Official Lost Podcast transcript/March 28, 2006
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18:45
CC: Sure.
DL: Um... this question is from JohnnyCashAK, um, regarding character resets. Thank you, Johnny, uh, love your work. "Not to be a downer here, and this is a serious-" Whenever somebody starts their question that way, it's not gonna end good.
CC: Well, that's okay because, you know, you're in a tuxedo. I'm- I'm optimistic.
DL: "Not to be a downer here, and this is a serious question, whether it upsets people or not, but how exactly is resetting certain characters back to how they were at the beginning of the show, thus negating a season and a half of character development, a good thing? After listening to this week's podcast, it sounds like both of you are really excited about this, but to put it frankly, I'm lost." Heh, that's clever, I- used lost 'cause that's the name of the show. [Carlton snickers] I mean, I've never heard that one before.
CC: Um, you know, I would just say watch any television show that goes for a long time, and- and, uh, ask yourself, do characters repeat their behavior over and over again. In fact, I would say that- in- that, you know, one of things that's interesting about our show is that, and I think is interesting for us to explore as writers on the show, is the fact that we all as people and our characters all struggle with certain issues that they try to transcend. And, you know, I think we all have things in our lives that we struggle with that- that become sort of life-long issues, as do our characters. And I think that, you know, Sawyer is someone who struggles with his own sense of self-loathing. Charlie is struggling with drug-addiction. Um, you know, Sayid is struggling with his, you know, uh, with the duality of himself as being a nice guy, but also having the potential to inflict, you know, torture on other people. And I think that these are issues that are not easily resolved. I don't think- you know, in the same way that the issues that we all have as individuals are not easily resolved. And I think that for us, these characters, it would be- the simple cop-out would be for the characters to actually resolve these issues in one simple sweet story. But that's not real-life, and I think that our characters are on this island perhaps in some measure to be tested and-
DL: Over and over.
CC: Over and over again on the axis of their issues- their individual issues so that- the stories that arise for these characters are the ones that challenge them to transcend their conditions, or we, you know, feel the sympathy of seeing them sort of fall victim to their conditions and- and struggle with the realities of that. And that's what we mean by resetting the characters.
DL: More importantly, you know, I think in the second season, we- we explored all those character deficits and those struggles in Season 1 in a vacuum -- they didn't know each other yet. Now it's much different to see Sawyer go through the same thing, but now he's in relationships with people. Everybody knows each other a lot better, and we feel that that makes it fresh. And just- I think this is the same thing in movies. I mean, do you want to go see Spiderman 3 and have like him in the beginning of Spiderman say, "You know what, I'm much more comfortable with this whole great power and great responsibility thing, and I'm perfectly fine with the fact that, you know, I like this girl and I've got two identities." I mean, you- you have to kind of go back to square one all the time, you know. John McClane is never gonna get over wanting to fight terrorists.
CC: Right.
DL: If he did, that would be sort of- it would be like Die Not So Hard, you know. Die a Little Softly Please, It's Too Loud.
CC: Yes, thank you. Uh, let me ask you a question, "Hello producers" by KateIsMine.
DL: Heh, uh-oh.
CC: "My friend says there will be repeats of Lost, best show ever, for three whole weeks. I don't like that, but I still love Lost. My Mom says I'm an addict. I am. I have posters of Evangeline Lilly all over my room. Tell her I say hi, and tell Dominic to back off. She's mine, even though I'm way too young to marry."
DL: All right, first off, Carlton, [Carlton starts laughing] we've been over this. You don't have to- you do not have to present your own feelings as a bogus email. I know that you have posters of Evangeline all over. If you want to say hi, you can call her and tell her yourself. And if you have an issue with her's and Dominic's relationship, I suggest you get on the phone and deal with it. And by the way, you're not too young to be married. That's really all I can say. There wasn't really even a question there, [Carlton is still laughing] which- which exposes you even further.
CC: [still laughing] Busted.
DL: That's all I can say is busted. He's still sweating from his breakdancing routine. Um, all right, I've got, well, I think we probably have time for one more question each.
CC: Okay.
DL: Um, this is regarding thehansofoundation.org by ZekesBrother, um, "So what is the deal with the website? It's been down forever. Is there a purpose, or am I missing a secret way to get in?"
CC: Um, no, that's actually very observant. The uh- it's sort of like a ride at Disneyland being remodeled. The Hanso Foundation website is down for remodeling, and when it comes back up, it is going to be awesome. In fact-
DL: Spectacular.
CC: In fact, we're actually, um, we're gonna kind of let you guys in on a secret. We're- we're- we're involved in a project which is going to, um, involve the Internet that's going to start, uh, in May.
