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Lost: it's only just begun

Temis the Vorta

Temis the Vorta

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How can ABC give up on a franchise that can strike fear (and State of the Union rescheduling) into the heart of the most powerful man in the world?

The answer: THEY CAN'T!

Milk it baby! Milk it to the max!!!!

In the short run, that could mean "Lost" novelizations and comicbooks, as well as gaming extensions, digital distribution, recut "Lost" DVDs and an oft-rumored "Lost" amusement park attraction. But further down the road, that might also mean a new TV or feature take on "Lost," complete with new auspices and cast -- in other words, "Lost: The Next Generation."
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Lost: the amusement park?!? Not only am I so there, but good luck ever getting me to leave! :rommie::rommie::rommie:

Interesting stuff comparing Lost with Star Trek as franchises. And I can't help thinking that although I loved TOS, I really became a true fanatic only with DS9. There's no law that says a spinoff of Lost couldn't be a DS9 to Lost's TOS.
 
LOST: The Amusement Park.

Best. Idea. Ever.


I think I just died and went to Nerdvana.


I want to go to a gift shop and buy a stuffed little smoke monster.
 
I'm backing up a tractor trailer to the park's loading bays and filling it with Dharma(TM)-brand merchandise of all sorts and sizes.
 
You too can be stuck in The Hatch pressing a button every...er...was it 6 hours? (hasn't seen the eps in awhile)

Bring a friend!
 
DonIago said:
You too can be stuck in The Hatch pressing a button every...er...was it 6 hours? (hasn't seen the eps in awhile)

Bring a friend!
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Every 108 minutes.

While spinoff material going into the Hanso Foundation and stuff like that would be awesome, it's not LOST without the characters like John Locke, Desmond, Penny, Richard and even Jack.
 
Related to the amusement park idea, I just read recently on some Disney boards I visit that fans are apparently starting petitions to get Disneyland to change Tom Sawyer's Island to a Lost island attraction. :lol: That would be fun, but scary!
 
So, the showrunners want to bring the show to a closure, while the network figures that they can make even more money by keeping the show alive somehow. That's nothing new actually. IIRC, the original plan for the show had envisioned a four season run. However, the show's story arcs were then stretched/extended to six seasons, because ABC wanted to keep "Lost" on the air as long as possible.

Well, something tells me that a "Lost" spin-off would suck, especially without the involvment of any of the current producers. I'm happy that Lindelof and Cuse have the chance to bring the story to an end like they envisioned it. Everything else is a bonus if it's halfway decent... or it's something that can be easily ignored if it isn't.
 
I don't think the characters are the holdup to a successful spinoff. Look at how well they come up with new characters like Des, Ben and Miles, and integrate them into the story. There's no reason a bunch of completely new characters couldn't work wonderfully. Just get really fun actors like Zachary Quinto (good suggestion), Alison Mack, B.D. Wong, Peter Coyote, Dean Winters, Sprague Grayden, Christopher Gorham, and Lenny James. That just off the top of my head, but wow, just those folks could form a great core cast to build out from. There are tons of Lost-caliber actors out there.

The holdup is much harder to pin down: the tone. It's stuff like the wackiness of the Orientation Video; having computer tech from the 80s; introducing a high school chemistry teacher like Arzt and just blowing him up out of the blue; having Sayid take a walk on the beach and find a cable that runs out to the ocean; the four-toed statue; and all that stuff. It all adds up to something unique that would be very hard if not impossible for other writers to replicate. Just look at the way ABC and other networks have tried and failed to replicate whatever it is that makes Lost a success. They really don't know what it is, much less how to imitiate it.
 
I think the Island is mysterious enough to introduce plenty of new stories, but I think it would extremely difficult to pull off! Maybe it could take place in the future and have adult versions Aaron and Walt as the main characters.
 
I think it is still a bit early to speculate on what any follow up to Lost might be.

I mean if the series ends with the island being "discovered" by the rest of the world, then that would make any future series, book, film quite a different beast then if say, the island is sent back in time to 2000BC at the end of the series.

If all the main characters end up staying on the island and living on it happily ever after at the end of the series then any future project would have to take into account that all these characters are still there.

You get my point. Until we know how this series ends, we won't know how or what form any future project could take. It's not like Star Trek where they could just move the action to a different location in Space (DS9, the Delta Quadrant, etc...) because the Star Trek setting covers a huge volume of space, with lots of different races, locations, etc... Unless there are other "islands" out there still hidden away, any new project will have to take place on, around or about "our" island. And we still don't know howit's going to end up.
 
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