![]() ![]() This show doesn’t get gargantuan ratings and we were starting to wrap our brains around the notion that we weren’t going to get any more episodes after the second season and then, mostly because of the critical response and the audience that stuck through it was so pleased at how the second season turned out, HBO said “Do you want to do more?” and we said “Only if the show is ending.” Because we feel closer to the end of the show than the beginning and we want to end the show. ( Laughs.) We’re not in what I’d call a traditionally strong negotiating position. Lindelof: Because that’s all HBO would let us do. How did you know eight episodes was the right number? Lindelof: The biggest challenge was that a good ending reveals what the show is about all along, what the audience is supposed to care about and I think the key was what is a really simple ending? I think so many endings just get bigger and bigger and bigger and I’ve experienced this myself, the bigger an ending is, the more moving parts it has, the trickier it is, the harder it is to zero in on what the fundamental emotional idea is, and so we had to basically clear away all the brambles and say “what has this entire thing been about from the word go?” We’re in episode 28 now, how do we want to feel when this over? Who’s in the last scene? What are we supposed to care about? ![]()
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