DL: In May, but you're gonna have to watch the show, um, and not just the show, but what happens in between the show.
CC: Between the acts of the show.
DL: Sort- sort of f- fairly carefully in order to sort of begin the path on this, what we're calling an experience.
CC: Yeah, and this Internet experience will actually be launched, uh, during one of the shows in May, and it will be a pathway that will lead to, um, a lot of information about the show that we're not gonna get to on the show, but it's not just a sort of ancillary...
DL: Yeah, it's not behind the scenes stuff either, it's like-
CC: It's real mythology-
DL: It's kind of cool storytelling.
CC: Yeah.
DL: And uh...
CC: Which, hopefully is gonna, in some degree, satisfy the desire for new material on Lost over the summer. I mean, you know, during that period of time when the show is down before we start the next season, we are actually gonna be telling some Lost stories.
DL: And since you're, you know, listening to this podcast and taking the time to sit through all our in- insanity and stupid jokes, we're letting you know that we're doing this, but once it starts, we're gonna completely deny having any involvement with it whatsoever. So you can actually come to us and go, "Hey, I'm playing this podcast back for you where you guys say you're responsible," and we'll go, "What are you-"
CC: We're not talking about that.
DL: What are you talking about? Like, we don't- that's not me-
CC: Well, we might not deny it, we may just-
DL: We'll just be kind of cheeky-
CC: We'll just say we can't comment.
DL: Yeah, we can't comment.
CC: Um...
DL: God, I- I know I just asked one, Carlton, but I have another question that I just have to ask.
CC: Okay.
DL: From QuinceTheCarpenter, uh, "Lost fans have posted a very large range of theories about the show on the Internet. I assume the show itself has some internal guidelines for what belongs in this imaginary world and what is too far out there, but given there is so much mystery, how will we know when Lost has, well, um, lost it. For example, I suggest we will know Lost has jumped the shark when Kate stars in a love scene with the black smoke monster, resulting in her becoming pregnant with her own clone. What is your vision for how Lost could jump the shark?"
CC: All right, first of all, get the writers and tell them to scrap that. That- now that the finale has been busted out by QuinceTheCarpenter, we're gonna have to [Damon: "Yeah."] bag on the smoke monster love scene.
DL: we can s- it's different though, Carlton. She does not get impregnated with her own clone -- she gets impregnated with *a* clone-
CC: That's true.
DL: But I think our idea is entirely different.
CC: Look, I mean, somewhere after the zombie year, year 7, there's a possibility that the show could jump the shark, but really, shy of that, it's hard to really see, um, what would constitute a shark-jumping.
DL: We talk about this all the time, and the reality is is that Lost kind of jumps the shark every week. I mean, we talked about, when we first started talking about what was in the hatch, and essentially, if somebody over the last summer, everyone was asking us, "What's in the hatch? What's in the hatch?" If we had turned to them and said, "Well, there's a guy in the hatch, and that guy actually sort of bumped into Jack back in one of Jack's flashbacks, but he's been in the hatch for the last four years, and he's been told that he has to push this button every 108 minutes or the world will end." You would have looked at us like we were insane, [Carlton: "Right"] and that we were about to jump the shark, but that's what we did, and, you know, the show has to take risks, and has to come very close to jumping the shark, or I think it fails miserably. The minute that we stop advancing the story that we know we want to tell it, I think it- [Carlton: "Yeah"] the real way we jump the shark is when the show becomes boring and stagnant and redundant [Carlton: "Right"] and repetitive.
CC: And, you know, we, you know, for us-
DL: Like this podcast. [Carlton giggles]
CC: For us-
DL: I'm putting myself to sleep. Wake me up when you're done talking.
CC: Okay. Just you know, maybe-
DL: It's myself. I've never bored myself.
CC: I think your necktie is too tight.
DL: Yeah-
CC: I don't- what made you decide long tie versus bow tie?
DL: when you're wearing no pants, it's all in the accessories. [Carlton laughs] All right.
CC: All right, well, um, I think you pretty much summed it up. We're- yeah, we don't, you know, we don't wanna take chances on our storytelling. There.
DL: All right, I'm obviously boring you.
CC: Okay, thanks guys, see you next time.
DL: Check out Ricky Gervais' podcast. I hear it's very entertaining.
CC: Bye.
DL: Bye.
KW: Remember Lost fans, you can hear Damon and Carlton's theme songs on lost.abc.com, where you can vote for your favorite and also submit your own fan questions. "Lockdown" airs Wednesday, March 29th from 9 to 10pm, only on ABC.
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