Cuse: “Season 6 Will Have a Fairly Significant Spiritual Bent”
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Carlton Cuse at Bumbershoot (09/07/09)
Kudos to Brooks from popdistillery.com for this report from yesterday’s LOST panel in Seattle:
Today at Seattle’s music and arts festival Bumbershoot, three writer/producers of Lost announced that when the show finishes its sixth and last season next year, not every skull-scratching, mind-blowing, jaw-gaping-mouth-breathing mystery will be answered.
This is a good thing.
As executive producer Carlton Cuse explained, sometimes not knowing the whole story is more interesting and more fulfilling than knowing, and he wisely offered Star Wars’ midi-chlorians as an example. What gives mysteries their power is, well, how mysterious they are, and taking that away can take away the fun. So not everything on Lost will be made clear, but Cuse (along with executive producers Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz) said that the creative team does have a road map of what they think must be explained. My question is, are the things I desperately need explained the things that the writers want to explain? I damn well hope so.
Other tidbits from the panel, some of which may be outright lies, include:
- Many faces from past seasons will appear in season six, including Charlie and possible Cindy (the flight attendant).
- While it normally takes the Lost writing team two weeks to plan an episode, “The Constant” took five. “Time travel is hard. It’s a lot of math!” —Kitsis.
- The boat sailed so well, its chase boat couldn’t keep up with it.
- Season six will have a fairly significant spiritual bent.
- The final shot of the show is already planned.
- While the producers have no personal plans for future incarnations of Lost, Cuse pointed out that it’s a powerful franchise and Disney would be foolish not to capitalize on that. So I think we can expect more Lost of some stripe in the future (or the past, because there’s often time travel involved.)
- Taking up that topic, Kitsis proclaimed that there really, really should be a Saturday morning cartoon show called Locke and the Monster in which Locke and the Smoke Monster teach kids lessons and build things. Coming this fall.
[Via popdistillery.com]
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September 8th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
spiritual bent?
what does that mean
September 8th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
it means that the show will have another plot twist lol idk gota love lost. Disney dose not need to make more LOST after season 6 or any LOST spin offs.
September 8th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
i think spiritual bent means it will have a mystical spirity theme….
great….. just what i wanted from my fav show… for it to go from amazing logical scientific themes, to oh well final season lets make the answers wishy washy religious crap so we can half ass answer shit….
for example… speritual bent =
example 1.how did the losties get to the island… Answer, jacob touched them and cause he is magical they all came…
example 2. whats the reason for jack, kate, sayid and hurley teleporting out of the plane and going back in time, yet ben and sun do not… Answer, Jacob did it with his powerful will and only wanted jack etc….
Look i dno if it will play out that way but it just sounds like its using spiritual explenations (which is what im guessing spiritual bent is basicly saying), which i think is the biggest and worst cop out ever from a show that ALWAYS stuck to relying on at least fringe science for the reasoning behind things.
for the first time in lost history i can honestly not fatham a logical ending for lost. season 5 just pulled it all apart with so many plot holes and leaps of “faith” that i feel like i cannot say to my freinds.. “look, just wait.. you will see it will all come together realy neatly”.
I hope im wrong cause lost is still the best show on tv and i hope at the end i will be able to say that still.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:46 am
LOST has always been headed toward a spiritual conclusion. The tension between faith and science, free will and destiny, redemption and damnation, good and evil, and more. Everything the characters are going through is spiritual. The science is simply a part of the physical reality, but not the thrust of the story.
The only question in my mind is what will the spiritual statement be? Is there truth in a particular religion? The show is mostly Christian, but with many Buddhist and Jewish and New Age tendencies, among others. Is one religion true? Are they all true? Is the Island God? Are they in Hell, Heaven, Purgatory? What is redemption? Does it come through Jacob? Christian Shepherd (aka Jesus Christ?) Perhaps redemption is possible through science – harnessed by the frozen donkey wheel on the island…
Anyway, the depth of the show is in the spiritual questions – the fun is in the science. But season 6 will definitely make a spiritual statement…
September 9th, 2009 at 1:53 am
Ryan Lawson said it perfectly
this is getting to be like what happened with BSG, no leeway for a neat ending
September 9th, 2009 at 2:38 am
personaly i dont find anything “deep” about those “spiritual” questions posed by the show. I think that at the end of all things if they made out that the island was purgitory and jacob is god, i honestly think that me as well as 90 percent of lost’s target demographic will jump off a cliff. but seriously… this is a show whos fans go crazy when the characters time travel whilst holding a rope and look into the theory behind why the objects they are touching go with them.
