something i wrote to a buncha whiny, annoying LOST fans that happen to be my friends, lol
i DON’T think the show is made up on the fly. it’s all just WAY too complicated. the map, the hatches, the others, dharma, hanso, the religion, the science, the character subtext. no way this is being slapped together haphazardly. I DO think things change during production and not everything goes as planned and accomadations need to made from time to time. these things dictate what plot tid-bits are brought to light, when they’re brought to light, and also what things have to be put off or accelarated in order to preserve a good pay-off. the details on that scrawled map will CERTAINLY be a guide to the trajectory of the WHOLE next season, if not the whole series. like finding the hatch was to the second season. i have faith in the deliberate pacing. theres an ARC at work. 5+ seasons long or so they say. do you think they will make the same mistake the producers of the X-files and Alias made when everyone is throwing that in their face every single day? unlike a lot of show producers these dudes take what the fans say and debunk it as the series progresses! hurley’s ‘time travel’ and ‘everyone is a part of his own personality’ gags. also the sun and walt ‘are we being punished’ thing. these dudes are dancing a pretty amazing jig, if you ask me.
NOW as for stuff that was introduced and never really devoloped: Jack will still build a little army and Jack will have a war—BEGINNING at the end of this season. Ecko is building a Church—watch. Desmond will be back—super soon. the sickness—i dunno. i still think the time frame Frenchy mentioned hasn’t arrived. theres more, but i forget them now.
ADDITIONALLY: there are a few things that i don’t know how to read and that’s Locke’s erratic behavior, Charlies dark side stuff, and Sawyers gun-hoarding thing. these seem like accomadations and/or devices that exist to make later occurances more believable. can’t really vouch for those things. again, there are more but i forget them now.
another thing i read from the producers: with all the people going on about the breaks in the season. they’re going to remedy that next season by doing three “mini-seasons.” 7 episodes, 7 episodes, 8 episodes. with an undetirmined amount of time between the blocks. i like the sound of that a lot.