LOSTblog: Damon Lindelof: “FRINGE Was My Idea. MINE”

Friday, November 20, 2009

Damon Lindelof: “FRINGE Was My Idea. MINE”

Of course he’s joking

Watch Damon talk about LOST’s final season and the next Star Trek movie on the video below:

Damon also spoke with IGN:

So will this final season answer all our queries? Because, you know, we’ve got a lot. “We’re sort of presenting our best version of the show, and there are going to be some very conclusive elements to this season,” said Lindelof. “But at the same time, it wouldn’t be Lost if there wasn’t sort of grounds for debate amongst the fans.” Does Lindelof ever go online to check out all the theories that have been tossed around on the boards? “You can go crazy if you jump down the rabbit hole of what are people’s theories and how close they are to what it is we’re doing,” Lindelof stated. “But I think there is something rewarding about when you throw like a little Easter egg out there,” said. “And somebody goes, ‘Wait a minute. I found this. And this is what I think it means.’ You kind of sit back in your chair and say, ‘Thank god.’ Because there’s nothing worse than hiding an Easter egg and then nobody finds it.” talked a little bit about the show’s final season and the endgame we’ve all been patiently awaiting. “Every season sort of brings its own challenges,” Lindelof offered. “Obviously last year was like, how do you do time travel in a new and inventive way without confusing people or being too weird?” Lindelof went on to say that the obvious challenge for this season was being able to end the show correctly. “I do feel like one of the things that

Are the producers and writers scaling back on their creative supplemental web-content this year? “This year we’re really just focused on the mothership, the show itself,” Lindelof admitted. “And the idea of sort of doing all these little net adventures was something that was more applicable to past seasons.” And what about all the net-rumors regarding former cast members, some dead favorites, returning to the show for a final bow? “Obviously in last year’s finale we posited the possibility of sort of changing the flow of history itself,” Lindelof recounted. “So that would mean that characters who were dead wouldn’t be technically dead if they died on the island.” Lindelof, however, was not ready to reveal any names. We’ll just have to wait and see. And by wait, I mean really wait, because one of the marketing strategies heading into Season 6 involves not leaking any footage. Both Lindelof and Carlton Cuse feel that if the audience caught site of any imagery from the upcoming episodes that they’d immediately know what they were up regarding the fallout from the Season 5 finale.