For L O S T fans: A history of how the show came to be

[Yavin4]

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The creation of Lost defies nearly everything we know about how successful television shows — or great ones — are made. The idea for Lost came not from a writer, but a network executive. The first writer on the project got fired. The replacement creative team had a fraction of the usual time to write, cast, and produce a pilot episode. The executive who had championed the show was himself fired before it ever aired. One of the two creators all but quit the moment the pilot was finished. Nearly every creative decision at the start of the show was made under the assumption that it would never succeed. Everyone believed it was too weird, too dense, too unusual to work. And it may have been. But it worked, anyway.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8670609/alan-sepinwall-origins-lost

[mainstreetonce]

1. Thank you

For posting that.

I will be LOST forever.

[undeterred]

2. No, thats the history of DU

I'm sure of it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. So the wreckage on the beach is just pieces of Grovelbot?

As God is my witness, I thought robots could fly.

[graywarrior]

3. L O S T

I miss it.

[flying rabbit]

4. Thanks for this.

[ChromeFoundry]

5. I miss "LOST"

sure beat the snot out of all those lame "reality" shows on these days.

[LeftinOH]

7. I started watching it a few weeks ago (on Netflix); never watched

it when it was still on the air. Difficult to follow, but I keep watching.

[antiquie]

8. Still waiting

for the real Lost ending...