Damon Lindelof talks Season 6

In a great new interview, Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof states again that Libby’s backstory will never be shown. “I don’t want you to tune in waiting for the Great American Libby story, because it’s not coming,” Lindelof says.

Lindelof goes light on the teasers, but talks about how much fan expectations play into Season 6, and how many of them will be satisfied.

“We’ve written over a hundred and ten hours of Lost, now, and it’s been basically the same sort of family doing the show since the beginning, and I think we are all looking forwards to ending it. Every story has a beginning, middle and end, and as sad as it is sometimes to end a story, it’s also incredibly liberating and exciting. Every scene that we write is one scene closer to the inevitable, so it feels pretty good. I don’t know if anyone is going to like it, but at least we are delivering on our promise to answer some stuff.”

“I don’t think it would be ‘Lost’ if we answered every question to every viewer’s satisfaction,” Lindelof said. “I mean, there are some people who are still asking us ‘What’s the story with Kate’s toy plane?’ and there is nothing more to say about it; we’ve definitively answered that question to the best of our ability on the show, so you won’t be hearing anymore about the toy plane. That being said, there are other sort of meta questions, like, what do the numbers mean, that we will be addressing more directly in the final season. But some people will feel like, ‘Wow, they answered more than I thought they ever would about that question,’ and some people will say ‘What a hose job, I am so unsatisfied!’ Our goal is to land in the middle of the ‘hose jobers’ and the ‘too much informationers,’ because you can’t make everybody happy.”

Lindelof also talks about the possibility of ever seeing tie-in products for Lost like comic books. He wisely observes that the show has one mythology, surrounding all of the main characters on the island, and if they told a side story in a comic book, such as the history of the Black Rock, not all fans of the show would ever find that. And that’s just not fair. But Lindelof does leave the door open to “possibly fill in some blanks” through other forms of media like books or comics, should they ever feel the need.

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