The Tail Section

Damon wrote a piece for the New York post that turned into a scathing bit of catharsism directed at all this ending of Lost angst.  Where did it all start, anyways?   Was it the quick rush of bloggers, such as myself, to editorialize on Lindelof and Cuses’s reactions to the Sopranos ending, which brought a flurry of "Lost won’t pull a Sopranos" damage control? 

The one thing you have to love about Damon Lindelof is the way he wears his frustration on his sleeve. A lot of producers just seem to be doing the walking on water routine 24/7 until one of their actors grabs another one by throat, or someone makes fun of libertarians.  Even then, the network usually steps in to clap their hands over everybody’s mouths.  Lindelof is never afraid to fire snark at the shows inconstant fan base, or even the publics appetite for cookie cutter entertainment.

Rich Pundit pointed me to an article by Lindelof in the New York Post that provides even more insight to both Lindelof’s philosophy on how to properly end a grand mythology, seasoned with enough of his signature wit to light a fire in your belly.  Example:

"We Yanks, however, do not want froufrou endings. We want things definitively tied up.

And by ‘things’ I mean lots of people dead. And by ‘definitively tied up’ I mean in excruciating ways that ideally involve lots of gratuitous explosions.

We really like gratuitous explosions. And we like it when characters have pithy catchphrases as the embers rain down on them in slow motion. Like, ‘You should quit smoking, McCorkle.’

Over here at the TV show ‘Lost,’ we’ve announced our grand finale 48 short episodes from now. Shockingly, the pundits have already announced that they pre-hate it. The prevailing sentiment seems to be that our ending will be either too wacky to make sense or too anticlimactic to have justified the six seasons preceding it.

I am thrilled by this assessment as there is almost certainly nowhere to go but up."

The full article can be read here.

First, gotta love the use of the word ‘pithy,’ absolute evidence that Damon read "How to Draw Comics the Marvel way."  (Or maybe not.)

Regardless, even though we know that none of this article has any bearing on how Lindelof and company are planning to end Lost make no mistake about it, Lost’s PR crew is readying "Lost will not end with death and explosions" articles as I type.