they didn't answer them because it left the mythology of the show intact.
Watching this is very validating, and I would add that there's a stupidity to those feeling the opposite from me about the ending. It's seems apparent that if one is upset with the ending of "LOST," one is probably keen on comedies with laugh tracks and dramas in which good guys wear white and bad guys wear black. To each their won, I suppose. Also, my dad can beat up your dad.

x files never had an ending bro. It had a last episode for the original series but it didn't resolve enough of the show. And the extra seasons they've had since then haven't fully resolved it either. Or at least, that's how it felt. Perhaps I need to rewatch some of that or someone's recaps. I love xfiles but it definitely feels like it never ended and won't ever end.

"No actually youre sat on my couch ,that says everything about this guy , control freak , big ego

Most of the fans who didn’t like the ending are frigging crybabies. The show ended perfectly. It was never about all the answers or scripting a perfect scenario from start to finish. That’s not how things work. The show is always about the characters and the journey and if you don’t get that, then you don’t deserve to be a fan

Just competed a rewatch in 2024. The show isn't perfect, but it's close, and it's aged like a fine wine

The Interviewer was ahead of his time 😂😂

how this guy didnt know things on the island really happened ?! sh*t journalist......c ya in another life, brotha

baffled this interviewer calls this his job- what an absolute donut.

Is this interviewer mentally challenged?

While I ultimately really liked the finale, no they weren't all dead the whole time, BUT they were all dead at the end, can be a bit confusing for the more casual viewer.

The interviewer is so disappointing to watch!
Kudos to Damon, i love this guy!!

im just curious, what happened to Desmond? He didnt make it to the plane, but i assume he met up with Ben and Hurley and found a way