Really im pretty sure if they do what battlestar gelactica did and just make things gods and woopty magic angel shit as an ending ill be quite disapointed.
(at no time have i ever thought of christian shepherd as being jesus christ… are the polar bears suppose to be the islands version of reindeers? i dont think theres anything deep about those theories.)
September 9th, 2009 at 2:40 am
hahahaha magnum i honestly can say i did not read your post about BSG before i typed my second post lol.
we’re totally on the same level…. maybe its “spiritual” hahaha
…….
September 9th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Furrowcious said it right.
September 9th, 2009 at 10:53 am
After setting up such a great mythology I hope these writers don’t cop out now and take the easy way out. All I can say is that the conclusion better be satisfying or this next season will go down as a failure due to its ending. Comments like this from Cuse make me wish they just ended it in season 1 because dragging it out has made their choices in story that much more challenging.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
They should really do the Lost zombie season, but make it an anime like the Animatrix, and have all the zombies battling each other relentlessly with magic cards and little rodents that live in disproportionately pocket sized spheres. That would be shweet.
September 9th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
The island isn’t purgatory! dont be stupid, go do some research on lostpedia and it wont take more then 5 min to see that it isn’t purgatory.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I think its very safe to say that whatever we’re in for this season and the climatic finale; we’ll be satisfied. Seeing as though they’ve had it in mind quite early and have been progressing for a long time i for one have absolute faith in the writing, directing and acting. When have they ever steered us wrong? we’ve only every been more shocked and more bewildered and i think a spiritual bent or not, we’ll STILL be screaming WTF at the tv until the last smash to black.
September 10th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Hey guys I think it is about “free will and destiny” = “Jacob and Smoke monster”.Does anyone remember when Locke Ties up Boone in the jungle and puts the knife on the ground infront of him forcing him to use his own free will to get the knife and cut the rope? Once Locke leaves Boone alone in the jungle he begins to have visions of shannon being attacked in the jungle. Boone almost breaking his arm is able to get the knife and cut himself loose just before shannon is taken hostage by the smoke monster. Unknown to Boone this was an experience Locke deemed necessary for survival on the island. Locke gave Boone the skills he needed to overcome the smoke monster and use his own free will to survive. This is probably the most signifigant clue to date in the show.Lets be real the only clue was the scene where Locke and Walt were playing backgammon and the explenation of the two distinct sides are revealed “one light one dark”. The smoke monster is an ultimate manipulation to remove people from the idea of free will and force them to act upon something that is a hallucination. This is the role of the smoke monster in the show; to interupt free will and manipulate the characters in a way that is harmful to themselves, or the way he wants to be done.That means spiritual bent……
September 10th, 2009 at 8:55 am
[...] and Adam Horowitz talked about the show at Seattle’s Bumbershoot festival. On Tuesday, we posted Pop Distillery’s report on the event. Now you can listen to the audio of the panel on the player [...]
September 11th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Hey people check out the pictures
of Disney D23 Lost booth some interesting things like the plane instructions and Who is holding Penny and Desmond picture?? http://www.comingsoon.net/imageGallery/D23_Expo_2009?page=1
September 11th, 2009 at 1:38 am
i do hope desmond choban is right with the spiritual bent of season 6 being simply an extention of the free will verses determinism theme that lost has.
November 15th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
LOST has always been headed toward a spiritual conclusion. The tension between faith and science, free will and destiny, redemption and damnation, good and evil, and more. Everything the characters are going through is spiritual. The science is simply a part of the physical reality, but not the thrust of the story.
The only question in my mind is what will the spiritual statement be? Is there truth in a particular religion? The show is mostly Christian, but with many Buddhist and Jewish and New Age tendencies, among others. Is one religion true? Are they all true? Is the Island God? Are they in Hell, Heaven, Purgatory? What is redemption? Does it come through Jacob? Christian Shepherd (aka Jesus Christ?) Perhaps redemption is possible through science – harnessed by the frozen donkey wheel on the island…
Anyway, the depth of the show is in the spiritual questions – the fun is in the science. But season 6 will definitely make a spiritual statement…