{"id":1876,"date":"2009-03-27T19:31:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T02:31:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-24T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T03:26:33","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1876\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Last (Lost) Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/handheld\/30246.html\">Damon Lindelof talking about Lost (TV) mythology<\/a>, some time ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;We&#8217;re still trying to be &#8230; firmly ensconced in the world of science fact,&#8221; he said in an interview. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve shown anything on the show yet &#8230; that has no rational explanation in the real world that we all function within. We certainly hint at psychic phenomena, happenstance and &#8230; things being in a place where they probably shouldn&#8217;t be. But nothing is flat-out impossible. There are no spaceships. <u>There isn&#8217;t any time travel<\/u>.&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then I guess I&#8217;m quite right when I said that Lost degraded into a silly sci-fi hack as an excuse to pan the plot further.<\/p>\n<p>The last season is entirely a jump on the place. No going forward. The last episode (&#8220;He&#8217;s Our You&#8221;) was splendidly written and executed. But it was also a fraud.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one true theme in this show, self-referential and metalinguistic: it&#8217;s about the vanity of its writers. It&#8217;s about how much and for how long they can cheat you.<\/p>\n<p>Masterful work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damon Lindelof talking about Lost (TV) mythology, some time ago: &#8220;We&#8217;re still trying to be &#8230; firmly ensconced in the world of science fact,&#8221; he said in an interview. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve shown anything on the show yet &#8230; that has no rational explanation in the real world that we all function within. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,35],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blog","tag-lost_tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}